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NEW THE LAST VIKING
The Life of Roald Amundsen,
Conqueror of the South Pole
Stephen Brown Roald Amundsen is largely
remembered as the man who beat Scott to the
South Pole. This gripping biography reveals
the full scope of his achievements, including
his 1905 discovery of the Northwest Passage
and the 1926 expedition that was the first to
reach – beyond dispute – the North Pole. It
charts the life of the visionary showman who
put newly independent Norway on the map,
his trailblazing use of technology, and his
mysterious disappearance on an Arctic rescue
mission in 1928.
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NEW THE FABLED COAST
Legends and Traditions
from Around the Shores
of Britain and Ireland
Sophia Kingshill; Jennifer Westwood
Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and
sea serpents, fishermen’s prayers and
sailors’ rituals – the coasts of Britain and
Ireland harbour an astonishing variety
of legends, customs and superstitions.
Area by area, this rich compendium of
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When Britain’s Aircraft Ruled the World
James Hamilton-Paterson In 1945 Britain was the world’s leading
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such as the Comet, Vulcan, Hawker Hunter and Lightning; but by the
early 1960s aviation companies such as Avro and Vickers were either
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and a rueful history of Britain’s loss of self-confidence and power.
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the Napoleonic era to the computer age. FONTHILL 2012 HB 272pp Illus
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Mick Webber In 1933, the new
London Passenger Transport
Board inherited an assortment
of buses from private operators
which can be seen plying the
streets of the capital in the
first pages of this portfolio of
photographs. The period covered
extends to the reorganization of
the network at the end of 1969
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of the vehicles as well as the
changing face of London through
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and post-war renewal. CAPITAL
NEW THE LAST DECADE OF BRITISH RAILWAYS STEAM
A Photographer’s Personal Journey
Gavin Morrison has contributed to more than 60 books on railways,
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Bringing together his personal favourites from the last days of steam, this
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Caroline G Bott Alfred Edmeades
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Mike Parker With his trademark wit
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NEW POLAR BEARS
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Ian Stirling No animal is more symbolic of
the Arctic than the polar bear, yet its survival is
now threatened by global warming. Renowned
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ITALIAN GARDENS
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ARCHAEOLOGY
Jim Leary; David Field Silbury Hill,
within the Stonehenge and Avebury
World Heritage Site, is Europe’s largest
prehistoric mound. The authors of this
book trace the long quest of antiquarians
and archaeologists to understand the
monument’s origins and the techniques
of its construction. They also consider
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the summit in 2000 and the excavations
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THE STORY OF SILBURY HILL
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2011 PB 224pp Illus
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John Norris As well as
the trucks and tanks of
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military vehicle used
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and armoured cars.
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SPELLMOUNT 2012 HB 368pp Illus
Lesley Stanfield; Melody Griffiths
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SISTER QUEENS
The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine
of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
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
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betrayal. Slightly off-mint; felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge. BALLANTINE 2011 HB 476pp Illus
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An Alternative History of Every House
Bill Laws Why does your house look the way it
does? What is the point of a dado rail? And what’s
that thingumajig for? From noggins and newel
posts to power showers and fitted kitchens, every
household fixture has a story to tell. Illustrated
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domestic environment uncovers the often bizarre
stories behind the inventions that have shaped
our homes. HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 240pp Illus
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J Geraint Jenkins The country craftsman was, until recently, an essential
member of every rural community who
looked no further than his own locality
for his livelihood and was often carrying on an ancient tradition. First published in 1965 and illustrated with line
drawings and photographs of craftsmen
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Paul Blackah; Malcolm V Lowe; Louise
Blackah Unlike its glamorous contemporary,
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MRS ROBINSON’S DISGRACE
The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale In June 1858, soon
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Bryan Little Bristol was at a peak of
prosperity in the first half of the 18th
century when its mercantile, maritime and
industrial interests all thrived. Boasting
the second largest population in England
by 1750, the modern city was shaped
by the building of its elegant Georgian
terraces and the achievements of Isambard
Kingdom Brunel in the 19th century.
This illustrated history charts Bristol’s
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THE STORY OF BRISTOL
Felicity Goodall Before beach holidays,
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Devon’s coastline, and behind the
beaches was a salt industry responsible
for the naming of places such as
Salcombe and Budleigh Salterton.
Inland, religious houses, copper and
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Devon’s identity. Felicity Goodall’s
illustrated account of the county’s
rich history identifies the various
enterprises, places and people that
have influenced its development.
LOST DEVON
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KINGDOMS OF AFRICA
Gus Casely-Hayford For many of us, the
pre-colonial history of Africa is at best vague.
Drawing on the latest research, this journey
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surveying ancient civilizations such as Nubia,
Ethiopia, Benin and Great Zimbabwe, and
uncovering archaeological sites that rival the
Great Wall of China, kingdoms of extraordinary
wealth, universities older than Oxford or
Cambridge, and creative traditions that inspire
artists today. BANTAM 2012 PB 348pp Illus
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Georg Gerster 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
The Pont du Gard, mid first century CE
Charlotte Trumpler introduces
250 photographs of sites, among them the Acropolis, Karnak, the Great Wall of
China and the 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
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Stuart R Blaylock Bowhill is an important
late medieval house near Exeter, purchased
by the government in 1976. This monograph
demonstrates how examination of its historical
development and the materials of its construction were used to deepen understanding about
the house and to inform a repair programme
(1977-95). Exeter Archaeology, leaders in the
field of ‘building archaeology’, carried out the
study, which covers buried remains, the standing fabric, artefacts, building materials and
pictorial and documentary sources. ENGLISH
BOWHILL
HERITAGE 2004 PB 408pp Illus 275x220mm
$110.00 11665 now £19.99
HOREMHEB
The Forgotten Pharaoh
Charlotte Booth This study focuses on
a shadowy but important episode in
Egyptian history: the 30-year gap between Tutankhamun’s death and the start
of the 19th dynasty. Booth’s biography
of the ‘forgotten pharaoh’ Horemheb
shows how he restored Egypt to the rich
and powerful nation it had been before
the ‘revolution’ of Akenaten and how,
by his judicious appointment of Ramesses I as his heir (Horemheb was childless), he founded the great Ramesside
dynasty. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 192pp Illus
£9.99 11082 now £4.99
ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMOUR
The Production of Early
Imperial Military Armour
D Sim; J Kaminski The Roman army’s
success was in large part founded on welltrained, well-disciplined soldiers who were
equipped with the most advanced arms and
armour then available. Using both ancient
sources and modern scientific analyses, Sim
and Kaminski present a study of the processes
used to manufacture each component of
that armour, together with an examination
of Roman methods of extracting ores and
transforming them into workable ferrous metal
and copper alloy. OXBOW 2012 PB 190pp Illus
£25.00 99559 now £9.99
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Richard Osgood; Martin Brown The
Belgian village of Ploegsteert, south of
Ypres, was known to the occupying
British and Commonwealth soldiers during the First World War as ‘Plugstreet’.
Investigating the involvement of the
Australian 3rd Infantry Division in the
area, this record of the authors’ archaeological research – at the battlefield and
at a training camp on Salisbury Plain –
has uncovered many artefacts that reveal
details of the soldiers’ life in the trenches
and, in some cases, death in battle.
$39.95 16411 now £14.99
NEW
DIGGING UP
PLUGSTREET
The Archaeology of a
Great War Battlefield
NEW
THE PAST FROM ABOVE
Aerial Photographs of
Archaeological Sites
LIVES OF THE
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
Toby Wilkinson The vanished and mysterious world of Ancient Egypt captivates
our imaginations: what was it really like
to live on the banks of the Nile thousands
of years ago? In a lively text complemented by sumptuous illustrations,
Wilkinson tells the personal tales of 100
ancient Egyptians, ranging from the
pharaoh Khufu (who built the Great Pyramid) and Queen Cleopatra, by way of their
wealthy courtiers to ordinary men and
women, including a doctor, priestess, musician, housewife – and a serial criminal.
THAMES & HUDSON 2007
£24.95 98408 now £9.99
NEW THE BATTLE
OF MARATHON
Peter Krentz The earliest surviving
source for the events of the battle of
Marathon (490 BCE) is the account by
the Greek historian Herodotus, but modern scholars have repeatedly cast doubt
on his version. Peter Krentz not only argues that Herodotus was right after all but
also traces the history of the Athenians’
contact with the Persian enemy and draws
on the experiences of modern soldiers and
reenactors to analyse their battle tactics.
YALE UP 210 HB 230pp
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MEDIEVAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
NEW THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
The Walters Art Museum
Martina Bagnoli; Kathryn Gerry
Featuring photographs of nearly 150 objects
from the rich medieval art collection held
by the Walters Art Museum of Baltimore,
The Medieval World presents a lively and
wide-ranging narrative covering such topics
as the classical tradition, materials and
manufacture, liturgical instruments and
objects from everyday life. The final chapter
covers the revival of interest in medieval art
during the 19th century, focusing on Henry
Walters (1848-1931), who founded the
museum. GILES 2011 PB 216pp Illus 270x205mm
16404 now £9.99
Reliquary with Madonna and Child with Saints by Lippo Vanni, Siena, mid-14th century
NEW LONGBOW
A Social and Military History
Robert Hardy Primitive bows were fashioned from the earliest times but weapons
that could be described as longbows –
famously used by the English armies of
the late medieval period – can be traced
back to about 8000 BCE in many parts of
the world. This fifth edition of celebrated
actor Robert Hardy’s classic treatise on
the subject is updated to include recent
discoveries and illustrated with photographs of archaeological finds and historical depictions of the longbow in use.
HAYNES 2003 HB 244pp Illus
£25.00 16610 now £11.99
MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS
The Age of Chivalry
José Sánchez Toledo Beginning with
the break up of the Roman Empire and
the origins of knighthood in feudal Europe, this detailed study traces the rise
and fall of these romantic figures, their
contribution to the key conflicts of the
medieval era, in Europe and the Middle
East, and assesses their training,
lifestyle, weapons and fighting tactics.
The book is lavishly illustrated with artworks, reproductions and photographs
of scrupulously accurate modern re-enactments.
John Marsden tells the story of the Cenel
Loairn, one of the principal dynastic kindreds of Dalraida, 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.
ANDREA 2008 HB 136pp Illus 297x207mm
£20.00 11477 now £7.99
£30.00 10632 now £7.99
CALENDAR OF THE
FINE ROLLS OF THE
REIGN OF HENRY III
Preserved in the National
Archives Volume III: 1234-1242
Ed. Paul Dryburgh; Beth Hartland This
volume presents, in English translation
and with full indexes of persons, places
and subjects, the Fine Rolls for the 19th
to the 26th years of the reign of Henry
III. The records cover the first phase of a
period often referred to as ‘the personal
rule of Henry III’, when the personnel and
structure of Henry’s court changed significantly. With an historical introduction
by David Carpenter. No jacket.
BOYDELL 2009 HB 720pp
KINGS, MORMAERS, REBELS
Early Scotland’s
Other Royal Family
JOHN DONALD 2010 PB 206pp
HERALDIC BADGES IN ENGLAND
AND WALES
(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
£350.00 98818 now £100.00
£100.00 98805 now £30.00
THE UNIVERSITY
AND COLLEGE LIBRARIES
OF CAMBRIDGE
Corpus of British Medieval
Library Catalogues 10
Ed. Peter D Clarke The booklists in this
volume are unusual in that a substantial
part of the medieval collections listed do
not relate to libraries long since dispersed,
but remain in situ. They offer a new understanding of how the collections were
established, grew and changed over time.
The volume includes an introductory essay by Dr Roger Lovatt and a substantial
appendix of donors and former owners.
THE MAID AND THE QUEEN
The Secret History of Joan
of Arc and Yolande of Aragon
Nancy Goldstone The story of Joan of Arc is
well known: hearing voices at the age of 13,
she was inspired to lead French resistance to
English domination, and was then captured and
subjected to trial by inquisition. But did Joan’s
strength and power derive only from the angels?
Goldstone’s revisionist account argues that
the restoration of France’s greatness came
about through the intertwined lives of Joan
and her forgotten mentor, Yolande of Aragon,
‘perhaps the most astute politician of her age’.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2002 HB 992pp
WEIDENFELD 2011 HB 318pp
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NEW ELIZABETH OF YORK
The Forgotten Tudor Queen
Amy Licence In historical studies, Elizabeth of
York has been overshadowed by the charismatic
figures of the Tudor dynasty – her husband, Henry
Tudor, her mother-in-law, Margaret Beaufont,
and her own children and grandchildren. While
focused on the elusive Elizabeth, this biography
also raises questions of female experience in early
modern England. What did it mean to be a woman
in the late 15th century? What constituted a wife’s
role and duties? And what did it mean to be a
queen? AMBERLEY 2013 HB 256pp Illus
£20.00 16591 now £7.99
Alison Weir The mistress of two kings, François I
of France and Henry VIII of England, and the
sister who may have sealed the fate of Anne
Boleyn, Mary Boleyn has been branded a ‘great
and infamous whore’. But did she really deserve
this notoriety? Historian and historical biographer
Alison Weir draws on decades of research to
cut through the myths and misrepresentation
of recent historical fiction and present ‘a rigorous
assessment of what we know – and don’t know –
about Mary Boleyn’. Felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge. BALLANTINE 2011 HB 398pp Illus
MARY BOLEYN: The Mistress of Kings
$28.00 10854 now £7.99
NEW
THE EUROPEAN
REFORMATION
Euan Cameron In this survey and analysis of the European Reformation of the
16th century, Euan Cameron provides a
thematic and narrative synthesis of the
events and ideas of this period of dramatic
change in western Christianity. He examines its social and religious background,
its teachers and their message, and explores its impact on contemporary society.
This incisive and wide-ranging study will
be invaluable to all students of early modern Europe. CLARENDON 1991 PB 577pp
11736 now £12.99
THE CORRESPONDENCE
OF ELIZABETH STUART,
QUEEN OF BOHEMIA
Volume II: 1632-1642
Ed. Nadine Akkerman Elizabeth Stuart
(1596-1662), also known as the Electress
Palatine or Queen of Bohemia, was the
daughter of James I and Anna of Denmark, and a key religious, political and
cultural figure in early modern Europe.
This is the second volume of the first complete edition of her letters: from the death
of her husband, Frederick V in 1632, it
covers the most political part of her life –
as a widow controlling the regency during
her eldest son’s minority and imprisonment. OXFORD UP 2011 HB 1215pp
£142.00 97484 now £19.99
THE LADY IN THE TOWER
The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Alison Weir returns to ‘where my interest in history began’ – to the dramatic fall
of Anne Boleyn – and gives an in-depth account of Anne’s last days. The book
explores the character of the queen and the motives and intrigues of those who
helped seal her fate, unravelling the tragic story, from the miscarriage of the son
who would have saved her to the final, dramatic scene on the scaffold.
Slightly off-mint. BALLANTINE 2010 PB 462pp Illus
$17.00 99972 now £5.99
NEW
MARTIAL POWER AND
ELIZABETHAN POLITICAL CULTURE
Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594
Rory Rapple This book studies the careers and political thinking of English martial
men left deeply frustrated by Elizabeth I’s quietist foreign policy. Unemployment,
official disparagement and downward mobility became grim facts for many military
captains. Rapple examines the experiences and attitudes of this generation of officers,
explores their previously overlooked literature of complaint, and considers how the
frustrations of military men in England affected their actions in Ireland. Cambridge
Studies in Early Modern British History. CAMBRIDGE UP 2009 HB 347pp
£67.00 11950 now £19.99
NEW
THE DEVIL
IN THE HOLY WATER
or the Art of Slander
from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Robert Darnton Slander is a sordid business –
but it can also shape public opinion and bring down
oppressive regimes. Never was this more so than
in 18th century France. This erudite and witty
study charts the activity of a rag-tag group of
literary mudslingers who, from exile in London,
churned out seditious, salacious and hilarious
pamphlets about the scandalous doings of kings
and queens, royal mistresses, nobles and ministers
– and the spies sent across the Channel to suppress
them. PENNSYLVANIA UP 2010 HB 535pp
£42.50 16385 now £9.99
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BLOOD OF KINGS
The Stuarts, the Ruthvens
and the ‘Gowrie Conspiracy’
JD Davies In 1600, at their house in
Perth, the Earl of Gowrie and his
brother were stabbed to death by the attendants of James VI, who alleged they
were attempting to kill the king. The
brothers’ decomposing corpses were
later propped up in a courtroom and
tried for treason. In this gripping work
of historical detection Davies probes
the gruesome mystery to establish why
James, who would ascend the English
throne less than three years later, should
wish to exterminate this noble family.
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 304pp Illus
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ARCHAEOLOGY
MODERN HISTORY
AG Macdonell Within six years of rising to
prominence, Napoleon had seized control of
France, appointing himself First Consul in 1799.
During his leadership, over the next 16 years, he
appointed 26 men to be Marshals of the Empire,
mostly from the ranks of the military. This
classic account, written in 1934 by the satirist and
connoisseur of military history AG Macdonnell,
examines the relationships between these men
and their Emperor to tell the story of the
Napoleonic Wars. FONTHILL 2012 PB 222pp Illus
NEW
NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS
£16.99 16562 now £5.99
NAPOLEON’S MEDALS
Victory to the Arts
CLOTHES AND THE CHILD
A Handbook of Children’s Dress
in England 1500-1900
Anne Buck Children depicted in paintings
of the 16th and 17th centuries appear to
us to be dressed in miniature replicas of
adult clothes, but indicators of the different stages of childhood would have been
obvious to contemporaries. In this study,
Buck analyses surviving garments from
Tudor to Victorian times, as well as paintings and references in letters and journals,
to explore the evolution of children’s dress
and reveal how it has reflected changing
social attitudes and ideas on upbringing.
RUTH BEAN 1996 PB 271pp Illus 240x190mm
£19.95 11443 now £7.99
A BRIEF HISTORY OF
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS
Roundheads, Cavaliers and
the Execution of the King
John Miller In a clear and comprehensible
narrative of the civil wars of the 1640s,
Professor Miller first examines how, in
England, ‘an obedient and orderly people’
descended into violence. He goes on to describe the course of the conflict, the rise of
Oliver Cromwell and the formation of the
New Model Army, ending with the Army’s
triumph and the execution of Charles I in
1649. ROBINSON 2009 PB 239pp
£8.99 63290 now £3.99
Richard A Todd ‘Aux arts la victoire’ was the
inscription on the medal depicting Venus de
Medici, struck to mark the capture of Italian works
of art in 1803. It was one of hundreds of medals commemorating conquests, battles
and treaties produced during Napoleon’s time in power. With over 280 colour
illustrations and commentary, this book provides a history of the reign through its
medals and shows how they were designed and used to glorify both military
campaigns and the emperor himself. HISTORY PRESS 2009 HB 224pp Illus 280x215mm
£50.00 99421 now £16.99
LORDSHIP AND POWER
IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND
The Noble House of
Huntly, 1603-1690
Barry Robertson In this account of the
Gordons of Huntly, Robertson examines
the family’s relations with the Crown, the
Scottish government, noble contemporaries and the Higland clans during the
17th century; and issues such as landowning, religion and internal family politics.
In all these spheres, there was a marked
decline in Gordon power and a corresponding increase in the power of other northern noble families – a sea change in the
political make-up of northern Scotland
that has beem overlooked by historians.
ninth Earl, Archibald Campbell, mounted
a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the
Stewart monarchy and restoring Clan
Campbell’s power. Paterson gives a full
account of the Argyll rising and places
the events of 1685 in the context of late
Stewart politics and Scottish history as a
whole. JOHN DONALD 2001 PB 176pp Illus
£7.99 39536 now £3.99
JOHN DONALD 2011 PB 239pp Illus
£25.00 11480 now £9.99
NO TRAGIC STORY
The Fall of the House of Campbell
Raymond Campbell Paterson The
Campbells of Argyll, allied to the crown,
were a considerable political force in the
western Highlands, but by the late 17th
century, the once formidable house of Argyll had begun to crumble. In 1685, the
A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
Victoria, Albert and
the Death that Changed
the British Monarchy
Helen Rappaport After the death of Prince
Albert, the grief of Victoria and her nation
was so profound that this one event was to
dramatically change the British monarchy.
Drawing on sources ranging from Royal
Archives to popular newspapers, this study
offers a new perspective on a compelling
historical drama – the crucial final months
of Albert’s life and the first long, dark ten
years of the Queen’s retreat from public view
– and it overturns the myth that Albert died of
typhoid fever. ST MARTIN’S 2011 HB 350pp Illus
THE MAKING OF
VICTORIAN VALUES
Decency and Dissent
in Britain: 1789-1837
Ben Wilson explores ‘the way the British
went about moral rearmamen’ in the early
19th century. His focus is on the generation born in the aftermath of the American
and French revolutions, and he begins with
the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley and the Romantics. He then examines
how ‘an alliance of evangelical reformers
and secular utilitarians’ fought against
forms of debauchery and vice to shape the
moral, political and social character of
19th century Britain. Slightly off-mint.
$26.99 10852 now £7.99
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ARCHAEOLOGY
20th CENTURY HISTORY
EMPIRE LOST
Britain, the Dominions
and the Second World War
Andrew Stewart On the outbreak of the Second
World War in 1939, the Dominions of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa affirmed
their commitment to the British Empire. After the
victory to which they made such a great
contribution, they were effectively independent
nations. Drawing on government records, private
letters and diaries, and media sources, this
absorbing history examines they way in which the
exigencies of global conflict fostered selfgovernment, and how in winning the war, Britain
lost an empire. CONTINUUM 2008 HB 250pp
£30.00 99743 now £9.99
THE LAST VETERAN
Harry Patch and
the Legacy of War
Peter Parker Harry Patch was one of the
millions of ordinary men caught up in the
horror of the First World War – the only
difference was that he became the last
survivor. With his death in 2009 we lost
our final living link to the Great War. This
account of what that means to us, and of
how we have chosen to remember those
who fought, is a fitting tribute to Patch
and to his remarkable generation.
FOURTH ESTATE 2010 PB 234pp
£8.99 10723 now £3.99
CONFLICTS IN THE
NORTH OF IRELAND, 1900-2000
Flashpoints and Fracture Zones
Ed. Alan F Parkinson; Eamon Phoenix
Throughout the 20th century, conflict was
never far from the surface in the north of
Ireland. This collection of essays traces its
history from the 1907 Belfast dock strike
and Unionist resistance to home rule to the
1987 Enniskillen bombing. Meticulous, balanced and fair, it examines the effects of
partition in 1921, the growing polarization
of the Nationalist and Unionist communities, and the failure of the labour movement
to unite the working classes across the sectarian divide.
FOUR COURTS 2010 HB 286pp
£45.00 99709 now £9.99
THE KING MAKER
The Man Who
Saved George VI
Geordie Greig In 1926, Louis Greig,
a 46-year-old former rugby international, entered the Wimbledon Men’s
Doubles. His partner was Prince Albert,
the future George VI. This appearance
brought to public light an important
relationship for Albert: the older man
had been influential in his life since boyhood and he is credited with shaping the
Prince’s personality and character. In
this biography, Greig’s grandson draws
on private family papers to tell the story.
HODDER 2011 PB 350pp Illus
£9.99 98941 now £4.99
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
£18.99 11380 now £8.99
THE NAZI, THE PAINTER AND THE
FORGOTTEN STORY OF THE SS ROAD
LANDSCAPES OF THE
METROPOLIS OF DEATH
Reflections on Memory
and Imagination
NEW
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
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GH Bennett In 2006, a long-forgotten canister of
film was discovered in a Devon church. What it
showed was chilling: SS soldiers directing slave
labourers in a Nazi road-building programme. This gripping work of historical
detection uncovers the true story behind that grainy footage. It locates the site of the
construction project in Ukraine, names the perpetrators, and identifies the victims:
Red Army prisoners, Jews and others, of whom the Romanian painter Arnold
Daghani was one of the few survivors. REAKTION 2012 HB 240pp
£20.00 99394 now £7.99
NATIONAL SOCIALIST EXTERMINATION POLICIES
Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies
Ed. Ulrich Herbert This collection of 11 essays, written by leading German
historians of the younger generation, leaves behind agitated arguments of the past to
substantially broaden – and in many areas revise – our knowledge of the Holocaust.
The book focuses on Poland, the USSR, Serbia and France and shows how National
Socialist extermination policies can be understood, not as secret undertakings, but
rather as a part of Nazi Germany’s occupation policy in Europe. Translated from the
German. BERGHAHN 2004 PB 357pp
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY POSTCARDS
Drawn from the large and comprehensive John Fraser Collection in the
Bodleian Library, the postcards reproduced, with commentaries, in these
volumes survey 20th century history, political iconography and propaganda
through images chosen by the contemporaries of the events and people they
depict – the postcard publishers and senders. There are 50 reproductions in each
book. BODLEIAN 2008/9 HB 95-112pp Illus 125x170mm
£8.99 each
THE ATLANTIC
AND ITS ENEMIES
A Personal History of the Cold War
NEW
Norman Stone Assessing the years between 1945 and the collapse of the Iron
Curtain in 1989, Norman Stone shows how,
for every success of the Atlantic powers,
there seemed to be a dozen triumphs for
the USSR and the Communist Bloc. He
looks in depth at the confrontation of the
Communist and capitalist worlds, investigating how, when even in the late 1970s
the initiative still seemed to lie with the Soviets, suddenly, against all the odds, the
Atlantic won economically, ideologically
and militarily. BASIC 2010 HB 688pp Illus
$35.00 11763 now £7.99
now £3.99 each
Intro. Andrew Roberts Beginning with a
photograph of the future Edward VIII posing with
his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, this
intriguing collection of postcards tells the stories of
royals who lost their thrones – and sometimes, like
Tsar Nicholas II (right) and Maximilian I of Mexico,
their lives – through revolution, war, the abolition of
monarchies or abdication during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
16509
NEW
POSTCARDS OF LOST ROYALS
Tsar Nicholas II with the Tsarevich Alexei
POSTCARDS OF POLITICAL ICONS
Leaders of the Twentieth Century
NEW
Intro. Andrew Roberts These photographs, chosen
to be used for postcards and often featuring the props
or poses that leaders chose to be identified by, speak volumes about 20th century
political iconography. Ranging chronologically from Kaiser Wilhelm II to Aung
San Suu Kyi, the postcards include many double portraits – Lenin and Stalin,
Kennedy and Khrushchev, and Egypt’s Sadat and Mubarak in a photograph taken
just moments before Sadat’s assassination.
16510
NEW POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA
The Art of Political Propaganda
Intro. Andrew Roberts Lenin working alongside subbotknik ‘volunteers’, Hitler
in the shining armour of a Teutonic knight, a young girl soldier armed with the
Thoughts of Chairman Mao during China’s Cultural Revolution: through images
such as these – creative artworks rather than the reality of photographs –
communists and fascists marketed their visions of the perfect state.
16508
NEW POSTCARDS FROM CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
Intro. Andrew Roberts Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million
people fled East Germany in search of freedom. The Communist authorities’
answer to the problem was to construct the Berlin wall in August 1961. Arranged
chronologically, and accompanied by informative captions, the 50 postcards
reproduced here tell the story of this most visible manifestation of the Cold War,
from 1945 to German reunification in October 1990.
16507
Richard Aldous Reagan and Thatcher were keen to portray themselves as close
friends and staunch Cold War allies, and historians have perpetuated the myth. In
fact, the ‘special relationship’ between them was often stormy. Drawing on recently
declassified documents and extensive interviews, this penetrating dual biography
reveals the depth of their disagreement, particularly over the Falklands and the US
invasion of Grenada. Dispelling popular misconceptions, it shows how these two
political titans struggled to overcome their differences as they confronted the USSR.
REAGAN AND THATCHER: The Difficult Relationship
THE ALMOST
IMPOSSIBLE ALLY
Harold Macmillan
and Charles de Gaulle
Peter Mangold In 1963, General De
Gaulle vetoed Britain’s bid to join the Common Market, delaying entry by a decade
and hastening the downfall of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. This gripping history traces the difficult relationship between
the canny English pragmatist and the lofty
French moralist described by the Foreign
Office as an ‘almost impossible ally’. It is
a fascinating, touching and at times comical
story of a friendship forged in the heat
of war turned sour by peacetime politics.
IB TAURIS 2006 HB 281pp
£22.50 99321 now £6.99
HUTCHINSON 2012 HB 344pp Illus
£25.00 11861 now £6.99
NEW THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE
North Korea, Past and Future
Victor Cha Isolated, secretive and ferociously
repressive, North Korea has been at odds with the
rest of the world for half a century. This definitive
study charts the rise of the Kim dynasty and surveys
the country’s economy, its appalling human rights
record, the endless war with its southern counterpart
and the controversial nuclear programme.
Authoritative, engagingly written and laced with
anecdotes from the author’s time in Pyongyang and
as a White House advisor, it offers a rare glimpse
inside this pariah state. BODLEY HEAD 2012 HB 537pp
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GENERAL HISTORY
PRINCES OF WALES
Royal Heirs in Waiting
David Loades For over 700 years the title Prince
of Wales has been awarded to royal heirs to the
throne of England. They did not always achieve
the crown – even princes have been subject to
disease and death, the fortunes of war, or of
politics. Exploring the stories of royal heirs from
the Black Prince to Charles, the present and
longest-serving Prince of Wales, Loades shows
how the role reflects and defines the spirit of its
age, be it medieval chivalry, Tudor myth-making,
Regency excess or 1920s glamour.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2008 HB 280pp Illus
£18.00 11860 now £6.99
NEW
Ed. FHW Sheppard In this volume of the
GLC’s study of the history and architectural development of London, the Survey
focuses on the estate south of Kensington
gardens that was bought by the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Illustrated with plans and 118 pages of
monochrome photographs, it traces the
history of the site, the 1862 Exhibition
building and the buildings that replaced
it, including the South Kensington museums, the Royal Albert Hall, the royal colleges and the terraces of stucco mansions.
Slightly off-mint. Bears old cover price.
ATHLONE 1975 HB 609pp 285x220mm
£75.00 11699 now £25.00
SMITH’S PEERAGE 1998 HB 407pp Illus
£19.95 16519 now £7.99
Henry VII, the first Tudor king
Edith Humphris; EC Willoughby Cheltenham is one of England’s most attractive
and historic spa towns. First published in
1928, this affectionate but scholarly celebration briefly surveys the town’s history
from Roman times to the accession of
George III before embarking on a survey
of its Georgian heyday. The authors
chronicle its glittering social life, profile
famous and notorious visitors from the
Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron, and
trace the construction of Cheltenham’s elegant terraces and assembly rooms.
GEORGIAN CHELTENHAM
HISTORY PRESS 2008 PB 224pp
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A BRIEF HISTORY
OF HISTORY
Great Historians and the
Epic Quest to Explain the Past
BAD HISTORY
How We Got the Past Wrong
Emma Marriott Did Mussolini make
the trains run on time? Did Galileo invent the telescope? How ‘Roman’ was
Roman Britain? Examining these and
28 more examples, Emma Marriott
shows that some of our most cherished
beliefs about the great events of history
are inaccurate, either through errors and
misunderstandings or because of deliberate attempts to cover up or mislead.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2011 HB 192pp Illus
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THE MONARCHY
Ed. Robert Smith; John S Moore The final
part of a trilogy on the crown and Parliament, this
volume comprises 17 specially commissioned
essays on the history of the monarchy from
earliest times and the problems it faces today and
in the future. The essays range from Rosamund
McKitterick’s ‘Charlemagne and the Western
Monarchical Inheritance’ to ‘The Legacy of
Diana, Princess of Wales’, by Hugo Vickers
and conclude with Robert Smith’s ‘The Royal
Prerogative’. Other contributors include Jeremy
Black, David Loades and AP Smyth.
SURVEY OF LONDON
Volume XXXVIII:
The Museums Area of South
Kensington and Westminster
NEW
Colin Wells History has never been more
popular, but it was not always so. This
entertaining history of the genre traces its
origins in the ancient Greek writers
Herodotus and Thucidydes, whose contrasting approaches – narrative and scientific – have struggled for dominance
ever since. Biographical sketches outline
the colourful figures of past historians –
Bede, Anna Comnena, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Macaulay – and show how the 20th
century focus on ‘vast impersonal forces’
has given way to the return of narrative
history. LYONS 2008 HB 350pp
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THE AFGHAN WAY OF WAR
How and Why They Fight
Rob Johnson From the British in the 19th
century to the Soviets in the 20th and the
Americans in the 21st, the Afghans have
posed a fearsome challenge to invading
forces. Focusing on key episodes in the
country’s long history of conflict, this lucid military history demonstrates how
Afghanistan’s highly skilled guerrilla
fighters have continuously developed new
tactics to combat new threats, shedding
light on the Afghan ‘way of war’ and reshaping our understanding of the current
conflict. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 397pp
$29.95 10648 now £7.99
HARRIET MARTINEAU’S
WRITING ON BRITISH
HISTORY AND MILITARY
(Six volumes)
REFORM
Ed. Kathryn Sklar; Deborah Anna
Logan Volumes 1-5 contain Martineau’s History of the Peace: Being a
History of England from 1816 to 1854,
with the Introduction 1800-1815 covering the Napoleonic Wars, reprinted
from the American edition of 1864.
Volume 6 presents England and Her
Soldiers (1859), covering post-Crimean
events, together with relevant articles
and correspondence. No jackets.
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NOSTALGIA
JAM TOMORROW
Memories of Everyday
Life in Postwar Britain
Tom Quinn Life in Britain
in the aftermath of the
Second World War was one
of hardship, inequality and
change – but also of great
promise and optimism. Those
who lived through postwar
austerity remember fondly
the determination with which
people rebuilt their lives and
homes, and the excitement as
Green Line coaches connected London with its suburbs
life began to improve. With
compelling first-hand accounts from previously unpublished interviews and rarely
seen archive photographs, this book presents postwar Britain through the eyes of
those who lived in it. READER’S DIGEST 2009 HB 256pp Illus 285x223mm
£25.00 72487 now £9.99
A ploughing competition in 1935
TIMES PAST IN
THE COUNTRYSIDE
Everyday Life in a Bygone Age
Valerie Porter Using an extraordinary
collection of archive photographs of rural
crafts and village life, together with the
written memoirs and oral reminiscences
of country people, Valerie Porter looks
at the way in which all aspects of living
in the country have changed since the
late 19th century. In chapters on topics
such as gardens, working on the land,
transport, children and leisure time, the
book presents a richly detailed account
of life when ploughmen still worked with
horses and petrol pumps were thatched.
READER’S DIGEST 2009
£25.00 80534 now £9.99
Spike Mays This classic memoir, originally published in 1969 as Reuben’s Way,
brings into sharp focus how much life in
East Anglia has changed since the author’s childhood in the 1920s. Brought up
in a cottage with no electricity or running
water, Spike Mays describes a life of rural
poverty enlivened by the colourful characters of his village – among them the
poacher, the parson and the local drunk.
THE ONLY WAY WAS ESSEX
ABACUS 2013 PB 313pp
£6.99 99837 now £3.99
THIS IS YOUR WAY SIR
LMS Publicity and Posters
1923 to 1947
Jonathan Riddell; Nicolette Tomkinson
Once seen on station platforms across the
country, posters for the railway companies
represented a highpoint of 1920s and 1930s
commercial art. This collection, featuring
posters and other publicity materials,
illustrates how the ‘golden age of steam’
was also a golden age of graphic design.
Among the destinations advertised by the
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
were Lytham St Annes, Morecambe Bay, the Lake District, Ireland St James’s Palace
and, in a glamorous painting of theatregoers by Fortunino Matania,
poster by
Southport in wintertime. CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2011 PB 60pp Illus
Christopher Clark
£9.95 94569 now £3.99
COUNTRY LIVES
REMEMBERED
Brian P Martin; Ed. Ruth Binney In
profiles of 12 men, Martin evokes the character of rural life in various parts of the
country, but also introduces the occupations and crafts such as farming, coppicing,
beekeeping, thatching and timber throwing
that have been at the heart of country living. Beginning with a mole-catcher, the
book describes skills and knowledge that
are in danger of being lost as well as such
priceless moments as a steeplejack combing out a beardful of insects after a day of
stripping wooden shingles. DAVID &
Blackpool, 1949
CHARLES 2010 HB 207pp Illus 210x160mm
£9.99 84900 now £4.99
RAILWAYS AND RURAL LIFE
SWA Newton and the
Great Central Railway
Gary Boyd-Hope; Andrew Sargent This
collection of images draws on the archive of
commercial photographer SWA Newton, who
lovingly documented work in progress on the
construction and development of the Great Central
Railway’s London Extension. Travelling the route
with his camera he also photographed the lives of
the navvy community and rural settlements close
to the railway, creating a fascinating visual record
of an important moment in the Midlands’ social
history at the turn of the 20th century.
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2007 HB 216pp Illus 220x280mm
£17.99 87970 now £8.99
ENGLAND OBSERVED
John Gay (1909-1999)
Andrew Sargent Coming to England
in 1935, John Gay was one of the generation of German émigrés who contributed
significantly to British culture and academic life. After his war service, he established himself as a leading photographer in the late 1940s and 1950s,
publishing photographic books and working with authors such as John Betjeman.
In this volume marking his centenary, a
biographical essay accompanies a catalogue of 300 photographs from the large
collection of Gay’s work held by the
National Monuments Record. ENGLISH
HERITAGE 2010 PB 322pp Illus 275x215mm
All in a day’s work at Charwelton station in 1904
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SOCIAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
& INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
NEW TITANIC LIVES
Migrants and Millionaires,
Conmen and Crew
Richard Davenport-Hines In absorbing detail,
this book brings to life the stories of the men who
built and owned the Titanic, the ship’s crew and the
thousands of passengers who sailed on its notorious
maiden voyage. Setting out from Southampton,
the ship was a microcosm of Edwardian society,
encompassing every class and many nationalities,
and this portrayal of those on board is a compelling
social history as well as a fresh and fascinating
account of the Titanic’s sinking. HARPER 2012 PB 404pp
£9.99 12009 now £4.99
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David Kynaston’s study of postwar
Britain has quickly become a classic in
the five years since its 2007 publication.
The history of six tumultuous years, it describes the resurrection of an exhausted
country and how Clement Attlee’s Labour
Government shaped the political, economic and social landscape for the remainder of the 20th century. The book
includes an astonishing variety of contemporary voices, from the Chingford
housewife coping with rationing to the
pipe dreams of an optimistic pit worker.
AUSTERITY BRITAIN: 1945-51
BLOOMSBURY 2007 PB 673pp Illus
£14.99 99212 now £6.99
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
THE WAR ON OUR DOORSTEP
London’s East End and
How the Blitz Changed it Forever
NEW
IMAGES OF
INDUSTRY: COAL
Robin Thornes The dramatic and rapid
demise of the coal industry prompted this
documentary photographic survey by the
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. The black-and-white
images, taken in the early 1990s, record a
wide range of structures, from iconic colliery headgear to ventilation fan houses,
lamprooms, canteens and offices, as well
as social buildings such as workers’ housing and convalescent homes.
Harriet Salisbury Compiled from recordings now held in the Museum of London,
this is a social history of the East End in
the words of East Enders. They describe
growing up in the early 20th century, their
working lives, particularly in the docks,
momentous events such as the First World
War zeppelin raids, the Silvertown Explosion and the devastating Second World
War Blitz; and they mostly lament the rebuilding after 1945 that replaced the old
terraced houses, but not the communities.
EBURY 2012 PB 484pp
£6.99 99684 now £3.99
RCHME 1995 PB 159pp Illus
Mike Huggins Athletics, boxing, golf and tennis are among several sports which originated
in Victorian Britain and spread worldwide. In
this scholarly account of Victorian sport, Huggins tells the stories of individual sportsmen,
examines the differences between amateurs
and professionals and investigates the relevance
of class, money and the media. The study reveals the role of sport in building the characters
of young men in the age of Empire and shows
how important it became within the fabric of
British society. HAMBLEDON 2004 HB 327pp
THE VICTORIANS AND SPORT
£14.95 11681 now £4.99
£50.00 92775 now £9.99
CHEEK BY JOWL
A History of Neighbours
POXED AND SCURVIED
The Story of Sickness
and Health at Sea
Kevin Brown As sailors began to explore the world in the 15th century,
using new designs of sailing ship
which enabled long transatlantic voyages, the difficulties of keeping healthy
aboard ship became acute. Brown
discusses the Royal Navy’s efforts to
deal with the problem, which led the
way in the improvement of diet, hygiene and shipboard medical provision.
He also shows how concern for the fitness of seamen brought about public
health measures aganst drunkenness
and the pox. SEAFORTH 2011 HB 256pp
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Emily Cockayne’s colourful social history
traces the story of the British neighbour from
the Middle Ages to the present, from disputes
over privies in 14th century London to the increasing estrangement from neighbours in the
modern world of cars, mobile phones and the
internet. With an eye for the telling anecdote,
Cockayne examines the complex emotional
and economic association between neighbours
and how our living spaces determine relations
with them. BODLEY HEAD 2012 HB 280pp
£20.00 97817 now £6.99
WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER
Wartime Diaries 1939-1945
Ed. Penelope Middleboe; Donald Fry;
Christopher Grace The story of the Second World War is told here through the
diaries of nine men and women – among
them Vera Britain and Harold Nicholson –
who were living in Britain throughout the
war. Abridged. PAN 2011 PB 384pp
£8.99 98010 now £3.99
NEW THE DAWN
OF INNOVATION
The First American
Industrial Revolution
Charles R Morris The first decades
of the 19th century saw America develop from a largely rural economy to
the fledgling industrial powerhouse
which would soon out-produce Great
Britain. In this sweeping and vivid account of America’s economic rise,
Morris analyses how new technologies,
processes and work organizations,
combined with the shift of political and
economic power away from the traditional elites, gave rise to a distinctly
American approach to manufacturing.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY/CRIME
Nicholas Connell Dr Crippen was arrested
aboard the liner Montrose having been pursued
across the Atlantic by Inspector Dew of Scotland
Yard. The body parts discovered at his North
London home were enough to convict him of
murdering his wife but the facts of the case have
continued to be disputed. This new investigation
examines recently discovered material and new
theories to tell the complete story of the most
famous murder case of the 20th century.
NEW
DOCTOR CRIPPEN
AMBERLEY 2013 HB 224pp Illus
£20.00 16371 now £7.99
HUDDERSFIELD
MILL MEMORIES
An Oral History
NEW
Vivien Teasdale Using interviews with
textile workers from a wide range of jobs
within the industry, and covering the period from the 1920s to the decline of the
mills in the 1970s, this oral history tells
the story of the heyday of one of the old
West Riding’s most important industries
and the demise of its massive mills, which
still dominate the Hudderfield landscape.
NEW DARK CITY
Crime in Wartime London
Simon Read At a time when most Londoners were pulling together in the face
of terrible adversity, a criminal minority
was taking advantage of blitz and blackout
to rob and murder. Here, the renowned
crime writer Simon Read paints a vivid
picture of what life was like in 1940s London as he describes the crimes of the most
notorious killers, among them the ‘Blackout Ripper’, the Elephant Boys, John
‘Acid Bath’ Haigh and the infamous
Rillington Place murderer, John Christie.
£19.99 10871 now £6.99
WHARNCLIFFE 2006 PB 174pp Illus
£10.99 10981 now £4.99
DEADLY DERBYSHIRE
Tales of Murder and
Manslaughter c.1700-1900
Scott C Lomax True crime writer Scott
Lomax presents a guide to murder and
manslaughter committed across the whole
of Derbyshire, from the murder of Hannah
Hewitt in 1742 to John Cotton’s killing
in 1898. Lomax’s researches in newspaper
archives have uncovered cases never previously explored, including a fight over
three eggs which resulted in a killing, numerous children dumped in rivers and
canals, unsolved murders and the probable
serial killer, Elizabeth Berry.
TWO CENTURIES OF
INDUSTRIAL WELFARE
The London (Quaker)
Lead Company, 1692-1905
Arthur Raistrick The London Lead
Company, owned by a remarkable group
of Quaker industrialists, worked mines in
the north of England, Derbyshire, Wales
and Ireland, from 1692 to 1905. The enlightened owners were well ahead of their
time, and provided model homes, subsidized food and medical care for their
workforce. Raistrick documents these progressive social policies, and also provides
an informative account of this historically
important, but neglected, industry.
KELSALL & DAVIS 1988 HB 172pp Illus
£16.00 45426 now £4.99
NEW TRANSATLANTIC
BETRAYAL
The RB211 and the
Demise of Rolls-Royce Ltd
Andrew Porter Rolls Royce’s RB211
high-bypass turbofan engine made the
manufacturer a leader in the aviation industry when it first entered service in 1972.
However, the crippling development costs
had forced the company into receivership
in 1971 and it was subsequently nationalized. This account of the development of
the engine explains the technical innovations and argues that political manoeuvres
by the British and American governments,
and not Rolls-Royce’s own management,
were responsible for the downfall.
£17.99 16374 now £6.99
£12.99 10967 now £4.99
DURHAM EXECUTIONS
The Twentieth Century
NEW
Maureen Anderson The 20th century saw
55 men hanged at Durham, the last in 1958.
After chapters on the executioners and the Gaol,
this book tells the stories of the crimes and the
perpetrators who went to the scaffold, from
John Bowes, who murdered his wife on the
beach at Seaham Harbour in 1900, to Brian
Chandler, who was sentenced to death for killing
83-year-old Martha Annie Dodd and hanged on
17 December 1958. WHARNCLIFFE 2007 PB 176pp Illus
£12.99 10968 now £4.99
John van der Kiste From the killing of Walter Lechlade, assaulted in Exeter
Cathedral yard in 1283 by Alured de Porta, the Mayor of Exeter, to Frank
Matthews’s murder of his wife on the road to Horrabridge on Valentine’s Day
1959, John van der Kiste tells the true stories of 29
murders from the shadier side of Devon’s history.
MORE DEVON MURDERS
HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 160pp Illus
£14.99 10819 now £5.99
Nigel Blundell; Susan Blackhall Some criminals
transcend the shabbiness and banality of
commonplace crime and inspire amazement and
even admiration for their sheer ingenuity or
audacity. This book collects the stories of some
of the most colourful fraudsters in modern history,
from the self-styled ‘Count’ Lustig who managed
to sell the Eiffel Tower in the 1920s to corrupt
American TV evangelists and the daring forger
Frank Abagnale, immortalized in the film
Catch Me if You Can. WHARNCLIFFE 2009 HB 224pp
NEW
CRAFTY CROOKS AND CONMEN
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MILITARY HISTORY
NEW LETTERS FROM LADYSMITH
Eyewitness Accounts
from the South African War
Edward M Spiers The Siege of Ladysmith lasted
118 days, from November 1899 to February 1900,
and had tremendous strategic and imperial
significance. Military historian Edward Spiers
presents, with commentary, 250 letters written by
soldiers and civilians from the beleaguered town
and originally published in British newspsapers.
They provide vivid accounts of the siege and the
desperate and bloody attempts to relieve Ladysmith,
but also illustrate contemporary perceptions of
the war and the British underestimation of the
Boer army. FRONTLINE 2010 HB 204pp
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RAMILLIES 1706
Year of Miracles
James Falkner The First Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, had already
cemented his reputation with a famous
victory at Blenheim in 1704 but his rout
of the French at Ramillies, near Brussels,
was perhaps his most emphatic victory
and a decisive blow in the War of Spanish Succession. This guide charts the
build up to the action, profiles the major
figures involved and provides a detailed
analysis of how the battle was fought.
NEW
PEN & SWORD 2006 PB 144pp Illus
£12.99 10999 now £4.99
THE GREAT WAR
An Illustrated History
Phil Carradice Novelist, historian and
broadcaster Phil Carradice presents a pictorial history of the First World War in
which the photographs and cartoons – the
majority from his personal collection –
are as important as the text. Tracing the
course of the war, from its causes to the
aftermath, the book focuses not on the
generals’ war, but on the ordinary people,
both soldiers and civilians, caught up in
events they could not control and often
did not understand.
THE BOER WAR
The Struggle for South Africa
Bill Nasson The Boer War of 1899-1902 saw the might of the British Empire held at
bay for three years by guerrilla bands of Afrikaaner farmers. As this authoritative history
demonstrates, it was the most important imperial war of the late Victorian era, in which
the British employed a ‘scorched earth’ policy and made the first use of concentration
camps. This new, completely revised and updated edition, takes into account the most
recent scholarship and makes use of Afrikaans sources. SPELLMOUNT 2011 PB 352pp
£16.99 99401 now £6.99
CAPTURED MEMORIES 1900-1918
Across the Threshold of War
Peter Liddle The pioneering oral historian Peter Liddle’s 4,000-plus interviews
with the survivors of two world wars form the backbone of the Liddle Collection
at Leeds University. This selection focuses on the memories of participants in the
First World War, men from all walks of life who served on the Western Front, at
Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and at sea, including the future Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan. They are both a moving testimony of human endurance and a priceless
historical resource. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 333pp
£25.00 99670 now £8.99
DEFENDING LONDON
The Military Landscape
from Prehistory to the Present
Mike Osborne Anti-tank obstacles and
pillboxes in the fields of the Home Counties bear witness to some of the measures
taken during the Second World War to
prepare London for the feared German invasion. This history of military London
reviews the evolving defensive systems,
from the Roman wall to modern anti-terrorist strategies, and seeks out the many
surviving structures – historic strongholds,
barracks, depots, dockyards and munitions
factories – that can be seen in the city today. HISTORY PRESS 2012 PB 256pp Illus
£14.99 86325 now £5.99
HERMANN GÖRING:
FIGHTER ACE
The World War I Career
of Germany’s Most
Infamous Airman
Peter Kilduff Overshadowed by his
crimes as a Nazi leader, Göring’s experiences in the First World War have received little attention. Illustrated with 75
drawings and photographs, many of them
previously unpublished items from
Göring’s own collection, this groundbreaking book traces his career as a brilliant, much decorated air ace, the last
wartime commander of the Red Baron’s
squadron. It also exposes the roots of the
ego, ambition and instability that – despite
his undeniable courage – would later have
such disastrous consequences.
GRUB STREET 2010 HB 192pp Illus
£20.00 94636 now £8.99
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FRONTIER FIGHTERS
On Active Service in Waziristan
NEW
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
£19.99 10976 now £7.99
ALL THE KING’S MEN
The British Soldier from
the Restoration to Waterloo
Saul David From the creation of England’s first professional standing army in
the 1660s to the final defeat of the French
at Waterloo in 1815, the British soldier
built a formidable reputation and helped
establish Britain as the pre-eminent world
power. Saul David’s study charts the careers of the generals from Marlborough
to Wellington as well as the lives of the
ordinary soldiers who, despite harsh service conditions, were often a key factor in
Britain’s success in battle.
VIKING 2012 HB 590pp Illus
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MILITARY
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
SUPERMARINE
SPITFIRE
Alfred Price Commissioned
to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of the Battle of
Britain in which the Spitfire
played such a vital role,
this is a superbly illustrated
history of this iconic aircraft,
from Reginald Mitchell’s
drawing board in the early
1930s to the restored
Spitfires of the Battle of
Britain Memorial Flight.
609 Squadron groundcrew pose with a Spitfire Mark 1
There are detailed accounts
at Drem, East Lothian, in the winter of 1939-40
of its wartime service – in
southern England in 1940 and in many other theatres – and the book also describes
Spitfire variants and their post-war careers. MIDLAND 2010 HB 128pp Illus 215x290mm
£19.99 10880 now £7.99
THE RIGHT OF THE LINE
The Role of the RAF
in World War Two
John Terraine In this appraisal of the
RAF’s operations during the Second World
War, Terraine shows how the small, inadequate force of 1939 grew in influence and
effectiveness to take up a position of honour
and importance (‘the right of the line’)
within the armed forces by the end of the
war. The comprehensive volume describes
the build-up to hostilities and all the actions
of the war from early tests in France to
the strategic air offensive over Germany.
PEN & SWORD 2010 PB 863pp Illus
£30.00 97870 now £11.99
MASTERS OF DEATH
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and
the Invention of the Holocaust
Richard Rhodes Formed in 1941 as an
offshoot of the SS, the Einsatzgruppen
were professional killing squads charged
with rounding up and executing Europe’s
Jewish populations. Rhodes gives a full
account of these operations; of the professional economists, architects and lawyers
who were the programme’s commanders,
of the troops themselves, and of Hitler and
Himmler’s plans to go further, opening
Russia up to colonization by the slaughter
of over 30 million Slavs and other ethnic
groups. PERSEUS 2002 HB 351pp Illus
£18.99 63807 now £7.99
DUNKIRK
Retreat to Victory
STALIN’S GENERAL
The Life of Georgy Zhukov
ARCADE 2011 HB 352pp Illus
£25.00 95140 now £8.99
Julian Thompson This new history of
the campaign of the British Expeditionary
Force in 1940 emphasizes the weeks of
fighting inland which preceded the famous evacuation at Dunkirk. It also includes material on the British Army’s little-known participation in the fighting
south of the Somme. Using previously
unpublished material, Julian Thompson,
a commander in the Falklands War, recreates the experiences of the under-trained
soldiers in mortal danger on the front line
as well as the misunderstandings between
British and French generals.
$24.95 97796 now £6.99
Geoffrey Roberts It is arguable that
Georgy Zhukov was the greatest of the Allied generals of the Second World War,
surpassing Eisenhower, Montgomery or
Patton in military effectiveness. Unlike his
rival Red Army generals he was prepared
to stand up to Stalin when necessary and
although charming in his private life, was
a brutal and decisive commander. This is
the first major biography of the Soviet hero,
drawing on newly available sources in the
Russian archives and previously unpublished excerpts from Zhukov’s own memoirs. Slightly off-mint. ICON 2012 HB 394pp
Victoria Schofield Replaced as commander in North Africa in 1941 and
blamed for the disastrous loss of Singapore in 1942, Archibald Wavell was not
popular with Winston Churchill. However, despite the excitable Prime Minister’s opinion, Wavell proved himself a
leader of judgement and integrity in the
most testing conditions. Schofield’s biography puts his wartime reversals in the
context of a lifetime of service, from a
distinguished record in the First World
War to his final appointment as Viceroy
of India. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 523pp Illus
WAVELL: Soldier and Statesman
£30.00 97876 now £9.99
Sune Persson This is the first English translation
of Sune Persson’s critically acclaimed 2002 study
of Sweden’s rescue operation of prisoners from
Nazi concentration camps on a famous transport
of white buses. Despite saving tens of thousands
of lives, the mission was fraught with conflict
and controversy, including negotiations between
its leader Folke Bernadotte and Heinrich
Himmler. Now including new archive material
and previously unpublished photographs, this
important book seeks finally to untangle the
truth about Sweden’s biggest ever humanitarian
operation. FRONTLINE 2009 HB 288pp Illus
THE SECRET
WAR IN ITALY
Operation Herring
and No 1 Italian SAS
NEW
ESCAPE FROM THE THIRD REICH
Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses
William Fowler Over nearly two years
of fighting, from September 1943, Italy
proved to be the German Reich’s ‘tough
old gut’ rather than Churchill’s promised
‘soft underbelly’. This book tells the story
of the Italian campaign from the point of
view of the secret services, partisans and
special forces culminating in Operation
Herring, in which the Italian SAS made
the last active parachute drop of the war.
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MILITARY HISTORY
NEW FIVE DAYS THAT
SHOOK THE WORLD
Eyewitness Accounts from Europe
at the End of World War II
Nicholas Best Between the murder of Mussolini
on 28 April 1945 and Hitler’s suicide on 2 May,
Allied troops in Europe were discovering the
concentration camps; in Germany the Russian
army was merciless as it stormed towards Berlin;
and beyond Europe people were learning the full
extent of Nazi atrocities. This is the story of that
week, told through eyewitness accounts of soldiers,
photographers and reporters such as Lee Miller
and Richard Dimbleby, and civilians, among them,
Audrey Hepburn, starving in occupied Holland.
THOMAS DUNNE 2011 HB 383pp Illus
$27.99 10841 now £6.99
JP Cross The author’s own military
career uniquely qualifies him to write this
study of jungle warfare techniques, which
mixes factual military history and tactical
lessons with personal anecdotes. Beginning with examples from the British and
Japanese operations in the Second World
War, Cross goes on to demonstrate how
strategies developed in Indo-China,
Malaya, the Borneo Confrontation and
Vietnam, and stresses how the challenging conditions of the jungle make mental
and physical resilience as important as
armament and conventional training.
NEW
JUNGLE WARFARE
NAVAL INSTITUTE 2007 HB 271pp Illus
$39.95 10582 now £7.99
THE BATTLE FOR SICILY
Stepping Stone to Victory
Ian Blackwell Operation Husky, which
began in July 1943, was the Allies’ first
move to regain control of Western Europe, but despite fighting for six weeks
over the island of Sicily they were unable to inflict a crushing defeat on the
Axis forces. Blackwell’s account of the
campaign brings out the disagreements
over the invasion between politicians
and service chiefs, but also shows how
it taught useful lessons that were to contribute to the success of the Normandy
landings the following year.
PEN & SWORD 2008 HB 208pp Illus
£19.99 99207 now £6.99
ARMOURED AND
HEAVY VEHICLES OF
THE RUC, 1922-2001
NEW
David Dunne The Royal Ulster
Constabulary was, from the
beginning, much more than a police
force, requiring specialist
equipment and heavily defended
vehicles to cope with the particular
challenges of the volatile province.
From the Rolls-Royce and Lancia
armoured cars of the 1920s to the
military patrol cars, modified Land
A border patrol
Rovers and steel-plated Ford Cortinas of later decades, this book
in a Crossley
examines the vehicles used by the RUC through a series of archive
Tender in
photographs with detailed captions. IAN ALLAN 2007 HB 160pp Illus
May 1922
£19.99 10868 now £7.99
GREAT MILITARY LEADERS
AND THEIR CAMPAIGNS
Ed. Jeremy Black From Cyrus the Great
to Saladin, Oliver Cromwell to the North
Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap, over
100 of the greatest commanders in history
are assessed in this review of military leadership. Each chapter includes a detailed
analysis of a general’s key actions, accompanied by maps, campaign plans and battle
reconstructions, reproductions of portraits
and artworks and photographs of surviving
armour and weapons. Finally, an A-Z reference section outlines the achievements
of another 150 significant commanders.
THAMES & HUDSON
2008 HB 304pp Illus 320x270mm
£35.00 98405 now £14.99
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MISSION 101
The Untold Story of the
SOE and the Second
World War in Ethiopia
Duncan McNab In one of the first deployments of the Special Operations Executive,
Churchill’s ‘Secret Army’ of saboteurs and
spies, five Australian soldiers were sent to
Ethiopia to disrupt the occupying Italian
army. Combining original research and
first-hand accounts, McNab tells the story
of how these men recruited a force of
Ethiopian freedom fighters and led them
across the African bush from Sudan to
wage a successful guerrilla war against the
Italians. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 224pp
£9.99 98646 now £4.99
OPERATION FORTITUDE
The Story of the Spy
Operation that Saved D-Day
Joshua Levine Operation Fortitude was
the codename of the strategic deception
that fooled the Nazis into believing Allied
forces were invading Norway and the Pas
de Calais, thus diverting German forces
from the Normandy beaches. General Patton’s phantom army, agent Garbo’s fictitious spy network, fake radio transmissions, aircraft pretending to be ships by
dropping tinfoil confetti... Joshua Levine
reveals how this daring and ingenious intelligence operation gave D-Day its best
chance of success. COLLINS 2011 HB 316pp
£16.99 91176 now £6.99
NEW MILITARY
AIRCRAFT
OF THE 1970s
Gerry Manning Alongside
new developments in
military aviation during the
1970s, many of the aircraft
of previous decades were
still operational. There was
therefore a wide variety in
service, from the Meteor to
the F-14, the Beverley to
the C-5 Galaxy. This
portfolio of over 300 colour photographs demonstrates the many
variants and types, as well as considering the different camouflage
markings and liveries that identified the squadrons and air forces
to which they belonged. MIDLAND 2007 PB 144pp Illus
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A McDonnell
Phantom FGR.2
of 111 Squadron
at Leuchars in
September 1976
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SCOTLAND
NEW LOST ABERDEEN
The Outskirts
Diane Morgan In this illustrated
local history, Diane Morgan
explores in detail the environmental,
industrial and architectural heritage
of the outskirts of Aberdeen and the
lives and work of their inhabitants.
These very early suburbs, which
‘could almost be described as
inskirts’, they are so close to the
city, are Gilcomston, Berryden,
Kittybrewster, Torry and the Bay of Nigg, the Clayhills,
and Ferryhill. BIRLINN 2007 PB 224pp Illus
£10.99 11481 now £4.99
Sea arch near Kirkabister on Bressay, Shetland
NEW PORTRAIT OF
THE NORTHERN ISLES
Graham Uney Orkney, Shetland, Fair
Isle and Foula and all the Northern Isles
are very different from each other; in this
collection of over 140 photographs,
Graham Uney has tried to capture the
unique character of each island. Taken
throughout the seasons and, whether
focusing on details of rock formations or
wide seascapes, ancient standing stones
or fishing boats in Stromness, the photographs reveal the diversity of landscape,
the history and life today in these rugged
islands. HALSGROVE 2009 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 10776 now £6.99
PORTRAIT OF THE HEBRIDES
A Journey to Scotland’s
Western Seaboard and Beyond
Iain McGowan A splintered arc of some
500 islands curving around the northwest
coast of Scotland, the Hebrides possess a
mystery and fascination that few places
in the world can equal. Packed with magnificently evocative colour photographs,
this beautiful book captures the archipelago’s kaleidoscope of colours, light and
mood. After an introductory chapter on
the mainland seaboard, it focuses on three
of the largest islands – Skye, Eigg and
Harris – exploring their landscape, geology, climate, and dramatic social history.
HALSGROVE 2008 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 10763 now £6.99
THE SCOTTISH
COUNTRYSIDE
Its Changing Face, 1700-2000
Rosemary Gibson The unique collection
of over 100,000 plans held by the National
Archives of Scotland clearly illustrates
the transformations wrought by changing
methods of agriculture, land improvement, rural industry and the revolution in
transport since 1700. With detailed commentary by curator Rosemary Gibson, the
93 maps, plans and illustrations reproduced here – from 18th century plans of
runrig and commonty lands to a 1920s
smallholding scheme – provide snapshots
of the Scottish countryside through three
centuries of change. JOHN DONALD 2007
£25.00 72291 now £9.99
NONE DARE OPPOSE
The Laird, the Beast
and the People of Lewis
John MacLeod In 1844, James Matheson,
having made his fortune selling opium in
China, bought the Isle of Lewis. While he
built himself a mock-Tudor castle, he left
The Hardweird in old
Gilcomston, c.1900; it was
demolished in the 1920s
the island in the charge of his ‘chamberlain’, an unscrupulous lawyer named Donald Munro. This enthralling book reveals
how Munro seized every office of civic,
legal and industrial power in the community, which he ruled with monstrous brutality – and how the islanders rose up and
brought about his downfall.
BIRLINN 2010 HB 304pp 198x146mm
£16.99 11492 now £5.99
SCHOOL OF THE MOON
The Highland
Cattle-raiding Tradition
Stuart McHardy Storyteller Stuart
McHardy retells some of the best tales,
dating from the years after Culloden, concerning the ancient cattle-raiding practice
of the clan warriors. As his historical research makes clear, what the British government saw as thieving was in fact the
continuation, by the last of the Jacobites,
of a Highland tradition which went back
at least to the Iron Age and which is even
now not fully understood.
BIRLINN 2004 PB 288pp
£9.99 68880 now £4.99
NEW FIRESIDE TALES OF THE
TRAVELLER CHILDREN
Duncan Williamson This new and expanded edition
of Scottish storyteller and singer Duncan
Williamson’s first book is a tribute to his skill as a
fireside storyteller. Featuring tales handed down
through generations of travelling people, ranging
from horror stories to animal fables, this is a vivid
introduction to a rich tradition of Scottish
storytelling. BIRLINN 2009 PB 218pp
£8.99 11460 now £3.99
HIGHLAND JOURNEY
In the Spirit of Edwin Muir
Robin Gillanders Inspired by Edwin
Muir’s classic Scottish Journey (1934),
photographer Robin Gillanders made an
80-day trip through the Scottish Highlands
and Islands, travelling in a camper van
equipped with a darkroom. In this account
of his journey he records visually and in
words the places and people – among
them bikers, crofters, coopers and ferry
crew – he encountered. As well as offering
a picture of contemporary life in the region, the book draws fascinating comparisons with Muir’s Highlands of the 1930s.
BIRLINN 2009 HB 111pp Illus 290x230mm
£25.00 94728 now £7.99
NEW PILGRIMS
OF THE MIST
The Stories
of Scotland’s Travelling People
Sheila Stewart Singer, storyteller and author
Sheila Stewart is one of the last in the line of
Scotland’s travelling people and these tales,
gathered from her friends and family, are a
tribute to a way of life that has now all but
died out. There are stories of myth and magic,
hauntings and sudden deaths, lovers and
childbirths, and the hardships of a people often
spurned as social outcasts. BIRLINN 2010 PB 206pp
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BRITISH ISLES
EXPLORING BRITAIN’S
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Inspirational Journeys of Discovery
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 280x215mm
£25.00 88697 now £8.99
I NEVER KNEW THAT
ABOUT THE ENGLISH
NEW
Christopher Winn In which English
county are the world’s oldest film studios?
Where was the only English pope born?
In this county-by-county tour, ‘trivia collector’ Christopher Winn introduces
places and traditions which illustrate different aspects of the country’s history and
character. He also discusses our bestknown historical figures, such as Charles
Darwin and William Hogarth, alongside
a range of less familiar local heroes.
EBURY 2008 HB 368pp Illus
£9.99 11857 now £3.99
St Govan’s Chapel in the sea cliffs
at Bosherston in south Pembrokeshire
PINNER
Hatch End, North Harrow
and Rayners Lane
Patricia A Clarke The last 150 years have
brought some of the most significant
changes to this corner of Middlesex.
Drawn from private collections, the 218
photographs in this collection illustrate
those changes and, with their informative
captions, provide a wealth of detail about
the area’s local history, from the demise
of the ‘town tree’, an ancient, gnarled elm
which fell in 1898, to redevelopments in
the 1970s.PHILLIMORE 2007 HB 128pp Illus
£15.99 97707 now £5.99
JOHNSON’S
LIFE OF LONDON
The People Who Made the
City that Made the World
Boris Johnson Who better to tell the story
of London and its ingenious, original and
larger-than-life residents than the present
mayor? Both deeply knowledgeable and
incomparably entertaining, Boris Johnson
narrates the capital’s history as a kind of
relay race. Beginning with the Romans,
he passes the torch on down through the
famous and infamous, the brilliant and
the bizarre, from Hadrian to Keith
Richards, with asides on diverse topics
including the flush toilet, the Bow Street
Runners and Routemaster buses.
RIVERHEAD 2011 HB 331pp
$27.95 10849 now £6.99
REGENT’S PARK
AND PRIMROSE HILL
Martin Sheppard; Photo. Sandra Lousada Laid out by John Nash between 1811
and 1826, Regent’s Park is one of London’s best-loved public spaces, a rich and
varied environment that includes an open
air theatre and the London Zoo. This attractive book traces the area’s history from
its days as one of Henry VIII’s hunting
grounds to the present. Sandra Lousada’s
photographs capture both the beauty of
its wild meadows and the elegance of its
formal gardens and Georgian terraces, in
all lights and all seasons. FRANCES
LINCOLN 2010 HB 112pp Illus 265x250mm
£16.99 99838 now £8.99
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NEW 900 YEARS OF
CHICHESTER’S MARKETS
Cattle, Corn and Crawfish
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.
Stephen Morris An unpromising spring
in a field half a mile from the parish church
was the catalyst for Cheltenham’s rapid
growth in the 18th century. The alleged
medical benefits of the water brought visitors; accommodation and entertainments
were swiftly erected; and when George III
took the waters, the town became the most
fashionable resort in the country. This
photographic exploration tells the story of
Cheltenham and celebrates the fine buildings and elegant vistas of England’s
most complete Regency town. FRANCES
PHILLIMORE 2011 HB 176pp Illus
CHELTENHAM
£16.99 98922 now £7.99
£17.99 10818 now £6.99
Frank Meeres The settlement of Norwich
began in the Saxon period; by the time of
the Norman Conquest, it was one of the
most important cities in England and it
remained so until overtaken by the manufacturing towns of the Industrial Revolution. This illustrated account of Norwich’s development up to the present day
describes the lives of its inhabitants over
the centuries as well as telling the stories
of notable events and famous residents.
THE STORY OF NORWICH
£25.00 99429 now £9.99
SOUTHAMPTON
Gateway to the World
Alastair Arnott The success
of the city of Southampton has,
from the earliest times, been
based on the natural advantages
of a sheltered deep-water
anchorage and minimal tidal
variation. This study of the
city and its maritime heritage
investigates the development
of the port, analysing the factors
that have driven its growth and
explaining how changes in the
shipping industry have made
Southampton, at different
Leslie Carr’s 1936 Southern
periods, a springboard for travel and leisure and a hub
of international trade. HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 160pp Illus Railway poster of the Eastern
£14.99 97714 now £5.99
Docks at Southampton
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Patricia Southern Beginning with the hot springs
as they were long before the Romans arrived –
in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras – this account
of the rise and fall of Aquae Sulis summarizes
the archaeology of Roman Bath and describes
the town, its baths, its temple to Sulis Minerva and
its unique social role in the province of Britannia.
The concluding chapter describes the decline of
Roman Bath and its revival as a spa town in the
17th century. AMBERLEY 2012 HB 240pp Illus
THE STORY OF ROMAN BATH
£20.00 10553 now £7.99
John Payne With its elegant Georgian terraces,
the spa town of Bath is one of England’s most
popular tourist destinations. Extensively illustrated
in colour and black-and-white, this compact
cultural guide explores its history, its landmarks,
its social and political development and its role as a religious centre, its largerthan-life historical personalities and, not least, the city’s prominent place in
English literature, from Jane Austen to John Betjeman. SIGNAL 2012 PB 220pp
BATH
SHAKESPEARE’S
CHURCH
A Parish for the World
NEW
Ed. Val Horsler Holy Trinity church in
Stratford-upon-Avon has a history that
stretches back to Anglo-Saxon times,
but is best known as the burial place of
the town’s most famous resident –
William Shakespeare. This handsome
book explores the church’s history and
architecture, its connection with the
playwright, and its role in the life of the
community today. Plentiful colour photographs show every aspect of this beautiful building, its carvings and its monuments, in the shifting play of light filtering through its stained-glass windows.
THIRD MILLENNIUM 2010
£25.00 16422 now £9.99
THE WHARNCLIFFE
COMPANION TO COVENTRY
An A to Z of Local History
David McGrory Coventry has suffered
from redevelopment since the Second
World War, but in the 17th century John
Taylor, the Water Poet, described it as ‘a
faire, famous, sweet and ancient city’.
This companion reveals Coventry’s unexpectedly rich history in concise articles
arranged alphabetically from Aelfgar of
Mercia, the son of Lady Godiva, to the
Zulu warrior – a 60 foot tall figure that
guarded the entrance to the Zoo during
the 1960s.
£12.99 11012 now £4.99
THE WHARNCLIFFE
COMPANION TO CHESTER
An A to Z of Local History
Roger Stephens Aimed at visitors and
residents alike, this companion to the history of Chester is an ideal reference to the
long, varied and sometimes surprising
story of the city. Essential information on
the people, places and events that played
key roles in Chester’s history since Roman
times are presented in concise articles,
arranged alphabetically from the Abbey
Gate to the Zoo.
£12.99 11011 now £4.99
£9.99 99869 now £3.99
NEW IN SEARCH
OF THE SEVEN
WONDERS OF WALES
Eirwen Shelbourne Taking as
its inspiration an 18th century
rhyme, this travel guide
explores the seven wonders
identified by the verse, all in
the north-east of Wales. The
book plots a route from one
location to the next, exploring
the history, landscape and
culture of each site. The seven
‘wonders’ are: Pistyll Rhaeadr,
Chirk aqueduct
Wrexham Steeple, Snowdon, Overton Yew Trees, St Winifred’s
and viaduct
Well, Llangollen Bridge and Gresford Bells. BRIDGE 2010 PB 160pp Illus
by Wrexham
£7.99 11874 now £3.99
TREFOREST, GLYNTAFF AND RHYDYFELIN
Images of Wales
Rhodri John Powell This collection of over 200 old photographs traces the changes
that have taken place in Treforest, Glyntaff and Rhydyfelin since the 19th century.
The area once had thriving ironworks and tinworks, but the Treforest Industrial
Estate, opened in 1936, brought new employment opportunities. The photographs
illustrate these changes as well as local landmarks, including the School of Mines,
and the influence of local figures such as Frances Crawshay and Dr William Price.
HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 128pp Illus
£12.99 97721 now £4.99
THROUGH TIME SERIES
In each of the Through Time books, more than
180 pictures trace some of the many ways in
which towns or regions have changed over the
last century. Period paintings or sepia-tinted
‘then’ photographs are presented alongside
‘now’ colour photos of the same locations,
with notes on the transformations – or
continuities. AMBERLEY 2011-13 PB 96pp Illus
£14.99 each
now £4.99 each
Irena Morgan
ABERGAVENNY
Brian Girling
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MAYFAIR
Stanley C Jenkins
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OXFORDSHIRE
Brian Girling
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NEW ALNWICK CASTLE
The Home of the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland
James McDonald Standing beside the
River Aln in Durham, amid gardens by
Capability Brown, Alnwick Castle has
been home to the Percy family for seven
centuries. This handsome volume, with its
superb colour photographs, takes the reader
on a tour, not only of the rooms open to the
public, but also behind the scenes and into
the private areas, which the present duchess
has stylishly refurbished, balancing respect
for the historic fabric with the requirements
of a modern home. FRANCES LINCOLN
£30.00 10891 now £14.99
The castle overlooking James Adams’ Lion Bridge
Anthony Poulton-Smith Early agriculturalists were largely self-sufficient, but
one commodity had to be traded over long
distances: salt. Vital to the diet of livestock and essential for preserving meat,
most English salt came from two places:
Cheshire, and Droitwich in Worcestershire. This intriguing guide gives detailed
directions along the routes it took from
there to cities such as Liverpool, Sheffield,
Bristol and London, describing the history
and sights of places on the way, and recommending present day refreshment
stops. AMBERLEY 2010 PB 128pp Illus
NEW
THE SALT ROUTES
£12.99 16492 now £4.99
RAMBLERS BEST WALKS
BRITAIN
75 of Britain’s Best Walks
To celebrate the Ramblers’ 75th year,
this guide presents 75 of the most rewarding walks that Britain has to offer,
all chosen and checked by local groups.
Each walk is clearly described, with
details of access, distance, terrain and
the best time of year to walk, an Ordnance Survey map and colour photographs. The book covers England, Wales
and Scotland and is arranged by region,
with an introduction to each, and there
is also a short history of the Ramblers
Association.
RAMBLERS 2010 HB 288pp Illus 235x265mm
£25.00 92595 now £7.99
THE YORKSHIRE MOORS
AND WOLDS
Mark Denton Separated by the Vale of
Pickering, the low hills of the Yorkshire
Wolds and the heather moorland of the
North Yorkshire Moors offer two contrasting landscapes: patchworks of cultivated fields, gently rolling hills and wide
skies characterize the Wolds; while the
Moors offer dramatic isolation, beautiful
woodland and spectacular falling water.
In this collection of his panoramic photographs, Mark Denton pays tribute to
these most atmospheric, enchanting and
little-known areas of England. FRANCES
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Sir William
Blackett, the
first Baronet
NEW THE SHIP THAT CAME HOME
The Story of a Northern Dynasty
AW Purdue During the 1880s Lady Alethea
Blackett of Matfen Hall in Northumberland
followed the contemporary fashion for family
history by compiling a leather-bound volume
of watercolours, photographs and memories.
Its fortuitous rediscovery in a bookshop
inspired this book, which draws on Lady
Alethea’s research to tell the stories of the
Blackett dynasty across four centuries, the
local families with whom their lives were
intertwined and the great houses which
they owned, occupied and built in the
north of England. THIRD MILLENNIUM
£25.00 16423 now £11.99
Tony Hopkins 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.
THE PENNINE WAY
ZYMURGY 2005 HB 160pp Illus 218x265mm
£16.99 11062 now £5.99
NORTHERN IRELAND’S
ANCIENT SITES
NEVER EAT
SHREDDED WHEAT
The Geography We’ve Lost
and How to Find It
Christopher Somerville, the best-selling
author of Coast, presents the basics of
British geography, starting with borders
and counties of England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland and going on to deal
with 21 big cities, ‘the watery bits’, coasts
and islands and 100 landmarks. There is
also a glossary of geographical terms and,
when you feel you’ve mastered the subject,
a pub quiz. HODDER 2011 PB 237pp Illus
£8.99 85303 now £3.99
Diana Dicker Northern
Ireland’s natural beauty is
enhanced by a rich legacy of
historic monuments, from
prehistoric dolmens through the
relics of early Christianity to
fortified tower houses and
castles. Geographically arranged
and illustrated in colour, this
attractive guide ranges from
Belfast’s Linen Hall through the
ramparts of Derry to the wilds
Tower and church on Devenish Island, Fermanagh
of the Mourne Mountains. Packed
with fact, folklore and legend, it includes a timeline, walking tours, and practical
information on transport and refreshments. HALSGROVE 2010 HB 144pp Illus
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
NEW EXPLORERS OF THE NILE
The Triumph and the Tragedy of a
Great Victorian Adventure
Tim Jeal The source of the Nile had baffled
Europeans since antiquity. In 1856, the quest
began in earnest. Drawing on new research,
Tim Jeal describes how Richard Burton, John
Hanning Speke, Florence and Samuel Baker,
James Grant, Henry Morton Stanley and David
Livingstone braved uncharted territory, spear
wounds, malaria and flesh-eating ulcers to
unlock the secret. Jeal also examines the tragic
consequences for Uganda and Sudan, providing
both a thrilling adventure story and a new
understanding of Britain’s imperial past.
FABER 2011 HB 528pp Illus
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THE LAST TRAIN
TO ZONA VERDE
Overland from
Cape Town to Angola
NEW
Paul Theroux In what he states will be
his last African journey, the acclaimed
author of Dark Star Safari travels north
from Cape Town through Namibia,
Botswana and Angola into the ‘green
zone’ of central Africa. The journey takes
him far from the tourist itinerary and the
bright hopes of post-independence movements into an anarchic, war-torn world
of heat, poverty, road blocks and mob
rule, prompting him to ask himself – with
typical honesty – ‘What am I doing here?’
HAMISH HAMILTON 2013 HB 365pp
£20.00 10802 now £7.99
NEW SIR WATKIN’S TOURS
Excursions to France, Italy and North Wales, 1768-71
Paul Hernon Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1749-89) is a shadowy figure often
relegated to the footnotes, but as a patron of artists, architects, musicians and
landscape gardeners, his influence on 18th century taste was significant. Within
a biographical overview, this revealing study focuses on his grand tour of France
and Italy and his own landholdings in North Wales. Illustrated with 49 colour
plates, it records how this flamboyant Welsh connoisseur almost bankrupted
himself in the pursuit of elegance. BRIDGE 2013 HB 229pp Illus
£25.00 11875 now £9.99
Michael Palin; Photo. Basil Pao Michael
Palin’s intelligent observations and intrepid attitude in his televised journeys
have made him Britain’s most celebrated
traveller and a highly acclaimed travel
writer. In a series of diary entries and accompanying photographs, this volume
records his reactions to the spectacular
scenery and fascinating characters encountered on his journey from the Khyber
Pass on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
and along the Himalayas to Bangladesh,
passing through India, Nepal, Tibet, China
and Bhutan. PHOENIX 2004 PB 302pp
HIMALAYA
£8.99 98213 now £4.99
Colin Thubron Mount Kailas is the most
sacred of the world’s mountains, holy to
Hindus and Buddhists alike. In the aftermath of personal tragedy, the veteran
travel writer Colin Thubron joins the pilgrims, meeting villagers and monks in
their decaying monasteries, and recounts
the stories of exiles and eccentric explorers. Yet he is also making a pilgrimage of
his own, as his trek around the great mountain awakes an inner landscape of love and
grief, restoring precious fragments of his
past. CHATTO & WINDUS 2011 PB 235pp
TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET
NEW SCOTT’S
LAST EXPEDITION
RF Scott; EA Wilson The diary and letters
of Captain Scott, written in his last days,
while hopelessly trapped in his tent by a
blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier, are an
eloquent account of his second Antarctic
expedition, describing the brutal hardships
of the trek to the South Pole and the stamina
and spirit of the Polar Party. First published
in 1913, it is reprinted here along with the
reports of the surviving members of the
expedition and an introduction by Beau
Riffenburgh. WORDSWORTH 2011 PB 846pp
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LOUGH SWILLY
A Living Landscape
Ed. Andrew Cooper The great sea lough
that cuts deep into Donegal boasts spectacular scenery and a rich diversity of
wildlife, including minke whale and basking shark, and played a key role in Irish
history as the scene of the 1607 Flight of
the Earls. With stunning illustrations and
chapters written by experts in various
fields, this book explores the lough from
a range of perspectives – its geology, marine environment, archaeology and history, its maritime heritage and its people.
FOUR COURTS 2011 HB
208pp Illus 265x195mm
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£12.99 98007 now £3.99
Marco Polo (1254-1324) has achieved almost
mythical status as a traveller, and his account of his
adventures – presented here in William Marsden’s
classic translation – is one of the first great books of
travel literature. Mixing the factual and the fantastic,
it recounts his journey to the court of Kublai Khan
and his travels across the vast Mongol empire, from
Beijing to northern India. WORDSWORTH 1997 PB 321pp
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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
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POLITICS/CULTURAL STUDIES
NEW IN IT TOGETHER
The Inside Story of
the Coalition Government
Matthew D’Ancona On 7 May 2010, Britain
woke up to find it had elected a hung Parliament.
The response masterminded by David Cameron
and Nick Clegg was the Lib Dem-Conservative
Coalition: one of the most radical, dramatic and
bruising experiments in power the country has
ever seen. Drawing on hundreds of hours of
interviews with the key players, one of our
foremost political journalists tells the story in
unsparing detail, with exclusive revelations and
insightful analysis. VIKING 2013 HB 432pp
£25.00 10800 now £7.99
NEW POWER SYSTEMS
Conversations with David Barsamian
Noam Chomsky Power Systems is the latest in
the series of books in which David Barsamian
interviews Noam Chomsky about his thinking on
the most urgent concerns of the modern world.
These eight conversations, conducted from 2010
to 2012, cover such subjects as the future of
democracy in the Arab world, the implications
of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the ‘new
American imperialism’ and the breakdown
of American mainstream political institutions.
£10.99 10805 now £4.99
Anne Perkins In this guide to the ideas that have shaped modern government,
political correspondent Anne Perkins presents 50 short profiles of thinkers, empire
builders, revolutionaries and great leaders who have most influenced global
politics, from Plato and Aristotle to Nelson Mandela. She also explains ten schools
of political thought, incuding nationalism, socialism and totalitarianism, which
have left their indelible mark on our world. A&C BLACK 2008 HB 128pp 185x125mm
LITTLE BOOK OF BIG IDEAS: POLITICS
£9.99 11935 now £3.99
NEW LITTLE BOOK OF
BIG IDEAS: MEDICINE
Dr Susan Alridge This ‘little
book’ covers thousands of years
of medical thinking and practice,
from the Egyptian Imhotep – the
world’s first named physician –
to modern pioneers such as
Francis Collins and Carl Djerassi.
As well as explaining the insights
of 50 key figures, Aldridge
outlines ten of the crucial issues
in the field of medicine,
including euthanasia, stem
cell research and transplantation.
£9.99 11994 now £3.99
THE FIRST GIRL GUIDE
The Story of Agnes Baden-Powell
Helen D Gardner In the very early days of his Scouting movement,
Robert Baden-Powell recognized that a parallel organization was needed
to cater for girls. He persuaded his sister Agnes to take on the job. This
biography explores the family background that shaped her and her
brothers’ formidable characters, her varied interests and her contribution
to the success of the Girl Guide movement, which she led from its
inception in 1909 until her death in 1945. AMBERLEY 2011 PB 125pp Illus
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PRELUDE TO POWER
1994-1997
In the first volume of the 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. 96546
POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY
1999-2001
Volume three 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. 98447
NEW
WOMEN
MAKING NEWS
Gender and
Journalism
in Modern Britain
A&C BLACK 2009
HB 128pp 185x125mm
£12.99 99660 now £5.99
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 2011 HB 747-794pp
POWER AND THE PEOPLE
1997-1999
From Tony Blair’s first day in office in
May 1997, Campbell gives the inside
track on the big economic, social, political
and public service changes that Labour
brought about in its first years in government; and he is at Blair’s side through the
major events of those years – whether the
triumph of the Northern Ireland peace
process or the tragedy of Princess Diana’s
death.
98446
HAMISH HAMILTON 2013 PB 219pp 176x127mm
NEW
THE ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
DIARIES
Michelle Elizabeth
Tusan Between the
1850s and the 1930s,
a group of female
journalists established
a new type of political
newspaper written
‘by and for women’.
Drawing on printed
texts, business records
and personal letters,
this groundbreaking
study charts the rise
of publications such as
the Women’s Penny
Paper and Votes for Women. It profiles the remarkable
characters who created them, the new employment
opportunities they offered, and their enduring effect on
the social fabric of Britain. ILLINOIS UP 2005 HB 316pp Illus
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HEALTH/MIND, BODY & SPIRIT
NEW PILATES FOR LIFE
How to Improve Strength,
Flexibility an Health over 40
Lynne Robinson; Carmela Trappa With age
comes reduced flexibility, which can affect
our posture and strength and further compromise
fitness. This collection of targeted Pilates routines
has been developed to help with common
age-related conditions, from recovering from
a hip replacement to alleviating the effects of
osteoarthritis. Illustrated with colour
demonstration photographs, the book is a
complete programme of exercises for
strengthening muscles, easing back problems,
keeping joints supple and preventing common
aches and pains. KYLE 2014 PB 224pp Illus 250x210mm
Spinal
rotation
by waist
twist
£18.99 12046 now £7.99
Penny Ingham is a professional Alexander Technique teacher. In this practical,
easy-to-follow guide she describes gentle
exercises that will retrain your body to
stand, walk and sit more easily, allowing
freer movement, better balance and freedom from back pain. The exercises are
clearly illustrated by cartoonist Colin
Shelbourn, one of Penny’s pupils.
NEW
FREE YOUR BACK
SUMMERSDALE 2002 PB 192pp Illus
£9.99 11980 now £3.99
DIABETES
The Biography
Robert Tattersall Diabetes is a familiar
disease and many perceive it now as almost mundane – an easily manageable
condition since the discovery of insulin.
In this volume from the Biographies of
Disease series, Robert Tattersall traces
the history of diabetes from ancient Egypt
to the discovery of insulin, he shows how
pernicious the condition can be, and gives
a detailed account of the efforts to understand and manage it over the centuries,
and across the world.
OXFORD UP 2009 HB 229pp
£14.99 86627 now £6.99
THE COMPLETE
MASSAGE TUTOR
A Structured Course to
Achieve Professional Expertise
Wendy Kavanagh This comprehensive
workbook is extensively illustrated with
anatomical diagrams and step-by-step
photographs demonstrating how to massage yourself and others. Information
about the history and theory of massage
and an assessment of its effects on the
body is followed by instruction on all the
basic techniques. There are specialized
routines for the treatment of common ailments such as back pain and headaches
and massages designed for babies, pregnant women and the elderly.
BRAIN FITNESS AT WORK
Unlock Your Mind’s Potential
and Achieve Peak Performance
Judith Jewell Including brain-training
exercises, an introduction to how your
mind works and strategies for overcoming
procrastination, flagging motivation and
mental fatigue, this book offers clear
strategies for making sure you are always
at your most effective and productive at
work. BOUNTY 2011 PB 144pp Illus
£9.99 98547 now £3.99
GAIA 2010 PB 256pp Illus 262x195mm
£16.99 98657 now £5.99
NEW THE THIRD MAN FACTOR
Surviving the Impossible
John Geiger Many people on the very edge of
death – explorers, mountaineers, prisoners-of-war,
shipwreck survivors and others in traumatic
circumstances – have experienced a benevolent
presence beside them that encouraged them to make
one final effort to survive. John Geiger combines
history, scientific analysis and great adventure
stories to explain this extraordinary phenomenon:
the ‘Third Man Factor’. CANONGATE 2009 PB 290pp
£8.99 12041 now £3.99
MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE
Ed. Jake Jackson The Celts left a rich legacy
of myths, legends and folklore which are
among the oldest and most enduring in
Europe. This collection offers vivid retellings
of the best of the Celtic tales, including the
Invasion, Ulster and Fenian cycles and legends
of witchcraft, fairies and sea-folk, and legends
for children. FLAME TREE 2014 PB 256pp
MYTHOLOGY
The Complete Guide
to Our Imagined Worlds
Christopher Dell Described as ‘a
complete theme-by-theme guide to
extraordinary, mind-stretching
stories and images from around the
world’, this is a compendium of the
most enduring tales from both wellknown and more obscure
mythological traditions. Dell
recounts the myths alongside
hundreds of colour illustrations,
comparing similar features to show
how these diverse products of the
human imagination share many
story-patterns, from the world’s
creation to conceptions of the
afterlife and underworld.
NEW
£6.99 16357 now £2.99
Ed. Jake Jackson The Vikings and their
Norse gods fought a constant battle with nature
and their lands of stark mountains and long
nights created a particularly rough mythology.
All the main stories of that mythology are
retold in this collection, from the creation
myths to Ragnarök and the end of the world.
NEW
THAMES & HUDSON 2012 352pp Illus 235x220mm
£24.95 11965 now £9.99
CELTIC MYTHS
Oedipus ponders the riddle
of the Sphinx in a painting
by François Xavier Fabre
NORSE MYTHS
FLAME TREE 2014 PB 256pp
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BIOGRAPHY
Duane W Roller Described as a ‘straightforward, reader-friendly biography’ and
an ‘unsentimental corrective to the romantic legend’, this portrait of Cleopatra
challenges her stereotypical presentation
in male-dominated historiography both
ancient and modern. It brings alive the
world of late Ptolemaic Egypt, revealing
Cleopatra to be a many-sided woman who
managed the kingdom skilfully despite a
deteriorating political situation and the increasing involvement of Rome.
CLEOPATRA
Margaret Powell entered domestic service in a
grand house in Hove during the 1920s. She was
15 and a kitchen maid – the lowest of the low.
The following year she found another position
in London and eventually became a cook. Her
memoirs of those years, first published in 1968,
brilliantly evoke the vanished world of masters
and domestic servants and the trials and
tribulations of life ‘below stairs’.
NEW
BELOW STAIRS
PAN 2011 PB 224pp
£6.99 16811 now £3.99
OXFORD UP 2011 PB 262pp
£10.99 97474 now £4.99
THE LETTER-BOOK OF
WILLIAM OF HOO, SACRIST
OF BURY ST EDMUNDS
1280-1294
Ed. Antonia Gransden At the time
William of Hoo’s letter-book was written,
the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds and his
deputy, the sacrist, wielded considerable
power over a large area of Suffolk. The
letter-book has 220 entries, including both
pure forms and copies of letters with
names and places. As well as illustrating
William’s activities as sacrist, archdeacon
and papal agent, the letters shed light on
the relationship between the Abbey and
the borough of Bury St Edmunds.
No jacket. SUFFOLK RECORDS SOCIETY
1963 HB 169pp
£25.00 98826 now £9.99
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
The Construction of a Hero
Bruce Wathen Drake is an enduring
English national hero, and every age
has interpreted him according to its
own preoccupations. This absorbing
study examines the way he has been
repeatedly reinvented, first as the victor of the Spanish Armada, then as a
pioneering navigator and explorer and
most recently as a freebooting entrepreneur. Drawing on Elizabethan poetry, West Country folklore and 20th
century film, it pays particular attention to Drake’s 19th century reputation
as a founding figure of the British
Empire. DS BREWER 2009 HB 207pp
£50.00 98836 now £12.99
SIR MARTIN FROBISHER
Seaman, Soldier, Explorer
Taliesin Trow A pirate and privateer
who looted countless ships, Martin
Frobisher aided Francis Drake in a
daring attack on the Spanish in the
West Indies and played a key role in
the defeat of the Armada. Yet despite
his exploits, he remains a shadowy
figure. This new biographical study
focuses on Frobisher’s three epic voyages to the Canadian Arctic in search
of the Northwest Passage, creating a
vivid and compelling picture of one
of the great sea dogs of Elizabethan
England. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 208pp
£19.99 11004 now £7.99
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Margaret Powell In her second book of
memoirs, Powell tells more stories from her
years as a kitchen maid working below stairs in
1920s London, and describes the difficult
business of finding and nurturing a boyfriend
with only a few hours off each week and a
10pm curfew. PAN 2011 PB 208pp
NEW
CLIMBING THE STAIRS
£6.99 16813 now £3.99
John Aubrey A gentleman scholar and
the first great English biographer, John
Aubrey (1626-97) spent his life collecting
biographical details and anecdotes about
illustrious figures of the 17th century, and
wrote his eccentric masterpiece, with its
vivid and sometimes scurrilous portraits,
shortly before his death. This selection of
his literary Brief Lives is from Andrew
Clark’s 1898 edition. Foreword by Ruth
Scurr. HESPERUS 20107 PB 133pp
LIVES OF EMINENT MEN
£6.99 99601 now £3.99
WITHIN REASON
A Life of Spinoza
Margaret Gullan-Whur Expelled from
the Jewish community of Amsterdam for
heresy, Spinoza (1632-77) was eventually
reviled by all religious authorities for
holding fast to his conviction that reason,
not revelation, was the way to find the
truth of God or nature. Gullan-Whur
ARBITER OF ELEGANCE
A Biography of Robert Adam
shows how Spinoza’s central philosophical beliefs developed within the context
of his life and focuses on the philosopher’s
attempt to act solely through reason in the
face of personal and national crises.
JONATHAN CAPE 1998 HB 398pp
£20.00 12030 now £8.99
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Portrait of a Woman
Robert K Massie The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great returns
with a biography of Russia’s greatest and
most controversial empress. Blending
scholarship and narrative verve, he tells
how an obscure German princess travelled to Russia at the age of 14, and overcame the machinations of the feudal aristocracy, her scheming mother and her
bullying husband to become the most
powerful woman in the world. American
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$35.00 10655 now £9.99
Roderick Graham The 18th century is known
as the age of elegance, and few contributed
more to that elegance than the architect
Robert Adam, whose cool, rational classicism
has come to define the era. But, as this
revealing, meticulously researched and
extensively illustrated biography demonstrates,
the style, harmony and poise that became his
signature did not come easily, but were the
product of intense study, purposeful travel –
and the driving ambition of this son of an
Edinburgh builder to be accepted as a gentleman.
BIRLINN 2009 HB 400pp Illus
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NEW RED CLOUD
The Greatest Warrior Chief
of the American West
Bob Drury; Tom Clavin Less famous than
his protégé Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull, Red
Cloud was nevertheless one of the most
significant leaders of the Indian Wars. Drawing
on his own account of his life (a manuscript
neglected for many years) this biography
chronicles the Chief of the Oglala Lakota’s
achievements, from raids against neighbouring
tribes and victory against the US Army in
‘Red Cloud’s War’ to later political fights for
his people as they were resettled in reservations.
ROBSON 2013 HB 424pp Illus
£20.00 16459 now £7.99
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Gentleman Warrior
Stephen Brumwell George Washington’s dignified bearing is familiar to
the world from portraits, postage
stamps and dollar bills, but the sedate
and fatherly image of the first president
is, Stephen Brumwell argues, misleading. This biography focuses on Washington the soldier and man of action,
and shows how the values of discipline
and gentlemanly conduct, learnt early
in his career while serving with the
British, played a crucial part in his later
victory over them as commander-inchief of America’s Continental Army.
QUERCUS 2012 HB 512pp Illus
£30.00 10896 now £7.99
Ed. William Wilson Hunter; GB Malleson This study of Robert Clive (1725-74)
deals very briefly with his early life, taking up the story in 1744, when Clive, an
officer in the army of the East India Company, landed at Madras and began his long
and controversial association with India.
The biographer was George Bruce Malleson (1825-98), an army officer in the Bengal infantry and a military historian, particularly of Indian affairs. First published
in 1893. Reprint. No jacket.
LORD CLIVE
LANCER 2008 HB 201pp
£11.99 99491 now £5.99
RAGLAN
From the Peninsula
to the Crimea
John Sweetman The reputation of Lord
Raglan was destroyed in the final months
of his life by events in the Crimea; the
plight of front-line troops and the
wounded and the disastrous charge of the
Light Brigade brought condemnation of
the commander’s personal integrity and
professional competence. In this biography, Sweetman reviews Raglan’s long and
distinguished career before and during
Crimea, to make a balanced assessment
of his achievements and reveal a brave,
thoughtful and very capable man.
NEW ROBERT OWEN
Social Visionary
Ian Donnachie Welshman Robert Owen (1771-1858) devoted the second half of his
life to the application of radical ideas in cotton mill management, gaining fame and
notoriety as a social reformer and becoming ‘one of the most controversial figures of
his generation’. In this biography Donnachie shows how Owen’s reforms grew out of
his earlier experience of managing mills and analyses how he applied his beliefs to the
experimental community of New Harmony, Indiana. JOHN DONALD 2011 PB 304pp Illus
£16.99 11501 now £6.99
ERASMUS DARWIN
Sex, Science
and Serendipity
Patricia Fara More than half a century
before his famous grandson, Erasmus Darwin was both renowned and viciously satirized for promulgating controversial scientific theories – albeit in long and
sexually suggestive poems. Patricia Fara
investigates why his ideas provoked such
a vitriolic reaction and how he prefigured
Victorian debates about faith and science.
She also celebrates his championing of
causes such as the abolition of slavery
and the education of women.
£20.00 11210 now £7.99
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HINDOO HOLIDAY
An Indian Journal
JR Ackerley This superbly entertaining
journal chronicles JR Ackerley’s fivemonth stay as the private Secretary to the
Maharajah of Chhokrapur in 1923. Knowing almost nothing of India, he discovers
Hindu culture, festivals and language, and
describes with humour the palace staff
and the Maharajah himself, who ultimately just wants ‘someone to love him’.
PENGUIN 2009 PB 284pp
£9.99 98095 now £4.99
LENIN
A Biography
Robert Service Lenin remains to this day
a colossal figure: the founder of the Bolshevik faction and one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. In this
critically acclaimed biography, Service –
the first historian to have access to Communist Party archives after they were ‘unsealed’ – provides a complete portrait of
Lenin in the context of his times.
PAN 2010 PB 593pp Illus
£9.99 85333 now £4.99
EMINENT VICTORIANS
The Definitive Edition
Lytton Strachey First published in 1918, Lytton
Strachey’s famous collection of short biographies
was an assault on the Victorian age and its values.
Strachey chose four key figures as representatives
of their time – Cardinal Manning, Florence
Nightingale, Dr Arnold of Rugby School, and
General Gordon – and conducted a masterly
hatchet job with characteristic wit and intellectual
honesty. This critical edition is introduced by
Paul Levy, with afterwords on each of the four
biographies by David Newsome, Mark Bostridge,
Terence Copley and John Pollock.
PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 384pp
CONTINUUM 2003 PB 357pp
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NEW A DAUGHTER’S TALE
The Memoir of Winston
Churchill’s Youngest Child
Mary Soames In this charming memoir,
Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares
stories of her remarkable life, and the bond
forged with her father as Britain faced its
greatest challenge. She recalls her idyllic
childhood on the family’s estate, her wartime
service as a gunner in the women’s auxiliary,
and her meetings with Roosevelt and Stalin.
The result is both a moving personal story and
an eyewitness testimony of some of the most
important events in British history. American-cut
pages. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
$28.00 11879 now £6.99
Dilip Sarkar ‘Douglas Bader’s life defies
fiction’, writes Dilip Sarkar, and in this
meticulously researched biography of
the legless RAF fighter pilot he attempts
to debunk some of the myths, many
created by propagandists, that have clung
to Bader, particularly since the publication of Brickhill’s Reach for the Sky in
1954 and the film that followed. An acclaimed historian of the Battle of Britain,
Sarkar presents what must be the definitive account of the ‘inspirational’ career
of Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader.
NEW
DOUGLAS BADER
£25.00 16372 now £7.99
THE NAGA QUEEN
Ursula Graham Bower and
Her Jungle Warriors, 1939-45
Vicky Thomas During a visit to Northern
India in 1937, Ursula Graham Bower became captivated by the remote Naga people. She spent the following years living
and working among the hill tribes, gaining
their respect and, from 1944, leading them
in guerrilla resistance to the Japanese.
This biography draws on interviews with
friends and family and Bower’s own writings to tell the extraordinary story of a
woman honoured by the former headhunting tribe as their ‘Naga Queen’.
HISTORY PRESS 2012 HB 238pp Illus
£18.99 10821 now £6.99
KARL BRANDT:
THE NAZI DOCTOR
Medicine and Power
in the Third Reich
Ulf Schmidt As Hitler’s doctor, Karl
Brandt was one of the most powerful figures in the Third Reich, yet little attention
has so far been given to his career. This
first full-length biography charts his ascent
to the Fuhrer’s inner circle, and his subsequent trial and execution. It also examines
his role, as Commissioner for Health and
Sanitation, in the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ programme, as an example of how a generation of elite technocrats placed themselves
at the service of a barbarous dictatorship.
HAMBLEDON 2008 PB 496pp
YOUNG TITAN
The Making of Winston Churchill
Michael Shelden ‘History likes winners, and the image of the older, victorious
Churchill has long overshadowed the story of the eager younger man who soared to
prominence only to find he had overreached, and who left office with his reputation
in tatters.’ In this biography, Shelden focuses on Churchill’s early career, the years
between 1901 and 1915 that nearly undid him, but also forged the character that
would later triumph in the Second World War. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2013 HB 392pp
$30.00 11049 now £8.99
COMMAND SERIES
Leadership . Strategy . Conflict
Expertly written and illustrated with
artworks by military and historical
artists as well as maps, photographs
and reproductions, this series explores the background, strategies,
tactics and battlefield experience of
some of history’s greatest commanders. OSPREY 2010 PB 64pp Illus 247x185mm
Marcus Cowper The most celebrated
of all England’s medieval monarchs,
Henry V’s victory at Agincourt is part
of the English national myth. In this
study of the king’s life and command
experience, Cowper examines Henry’s
private motivations and aspirations, and
also analyses some of his controversial
military decisions, such as the slaughter
of French prisoners at Agincourt. Illustrated by Graham Turner.
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HENRY V
Angus Konstam’s study reveals the
real Nelson, a naval genius, but a flawed
individual whose vanity, ego and scandalous private life all threatened to overshadow his immense abilities. Illustrated by Peter Dennis.
11783
HORATIO NELSON
Tim Moreman In this concise study
of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, Tim Moreman examines the
life and career of this brilliant but
deeply flawed man, offering insights
into the mind of one of the Second
World War’s most enigmatic and
compelling personalities. Illustrated
by Graham Turner.
11774
BERNARD MONTGOMERY
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THE LETTERS OF
ROSA LUXEMBURG
Ed. George Adker; Peter Hudlis; Annelie Laschitza Blending passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary
socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the
towering figures of the 20th century. This
first comprehensive selection of her letters
in English ranges from 1891, when she
was 20, to her murder in 1919. Addressed
to friends, lovers and colleagues, including
prominent revolutionaries such as Karl
Kautsky and Clara Zetkin, they reveal a
multifaceted woman: a self-effacing humorist, stern economic theorist, affectionate friend and tireless political activist.
VERSO 2011 HB 649pp Illus
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Roberto Olla Who was the real Benito
Mussolini? Drawing on 60 years of scholarship, unpublished documents and the
memoirs of two of his lovers, this is the
first biography to offer an insight into the
dictator’s private life, including his attitude towards women and his relationships
with his many mistresses. Sparing no detail, however intimate or shocking, it
charts his humble origins, his relentless
rise to power, his legendary sexual appetite, and the influence of his lovers on
his decision-making. ALMA 2011 HB 490pp
IL DUCE AND HIS WOMEN
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ALBERT SPEER
Conversations with
Hitler’s Architect
Joachim Fest Hitler’s architect and confidant, Albert Speer remains the most
enigmatic of the Nazi leaders. Was he really ignorant, as he claimed, of the crimes
of the regime? In conversations conducted
after Speer’s release from Spandau prison,
the historian Joachim Fest attempted to
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A FEAST OF FREUD
The Wittiest Writings of Clement Freud
Clement Freud TV chef, gambler, night-club owner,
broadcaster, columnist and MP, Clement Freud was
a man of bewildering versatility, whose lugubrious
tones graced Radio 4’s Just a Minute for four decades.
But it was in his writing – as his daughter Emma
points out in her foreword – that he was most himself.
This selection ranges from his wartime experiences to
the Swinging Sixties, from horse racing to China, from
Peter O’Toole to Jeremy Clarkson, all described with
his inimitable deadpan wit. BANTAM 2009 HB 350pp
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MARTY FELDMAN
The Biography of a Comedy Legend
THE REMARKABLE LIVES
OF BILL DEEDES
The Authorised Biography
Stephen Robinson Drawing on private
papers and hours of interviews with Bill
Deedes (1913-2007) and his contemporaries, Stephen Robinson presents a
compelling portrait of the reporter who
inspired Evelyn Waugh’s hapless William
Boot in Scoop and was the recipient of
Private Eye’s famous ‘Dear Bill’ letters.
Exploring both rumour and reality to
‘penetrate the Deedesian reserve’, Robinson reveals the true character of a man
whose career spanned the great events of
the 20th century. ABACUS 2008 PB 495pp
Robert Ross A regular on British television in the
1960s and 1970s, Marty Feldman made his name as
a writer for shows such as Round the Horne and
The Frost Report, but it was his appearance as Igor in Mel Brooks’s Young
Frankenstein which led to international recognition and a Hollywood career as actor
and director. Feldman has been overlooked since his early death in 1982, but this
first biography reveals him as one of the founding fathers of modern British comedy.
TITAN 2011 HB 368pp Illus
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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 post-war 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
BARRY CRYER COMEDY SCRAPBOOK
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£10.99 11070 now £3.99
break his silence. His meticulous notes,
published here for the first time, provide
a chilling insight into the arcane world of
the Third Reich and the personality of an
unremarkable man seduced by the lure of
power. POLITY 2007 HB 226pp
QUEEN ELIZABETH,
THE QUEEN MOTHER
The Official Biography
HERMIT IN PARIS
Autobiographical Writings
William Shawcross Elizabeth Bowes
Lyon was born in 1900 and her life was
to span the whole of the 20th century;
one half of it, after the death of George
VI in 1952, as Britain’s much-loved
Queen Mother. Drawing on her private
correspondence and other materials in
the royal archives, William Shawcross
traces Queen Elizabeth’s life against
the backdrop of 20th century history
and reveals the qualities that endeared
her both to her friends and family and
to the nation. PAN 2009 PB 1,120pp Illus
£10.99 98093 now £3.99
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN
The Life of a Modern Monarch
£12.99 11798 now £6.99
Italo Calvino The ‘Autobiographical
Writings’, describing Calvino’s life in Italy
and Paris are presented here along with
the ‘American Diary 1959-1960’, which
includes his experiences of colour television, beatniks in New York and, in Alabama, mass racism. Translated by Martin
McLaughlin. PENGUIN 2011 PB 267pp
Ed. Hunter Davies Alfred Wainwright
(1907-91) will always be known for his
handwritten, hand-drawn Pictorial Guides
to the Lakeland Fells. Throughout his life,
he was an eloquent and witty correspondent, as this selection of letters, compiled
by his biographer and fellow Lakeland resident Hunter Davies testifies. Written to
friends, publishers, fans of his guidebooks,
and to Betty, his great love and second
wife, they reveal a more sensitive character, eccentric, tough-minded yet innocent,
than his bluff public persona would suggest. FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 414pp
THE WAINWRIGHT LETTERS
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ALAN CLARK
The Biography
Ion Trewin ‘I probably have a different
sense of morality to most people’, said
Alan Clark, and few would disagree. Described as ‘the Lucifer of the Thatcher
government’ by Charles Powell and ‘a fascist’ by his own father, the controversial
Tory MP delighted and outraged in equal
measure with his womanizing, his politics
and his breathtakingly frank diaries. Drawing on unpublished family papers, and
with the co-operation of Clark’s widow,
Trewin’s masterly biography paints a sympathetic portrait of an oddly likeable man.
WEIDENFELD 2009 HB 510pp Illus
£25.00 76884 now £9.99
Sally Bedell Smith This acclaimed
book by the American biographer Sally
Bedell Smith offers a fresh perspective
on the public and private lives of
Queen Elizabeth II. In a meticulously
researched account, Smith aims to portray the Queen ‘in the round, in many
different settings, surrounded by a
great cast of characters’ and she succeeds admirably in illuminating the
lively sense of humour and keen intelligence with which Elizabeth II meets
the most demanding work and obligations. RANDOM HOUSE 2012 HB 686pp
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NEW THE REAL JANE AUSTEN
A Life in Small Things
Paula Byrne In this highly acclaimed biography,
Paula Byrne explores the forces that shaped the
life and work of Jane Austen using an innovative
technique: each chapter begins with an object –
a ‘small thing’ from real life or the novels – that
conjures a key moment or theme in Austen’s life
and work. The result is a series of interconnected
essays that reveal a tougher, more socially and
politically aware and altogether more modern
woman than the conventional image of the retiring
spinster. Off-mint. HARPER 2013 HB 392pp Illus
BRIEF LIVES SERIES
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Elizabeth James Published in the British
Library’s series of concise, illustrated
biographies, this book traces Charles
Dickens’s life and literary career, quoting
from his published works and other writings and drawing on the unsurpassed collection of the British Library for reproductions of manuscripts and personal
papers. The book also contains an exceptional collection of portraits and pictures
of Dickens’s friends and family and places
that were his home or inspiration.
CHARLES DICKENS
NEW ELIZABETH BARRETT
BROWNING AND
ROBERT BROWNING
Martin Garrett Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning are known for
their remarkable love story, recorded in
their letters and immortalized in their
poetry. This book, part of the British Library Writers’ Lives series, traces the lives
and literary careers of both poets, describing Elizabeth Barrett’s complicated relations with her family, the Brownings’ life
in Italy and Paris, and Robert Browning’s
life back in England after Elizabeth’s death
in Florence in 1861. BRITISH LIBRARY
2001 PB 128pp Illus 240x198mm
£10.95 58672 now £4.99
BRITISH LIBRARY 2004
PB 128pp Illus 240x200mm
£10.95 10733 now £4.99
Elias Canetti In July 1914, Franz Kafka’s
fiancée Felice broke off their engagement
in a humiliating public tribunal. In this
short book, Elias Canetti explores each
letter that Kafka wrote to Felice and offers
insights into the torment he suffered as a
man, a lover and a writer.
£9.99 98107 now £3.99
Ed. Mark Bostridge A reflection on the
‘peculiarly British vice’ of biography, this
book comprises 33 contributions from
writers such as Andrew Motion, Ben Pimlott, Michael Holroyd and Antonia Fraser,
describing their own experiences as
biographers. CONTINUUM 2004 PB 234pp
£14.99 80373 now £3.99
Gail Ashton
99576
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Melisa Klimaszewski
99574
WILKIE COLLINS
Anthony Briggs
99585
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Andrew Brown
99573
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Alan Shelston
99575
99572
JOHANN WOLFGANG
VON GOETHE
Andrew Piper
Robert Chandler
99578
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
David Carter
99568
MARQUIS DE SADE
Andrew Brown
99581
STENDHAL
Anthony Briggs
THE SEVERAL LIVES
OF JOSEPH CONRAD
99583
LEO TOLSTOY
NEW
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David Carter
ELIZABETH GASKELL
LIVES FOR SALE
Biographers’ Tales
$30.00 77544 now £7.99
£6.99-£8.99 each
now £3.99 each
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
KAFKA’S OTHER TRIAL
The Letters to Felice
John Stape The author of Nostromo,
The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness remains one of the most significant novelists of the 20th century. This
first new biography in more than a
decade draws on unpublished sources
to chart Conrad’s multiple identities,
from his birth in Ukraine, life as a
sailor out of Marseilles and travels in
Africa and the Far East, to his literary
career. Authoritative and insightful,
the book sheds new light on the sense
of otherness that pervades Conrad’s
work. PANTHEON 2007 HB 369pp
The Brief Lives series offers short,
authoritative biographies of the world’s
best-known literary figures. Both informative and entertaining, each title
introduces the modern reader to the
early life, writing career and literary
legacy of a renowned novelist, poet or
essayist. HESPERUS 2008-11 PB 96-207pp
EH Wright
99580
VIRGINIA WOOLF
99584
James L Haley Born a working-class, fatherless
Californian in 1876, Jack London became one of
the most successful writers of his day. This richly
absorbing biography charts his adventurous West
Coast youth, his energetic, hard-living travels around
the globe, and his passion for social justice. It traces
the origin of his bestselling books, The Call of the Wild
and Fang, and restores London to his rightful place
in the American literary pantheon. BASIC 2011 PB 382pp
NEW
WOLF: The Lives of Jack London
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Ed. Christopher Reid A giant of 20th century
poetry, Ted Hughes (1930-98) was also a prolific
letter writer, with a private voice as original and
compelling as his verse. This selection ranges
from his teenage National Service to his last
weeks. The recipients include his family in
Yorkshire, his wife Sylvia Plath and lover
Assia Wevill, and fellow poets such as Seamus
Heaney. Warm, insightful and often humorous,
the letters report on domestic life, fishing
expeditions, world affairs and the craft of poetry.
LETTERS OF TED HUGHES
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POET AND CRITIC
The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar
POET McGONAGALL
A Biography
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
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Ed. Keith Sagar The correspondence between
Ted Hughes and the literary critic Keith Sagar
began in 1969 and lasted until Hughes’s death in 1998. In 144 letters to Sagar,
Hughes describes his creative process candidly and in great depth, offering
exceptional insights into the poet at work. The correspondence also goes beyond
literature, discussing topics such as Hughes’s travels, religion, education and his
relationship with Sylvia Plath, and provides a significant new perspective on the
poet’s life and work. BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 HB 447pp
£25.00 98384 now £4.99
NEW THERE’S THE LIGHTHOUSE
A Biography of Adrian Stephen
Jean MacGibbon Adrian Stephen was the boy who wanted to go to the lighthouse
in the novel by his sister, Virginia Woolf. A key member of the Bloomsbury group,
he played a major role in the development of psychoanalysis in Britain, but has
remained a shadowy figure until now. This sympathetic, insightful biography
explores his relationship with his distant father, his turbulent marriage, and his
First World War pacifism, and includes many previously unpublished photographs.
JAMES & JAMES 1997 HB 187pp
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DREAMS OF YOUTH
The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
Ed. Andrew Turnbull F Scott Fitzgerald
is now acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, but in
his lifetime his reputation fluctuated
wildly. This collection of letters – to his
wife Zelda, family, friends and business
associates – chronicles his emotional and
artistic development, revealing his personality in all its complexity and volatility. The letters’ frankness makes them the
closest thing to an autobiography he ever
wrote. LITTLE BOOKS 2011 PB 636pp
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Virginia Woolf This fascinating collection assembles the biographical sketches
written by one of the great novelists of the 20th century, many never published before.
Quirky, affectionate and amusing, they include a touching memoir of her nephew
Julian Bell, killed in the Spanish Civil War, and an account of the Dreadnought hoax
in which she and her friends got aboard Britain’s most powerful battleship disguised
as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. HESPERUS 2008 PB 277pp
THE PLATFORM OF TIME: Memoirs of Family and Friends
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William Baker Pinter remains one of the most significant English writers of the late
20th century. This brief introduction for students and general readers sets the Nobel
prizewinner’s complete output – poems, screenplays, letters and journalism as well as
plays – in the context of his life. It examines the themes and language that give his
work its distinctive power, discusses his outspoken political beliefs, and offers a
portrait of both the writer and the man. CONTINUUM 2008 PB 172pp
HAROLD PINTER
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MARTIN AMIS
The Biography
THE ODD COUPLE
The Curious Friendship Between
Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
Richard Bradford Amis was a husband, father
and clubland boozer; Larkin a misanthrope who
lived in self-imposed solitude. Yet from their first
meeting at Oxford in 1941, the pair struck up a
friendship that would last for more than 40 years.
Drawing on letters, manuscripts and interviews,
this richly humane study offers a glimpse into
their cantankerous, controversial and often very
funny private correspondence. In doing so, it also
illuminates some of the finest novels and poems
of the 20th century.
Richard Bradford Martin Amis’s life is
itself the stuff of fiction. Son of one of
the most popular novelists of the post-war
era, he forged a groundbreaking style of
writing that owes little to his father, or to
anyone else. This absorbing biography offers the real Martin Amis – elegant, tortured, kind, aloof, loved by women and
devoted family man. It evaluates the
unique achievement and wide-ranging influence of his menacing novels, and discloses the autobiographical thread that
runs through his work.
ROBSON 2012 HB 383pp Illus
CONSTABLE 2011 HB 429pp
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Robert Kanigel Situated off the west coast of
Ireland, the Blasket Islands have been uninhabited
since 1953. Once they were home to a resilient,
Irish-speaking community of fisher folk, who
survived on these lonely outcrops with few
modern conveniences. Kanigel tells how, during
the Gaelic renaissance, Great Blasket attracted
scholars and writers – including JM Synge and
the classicist George Thomson – and experienced
a clash of cultures between modern life and an
older world slipping away. American-cut pages.
Slightly off-mint. KNOPF 2012 HB 331pp
NEW
ON AN IRISH ISLAND
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THE EXEGESIS OF
PHILIP K DICK
THE CLASSICS
All You Need to Know
from Zeus’s Throne
to the Fall of Rome
Caroline Taggart Our modern world is
permeated by the legacy of Greece and
Rome, but understanding the vast expanse
of classical culture can seem a Herculean
task. This accessible refresher course will
help you fill gaps in your knowledge and
rediscover what you once knew, whether
your interests lie in the questions of Greek
philosophy, the use of Latin words in English or the great events of ancient history.
READER’S DIGEST 2010 HB 176pp
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE...
...and Everything Else You
Should Know from Shakespeare
Liz Evers As well as chapters on everyday
words and phrases we owe to Shakespeare
(eg. good-riddance and bedazzled), common quotes and misquotations such as ‘gild
the lily’, this little volume provides a refresher course on the Bard, with an outline
of his life, synopses of all the plays, a glossary of major characters, a chapter on the
sonnets and a handy guide to iambic pentameter. MICHAEL O’MARA 2010 HB 192pp
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Ed. Pamela Jackson; Jonathan Letham
Based on thousands of pages of typed and
handwritten notes, journal entries, letters
and story sketches, this volume represents
the editors’ attempt to transcribe, organize
and make accessible the final writings of
Philip K Dick: his Exegesis. Written between 1974, when Dick experienced a revelation or vision, and his death in 1982, the
work aims to explain the mystical experiences of ‘2-3-74’ and to explore metaphysical, ethical and ontological themes familiar
from his earlier novels. HOUGHTON
MIFFLIN HARCOURT 2011 HB 962pp
$40.00 99959 now £7.99
PIERS PLOWMAN:
CONCORDANCE
Will’s Visions of Piers Plowman,
Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best
Joseph S Wittig This is a complete concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers
Plowman in the Athlone editions. Each
word in the vocabulary of the three versions
(approximately 5,400) is listed alphabetically in its order of occurrence within the
particular version. Except for words such
as the definite and indefinite articles and
common conjunctions, each occurrence of
each word is listed within its line of context.
With Latin and French concordances. No
jacket. ATHLONE 2001 HB 290pp 274x210mm
£250.00 99444 now £25.00
Published towards the end of the first century CE, the occasional
poems collected in Statius’ five books of Silvae offer valuable insights into the Roman world during Domitian’s reign, but few
English versions have so far been available. Betty Rose Nagle’s
new translation in graceful verse makes these poems accessible
through her notes, an extensive glossary and an introduction which
both locates Statius in his historical and literary context and explains the importance of the Silvae. INDIANA UP 2004 PB 251pp
THE SILVAE OF STATIUS
£9.99 95493 now £4.99
Ed. Robert B Strassler Beginning where Thucydides left off,
Xenophon’s History of Greece covers the 50-year period from
411 BCE, as the aftermath of Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian War brought constant flux in the alliances of the Greek
world. In common with other volumes in the Landmark series,
this accessible new translation of his great work is furnished
with appendices and abundant annotations, maps and other illustrations which allow the reader to visualize clearly the events
described. Book club edition. PANTHEON 2009 HB 585pp Illus
THE LANDMARK XENOPHON’S HELLENIKA
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THE CAMBRIDGE
SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
(Three volumes)
Ed. Catherine MS Alexander Comprising 140 articles arranged under three main
headings, with substantial introductory essays, these volumes represent the best
Shakespeare criticism of the last 50 years.
Volume 1, introduced by Stanley Black,
includes pieces on Shakespeare’s life and
times, the texts of his plays and their staging in the period; Volume 2, introduced
by Terence Hawkes, covers Shakespeare
criticism since 1945; Volume 3, with an
introduction by Peter Holland, is performance-centred, with articles on staging,
theatre, film and acting. No jackets.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2003 HB 1,416pp
£347.00 85148 now £100.00
Jonathan Swift Writing as the urbane and
mellifluous Simon Wagstaff, Jonathan
Swift offers a guide to ‘improving and polishing all parts of conversation between
persons of quality’. He then presents three
dialogues, supposedly in keeping with the
most refined ‘mode and method’ used at
court. As hilarious now as it was in 1738,
Swift’s satire is reprinted with a foreword
by Toby Litt. HESPERUS 2007 PB 141pp
POLITE CONVERSATION
£6.99 99627 now £2.99
ORPHEUS
The Song of Life
NEW
Ann Wroe Half-man,
half-god, Orpheus was
both magician and poet,
musician and theologian;
his mythical story has
inspired philosophers and
composers, scandalized
Church Fathers and
fascinated Jung and Cocteau.
Ann Wroe explores Orpheus’
cultural influence and the
many versions of his story,
from his birth ‘a generation
before Homer’ and his early
musical talent, through the
quest for the Golden Fleece
and his love for Eurydice to
his terrible death at the hands of frenzied Maenads.
American-cut pages. OVERLOOK 2011 HB 270pp
$26.95 11034 now £6.99
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LITERATURE
THE CONTINUUM ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Ed. Bernice E Cullinan; Diane G Person
With 1,200 biographical-critical entries on authors
and illustrators and nearly 100 articles on topics
from Adventure Stories to Visual Literacy, this
encyclopedia covers 150 years of children’s
literature and its illustration. The work is
international in scope, but the emphasis is
inevitably on writing for children in English and
English translation. With photographs of 130
authors. CONTINUUM 2003 HB 864pp
£60.00 70317 now £19.99
THE CONTINUUM ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
ITALIAN LITERATURE
A Very Short Introduction
NEW
Peter Hainsworth; David Robey One of
Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions that offer ‘stimulating ways
in to new subjects’, this slim volume
examines Italian literature from the
Middle Ages to the present. In chapters
on themes such as tradition, politics,
secularism and women, the authors discuss the major figures from Dante to
Calvino and a wide range of other writers.
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 144pp Illus 172x108mm
£7.99 10628 now £3.99
COLERIDGE’S RESPONSES
Selected Writings on Literary
Criticism, the Bible and Nature
(Three volumes)
Ed. Seamus Perry; Anthony J Harding;
Samantha Harvey In addition to being a
major poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was
one of the most insightful critics of his
day. The full range of his interests has
only come to light with the appearance
over the past century of much unpublished
material. The first of these anthologies
presents his views on writing and writers,
arranged alphabetically from Aristophanes
to Wordsworth; the second his often unorthodox views on the Bible; and the third
his thoughts on nature, in prose and verse.
No jackets. CONTINUUM 2008 HB 1240pp
£300.00 99729 now £50.00
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NEW
PRINTING IN
ENGLAND IN THE
FIFTEENTH CENTURY
E Gordon Duff’s Bibliography
Lotte Hellinga The first half century of
printing in England was an age of pioneers
such as Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and
Richard Pynson. Duff’s bibliography of
that era has long been the standard reference, giving details of every printed work,
the locations of known copies, and the
entire text of short items such as pamphlets. This first updated edition since
1917 includes 43 additional items discovered since then, and 53 facsimile plates
of pages from these magnificent volumes.
No jacket. BRITISH LIBRARY 2009 HB 278pp
£40.00 10744 now £9.99
Ed. Steven R Serafin Comprising more than 1,100
signed biographical-critical entries, the Continuum
Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion
to American literature, surveying its growth and development from Puritan writers of
colonial times to the best-selling authors writing today. The volume also contains 70
substantial articles on topics and genres, from abolitionism to young adult literature,
all cross-referenced to the biographical entries. Most articles include bibliographic
information and there is an index of authors. CONTINUUM 2003 HB 1216pp
£50.00 99087 now £14.99
Maureen Hughes Aiming ‘to open up the world of the Classics to everyone, everywhere’, Hughes’s Pocket Guide provides the basic information on literary history; on
writers such as Thackeray, Henry James and Orwell; and chapters on each of the
literary ‘giants’ – Jane Austen, the Brontës and Dickens. There are also profiles of
nine writers of children’s classics, including the Brothers Grimm, Tolkien and JK
Rowling, and tables of literary prize winners. REMEMBER WHEN 2010 PB 288pp
THE POCKET GUIDE TO CLASSIC BOOKS
£14.99 10990 now £4.99
ON... SERIES
Introduced by contemporary novelists and critics,
the books in this series present selections of essays
by poets, novelists, philosophers and critics, each
writing on their favoured or most famous theme.
HESPERUS 2002-9 PB 86-134pp
£6.99/£7.99 each
now £3.99 each
GK Chesterton Ben Schott introduces this selection of
21 short essays, originally written for the Daily News,
1902-09. They do include some very trifling topics,
including A Piece of Chalk and On Lying in Bed, but
as Chesterton once said, ‘They talk about things being
as dull as ditchwater. For my part, I always think
of ditchwater as teeming with quiet fun’.
99616
ON TREMENDOUS TRIFLES
ON THE ART OF
MAKING UP ONE’S MIND
Jerome K Jerome In five essays,
including On the Inadvisability of
Following Advice and On the Time
Wasted in Looking Before One Leaps,
Jerome sets forth his buoyant
philosophy. Foreword by Jerome’s
biographer, Joseph Connolly.
99613
John Donne This volume presents four
sermons, including Donne’s last oration,
Death’s Duel (1931). In the foreword,
Edward Docx writes, ‘John Donne bows
to no one when it comes to sermons’, and
these meditations on death are among his
most dramatic writings.
99611
ON DEATH
William Hazlitt In this collection,
Hazlitt’s most famous essays – the three
written following the arrival of the Elgin
ON THE ELGIN MARBLES
Marbles in Britain in 1806 – are joined
by four other essays on the visual arts.
Foreword by Tom Paulin.
99614
Virginia Woolf These six pieces, selected
from Woolf’s celebrated essay collection,
The Common Reader, offer an erudite and
perceptive guide for those who read for
pleasure rather than professional critics.
Introduced by Elena Gualtieri.
99612
ON NOT KNOWING GREEK
Charles Baudelaire’s essay ‘On Wine
and Hashish, Compared as a Means of
Multiplying Individuality’ is joined here
by another reflection on the relation
between intoxication and art, ‘The Poem
of Hashish’ from Les Paradis artificiels
(1860). Translated, with an introduction,
by Andrew Brown and a foreword by
Margaret Drabble.
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CHILDREN’S
Amy Husband ‘In a very noisy
house in a very noisy city lived three
noisy foxes’... They do try to find
somewhere quiet to live in the
countryside, but nothing quite suits
them until they meet a helpful mouse
who shows them the perfect place.
Full of whispering and shouting and
all sorts of noises, Amy Husband’s
clever tale and lively pictures are
tremendous fun. Age 3+
NEW
NEW PANDAMONIUM and
THE SILENT OWL (Two books)
THE NOISY FOXES
Dan Crisp; Clemency Pearce While their
keeper snoozes, the animals get free and
have a party; then skunk ‘did such an
unsavoury thing’ that they all fled back
to their beds. Pandamonium features
disco-dancing pandas (right) and grinning
hyenas in wonderful illustrations by
Mark Chambers. In The Silent Owl Sam
McPhillips’s collage pictures show all the
animals of the countryside trying to get
owl to speak – but when he finally makes
a sound, it’s a big musical surprise. Age 3+
TOP THAT 2014 PB 32pp Illus 255x255mm
£6.99 12021 now £2.99
TOP THAT 2011 PB 63pp Illus 255x255mm
STEP INTO A
FAIRYTALE (Set of three books)
NEW
Illus. Tony Hutchins For reading aloud to very young children and with
colourful pictures to look at, these board books re-tell favourite fairy tales
in short, simple texts. The tales are: The Little Red Hen, Little Red Riding Hood
and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Age 2+ BRIMAX 2011 HB 30pp Illus 210x210mm
£11.98 12020 now £5.99
£11.97 11910 now £3.99
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Kali Stileman With big, colourful pictures,
things to do together and an owl to find on
every page, this early learning book can be
used to help toddlers explore numbers,
colours and sounds, pick out shapes and
opposites, learn their first words and identify
favourite toys, animals and everyday things
in the world around them. Age 1-4
BIG BOOK OF MY WORLD
DOUBLEDAY 2011 HB 48pp Illus 290x240mm
£9.99 98538 now £4.99
WHO COULD THAT BE
AT THIS HOUR?
Lemony Snicket This is the first
book of a new series, All the Wrong
Questions, by the author of the
phenomenally successful A Series
of Unfortunate Events. Lemony (for
it is he) is a 13-year-old apprentice
detective, investigating a burglary in
a seedy town called Stain’d-by-the-Sea
(that isn’t by the sea), and asking all
the wrong questions. Age 8+
NEW CREATIVE TEXTILE
PROJECTS FOR CHILDREN
Karen Woods From simple fabric painting
to a dinosaur hat and a legionnaire’s helmet,
this book presents a range of different
textile art projects that children (from primary school upwards) can create without
any prior knowledge or experience of working with textiles. It is designed to be used
by parents or by teachers in the classroom
in conjunction with Key Stages 1&2 in
Art and Design Curriculum to build on expressing ideas in colour, shape and texture.
Michael Morpurgo; Illus. Michael Foreman
‘There’s no two ways about it: when I was
young I was a bad lad.’ Grandpa tells the story
of his younger life and how, after a bad start,
a couple of people who had faith in him and
EGMONT 2012 HB 266pp Illus
A&C BLACK 2008 PB 128pp Illus 245x190mm
a ‘skewbald’ Suffolk Punch helped him
£8.99 98290 now £3.99
progress from Drum Cupboard Monitor to
£16.99 11931 now £5.99
BROTHER WILLIAM’S YEAR
Drum Major. Morpurgo’s inspiring tale is
accompanied by factual notes on borstals,
A Monk at Westminster Abbey
Suffolk Punch horses and horses in the
Jan Pancheri Brother William is a medieval monk
and gardener at Westminster Abbey. This charming and
army. Age 9+ TEMPLAR 2010 HB 92pp Illus
informative picture book is written and illustrated by the
£9.99 93783 now £3.99
Head Gardener at the Abbey and explains the life of the
monks throughout the year, the jobs they do tending the
plants and animals, and even includes recipes for medieval
delicacies such as leek soup and cherry pottage. Age 5-10
NOT BAD FOR A BAD LAD
FRANCES LINCOLN 2009 HB 29pp Illus 278x230mm
£11.99 96994 now £4.99
Nicky Raven In this fresh interpretation of the legend,
Robin Hood once more rallies his outlaw band to fight
injustice in medieval England. Nicky Raven’s Robin is a
Crusades veteran and ‘mildly mysterious’, his band still
includes John, Friar Tuck and Will, and Marian is still the
woman he loves, but there is a new baddie – Guy of Gisburn.
Anne Yvonne Gilbert’s drawings reflect Raven’s realistic
approach, giving Robin a ‘lived-in face and the physique
of a man who would be able to fight and survive’.
Age 9+ No jacket. TEMPLAR 2012 HB 94pp Illus 265x227mm
ROBIN HOOD
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NEW LITTLE WIZARD
STORIES OF OZ
L Frank Baum; Illus. John R
Neill Fourteen years after writing
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L
Frank Baum returned to the land
of Oz in these six Little Wizard
Stories. They feature Dorothy,
Toto and all the well-known
characters, and the pictures are
still by John R Neil, but these
tales are written for slightly
younger children than the
original stories of Oz.
Age 5+ DOVER 2011 PB 158pp Illus
MARINER’S TALE
Voyages of Exploration and
Discovery that Mapped the World
$14.99 10587 now £4.99
Philip Steele From the very earliest seafarers to Captain Cook’s voyages on HMS Endeavour,
the great milestones of maritime exploration are described and wonderfully illustrated in this
interactive book. There are maps showing the explorers’ routes, detailed paintings of their ships,
flaps that open to reveal interesting asides and, in a secret mariner’s chest, a model caravel and
a working telescope and compass to assemble. Age 8+ QUARTO 2009 HB 30pp Illus 250x250mm
$19.99 97810 now £6.99
LIVES IN ACTION SERIES
Frances Hodgson Burnett; Ed. Gretchen Holbrook
Gerzina The story of an orphan girl who moves from
India to the British countryside, The Secret Garden has
become a favourite of every generation since its publication
in 1911. This beautiful volume presents the classic text,
with illustrations drawn from various editions and
dramatizations, a detailed introduction to Frances Hodgson
Burnett and her work by the novelist’s biographer and
notes illuminating details from almost every page of
the story. Age 9+ NORTON 2007 HB 288pp Illus 260x220mm
THE ANNOTATED SECRET GARDEN
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Kaliko ushers Tiktok in to the
cavern of the Nome King in Oz
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This series of educational narrative biographies recounts the lives and
achievements of great historical figures in books that are as fast-paced
and exciting as adventure stories. Age 8+ A&C BLACK 2010 PB 128/80pp
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Martin Howard tells the story of the invincible Macedonian king, his
great travels, his conquests of lands from Greece to India and the love
and loyalty he inspired in his armies.
11709
NEW
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Tony Bradman narrates the thrilling life story of the Thracian gladiator,
from the battle against the Romans where he was captured and enslaved,
to leading an army of slaves in rebellion.
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NEW
Patrick Ness Based on an original idea by awardwinning writer and activist, the late Siobhan Dowd,
this dark and curious tale tells of Conor, a troubled
13-year-old plagued by nightmares and visited nightly
by a monster who regales him with stories, changes
his world, and ultimately equips him to confront
the reality of his mother’s terminal illness. Age 10+
A MONSTER CALLS
SPARTACUS
WALKER 2011 PB 215pp Illus
£8.99 99702 now £3.99
Mila Boutan Designed to introduce children to
looking at and thinking about art, this big, colourful
book has reproductions of over 40 paintings by Renoir,
accompanied by short texts that provide information
about the pictures and artist, but invite the reader to
draw their own conclusions about the paintings. The
book ends with suggestions of more ways of getting
involved with art and looking at different artists.
NEW
RENOIR AND ME
NEW WHO’S WHO IN
ANCIENT HISTORY
Anita Ganeri In chapters on
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece,
Rome, China and the Americas,
this Who’s Who consists of short,
illustrated biographies of over
50 important figures from ancient
history – from the legendary
Gilgamesh in Sumeria around
2,600 BCE to the Aztec ruler
Moctezuma II (1466-1520 CE).
A time line runs through each
chapter and there are web links
to find out more about each
subject. Age 9+ A&C BLACK
£9.99 11938 now £4.99
£12.99 11724 now £4.99
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THE ABACUS
AND THE CROSS
The Story of the Pope
Who Brought the Light of
Science to the Dark Ages
Nancy Marie Brown Science writer Nancy
Marie Brown follows ‘The Scientist Pope’
Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurillac, c.945-1003)
through scientific exploration and political
scheming as he rose from peasant to pope.
BASIC 2012 PB 318pp
£11.99 10937 now £5.99
THE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT
John Harrold took over the Rupert column
from Alfred Bestall in the 1970s. In these three
tales Rupert and friends get involved in adventures with some intriguing characters: The Sands
of Time (1993), The River Rogues (1991), and
Old Tom’s Trove (1987). Age 8+
Album Three
EGMONT 2008 HB 65pp Illus 293x216mm
£12.99 10931 now £5.99
ANITHER HANTLE O VERSE
Ed. Bette Boyd This lively anthology celebrates
the ‘guid Scots tongue’ with verses written in a
rich variety of Scots dialects (not Gaelic) – from
the Lallans of the south to the Doric of the
north-east. NMS 2008 PB 96pp Illus
Poems in Scots for Children
£8.99 85643 now £3.99
THE AXE AND THE OATH
Robert Fossier
Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
PRINCETON UP 2010 HB 395pp
£24.95 97356 now £16.99
BING CROSBY:
A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS
Gary Giddins’s early years biography of Bing
Crosby, the ‘first hip white person born in the
USA’, who introduced a white audience to
Louis Armstrong, confirms the singer’s important place in American cultural history. Slightly
off-mint. LITTLE, BROWN 2000 HB 728pp
The Early Years 1903-1940
$30.00 90981 now £6.99
BLITZ AND BLOCKADE
Henry Moore’s response to the Blitz was to produce the now famous drawings of Londoners
sheltering in the Underground. This catalogue
of an exhibition at the Hermitage Museum, St
Petersburg in 2011 comprises seven essays and
photographs, including reproductions of 87
‘Shelter Drawings’ and sculptures.
Henry Moore at the Hermitage
FONTANKA 2011 HB 144pp Illus 280x220mm
£28.00 96985 now £12.99
BONANZAS AND JACOBITES
Stephen Moreton describes the extraordinary
sequence of events that followed the discovery
of Scotland’s richest silver mine east of Alva,
near Stirling, during the 1715 Jacobite rebellion.
The Story of the Silver Glen
NMS 2008 PB 94pp Illus
£9.99 85644 now £3.99
THE BONE THIEF
VM Whitworth Set in Mercia in 900 CE, Whitworth’s novel opens as the Lord of Mercia lies
dying. His wife, Fleda has one hope to unite
her kingdom: her young secretary, Wulfgar,
must recover the bones of St Oswald and use
the precious relics to consecrate a new church.
EBURY 2012 HB 448pp
£19.99 98445 now £3.99
BRANCHES AND BYWAYS:
SUSSEX AND HAMPSHIRE
John Vaughan Illustrated with more than 450
photographs, this book traces the history of the
myriad branch lines of Sussex and Hampshire
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PUBLISHING 2004 HB 256pp Illus 298x222mm
£35.00 80228 now £14.99
BRIDGING THE GAP
Peter Ashley This richly illustrated survey of
British bridges is part of an English Heritage
series of pocket books in which leading archaeologists interpret the historical monuments of
Britain. ENGLISH HERITAGE 2001 PB 80pp Illus
£5.99 61336 now £2.99
THE BRITISH CONFEDERATE
Archibald Campbell,
Marquess of Argyll, 1607-1661
Allan I Mcinnes reviews Argyll’s formative
influence in shaping British frontier policy,
1607-38, and his radical, financially creative
and highly partial leadership of the Covenanting
Movement in Scotland, 1638-45.
JOHN DONALD 2011 HB 368pp Illus
£25.00 11103 now £7.99
BRITISH OAKS
Michael Tyler A concise, well-illustrated guide
to British oaks, this book covers the evolution,
distribution, taxonomy, physical characteristics
and ecological importance of both pedunculate
and sessile oaks.
A Concise Guide
CROWOOD 2008 HB 256pp Illus
£25.00 77871 now £9.99
BRITISH POLITICS
Stuart McAnulla’s conceptually and theoretically driven account of British politics not only
outlines the key features and institutions but
provides critical perspectives on them.
A Critical Introduction
£24.99 81385 now £6.99
BYWAYS, BOOTS AND BLISTERS
Bill Laws celebrates the long and slightly eccentric history of British pedestrianism, paying
tribute to some of its greatest heroes, including
Samuel Coleridge, who walked in search of literary inspiration, and Tom Stephenson of the
Ramblers’ Association, who first proposed the
Pennine Way. HISTORY PRESS 2007 PB 192pp
A History of Walkers and Walking
£8.99 81567 now £3.99
CHRISTOPAGANISM
Joyce Higginbotham; River Higginbotham
The authors look at how growing numbers of
people are combining beliefs, ideologies and
practices from earth-based and scripture- based
traditions to produce a hybrid ‘blended path’ of
spirituality. LLEWELLYN 2009 PB 384pp
An Inclusive Path
£18.99 85439 now £7.99
COUNTRY FAIR
The Month-by-Month
Countryside Companion
Ed. Macdonald Hastings; A G Street On topics as diverse as growing asparagus and cleaning
shotguns, these essays from Country Fair magazine in the 1950s offer a rich evocation of an
all-but-vanished rural England.
PRION 2007 HB 708pp
£20.00 83662 now £7.99
COUNTRYSIDE
A Photographic Tour of England,
Wales and Northern Ireland
James Burge recounts Dante’s dramatic life and
explains how, in his Divine Comedy, the poet
created a new form of narrative and introduced a
new humanity into the way we write about each
other. HISTORY PRESS 2010 HB 256pp Illus
DANTE’S INVENTION
£18.99 92141 now £6.99
DEAR MR HARPER
Robin Harper; Fred Bridgeland From his
childhood in Orkney, Sri Lanka and London,
to his work as the first Green Party member of
the Scottish Parliament, Robin Harper tells the
story of his life and discusses the urgent political
and environmental issues of our time.
Slightly off-mint. BIRLINN 2011 HB 224pp Illus
Britain’s First Green Parliamentarian
£16.99 11112 now £5.99
THE DECAMERON
Giovanni Boccaccio A selection of 10
stories (complete and unabridged) from
this 14th century masterpiece, read by actors from
the Dino de Laurentiis film version, including
Nigel Planer, James Rawlings and Mamie McCoy. 2 CDs (21⁄2 hours). CSA WORD 2007
£13.99 86167 now £4.99
DERBY
Alistair Campbell; Jan Campbell With hundreds of photographs and accompanying text,
this book from the City Beautiful series explores
Derby’s history and traditions and reveals its
individual character and appeal.
BREEDON 2008 PB 192pp Illus 210x149mm
£9.99 80429 now £4.99
EDWARD CARPENTER
Sheila Rowbotham A mystic advocate of causes
such as free love, recycling, nudism and
women’s suffrage, the gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was far ahead of
his time. This highly acclaimed biography places
his life and work in the aesthetic and intellectual
context of his day. VERSO 2009 PB 573pp
A Life of Liberty and Love
£12.99 99886 now £5.99
FELLING THE ANCIENT OAKS
How England Lost
its Great Country Estates
John Martin Robinson
Book club edition.
AURUM 2011 HB 208pp Illus 285x210mm
£30.00 16687 now £12.99
FIRST THRILLS
High Octane Stories from
the Hottest Thriller Authors
Ed. Lee Child Conmen, killers, soldiers, priests,
zombies and aliens are among the heroes and
villains in this collection of 25 high-octane mystery and crime short stories.
CORVUS 2011 PB 368pp
£12.99 91940 now £4.99
FORTY-FOUR SONGS
Richard Strauss The romantic songs in this selection range from simple to ornate, and from
intermediate to advanced level. All are appropriate for high voice; some can be performed by
high baritones or mezzo-sopranos. With new literal translations at the end. DOVER 2011 PB 185pp
For Voice and Piano
$19.95 10574 now £5.99
FROM STONEHENGE
TO SAMARKAND
Joe Cornish; David Noton; Paul Wakefield
Richard Mabey introduces a photographic tour
by three landscape photographers exploring
some of the ‘wildest, most beautiful and historically rich places’ now owned by the National
Trust. NATIONAL TRUST 1999 HB 143pp Illus
Brian Fagan Herodotus to Paul Theroux, this
anthology gives an engaging account of our enduring fascination with ancient architecture –
what William Camden described as a ‘backward-looking curiosity’.
213x240mm
OXFORD UP 2006 HB 312pp 234x164mm
£17.99 99936 now £6.99
£21.99 95451 now £6.99
An Anthology of
Archaeological Travel Writing
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED
ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Dan Crompton’s new translation brings out
the lively humour of these truly antique jokes
– a 4th century CE collection of more than
240 jokes on such high-minded topics as idiots
and farting.
The World’s Oldest Joke Book
£9.99 98211 now £4.99
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S WAR
Kenneth Baker Former Cabinet minster and
cartoon collector Kenneth Baker draws on his
political experience, his knowledge of caricature
and over 400 contemporary images to create a
visual account of the American War of Independence.
in Caricature and Print
GRUB STREET 2009 HB 224pp Illus 298x225mm
£25.00 84667 now £9.99
HISTORY OF
BRIGHTHELMSTON
John Ackerson Erredge With an introduction
by John Farrant, this is a new edition of John
Erredge’s History of Brighthelmston or Brighton
as I View it and Others Knew it (1862) – a classic of 19th century town history.
BRAMBLETYE 2005 HB 443pp
£30.00 92038 now £12.99
AN HONEST TRADE
Booksellers and
Bookselling in Scotland
Ed. Alistair McCleery; David Finkelstein;
Jennie Renton This account of bookselling and
booksellers in Scotland during the 20th century
is told through the life histories of eight key
and representative figures in the Scottish book
trade. JOHN DONALD 2008 PB 192pp
£7.99 88429 now £3.99
IMAGES OF DUNOON AND
THE COWAL PENINSULA
Scoular Anderson Author and illustrator
Scoular Anderson offers a fresh perspective on
the remarkably varied landscapes of the Cowal
Peninsula in his own watercolours, drawings
and photographs. Foreword by Emma Thompson. ARGYLL 2007 PB 95pp Illus 235x155mm
£9.99 10670 now £4.99
INSIDE OUT
Alastair Reid This selection brings together
Reid’s poems, his celebrated translations of
Borges, Neruda and other Spanish language poets, and essays on writers and on the art of
translation. Introduction by Douglas Dunn.
Selected Poetry and Translations
POLYGON 2008 PB 281pp
£14.99 11470 now £3.99
IN THIS SIGN CONQUER
A History of the Society of
the Holy Cross, 1885-2005
Ed. William Davage In 1855 a group of priests,
deeply influenced by the Oxford movement,
formed a new society dedicated to working
among the poor. Marking its 150th anniversary,
this book chronicles the history of the Societas
Sanctae Crucis. CONTINUUM 2006 PB 230pp
£14.99 99514 now £4.99
ITALIAN SPLENDOR
JELLY ROLL MORTON
The Complete Library
of Congress Recordings
On eight audio CDs, this set presents 110 tracks
of the 1936 Alan Lomax recordings of New Orleans composer, pianist and pool shark, Jelly Roll
Morton. The recordings are accompanied by John
Szwed’s illustrated essay, Doctor Jazz, and other
materials including interviews with Jelly Roll.
ROUNDER 2006 PB + Audio CD 80pp Illus 247x274mm
10581 now £35.00
JOHN HEARTFIELD
Zeitausschnitte
Fotomontagen 1918-1938
Freya Mulhaupt Drawing on the collection of
Berlin’s Akademie der Kunste, this catalogue
explores the life and work of the German
graphic artist John Heartfield (1891-1968) and
his pioneering, vastly influential use of photomontage. German text.
HATJE CANTZ 2009 HB 176pp Illus 270x230mm
98997 now £12.99
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
Brian Martin presents a sympathetic study of
Cardinal Newman (1801-90), combining biography with a critical assessment of the whole
range of Newman’s achievements.
His Life and Work
CONTINUUM 2000 PB 160pp Illus
$29.95 24798 now £4.99
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
THE KRIEGSMARINE 1935-1945
David Porter Illustrated with hundreds of maps,
graphs and tables, this Data Book analyses facts,
figures and statistics to offer a complete picture
of the German navy during the Second World
War. Slightly off-mint.
AMBER 2010 HB 192pp Illus 240x188mm
£19.99 10584 now £9.99
LAND OF THE SEAL PEOPLE
Duncan Williamson Preserving a valuable part
of Scotland’s oral heritage, Williamson retells
24 silkie tales which he heard over the years
from other Travellers, crofters and fishermen.
Thirteen of the tales are published for the first
time. BIRLINN 2010 PB 221pp
£8.99 11478 now £2.99
LANDSCAPES OF
THE WYE TOUR
Susan Peterken This book discusses artistic
and literary associations of the area and presents
some 60 colour plates, from 18th century aquatints to modern watercolours of the Wye valley
from Ross to Chepstow.
LOGASTON 2008 PB 136pp Illus
£14.95 86865 now £5.99
LET FURY HAVE THE HOUR
Joe Strummer, Punk, and the
Movement that Shook the World
Antonino D’Ambrosio NATION 2012 PB 405pp
Gyula Krudy First published in 1931, these
ten stories by the Hungarian novelist Gyula
Krudy (1878-1933) focus on the poor and dispossessed and offer a comic, romantic and erotic
glimpse into early 20th century Hungary. Translated by John Batki.
LIFE IS A DREAM
£9.99 98111 now £2.99
MARVELLOUS TO BEHOLD
Deirdre Jackson In this lavishly illustrated survey of miracles as depicted in medieval manuscripts, Jackson analyses over 120 miniatures,
selected from a wide range of Jewish, Christian
and Islamic sources.
Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts
BRITISH LIBRARY 2007 HB 160pp Illus 286x221mm
£25.00 76313 now £7.99
MARY TUDOR
David Loades’s in-depth study of Mary's life
reveals an intriguing personality impelled by
deep-set beliefs; a powerful woman, yet uncertain of her role as an unwed, ruling Queen.
£25.00 92431 now £9.99
THE MONK
Matthew Lewis; Intro. Stephen King Written
in 1796, this Gothic horror novel about the ruin
of Ambrosio, superior of the Capuchins of
Madrid, has been described by Stephen King
as ‘a black engine of sex and the supernatural’.
$23.00 88206 now £4.99
THE MYSTERY OF
LEWIS CARROLL
Jenny Woolf sheds new light on the creator of
Alice in Wonderland, using rarely seen and recently discovered sources to bring to life a fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human
being. ST MARTIN’S 2010 HB 326pp
$27.99 86542 now £8.99
NO NEED TO DIE
American Flyers in
RAF Bomber Command
Gordon Thorburn Giving a real sense of what
war was like for Lancaster bomber crews, this
is the story of the 20 American volunteers who
joined RAF bomber squadrons 9 and 617 before
America had entered the Second World War.
HAYNES 2009 HB 246pp Illus
£19.99 87964 now £7.99
NORFOLK IN THE
FIRST WORLD WAR
Frank Meeres Covering topics from conscription and conscientious objectors to the dangers
of war for local fishermen, this volume looks at
how the Great War affected the lives of ordinary
Norfolk people.
£17.99 61673 now £9.99
THE NORTH
Esler Crawford One of Ireland’s leading aerial
photographers, Esler Crawford presents a collection of 130 photographs of Northern Ireland,
from the rugged Antrim coastline to the Donegal
headlands.
A View from the Skies
BLACKSTAFF 2008 HB 161pp Illus 268x267mm
£25.00 92060 now £9.99
ON GOD
Roberto Schezen From Castel Coira in the
north to Palazzo Gangi in Palermo, this volume
covers 50 of Italy’s finest palaces, castles and
villas, with outlines of their history and details
of their architecture accompanying Roberto
Schezen’s magnificent photographs. Slightly
off-mint.
John Venn No mathematical background is necessary to appreciate this classic of probability
theory by British logician John Venn (18341923) – of Venn diagram fame. Unabridged
reprint of the third edition, 1888.
Norman Mailer In conversation with his friend
and literary executor Michael Lennon, Norman
Mailer is original and unpredictable as he establishes his own system of belief – one that rejects both organized religion and atheism.
DOVER 2006 PB 536pp
CONTINUUM 2007 HB 230pp
88005 now £14.99
$34.95 10629 now £9.99
99523 now £5.99
Palaces, Castles and Villas
BEAUX ARTS 2012 HB 419pp Illus 305x305mm
£11.99 10947 now £3.99
THE LOGIC OF CHANCE
An Uncommon Conversation
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OF AMERICAN ESSAYS
Ed. Alan Kaufman With essays by ‘incendiaries’ such as Tennessee Williams, William S
Burroughs and Eldridge Cleaver, Kaufman’s
anthology of ‘American outlaw literary culture’
covers topics including the betrayed American
dream, racial equality and revolutionary politics.
THUNDER’S MOUTH 2006 PB 349pp
$16.95 11746 now £4.99
OUTSIDE IN
Alastair Reid A companion to Reid’s Inside
Out, his collected poetry, this book brings together some of his finest prose. It is in two
parts: ‘Home’, his writings about Scotland and
‘Abroad’, with pieces from his travels, particularly in Spain and Latin America.
Selected Prose
£14.99 11494 now £3.99
PAYMENT DEFERRED
CS Forester Mr Marble is in serious debt, when
the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle
of cyanide and a shovel offers a solution.
Forester’s gritty 1926 psychological thriller took
crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous
acts. PENGUIN 2011 PB 192pp
£8.99 98131 now £3.99
THE PERFECT SWARM
The Science of Complexity
in Everyday Life
Len Fisher explains how we can use the insights
of swarm intelligence to capitalize on the diversity of our acquaintances and to help social networking and decision-making in our personal
and professional lives. BASIC 2010 HB 288pp Illus
£13.99 85268 now £5.99
PRIESTLEY’S WARS
Ed. Neil Hanson; Tom Priestley This anthology of JB Priestley’s writings and broadcasts
on war ranges from his letters from First World
War battlefields to his ‘Postscript’ broadcasts,
which rallied the nation during the Blitz.
GREAT NORTHERN 2008 HB 384pp Illus
£18.99 86319 now £6.99
PYTHAGORAS
His Lives and the Legacy
of a Rational Universe
Kitty Ferguson tells the story of Pythagoras
and the ancient cult of Pythagoreans whose insights transformed the ancient world and still
inspire science, mathematics, philosophy and
the arts. ICON 2008 HB 366pp
£20.00 80174 now £7.99
QUENTIN CRISP
Tim Fountain came to know Quentin Crisp
(1908-99) while researching his stage play Resident Alien, based on Crisp’s New York diaries.
Here he presents an account of the life and
legacy of the self-styled ‘stately homo of England’. ABSOLUTE 2002 PB 192pp 185x145mm
Donald Whyte Genealogist Donald Whyte explains the origins and meanings of hundreds of
given names and documents the impact of historical events such as the Norman Conquest and
more recent influences such as sporting and
film heroes. BIRLINN 2005 PB 246pp 155x110mm
£6.99 11503 now £3.99
SEA DOG BAMSE
Andrew Orr; Angus Whitson This is the story
of Bamse, a 14-stone St Bernard who began his
Second World War life-saving career on the
minesweeper Thorodd, became the mascot for
the Royal Norwegian Forces, and was posthumously awarded the PDSA Gold Medal for Gallantry. BIRLINN 2008 PB
World War II Canine Hero
£9.99 11506 now £3.99
SEASONS OF DEVOTION
Philip Law This spiritual companion for everyday, or in times of need comprises 365 Bible
readings and prayers arranged in three parts:
Meditations on God; God With Us; and Living
in the Spirit. CONTINUUM 2005 HB 378pp
£15.99 99535 now £6.99
THE SECOND BOOK OF
GENERAL IGNORANCE
John Lloyd; John Mitchinson Just when you
thought it was safe to start showing off again,
the QI team are back with another lorry-load of
mistakes and misunderstandings.
£12.99 85434 now £4.99
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Arthur Conan Doyle Using his astounding powers of deduction, Holmes outwits the most cunning thieves and villainous murderers in 16 of
his best known cases, among them, The Speckled
Band, The Blue Carbuncle, Silver Blaze and The
Red-Headed League. PENGUIN 2011 PB 559pp
The Adventures
£7.99 93462 now £2.99
SILVER: Return to Treasure Island
Andrew Motion Taking up Robert Louis
Stevenson’s invitation to a sequel – the bar
silver still buried on Treasure Island – Andrew
Motion’s novel is set a generation later, when
Jim Hawkins’s son and John Silver’s daughter
set off to retrieve the treasure.
JONATHAN CAPE 2012 PB 415pp
£12.99 98452 now £3.99
STALINGRAD
The Battle that Shattered Hitler’s
Dream of World Domination
Rupert Matthews provides a detailed, illustrated narrative of the titanic struggle that ended
in the surrender of the German 6th Army, but
also the destruction of the Soviet Union’s second
city. ARCTURUS 2012 PB 208pp Illus 297x210mm
£9.99 10608 now £5.99
STORM FORCE
Taking 1 May 1970 as its cut-off date, this historical atlas provides a graphic portrait of the
railway network as it existed after the 1960s
closures that followed the Beeching report.
Michael Fish MBE; Ian McCaskill; Paul
Hudson Three BBC weathermen tell the stories
of Britain’s most powerful storms, from the
‘hurricane’ of 1703 that stripped the lead off
the roof of Westminster Abbey, to the devastating floods of 2007. GREAT NORTHERN 2007
£14.99 84981 now £7.99
THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY
£15.99 86320 now £5.99
TAMWORTH: Past and Present
£8.99 11716 now £3.99
RAIL ATLAS 1970
AA Milne Far from the friendly Hundred Acre
Wood, the Red House is the setting for AA
Milne’s only detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a
puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic
crime caper. VINTAGE 2009 PB 219pp
£7.99 91888 now £3.99
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SCOTTISH FORENAMES
Their Origins and History
John Harper In some 650 ‘past and present’
photographs, this tour of Tamworth recalls
streets, houses and public buildings, shops, businesses and pubs that have vanished or been altered beyond recognition.
BREEDON 2008 PB 208pp Illus 274x195mm
£12.99 80467 now £4.99
Filson Young First published in May 1912, just
weeks after the sinking, this was the first attempt
to plot the demise of the unsinkable ship, based
on first hand accounts gathered in the aftermath
of the disaster. AMBERLEY 2011 HB 160pp Illus
TITANIC
£16.99 11080 now £5.99
VEGETABLES,
HERBS AND SPICES
Susanna Lyle A full-colour A-Z guide to over
200 vegetables, culinary herbs, spices and seeds,
this is a serious work of reference suitable for
both gardeners and commercial growers.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2009
£50.00 91818 now £12.99
WALTER SCHELLENBERG
The Memoirs of
Hitler’s Spymaster
Ed. Louis Hagan This chilling memoir, written
in 1956 by the head of Hitler’s military intelligence service, the Abwehr, is a unique insider
account of the Nazi regime. Introduction by
Alan Bullock and foreword by Richard J Evans.
ANDRE DEUTSCH 2006 HB 479pp
£20.00 99934 now £7.99
A WATERLOO HERO
The Adventures of
Friedrich Lindau
Friedrich Lindau This is the first English translation of a remarkable memoir that tells how,
in 1809, at the age of 21, Lindau ran away from
Hamelin, travelled to England and enlisted in
the King’s German Legion. Slightly off-mint.
FRONTLINE 2009 HB 221pp
£19.99 91879 now £7.99
THE WATKINS DICTIONARY
OF SYMBOLS
Jack Tresidder This very accessible, cross-referenced A-Z traces the meanings of more than
1,000 symbols across a wide range of cultures
from across the globe. WATKINS 2008 PB 242pp
$17.95 88078 now £3.99
WHAT THEY DIDN’T SAY
Ed. Elizabeth Knowles Drawing on the
resources of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this entertaining compendium shows
how the words of the great and good get misheard, misreported, creatively reworked or
otherwise mangled.
A Book of Misquotations
£9.99 84110 now £3.99
WHEN THE SNOW FELL
Henning Mankell This novel for older children
finds 13-year-old Joel making resolutions as the
first snow falls – his own private New Year. His
resolutions? To toughen up so he will live to
100, to see the sea for the first time, and to see
a naked woman.
DELACORTE 2009 HB 247pp
$15.99 88136 now £3.99
WHILE YOU’RE READING
Gerard Unger This book is about everything
that happens whle you’re reading – in front of
your eyes and inside your head – and about
what type designers, typographers and graphic
designers bring to the page to make reading
happen.
MARK BATTY 2007 HB 224pp Illus 240x170mm
£19.95 95468 now £9.99
WOODEN WONDERS
Tibetan Furniture in
Secular and Religious Life
Ed. David Kamansky
SERINDIA 2005 HB 358pp Illus 280x235mm
£50.00 10548 now £25.00
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ACADEMIC TITLES
THE BAD CITIZEN IN
CLASSICAL ATHENS
Matthew R Christ
CAMBRIDGE UP 2006 HB 262pp
£72.00 16706 now £19.99
THE BOOK OF
MICHAEL OF RHODES
A Fifteenth-Century
Maritime Manuscript
Volume 2: Transcription
and Translation
Ed. Pamela O Long; David McGee; Alan
M Stahl Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
GLENCOE AND BEYOND
Iain S Macdonald disputes the widely accepted
view that sheep-farming in the Highlands was
developed solely by southern incomers. He
shows how native Highlanders saw a future in
sheep farming, initiated it themselves and pursued it with enthusiasm.
The Sheep-Farming Years 1780-1830
£25.00 94726 now £8.99
HERODOTUS
Ed. AM Bowie No jacket.
Histories: Book VIII
MIT 2009 HB 730pp 253x200mm
£72.00 16716 now £14.99
HOLOCAUST
$75.00 16770 now £19.99
CALVIN’S CHRISTOLOGY
The Nazi Persecution
and Murder of the Jews
Stephen Edmondson No jacket.
£70.00 16707 now £19.99
CHOOSING TO DIE
CG Prado No jacket.
Elective Death and Multiculturalism
£53.00 16713 now £12.99
THE COMRADE FROM MILAN
Rossana Rossanda In this acclaimed memoir,
the former communist militant and founder of
the radical il manifesto offers a lucid account
of life in the eye of the storm of Italian politics
from Mussolini to Berlusconi.
VERSO 2010 HB 379pp Illus
£29.99 10664 now £7.99
THE CONTINUUM
POLITICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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. CONTINUUM 2002 HB 944pp 242x169mm
Revised and Updated Edition
£150.00 32182 now £19.99
CORPUS VASORUM
ANTIQUORUM
Great Britain Fascicule 20:
The British Museum Fascicule 10
Valerie Smallwood; Susan Woodford Fragments from Sir William Hamilton’s second collection of vases recovered from the wreck of
HMS Colossus. BRITISH MUSEUM 2003 HB
£85.00 11086 now £19.99
THE DICTIONARY OF BRITISH
(Three volumes)
CLASSICISTS
Ed. Robert B Todd Covering the period 1500
to 1960, this dictionary uses the term ‘classicist’
broadly to include schoolteachers, researchers
and administrators, poets, novelists and printers.
More than 700 short and accessible biographies
are accompanied by brief bibliographies and
suggestions for further reading. No jackets.
THOEMMES 2004 HB 1,200pp
£600.00 56876 now £60.00
THE DICTIONARY OF
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
BRITISH PHILOSOPHERS
Ed. Andrew Pyle This work provides biographical, bibliographical and critical information on
around 400 British philosophers, but also includes
theologians, scientists and mathematicians.
No jackets. THOEMMES 2000 HB 958pp
(Two volumes, slipcased)
£525.00 81411 now £60.00
Peter Longerich Drawing on Eastern European
archives opened in the 1990s, this groundbreaking history traces the development of Nazi policy and the transition from anti-Semitism and
racial terror to systematic genocide. Slightly offmint. OXFORD UP 2010 HB 672pp
£18.99 88043 now £8.99
ISRAEL, PALESTINE
AND TERROR
POLITICS, SOCIETY
AND CHRISTIANITY
IN VICHY FRANCE
WD Halls’s work is the first in English or
French to deal comprehensively with the attitudes of Christians – Catholics and Protestants
– in France during the Vichy regime and under
the German yoke. BERG 1995 HB 429pp
£58.00 99187 now £9.99
QUMRAN QUESTIONS
Ed. James H Charlesworth This volume
reprints ten essays, previously published as Volume 10 of the Journal for the Study of the
Pseudepigrapha (1992), which make a significant contribution to the understanding of the
Dead Sea Scrolls. SHEFFIELD AP 1995 PB 223pp
20852 now £5.99
ROMAN WOMEN
Eve D’Ambra This richly illustrated book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane aspects of everyday life
– family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations – of women of different social ranks. No jacket. Felt-tip mark on
lower edge. CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 HB 238pp
£51.00 92397 now £14.99
ROMANTICISM
Sharon Ruston Beginning with a discussion of
the definition of ‘Romanticism’, this student’s
guide provides concise information on the
movement’s historical, cultural, literary and
critical contexts, 1780 to 1820. Introductions
to British Literature and Culture series.
£18.99 81465 now £5.99
A JEWISH UNDERSTANDING
OF THE WORLD
£12.99 94935 now £4.99
SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRE
Ed. Stephen Law Introducing the ideas and arguments surrounding the Israel/Palestine conflict, this book brings together the thoughts of
15 leading philosophers on topics such as terrorism, collateral damage and the just war.
John D Rayner In this second volume of Liberal Jewish sermons spanning the mid-1950s to
the mid-1990s, Rayner seeks to understand contemporary history from a ‘prophetic’ point of
view. BERGHAHN 1998 HB 208pp
£53.00 24083 now £9.99
THE MASQUE OF AFRICA
VS Naipaul Describing his experiences and reactions while visiting six African countries, this
is Naipaul’s study of the effects of belief – particularly traditional animism – on the progress
of civilization. American-cut pages.
Glimpses of African Belief
KNOPF 2010 HB 248pp 234x160mm
$26.95 95110 now £6.99
THE MASSACRE IN HISTORY
Ed. Mark Levene; Penny Roberts From the
massacre of the Innocents in late-medieval art
and drama to the legacy of the 1941-45 killings
in Yugoslavia, these 13 essays offer in-depth
analyses of particular massacres and themes associated with them. No jacket.
BERGHAHN 1999 HB 312pp
£53.00 96951 now £9.99
MENTAL PROCESSES
IN THE HUMAN BRAIN
Ed. Jon Driver; Patrick Haggard; Tim Shallice These 14 essays offer an integrative view
of the rapid advances and future challenges in
understanding the neurobiological basis of mental processes that are characteristically human,
including language, thought, decision-making,
emotion, memory and awareness. No jacket.
£65.00 68712 now £9.99
MISSIONS TO THE GAELS
Reformation & Counter-Reformation
in Ulster and the Highlands and
Islands of Scotland 1560-1760
Fiona A Macdonald
£30.00 11489 now £14.99
Hugh Macrae Richmond A comprehensive
guide to Shakespearean playhouse practice, this
A-Z comprises over 900 articles on topics including actors, playwrights and players’ companies, gesture, choreography, rhetorical interaction with the audience and costumes, props
and make-up. Slightly off-mint.
A Dictionary of His Stage Context
£39.99 92883 now £9.99
TILLICH
John Heywood Thomas reviews the philosophical background to the theology of Paul Tillich,
including his debts to Schelling, Kant and
Husserl and points of contact with 20th century
thinkers such as Heidegger, Adorno and Barth.
Outstanding Christian Thinkers series.
£22.99 99448 now £6.99
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
David Pocock In this classic of anthropology,
Pocock introduces readers to the kaleidoscopic
diversity of cultures around the world and the
very rich variety of their ways of life. First published in 1975. ATHLONE 1999 PB 255pp
£27.99 24283 now £5.99
VENICE AND VITRUVIUS
Reading Venice with Daniele
Barbaro and Andrea Palladio
Margaret Muther D’Evelyn
YALE UP 2012 HB 506pp Illus
£40.00 16778 now £25.00
WAR, GOVERNMENT
AND POWER IN LATE
MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Ed. Christopher Allmand This volume of 12
essays portrays the public life of late medieval
France, taking as its central theme the contribution of contemporary writers, chroniclers and
commentators. LIVERPOOL UP 2000 HB 240pp
£40.00 66798 now £14.99
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FICTION/POETRY
NEW THE COLLECTED NOVELS
OF THE BRONTË SISTERS
Prefaced by Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Biographical Notice of
Ellis and Acton Bell’, written in 1850 for a memorial
edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, this
Wordsworth Library Edition contains all the sisters’
novels: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Villette and The Professor;
Emily’s Wuthering Heights; and Anne’s Agnes Grey
and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Bound in black linen.
No jacket. WORDSWORTH 2008 HB 1488pp
11895 now £11.99
Thomas Hardy Subtitled ‘A Pure Woman’, Hardy’s novel
tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a poor village girl whose
family learn that they may be descended from the aristocratic
D’Urbervilles. Far from improving her lot, Tess’s life is
blighted after she is seduced by young Alec D’Urberville.
First published in 1891. PENGUIN 2007 PB 496pp
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES
£6.99 98159 now £2.99
THE SPEAK OF THE MEARNS
With Selected Short
Stories and Essays
Lewis Grassic Gibbon With introductions
by Ian Campbell and Jeremy Idle, this
volume presents a selection of Grassic
Gibbon’s short works: the novella The
Speak of the Mearns, his portrait of a rural
community on the north-eastern coast; seven
essays from Scottish Scene; and seven short
stories. POLYGON 2007 PB 304pp
£7.99 11511 now £2.99
THE POISON BELT
Arthur Conan Doyle This fantastical science
fiction adventure continues the escapades of
the characters first encountered in The Lost
World. Foreword by Matthew Sweet.
HESPERUS 2008 PB 109pp
£7.99 99628 now £2.99
THE CONSTANT PRINCESS
Philippa Gregory The story of Katharine
of Aragon, much neglected by historians, is
brought to life by Philippa Gregory, who
focuses on the youthful Princess of Wales,
filled with her mother's fighting spirit, rather
than the ageing wife of Henry VIII.
HARPER 2011 PB 497pp
£7.99 97752 now £3.99
THE GHOST PIRATES
AND OTHERS
NEW
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) went
to sea at the age of thirteen and served aboard
merchant sailing ships for eight years. When
he began to write some years later, the sea
and its horrors were his subjects. Hodgson’s
novel The Ghost Pirates is joined here by a
selection of his weird sea fiction including
A Tropical Storm and The Mystery of the
Derelict, one of the Sargasso Sea stories. Edited
by Jeremy Lasson. NIGHT SHADE 2012 PB 274pp
The Best of William Hope Hodgson
£11.99 10941 now £2.99
HUE AND CRY
Shirley McKay In 1579, returning to St
Andrews from Paris, a young lawyer named
Hew Cullan finds his friend accused of murder.
Investigating the crime amid a world of
religious piety and academic austerity, Hew
opens a Pandora’s box of lies and corruption.
This is the first Hew Cullan historical thriller.
£8.99 94729 now £2.99
JB Priestley Both comic and tragic, and
a huge success when it was published in
1965, this novel is set in England shortly
before the Great War. It follows Richard
Herncastle, an aspiring painter who
travels the music-hall circuit with his
Uncle Nick, an illusionist, and becomes
caught in a triangle of love, temptation
and sexual adventure.
NEW
LOST EMPIRES
GREAT NORTHERN 2012 PB 304pp
£9.99 12011 now £2.99
CRIMESPOTTING
Various From hard-boiled police procedural to
historical mystery, from the comic to the
supernatural, Crimespotting brings together
ten best-selling writers in a collection of
specially-commissioned crime stories inspired
by the city of Edinburgh. The book includes
stories by Ian Rankin, Margaret Atwood and
James Robertson, and an introduction by
Irvine Welsh. POLYGON 2010 PB 223pp
An Edinburgh Crime Collection
£6.99 16957 now £3.99
POETRY
NEW
JUBILEE LINES
Ed. Carol Ann Duffy To mark the Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee in 2004, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy invited
60 contemporary poets to write about each of the 60
years of Elizabeth’s reign. The poets – among them,
Andrew Motion, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill and Simon
Armitage – address a moment or event from their chosen
year, such as Kit Wright’s lines on ‘The Year Nijinsky
Won the Triple Crown’ or Michael Symmons Roberts
marking ‘The Party Wall Act 1996’.
60 Poets for 60 Years
FABER 2012 HB 146pp 179x135mm
£12.99 11846 now £3.99
NEW AS FAR AS I KNOW
Roger McGough is a poet at once directly accessible
and a master of the art of surprise, in which the everyday
world is refreshingly and, at times, darkly re-imagined.
In this 2012 collection he faces the fears of ageing with
customary wit and courage. One of the most striking
poems here is his reworking of his famous 1960 poem ‘Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death’,
now entitled ‘Not For Me a Youngman’s Death’. VIKING 2012 HB 95pp
THE MYSTERY OF
THE YELLOW ROOM
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 223pp
11901 now £2.99
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NEW OPEN WORLD
Kenneth White Acclaimed by Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn, Kenneth White is
internationally recognized as one of Scotland’s finest poets. This landmark collection spans
four decades of his work, from early city ballads marked by the humour and wit of the folk
tradition, to the epic mindscape of his ‘Atlantic Atlas’. Ranging from Canada to the Baltic,
these clipped, elliptical verses vividly convey the ‘terrible and joyous world’ of the North.
The Collected Poems 1960-2000
£20.00 11493 now £6.99
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FICTION
NORMAN MACLEAN
DEAREST DACHA
Set in the Outer Hebrides, with episodes in Glasgow,
Hamburg and Amsterdam, this comic romp by Scottish
comedian Norman Maclean features sex, drugs, eightsome
reels and a memorable cast of characters including three
would-be criminals, a pair of Russian weightlifters and a
formidable woman lawyer. BIRLINN 2011 PB 110pp 155x111mm
NEW
£5.99 11113 now £2.99
NEW TRICKSTERS
Another merciless satire from Maclean, Tricksters follows
struggling Thespians Murdo and Rachel on a rambunctious
journey around Skye and other far-flung parts, encountering,
among others, a mad Presbyterian heretic, a certifiable
sculptor and a Machiavellian TV director.
BIRLINN 2011 PB 109pp 155x111mm
£5.99 11516 now £2.99
NEW CONTRACTS
NEW DRAWING
CONCLUSIONS
Donna Leon Signora Altavilla is found dead
in her Venice apartment, but while the pathologist wants to dismiss the case as a fatal heartattack, Commissario Guido Brunetti is not convinced and delves into the dark background of
the old lady’s death.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY 2011 HB 256pp
$24.00 11020 now £3.99
A QUESTION OF BELIEF
Donna Leon Venice is baking in the summer
sun; Commissario Brunetti would like to escape
to the mountains, but he is delayed by a discrepancy discovered in the local courthouse
records – but then a court usher is murdered
and the investigation takes a more sinister turn.
NEW
ATLANTIC MONTHLY 2010 HB 270pp
$24.00 11037 now £3.99
Nikolai Gogol ‘The Tale of How Ivan
Ivanovich Fell Out with Ivan Nikiforovich’
tells of a petty quarrel that gets out of hand
and ends in court. It is presented here with
Olde-Worlde Landowners and The Carriage,
two more short stories from the 1830s that
demonstrate Gogol’s imaginative and satirical
powers. Foreword by Patrick McCabe.
THE SQUABBLE
HESPERUS 2002 PB 137pp
£5.99 99638 now £2.99
In this concluding novel of Maclean’s highly acclaimed comedy trilogy, veteran entertainer
Donald Campbell, fed up with the Highlands and Islands circuit, sets his sights on the multimillion pound, publicly-funded industry of Gaelic TV. BIRLINN 2012 PB 176pp
£7.99 11110 now £2.99
PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
Our selection of Penguin Modern Classics presents books by some of the finest literary
writers of the last century and invites you to explore the less well-known works of
authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Robert Coover.
BRIAR ROSE
and SPANKING THE MAID
Robert Coover In his introduction to these
two novellas, John Banville describes the
influential American author Robert Coover
as ‘a master of elegant nuance, subtle intent
and darkly subversive humour’. The sadomasochism of Spanking the Maid is a metaphor
for the process of literary creation; while Briar
Rose is a re-casting of the legend of Sleeping
Beauty in which Coover explores the nature
of romantic love. PENGUIN 2011 PB 173pp
£9.99 98057 now £3.99
THE ENCHANTER
Vladimir Nabokov ‘A kind of pre-Lolita
novella’, with the same themes and black
humour – a middle-aged gentleman becoming
so obsessed with a young girl, that he marries
her mother – The Enchanter was written in
Russian in 1939. It was translated, with a
commentary, by Dmitri Nabokov in 1986.
£12.00 98075 now £2.99
KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
Vladimir Nabokov ‘Of all my novels’,
wrote Nabokov, ‘this bright brute is the
gayest’. It tells the story of Franz, who is
sent from a small town in Germany to work
in a relative’s department store in Berlin and
promptly falls for the relative’s wife. Written
in 1928, and revised by Nabokov himself
in 1967. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
£12.00 98108 now £3.99
THE SLAVE
LR Fredericks Set in 1924, this debut novel follows a young man still shattered by the First
World War as he arrives in an idyllic country
house in Oxfordshire – the Farundell of the title
– and falls under the spell of the rich, but eccentric
Damory family. JOHN MURRAY 2010 PB 416pp
FARUNDELL
£12.99 93283 now £3.99
Isaac Bashevis Singer In the story of Jacob,
a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after
escaping a massacre by Cossacks, and his
master’s daughter, Wanda, Singer creates a
dreamlike portrayal of isolation, rejection,
love and the meaning of sacrifice. Translated
by the author and Cecil Hemley.
£10.99 98151 now £2.99
THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN
Isaac Bashevis Singer Set in Warsaw and
the shtetls of the 1870s, Singer’s novel tells
the story of Yasha, the free-thinking, freewheeling magician, sword swallower, fire
easter and escape artist, who is tempted to
make one final escape – from his marriage,
his homeland and his father’s religion.
Translated by Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph
Singer. PENGUIN 2012 PB 205pp
£10.99 98113 now £2.99
SHOSHA
Isaac Bashevis Singer In 1930s Warsaw,
Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring young writer
and son of a rabbi, has a chance to leave for
America. Then he rediscovers a childhood
sweetheart who has been waiting for him
through the years and, despite the Nazis’
advance and the horror looming, he decides
to stay. PENGUIN 2012 PB 272pp
£10.99 98149 now £2.99
JOHN BUCHAN
Despite pursuing a very successful career
in public life, culminating in the GovernorGeneralship of Canada, John Buchan
(1875-1940) was a prolific author, writing
30 novels and over 60 non-fiction works.
He is best remembered for his fast-paced
adventure novels and spy thrillers.
POLYGON 2008-11 PB 232-346pp
A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
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.
94733
JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
Set in the 17th century ‘killing times’, this tale
of adventure finds John Burnet, the last of an
ancient line of Border Reivers, denounced as
an agent of the Covenanters; so he must fight
just to survive. This new edition has a new
introduction by Buchan enthusiast Sir Tam
Dalyell.
94732
THE FREE FISHERS
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this historical
tale of treason and espionage follows Anthony
Lammas, a young Professor of Logic from St
Andrews, as he sets off for London, but
becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy.
This new edition has an introduction by
Buchan enthusiast Douglas Hurd.
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THE USUAL SUSPECTS
and Other Clichés
Betty Kirkpatrick Clichés: over-used, abused, and
sniffed at by school teachers – or are they valuable
linguistic shorthand, summing up in a few words
what otherwise would take twenty? In this A-Z,
lexicographer Betty Kirkpatrick explains the stories
behind and the usage of more than 1,500 phrases,
old and new, from what is ‘essentially a lawless
part of the English language’. First published as
The Dictionary of Clichés in 1996. Second edition.
A&C BLACK 2005 HB 237pp
£10.99 11722 now £4.99
NEW STRICTLY ENGLISH
The Correct Way to Write...
and Why it Matters
Simon Heffer If you wince when
you read ‘different than’ or despair
at the use of ‘infer’ to mean ‘imply’,
this book is for you. Originating in
Heffer’s incisive emails to colleagues on the Daily Telegraph, it
makes an impassioned case for logic
and clarity in writing, explaining the
importance of punctuation, grammar
and correct word choice. Call him a
pedant if you must, but not a curmudgeon – the word means ‘miser’.
RANDOM HOUSE 2010 HB 352pp
£12.99 16579 now £5.99
MY GRAMMAR AND I
(OR SHOULD THAT BE ‘ME’)
Old-School Ways to
Sharpen Your English
Caroline Taggart; JA Wines Bearing in
mind always that ‘one person’s unbreakable rule is another person’s insufferable
pedantry’, Caroline Taggart and JA
Wines’s bestselling guide renders grammar painless, even entertaining. Here, the
bitter pills of restrictive and non-defining
clauses are sugared with amusing examples, quotations from great writers, grammatical jokes and choice morsels of information in ‘Smart Alec’ and ‘Swot’ boxes.
NEW HELP FOR WRITERS
210 Solutions to the Problems
Every Writer Faces
Roy Peter Clark On the highways and byways of
writing, even the most seasoned author can take a wrong turn. Is the story
too long, or too short? Does it sag in the middle? Is there too much material?
With wit, humour and cheerful sympathy, Help! For Writers outlines seven
steps of the writing process, from research to revision, offering workable
solutions to problems along the way – including the dreaded writer’s block.
Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. LITTLE, BROWN 2011 HB 304pp
$22.99 11882 now £5.99
THE NOVEL-WRITER’S TOOLKIT
Your Ultimate Guide to Writing and Publishing a Successful Novel
Ed. Caroline Taggart There’s a story deep inside you that’s burning to be told.
But you’ve never written much more than a thank-you note before. Where do you
begin? Caroline Taggart brings together a team of novelists, editors, publishers
and literary agents to provide insiders’ information as well as practical advice on
how to set about writing a novel and getting it published. This practical handbook
includes over 150 pages of professional contacts, courses and competitions.
DAVID & CHARLES 2011 PB 256pp
£9.99 93905 now £3.99
EXCUSE MY FRENCH!
Fluent Français 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 to avoid in polite company.
KYLE 2013 HB 256pp
£9.99 94668 now £4.99
MICHAEL O’MARA 2008 HB 192pp 197x130mm
£9.99 92392 now £4.99
I BEFORE E (EXCEPT AFTER C)
Old-School Ways to
Remember Stuff
Judy Parkinson takes a nostalgic look
back at the many quirky ways people were
taught to remember things in days of old.
Her book is a collection of mnemonics,
rhymes, acronyms and curious phrases
such as ‘there’s a little RED PORT LEFT
in the bottle’ – learning devices for subjects ranging from basic language and
spelling (A was an apple pie, B bit it, C
cut it, etc) to the periodic table sung to the
tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘I Am the
Very Model of a Modern Major-General’.
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NEW MRS BEETON’S
EVERY-DAY COOKERY
AND HOUSEKEEPING BOOK
Isabella Beeton Published in 1893, when
Mrs Beeton could write, ‘one of the greatest
difficulties in house-keeping experienced by
beginners is the difficulty of engaging servants’,
this is a revised edition of the famous cookery
book, updated in line with changes in cooking
and dining and organized alphabetically – from
Alma Pudding to Zwetschen Sauce – plus
substantial sections on the ‘science of cookery’ and
household work. The present book is a facsimile,
faithful to the 1893 edition, plus a brief history of
Mrs Beeton. FIVE MILE PRESS 2011 HB 572pp
£14.99 16405 now £7.99
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STATIONERY/PUZZLES/CDs
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 JOURNALS
FLAME TREE 2013 HB 144pp 217x155mm
£9.99 each
now £6.99 each
The wonderful embossed peacocks on the front
and back covers of this notebook are based on
the famous Art Nouveau leaded glass window
made by Tiffany in the 1890s.
95200
TIFFANY: PEACOCK
DR JOHNSON’S
DICTIONARY OF
MODERN LIFE
Tom Morton ‘BARBECUE (n.) Englishman’s Summer Repast, compos’d in equal
Parts of cann’d Ale, Charcoal & RAINWATER.’ In 2009 the curmudgeonly Dr
Johnson made a surprising post-mortem
return to lexicography, publishing on
Twitter his definitions of such 21st century
vocabulary as Sat Nav (‘Soothsayer of
the Carriage’) and PlayStation (a ‘wondrous
Obsidian Obelisk’). This book brings
together, in good old-fashioned print form,
the best of his sardonic observations on
our ‘divers contemporary PHENOMENA’.
SQUARE PEG 2010 HB 264pp
£9.99 93912 now £4.99
A detail from Hokusai’s famous ukiyo-e print,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is magnificently
reproduced in colour on the embossed foil
covers of this journal.
95191
HOKUSAI: THE GREAT WAVE
Inspired by the work of the legendary author, artist and fell-walker A Wainwright
(1907-91), whose Pictorial Guides have accompanied walkers in the Lake District
since the 1950s, this blank sketchbook is beautifully bound in dark red cloth, with
gold foil blocking and a lakeland scene from Wainwright’s guide to the North
Western Fells on the cover. FRANCES LINCOLN 2009 HB 208pp 188x122mm
WAINWRIGHT SKETCHBOOK
£9.99 93310 now £3.99
PUZZLES
Andrew Stuart Just when you thought you had
Su Doku beat, along comes Su Doku alchemist Andrew
Stuart with 40 ‘tough’ level puzzles, 40 ‘diabolical’
puzzles and 21 ‘extremes’ that have never been
published before and ‘are not for the faint-hearted’.
The Su Doku are presented in a small pocket book, with
solutions at the back. COLLINS 2012 PB 128pp 150x100mm
NEW
SU DOKU GRANDMASTER Book 1
£5.99 16755 now £2.99
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
QUICK CROSSWORD Book 50
This is another selection of the most challenging and
entertaining quick crosswords from The Daily Telegraph.
Designed to test word power, they are an ideal way to
fill a spare moment and perfect for departure lounges. As always, if inspiration fails,
the solutions are at the back of the book. PAN 2010 PB 143pp 196x130mm
£5.99 10924 now £2.99
AUDIO CDs
ANDY ROUSE:
MOUNTAIN LION, ARIZONA
Jigsaw puzzle
NEW
A magnificent image of a mountain lion
by award-winning wildlife photographer
Andy Rouse is the subject of this 1,000
piece jigsaw by the Italian art publisher
and puzzle-maker Ricordi Arte. The
puzzle is well-cut and the photograph
is printed on strong card and a grained
surface to ensure a glare-free picture.
RICORDI ARTE 2002 478x655mm
98581 now £7.99
Douglas Adams on Desert Island Discs, Ursula K LeGuin on Woman’s Hour, Kurt Vonnegut talking on Third Ear in 1990... Originally broadcast on BBC radio, these interviews
feature ten great science fiction writers talking about their art. The other seven are Isaac
Asimov, Brian Aldiss, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock, JG Ballard, Arthur C Clarke
(another Desert Islander) and Ray Bradbury. One CD: 73 minutes. BRITISH LIBRARY 2011
SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS
£9.99 98385 now £3.99
Philip Pullman’s spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus is both an interpretation of
Christianity’s foundation story and a profound reflection on how stories become stories.
Read by the author. 3 CDs: 31⁄2 hours. CANONGATE 2010
THE GOOD MAN JESUS AND THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST
£16.99 86174 now £5.99
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RELIGION
NEW A DICTIONARY OF
CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
Peter Day Contrary to Jesus’ wish that his
followers ‘may all be one’, Christianity has
become, over time, ever more schismatic. This
dictionary provides information on over 1,000
significant denominations and movements,
ranging from the mainstream historical
churches to heretical sects that flourished briefly
in the third or fourth centuries and groups that
sprang up around charismatic leaders in the 19th
and 20th centuries. CONTINUUM 2003 HB 524pp
£60.00 10469 now £14.99
THE NEW DICTIONARY
OF PASTORAL STUDIES
THE NATION’S
FAVOURITE CAROLS
Andrew Barr In a book full of unexpected asides and intriguing characters,
Andrew Barr tells the stories behind the
20 most popular carols, as chosen in 2005
by Songs of Praise enthusiasts. He writes
about the people who wrote each carol
and how, where and when it captured the
public imagination. But his accounts are
full of surprises – Alastair Sim turns up
dressed as the headmistress of St Trinian’s
during Christians Awake – and anecdotes
from the making of Songs of Praise.
Slightly off-mint. LION 2005 HB 96pp Illus
£12.99 92586 now £4.99
CELEBRATING DAILY PRAYER
The New Pocket Version of
Celebrating Common Prayer
David Stancliffe While using the texts of
the Psalter, canticles and prayers from Common Worship: Daily Prayer, this pocket
version differs by dovetailing the form for
Morning and Evening Prayer for each day
of the week with the forms used for the
seven special seasons of the Church year;
it also presents the Psalms and canticles
in the places where they are recited. With
occasional prayers and services and the
Calendar. Bound in red mock leather, with
silk marker. MOREHOUSE 2005 HB 370pp
£14.99 72299 now £4.99
CELEBRATING SUNDAY
EVENING PRAYER
A Resource for Parishes
and Communities
Catholic Bishops Conference Of England And Wales Christians have always
marked the evening with prayer, thanking
Christ for the blessings of the day. This
resource contains complete orders of service for Sunday evening prayer in the
Catholic liturgy, with seasonal variations,
rubrics, hymns and psalms, with music.
The accompanying CD-Rom contains not
only the text, but also templates for the
production of service sheets. The book
has been prepared and authorized by the
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England
and Wales. CANTERBURY 2006 HB 160pp
£25.00 98880 now £9.99
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Ed. Wesley Carr A working dictionary
for clergy, students and anyone involved
in pastoral care, this accessible and accurate reference volume covers the broad
spread of disciplines that touch on pastoral
studies. Over 700 signed entries, each
comprising a concise definition followed
by explanation and discussion, address
topics from theology and the social and
behavioural sciences from the pastoral
perspective. The dictionary is extensively
cross-referenced by means of underlined
terms. SPCK 2002 HB 433pp
93505 now £9.99
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
What Have We Learned
Fifty Years On?
Eileen M Schuller Discovered in the late
1940s and early 1950s, the Dead Sea
Scrolls were not fully published until the
early years of the 21st century. In this
book, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Scrolls takes the reader
through each intervening decade, highlighting the key events in scholarship and
explaining how this vast collection of texts
has changed our understanding of Judaism
and early Christianity. SCM 2006 PB 141pp
£16.99 98888 now £4.99
EVERY PILGRIM’S GUIDE
TO WALSINGHAM
England’s Nazareth
Elizabeth Ruth Obbard The mediaeval
abbey at Walsingham in Norfolk is England’s foremost place of pilgrimage, to
which thousands come each year in search
of peace, healing and direction. This compact, illustrated handbook explains the
history of the site, and provides a guide
to the village and its shrines, with information on transport, where to stay, places
of interest nearby, and a selection of
prayers for pilgrims.
CANTERBURY 2007 PB 122pp
£9.99 98892 now £3.99
THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY
IN NORTHERN EUROPE,
300-1000
Carole M Cusack In this study of the
process of Christian conversion among the
Germanic peoples from the third to the 11th
centuries, Cusack’s intention is twofold:
first, to examine previous scholarship on
conversion and to develop a model of conversion appropriate to the Germanic peoples; and second, to provide a comparative
study of six Germanic conversions – among
the Goths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, continental Saxons, Scandinavians and Icelanders. CASSELL 1999 PB 224pp
24275 now £7.99
Pope Benedict XVI Published in 2005,
this is a translation of Pope Benedict
XVI’s Via Crucis: meditations and prayers
on the Stations of the Cross and the mystery of Salvation that give insight into the
Pope’s personal prayer life and his vision
for the future of the Catholic Church. The
Vatican translation, illustrated with artworks by Jan Toorop (1858-1928).
WAY OF THE CROSS
BURNS & OATES 2005 PB 142pp Illus
£11.99 94831 now £3.99
THE MAKING OF
THE MODERN CHURCH
Christianity in England Since 1800
BG Worrall The last 200 years have brought many
changes in the Christian churches which would
have been unthinkable at the beginning of the 19th
century. Now in its third, updated edition, this
useful survey of the period examines the response
of English Christians to advances in the natural
sciences, an increasingly urban population, new
ideas about Biblical criticism, the changing status
of women and spiritual developments such as the
New Age movement. SPCK 2004 PB 363pp
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Church in 1845, with a final chapter on
the years of ‘perfect peace and contentment’ following his conversion. A celebrated autobiography, but also a primary
source for the study of the Oxford Movement, the Apologia is presented here in
the edition by Maisie Ward first published
in 1945. SHEED & WARD 2001 PB 249pp
£15.99 32184 now £5.99
Clive Marsh; Steve Moyise Our images
of Jesus are formed by the interplay of faith
and history found in the Gospels; this
book is an introduction to both the literary
study of the Gospels (canonical and apocryphal) and the Quest for the Historical
Jesus. The authors consider the difficulties
in using the biographical details about Jesus
which are found in these texts and survey
how they have been used by influential
modern scholars. T&T CLARK 2005 PB 127pp
JESUS AND THE GOSPELS
£16.99 94807 now £4.99
PRIESTS IN LOVE
Roman Catholic Clergy and
Their Intimate Friendships
Jane Anderson In the 1960s and ’70s,
thousands of Catholic priests left the ministry to get married, something that had
not happened on this scale since the
French Revolution. Based on interviews
with 50 Australian priests, this powerful
and compassionate study examines the
moral, psychological and social struggles
of these thoughtful, responsible men who
could no longer find a rationale for a life
of obligatory celibacy.
£30.00 98708 now £6.99
LANCELOT ANDREWES
The Private Prayers
Trans. David Scott Lancelot Andrewes
(1555-1626) was best known for his work
on the translation of the Authorized Version of the Bible. It was only after his
death that his ‘Private Prayers’, written
in Greek and Latin, began to be circulated.
The powerful quality of his sermons and
prayers has influenced the work of many
others, most notably TS Eliot. Here, David
Scott introduces and translates a new selection from the Preces Privatae. From
The Golden Age of Spiritual Writing series. SPCK 2002 PB 143pp
£12.99 93498 now £3.99
John Henry Newman Published in 1864,
the Apologia Pro Vita Sua was Newman’s
‘history of my religious opinions’, describing his spiritual life from childhood
to his reception into the Roman Catholic
APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA
JOHN XXIII
Pope of the Century
Peter Hebblethwaite Elected pope in
1959, Angelo Roncalli transformed the
Catholic Church, summoning the Second
Vatican Council and reforming canon law.
This revised edition of Hebblethwaite’s
classic biography reveals the man behind
the office: his village childhood, military
service in the First World War, his attempts to mediate during the second, and
his rise through the church hierarchy. Authentic, detailed and sympathetic, it provides an unparalleled insight into the ideas
and personality of this great modernizing
pope. CONTINUUM 2000 PB 284pp
£22.99 24800 now £5.99
GLORY DESCENDING
Michael Ramsey
and His Writings
£9.99 11144 now £3.99
Douglas Dales; John Habgood et al;
Rowell et al The first part of Glory Descending forms a ‘Michael Ramsey
Reader’, bringing together excerpts from
the best of his own writings and reflecting
his themes of personal holiness, the way
of the Cross, Church unity and servant
leadership. The remainder of the book
comprises a series of responses to his
work by four modern clergymen – Douglas Dales, John Habgood, Geoffrey Rowell and Rowan Williams – in which they
celebrate his contribution to Anglican
spiritual theology.
CANTERBURY 2005 PB 279pp
£18.99 93747 now £5.99
BIBLE
The Story of the King James
Version, 1611-2011
Gordon Campbell describes the process
by which the King James Version of the
Bible, one of the most important works
in the English language, was commissioned, translated and published. It is a
story of politics as well as religion, of a
talented group of translators and of thousands of printers’ errors, accidental and
deliberate, introduced in the first 150 years
of its life; but it is also a story which continues today, through arguments over revisions and its legacy to our language and
literature. OXFORD UP 2011 PB 368pp Illus
JESUS OUR PRIEST
A Christian Approach to
the Priesthood of Christ
Gerald O’Collins; Michael Keenan
Jones Priesthood is of vital importance
to the global church, yet its ideals of sacrifice sit uncomfortably with modern attitudes. Combining incisive scholarship
with a clear, accessible style, this important study seeks the origins of priesthood
in the ministry of Christ. Beginning with
the Gospels, it examines the teachings on
Christ’s priesthood by the early Church
Fathers, Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, the
Council of Trent, the ‘French School’,
Newman and the Second Vatican Council.
£16.99 97549 now £6.99
NEW READING THE QUR’AN
The Contemporary Relevance
of the Sacred Text of Islam
Ziauddin Sardar In 2008 Ziauddin Sardar wrote
a year-long series of blog posts for The Guardian
recording his personal responses as he read the
Qur’an; he has now expanded that project to create
this book. Since the Qur’an is addressed to ‘people
who think’ and admonishes those who believe
blindly, he invites believers and non-believers alike
to approach the text with fresh eyes, using the
insights not only of traditional exegesis but also
of modern critical theory and cultural analysis.
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NEW SOAP, SCIENCE
AND FLAT-SCREEN TVs
A History of Liquid Crystals
David A Dunmur; Tim Sluckin The science of liquid crystals began more than a
century ago because of a biologist’s obsession with carrots; it now fuels a multibillion-dollar industry and ‘there is no end
in sight’ for the applications of this fourth
state of matter. The authors tell the fascinating story of the discoveries behind our
new technologies, explaining the basic
science, the human interactions and the
social and political environments of the
scientists who brought them about.
$60.00 11398 now £9.99
Andrew Chaikin This pictorial history
of space exploration assembles 300
astonishing images drawn from both
the Russian and American programmes.
From the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957
through the Apollo 11 moon landing to
the era of the Shuttle and the International
Space Station, it charts the astonishing
progress of our journey into the cosmos,
capturing the triumph and tragedy of an
heroic human endeavour and presenting
the awe-inspiring images beamed back
from Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
SPACE
CARLTON 2008 HB 264pp Illus 285x285mm
£25.00 92069 now £12.99
The newly-repaired Hubble Space Telescope about to be released from the shuttle Endeavour
THE BIG QUESTIONS:
EVOLUTION
Francisco J Ayala From the Big Questions series, in which each book tackles
20 big questions, providing accessible and
concise distillations of the best ideas in
philosophy, science and mathematics. Professor Ayala presents a cutting-edge exploration of the origins and development
of life as we know it – from basic principles of adaptation and natural selection to
cloning. QUERCUS 2012 HB 208pp
NEW CHASING VENUS
The Race to Measure the Heavens
Andrea Wulf On two days in 1761 and 1769,
hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes
at the sky to observe a rare phenomenon: the transit
of Venus across the sun. This elegantly written,
thrillingly paced book charts the adventures,
rivalries, triumphs and misfortunes of the scientists
who set off around the globe in search of an
answer to the big question: how can the universe
be measured? WINDMILL 2013 PB 336pp Illus
£12.99 97805 now £4.99
£8.99 16540 now £3.99
DARWIN’S SACRED CAUSE
Race, Slavery and the
Quest for Human Origins
Adrian Desmond; James Moore The authors of an acclaimed biography of
Charles Darwin here focus their attention
on his ‘Sacred Cause’, a belief in human
brotherhood and the abolition of slavery.
Using evidence drawn from years of study
among manuscripts and family correspondence, they argue that Darwin’s theories
on evolution were the result of his abhorrence of the views of creationists and apologists for slavery, who believed that man
was superior to other species and that
blacks and whites had separate origins.
£14.99 98068 now £5.99
SPLENDIDLY
UNREASONABLE INVENTORS
The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30
Pioneers Who Changed the World
Jeremy Coller Principals, Brokers, and
Consultants – according to Jeremy Coller,
these are the three personality types which
characterise the pantheon of great inven-
tors and dictate their paths to success. His
book offers fascinating narratives of the
lives of 30 men and women whose innovations changed the world, and a sideways
look at the inventive processes and personalities behind such basics of modern
life as the telephone, the sewing machine,
the diesel engine and the cinema.
OVERLOOK 2009 HB 222pp Illus
$16.95 11042 now £3.99
THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN
What Artificial Intelligence
Teaches Us about Being Alive
Brian Christian has been talking to the
world’s leading artificial intelligences,
which are now capable of behaving and
thinking in ways that used to be considered exclusive to humankind. In an entertaining and thought-provoking book he
NEW SAND AND SILICON
Science that Changed the World
Denis McWhan The basis of the whole electronics
industry is the conversion of sand into ultra-pure
silicon. Sand is therefore at the root of much of the
technology that we depend on every day, from quartz
watches and computer chips to solar panels and LED
lights. This book, aimed at the general, science-literate
reader, traces developments over the last century and
explains the physics behind the revolutionary products
that we now take for granted – products ultimately
made from sand. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 156pp Illus
Building blocks: Interconnected
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tetrahedrons of ß-quartz
explores the implications for aspects of
our lives from chess and video games to
psychiatry and criminal law, asking
whether we need to rethink what being
human means. PENGUIN 2011 PB 313pp
£9.99 99073 now £3.99
COSMIC NUMBERS
The Numbers that
Define Our Universe
James D Stein introduces the mathematics behind key numbers in three branches
of the physical sciences – physics, chemistry and astronomy. From the gravitational constant and the speed of light to
the vital importance of .007 for thermonuclear fusion, he examines 13 numbers
which make the universe work, telling the
stories of the years of effort which went
into their discovery and explaining how
they have changed our understanding of
the world. BASIC 2011 HB 238pp
£17.99 97884 now £6.99
IMPOSSIBLE?
Surprise Solutions to
Counterintuitive Conundrums
Julian Havil, once described as ‘a master’
of elegant proofs, has compiled an engaging
series of seemingly impossible problems
with mind-bogglingly counterintuitive solutions. Explaining real-life situations based
on probability and statistics, such as card
tricks, spinning needles and the toss of a
coin, alongside more abstract paradoxes,
he illustrates mathematically the truth of
Bjarne Strustrup’s dictum: ‘If you think it’s
simple, then you have misunderstood the
problem’. PRINCETON UP 2008 HB 244pp
£19.95 97105 now £8.99
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NATURE
NEW ANTARCTICA
Secrets of the Southern Continent
David McGonigal Beginning with a guide to
the polar landscape, its formation and its
impact on world climate, the six parts of this
magnificently illustrated book cover the
geography of Antarctica’s different regions;
its wildlife, including plants, invertebrates
and fish, whales, seals, penguins and other
birds; the exploration of Antarctica from the
earliest speculations about ‘Terra Australis’
to the scientific researches of the International
Geophysical Year (1957-8); and the final part
looks at the continent and the work going on
there today.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 HB 400pp Illus 331x250mm
£45.00 16566 now £19.99
King penguins recognise their chicks by their whistle
MISSING LINKS
In Search of Human Origins
John Reader In his first, much-acclaimed
book, Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man (1981), John Reader gave a definitive account of palaeoanthropology,
its breakthrough finds, frauds and controversial theories and the central role of fossils in the search for ‘missing links’ between humans and ape-like ancestors.
This expanded and updated edition, reflects the exciting and significant advances of the last 30 years, including genetic discoveries and the identification of
several new species of extinct hominid.
OXFORD UP 2011 HB 552pp Illus 250x181mm
KEEPING BEES
Looking After an Apiary
Vivian Head Recent fears over the phenomenon of ‘colony collapse’ has led to
a greater public appreciation of the importance of bees in pollinating crops, and
also to a growing interest in amateur beekeeping. This sensibly organized introduction to the hobby shows you how to
look after an apiary, season by season,
and how to extract honey and other products such as beeswax and royal jelly.
There are also sections on obtaining bees,
rearing queens, equipment and pests and
diseases. No jacket.
98427 now £6.99
A NATURALIST’S GUIDE
TO THE MUSHROOMS AND
OTHER FUNGI OF BRITAIN
AND NORTHERN EUROPE
NATURE NEAR LONDON
Collins Nature Library
BEAUFOY 2010 PB 160pp Illus
£9.99 99551 now £3.99
GARDEN BIRD
CONFIDENTIAL
Discover the Hidden
World of Garden Birds
Dominic Couzens Did you know that pigeons, uniquely among birds, produce
milk for their young? Or that blue tits bite
the heads off caterpillars before feeding
them to their offspring? This fascinating
handbook identifies and explains the
habits of 60 species that can be seen at
the garden bird table, from robins and
wrens to exotic introductions such as the
rose-ringed parakeet. The many superb
colour photographs and drawings aid
identification and clarify behaviour.
Allan Potts is an award-winning wildlife
photographer who also farms on the Tyneside-Northumberland rural-urban fringe.
This book presents a selection from his
large library of photographs showing the
region’s flora and fauna in the natural landscapes of the North – fells, woodland,
coast, arable land and abandoned industrial
areas. His commentary gives information
about the scenes and describes his own experiences, not least much patient waiting,
while capturing these beautiful images.
NEW
NATURAL NORTH
ZYMURGY 2000 HB 160pp Illus 278x200mm
£16.99 16522 now £6.99
ARCTURUS 2013 HB 160pp
£25.00 97566 now £7.99
Josephine Bacon; Paul Sterry; Andrew
Merrick The identification of wild fungi
can be a difficult task as their appearance
can vary depending on weather conditions
and the type of soil in which they are
growing. The 280 species covered in this
pocket guide are all well illustrated with
colour photographs and the accompanying
text details the key identifying features as
well as describing the habitat, structure
and nomenclature of each fungus.
Juvenile barn owl family (in a tree)
Richard Jefferies ‘The loneliest of
places,’ writes Richard Jeffries in this neglected classic, ‘are on the borders of a gay
crowd’. Published in 1883, this was one
of the first books to notice the persistence
of nature in semi-urban areas. Each chapter focuses on a specific habitat – heath,
woodland, rivers and streams – in a
prophetic call to cherish what JG Ballard
called the ‘Edgelands’, that liminal zone
explored by modern writers such as
Robert Macfarlane, who provides the introduction to this edition.
GILBERT WHITE
AND HIS RECORDS
A Scientific Biography
Paul GM Foster The naturalist Gilbert
White (1720-93) is known for a single
book, The Natural History and Antiquities
of Selborne, which enjoyed massive success in the late 18th century. Yet little attention has been given to how it came into
being. This meticulously researched biography charts his family background, his
career as a country parson, the political
and social events of his times and – drawing on his own diary – the development
of the powers of observation that inform
his work.
COLLINS 2012 HB 236pp
CHRISTOPHER HELM 1988 HB 256pp Illus
£20.00 97737 now £7.99
£19.95 11657 now £6.99
John James Audubon Born in Haiti and educated
in France, John James Audubon set out to draw all
the birds of North America after settling in the
United States in 1803. His combination of artistry
and scientific accuracy set the gold standard for
ornithological illustration. This superbly reproduced
selection of 150 of the finest prints from his
Birds of America includes the rare whooping
crane, the snowy heron, and the now-extinct
Carolina parrot.
The introductory
text outlines his
life and work.
NEW
AUDUBON’S MASTERPIECES
HAMLYN 2010 PB 192pp Illus 260x195mm
JG PRESS 2011 HB
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16343 now £12.99
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GARDENS
Fern Marshall Bradley; Jane Courtier
For freshness and flavour, nothing can
compare to home-grown vegetables – and
you don’t need acres of land to produce
a bumper crop. This lavishly illustrated
guide will show you how. Part 1 details
the various stages: planning, preparing
the ground, sowing and planting, feeding,
watering and pest control, harvesting and
storage. Part 2 describes the main families
and many varieties of vegetable, from
lettuce and cabbages to potatoes, carrots
and other root crops. Both organic and
semi-organic approaches are catered for.
NEW
VEGETABLE GARDENING
READER’S DIGEST 2006 HB 288pp Illus 274x210mm
$32.95 11816 now £7.99
WHY EVERY MAN
NEEDS A TRACTOR
NEW
NATURAL GARDEN STYLE
Gardening Inspired by Nature
Noel Kingsbury; Photo. Nicola Browne
In an increasingly urbanized world, many
people are trying to make their gardens
look as ‘natural’ as possible. The author
examines this phenomenon, with numerous examples of natural-style gardening,
from meadows and prairies to trees, woodland and rustic garden sculptures. Helpful
advice, emphasizing an ethical and sustainable approach to gardening and garden
design, is provided for anyone interested
in creating and maintaining their own natural-style garden, as well as suggestions
of where to go for inspiration.
Charles Elliott This collection of
sparkling essays by the acclaimed author
of The Potting Shed Papers cuts a wide
and unpredictable swath through the world
of gardening. Tales of great gardeners and
heroic plant hunters jostle with practical
advice on growing from seed, and how
to deal with a west wind or an infestation
of knotweed. Funny, informative and always entertaining, this is the perfect companion for the gardener’s winter evenings.
SOWING, PLANTING,
WATERING AND FEEDING
NEW
Bob Flowerdew Part of the Bob’s
Basics series, this sturdily bound, attractively illustrated book offers a stepby-step guide to the process of preparing, planting and nurturing your
flowers and vegetables. In his characteristically amusing and anecdotal style,
the long-standing Gardeners’ Question
Time panellist explains the different
types of seeds, how to sow them, pricking out, planting, watering, and the best
use of various manures and composts.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 222pp
£14.99 16580 now £4.99
KYLE CATHIE 2010 HB 111pp Illus
£9.99 12050 now £3.99
YOUR GARDEN
IN WAR-TIME
MERRELL 2009 HB 192pp Illus 250x246mm
£29.95 91717 now £9.99
QUIET GARDENS
The Roots of Faith?
Susan Bowden-Pickstock For many people, making and enjoying gardens can be
a connection with the wider environment
and with what is beyond ourselves. Combining the author’s interests in horticulture, literature and religion, Quiet Gardens
is an exploration of gardens’ spiritual
quiet and their ability to transcend cultural
and religious differences. It features interviews with leading thinkers and creators of British gardens, including Sir Roy
Strong and Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
Isabella Beeton (1836-65) is best
known for her cookery book, but she
also produced this volume on horticulture. Packed with advice on sowing,
planting, tools and equipment, it contains chapters on trees, shrubs, flowers
and vegetables, and one for each month
of the gardener’s year. Much of her advice is as valid today as when it was
written in the 1860s – for a burgeoning
middle class for whom gardening was a
novelty. WORDSWORTH 2008 PB 985pp
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AURUM 2010 HB 200pp
£9.99 99686 now £3.99
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£17.99 11717 now £6.99
MRS BEETON’S
GARDEN MANAGEMENT
CH Middleton Introducing this collection
of his BBC gardening talks in 1941, Middleton wrote that ‘potatoes and beans are
munitions of war as surely as are bullets
and shells; and the gardeners of England
can do much to help the nation in its hour
of need’. His subjects are therefore food
crops and the talks, divided by the seasons, give practical advice on digging for
victory. The present book is a reprint of
the original 1941 edition.
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NEW BREEDING NEW
PLANTS AND FLOWERS
Charles W Welch Every season, commercial
nurseries advertise new flowers and plants,
hoping to tempt the public to grow their
improved strains. This practical book puts the
skills of these plant breeders in the hands of
the hobby gardener, explaining the principles
of breeding and providing instructions on
how to select parent plants from a wide
variety of the most popular types of flowers,
vegetables and shrubs, and how to pollinate,
propagate and plant out your new varieties.
CROWOOD 2012 PB 144pp Illus
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GARDEN HISTORY
THE PICTURESQUE
GARDEN IN EUROPE
The Gothic Temple at Painshill
MR HAMILTON’S ELYSIUM
The Gardens of Painshill
Michael Symes Inspired by time spent in
Italy, the Hon. Charles Hamilton transformed his estate at Painshill in Surrey
into one of the most picturesque gardens
of the 18th century, complete with serpentine lake, Chinese bridge, ‘ruined’ abbey
and grotto. By the 1970s, however, this
Elysian landscape was ruinous and overgrown. Lavishly illustrated with period
images and modern colour photographs,
this attractive volume charts the history of
Painshill, and celebrates the 30-year project that has restored its original splendour.
£35.00 97383 now £12.99
THE VICTORIAN GARDENER
The Growth of Gardening
and the Floral World
Anne Wilkinson In the mid-19th century,
gardening was mainly the preserve of professionals who worked on large estates,
but a new breed of gardener was emerging
– the ordinary householder. Without garden centres, seed catalogues, gardening
books or professional help, these people
had to procure plants and learn gardening
skills. Wilkinson’s book tells ‘the story
of how gardening became one of the
things that anyone can do’, showing how
John Dixon Hunt
The 18th century saw the
formal geometry of the
Renaissance garden give
way to naturalistic vistas of
rolling meadows punctuated
by stands of trees, lakes
and romantic ‘ruins’.
England led the way and
Europe – from France to
Russia – followed. This
authoritative survey charts
the development of the style
The Temple of British Worthies in the Elysian Fields at Stowe
and the contributions of
professionals and amateurs in Buckinghamshire, looking to the Temple of Ancient Virtue
alike. With almost 200 illustrations including modern colour photographs and
historic paintings, maps and plans, it examines such influential gardens as Kew,
Stourhead and Rousham. THAMES & HUDSON 2003 PB 208pp Illus 246x196mm
£19.95 98949 now £7.99
GARDENS IN HISTORY
A Political Perspective
Louise Wickham For millennia, elaborate formal gardens have been an expression of
power and prestige. This original and thought-provoking book takes a new approach
by looking through a political lens at the reasons why they were created. Extensively
illustrated with modern colour photographs and historic images, it analyses the
ideologies expressed in specific gardens throughout history, from Hadrian’s villa
at Tivoli to the public parks of socialist town planners; and across the globe, from
the Taj Mahal to Versailles. WINDGATHER 2012 PB 287pp Illus
£29.95 99557 now £9.99
the early amateur gardeners flourished
and describing the various types of garden
they created. SUTTON 2006 HB 236pp Illus
£20.00 40037 now £7.99
SEEDS OF FORTUNE
A Gardening Dynasty
Sue Shephard The death of Harry Veitch
in 1924 marked the end of one of Britain’s
greatest dynasties of plant collectors and
horticulturalists. Since 1768, five generations of the firm of Veitch & Son had introduced some of the finest garden plants
and pioneered the art of hybridisation to
give gardeners new orchids, begonias and
amaryllis. Sue Shephard’s engrossing narrative charts this remarkable family’s fortunes and their enormous impact on the
history of the modern garden.
$29.95 32568 now £6.99
Sue Snell Initially laid out in the early
17th century, the gardens at Hatfield
House in Hertfordshire have undergone
many changes over the centuries. When
the fifth Marquess of Salisbury came to
the house in 1972, the Marchioness set
about restoring and improving the
gardens. Her success is celebrated in
this volume of photographs depicting
the many beautiful views and the plants
that enhance them, while an extended
introduction explores the gardens’
history and explains the developments
accomplished over the years.
The tree of life: Illustration from the
16th century manuscript Splendor Solis
THE GARDENS AT HATFIELD
£25.00 97786 now £9.99
THE INVENTION OF THE
WESTERN GARDEN
The History of an Idea
Matteo Vercelloni; Virgilio Vercelloni
Beginning with a discussion of the concept
of the garden and its origins in the ancient
world, this volume traces the evolution of
the garden and landscape gardening in the
West, from the hortus conclusus of medieval times to roof gardens and temporary
gardens of the 21st century. For each period or style, the authors discuss many examples and present a wonderful collection
of reproductions of paintings, prints and
manuscripts, plans and photographs of
modern and surviving historical gardens.
WAVERLEY 2009 HB 280pp Illus 300x240mm
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FOOD
NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF FOOD AND COOKERY
Margaret Fulton is Australia’s best-known
and most influential cookery writer. Her
global Encyclopedia covers both food
ingredients and recipes, from Abalone
to Zwieback. The entries for foodstuffs
include description of what sort of food
it is, with notes on buying and basic
information on how to cook it; and this is
usually followed by one or more recipes.
Altogether there are over 1,500 recipes and
an extremely useful index of ingredients.
Measures in standard, imperial and metric.
No jacket. HARDIE GRANT 2013 HB 866pp
£22.99 11918 now £7.99
ARABELLA BOXER’S
BOOK OF ENGLISH FOOD
A Rediscovery of British Food
from Before the War
NEW
Arabella Boxer For a short time between
the wars, English cookery blossomed as
hostesses abandoned Victorian stodge in
favour of fresh, light meals. Drawing on
cookbooks, magazines, family sources and
personal memories, this delightful book
reproduces 200 dishes such as Herrings in
Oatmeal, Roast Saddle of Lamb and
Rhubarb Sorbet. The result is both a treasury of appetising recipes and a fascinating
glimpse into a lost golden age of British
cuisine. PENGUIN FIG TREE 2012 HB 302pp
£20.00 11820 now £5.99
HOME BAKED
A Little Book of Bread,
Cake and Biscuit Recipes
George and Cecilia Scurfield Having ‘discovered that the liberal use of yeast in the
kitchen opens up a prospect of boundless
delights’, the Scurfields first opened their
own bakery, then produced two classic
cookbooks: Home Baked (1956) and HomeMade Cake and Biscuits (1963). This edition combines both books and provides
everything the home baker needs to know
about ingredients, methods and equipment
as well as beautifully clear recipes for all
sorts of bread, cakes and biscuits.
GRUB STREET 2009 HB 141pp 197x125mm
£12.99 84581 now £4.99
Ken Albala The humble bean has always
attracted attention – from Pythagoras’ notion (according to Varro) that the bean
hosted a human soul to current research
into the deadly toxins contained in the
most commonly eaten beans. Ken Albala
tells the story of the bean, from ancient
times to the present, arranging his book
as a series of bean biographies, from
lentils to soy, and including 55 historic
bean recipes such as Pease Pudding, Hoppin’ John, Fagioli Antipasto, Succotash
and Miso Soup. BERG 2007 HB 262pp
BEANS: A History
£14.99 77579 now £3.99
NEW GOOD OLD-FASHIONED
JAMS, PRESERVES
AND CHUTNEYS
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.
Ed. Annie Rigg In 2009, Paul, Stella and
Mary McCartney launched the Meat Free
Monday campaign to promote the health
and environmental benefits of eating less
meat. Packed with menus for each of the
52 weeks of the year, The Meat Free Monday Cookbook shows that this needn’t be
a sacrifice. The recipes range from vibrant
spring soups and summer salads to comforting autumn bakes and winter stews,
and include contributions from Skye Gyngell, Giorgio Locatelli, Yotam Ottolenghi,
Kevin Spacey and Vivienne Westwood.
KYLE 2011 HB 240pp Illus 253x203mm
£19.99 98493 now £9.99
NEW GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
THE COMPLETE HEALTHY
COOKBOOK
Joining the fight against salt, sugar, fat and
more calories than we need, Good Housekeeping presents this well-designed cookbook, with beautifully clear, illustrated
recipes – one per page – and an introductory
chapter on the ‘basics’ of preparing healthy,
nutritious food. There are over 230 recipes,
from breakfast (including recipes for your
own muesli and granola) to supper; with
further chapters devoted to pasta, rice and
noodles, meat-free meals, vegetables, baking, desserts and vitality drinks. COLLINS
& BROWN 2013 HB 336pp Illus 275x210mm
£25.00 11818 now £6.99
5 INGREDIENTS, 10 MINUTES
Delicious, Healthy Recipes
for Tired and Hungry Cooks
Laura Mason Steak and Kidney Pie, Bolton Hotpot, Fish Pie or Game Casserole...
Laura Mason explores such great stalwarts of British cookery and demonstrates how
versatile pies and stews can be, whether you are cooking beef, veal, lamb, pork,
chicken, game, fish or vegetables. As well as recipes for a great variety of these
‘quiet and good tempered dishes’, Mason explains the basic techniques for cooking
pies and stews and accompaniments such as pastry coverings and dumplings.
Jules Clancy At the end of a hard day’s
work, few of us have the energy for cooking, or the inclination to wait long for the
results. This friendly cookbook provides
an appetising solution: almost 150 delicious, healthy recipes that contain no more
than five ingredients and will be ready in
ten minutes or less. With a choice of
starters, mains and desserts including
Smoked Tomato Soup, Beef with Buttery
Courgettes and Mixed Berry Sorbet, you
will never need the microwave again.
NATIONAL TRUST 2011 HB 160pp Illus 245x190mm
PENGUIN 2013 PB 305pp Illus 230x190mm
£16.99 11825 now £6.99
£14.99 97730 now £7.99
NATIONAL TRUST 2008 HB 176pp Illus 245x190mm
£16.99 11826 now £6.99
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PIES AND STEWS
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES
NEW NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF ORIGAMI AND
PAPERCRAFT TECHNIQUES
NEW JEWELLERY SOLUTIONS
How to Care For, Repair
and Restore Your Jewellery
David McLoughlin Cleaning jewellery is
perhaps as much maintenance as most people
would attempt themselves but this illustrated
manual teaches a wide range of skills from
repairing clasps and pin fastenings to
replacing stones and resizing rings. With more
than 550 colour photographs and step-by-step
sequences the book is a useful reference for
anyone interested in making their own
accessories, renovating antique and costume
jewellery or simply taking good care of their
own precious items.
Ayako Brodek; Ed. Claire Waite Brown
From intricate paper sculptures to simple
collages, this creative craft book teaches
a wide variety of papercraft techniques
including origami, pop-ups, quilling, papier mache, bookbinding, weaving, collage and papermaking. Each of the sections includes comprehensive instructions,
with diagrams, step-by-step photographs
and equipment lists, and there are projects
to try as well as inspirational examples of
accomplished work in the various disciplines. Slightly off-mint.
RUNNING 2011 PB 160pp Illus 223x223mm
£16.99 11934 now £6.99
£11.99 11745 now £5.99
QUICK AND CLEVER
CHRISTMAS CARDS
100 Fast and Festive
Cards and Tags
Elizabeth Moad Using techniques such
as rubber stamping, embossing, quilling
and machine sewing and the huge range
of materials available from craft shops,
this book is full of ideas for Christmas
cards and gift tags. There are 20 chapters,
each featuring a main design and several
variations, with instructions illustrated
in photographs and tips, plus a guide to
basics, templates and details of craft
suppliers.
DAVID & CHARLES 2007 PB 112pp Illus
£12.99 80796 now £3.99
NEW DESIGN AND MAKE SCARVES,
TIES, COLLARS AND BELTS
Christina Brodie A feather collar, a felt
boa or a faux fur wrap... Christina Brodie
specializes in funky accessories and here she
shares her imaginative designs in 13 projects,
with clear, step-by-step instructions and using
easily obtainable materials – despite how
exotic some of the end results look.
£16.99 11999 now £5.99
NEW DESIGN AND MAKE
FASHION BAGS AND PURSES
Christina Brodie All original designs by
Christina Brodie, the 13 projects in this book
range from a simple canvas tote to a smart
city shoulder bag. There are clear, easy to
follow instructions, photographs and patterns
for every bag and the final chapter on pattern making explains how to go about
creating your own bag designs. A&C BLACK 2009 PB 160pp Illus 245x190mm
£16.99 11989 now £5.99
Mandy Shaw presents 19 needlework
projects for house and garden accessories
using different techniques – mostly appliqué and embroidery, but also patchwork and quilting – and all with clear
instructions, templates and photographs
of the finished articles. Among the projects are some unusual designs: a children’s teepee and a leaf collector for the
garden, a deckchair and bunting for the
beach, and a bed for the dog. DAVID
STITCH AT HOME
& CHARLES 2012 PB 128pp Illus 220x215mm
£14.99 10610 now £5.99
KNITTING
FOR BEGINNERS
Learn to Knit with 20 Hot Projects
NEW
Sasha Kagan’s practical guide explains
the basics of knitting using step-by-step
clear instructions and photographs of how
the stitches are formed. She then works
through 20 projects, adding more advanced techniques such as cable knitting,
changing colour and openwork, as the
designs progress from simple bags and
scarves to socks and sweaters. The spiralbound book in its clever stand-up folder
means you are hands-free to follow
the instructions and patterns. CARROLL
& BROWN 2004 PB 96pp Illus 274x190mm
£12.99 16526 now £4.99
EASY QUILT PROJECTS
Favourites from the Editors of
American Patchwork and Quilting
Starting with 11 easy projects for beginners,
this collection is full of fresh ideas and inspiration for quilters at all levels. As well as bed
quilts and throws, the 41 projects include
kitchen items, a collection of bags, gifts to
make including a cot quilt and a fluffy scarf
and seven slightly more challenging quilts.
Finally, there is a ‘back to basics’ guide to
techniques. With pull-out piecing patterns.
Ringbound. WILEY 2010 HB 209pp Illus 277x230mm
$29.99 11117 now £7.99
PAINTING
THE HUMAN FIGURE
Ideas and Perception
NEW
Atul Vohora Rather than seeking to
teach specific technical methods of
rendering the figure, this book is an
investigation into the ways that
colour, form, composition and
materials can create perceptual
effects, and how artists of various
cultures and periods have responded
to the depiction of the human form in
different ways. Vohora’s analysis is
illustrated with re-creations of celebrated artworks, from figure
paintings on ancient Greek vases to Renaissance paintings and
modern masterpieces. CROWOOD 2012 PB 144pp Illus 278x218mm
Vohora’s re-creation
of Matisse’s Large
Reclining Nude, 1935
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TREASURES IN GOLD
Masterpieces of Jewelry from
Antiquity to Modern Times
Ed. Gianni Guadalupi From the earliest civilizations,
the special qualities of gold were recognized and
it was treasured above all other materials. This
celebration of the goldsmith’s art brings together
the finest gold artefacts in history, from ancient
Egypt to pre-Columbian America, modern
Europe and Asia. Hundreds of illustrations allow
detailed observation of masterpieces such as the
Mycenaean Mask of Agamemnon, devotional
objects from Byzantium, Inca idols, and the
intricate jewelry of the crowned heads of Imperial
Europe. WHITESTAR 2008 HB 352pp Illus 360x255mm
£30.00 99358 now £11.99
Casting of a work by sculptor
Latchezar Boyadjiev
‘Charlemagne’s Crown’ designed, but
not used, for Napoleon’s coronation
CONTEMPORARY
KILN-FORMED GLASS
NEW
Keith Cummings The art practice of
shaping and fusing sculptural glass forms
in a kiln was originally pioneered in the
late 19th century at Sèvres in France and
known as pâte de verre. Knowledge of
the process was largely lost until a new
generation rediscovered it in the 1940s,
but variations of the technique are now
widely practised. This well illustrated volume examines the history and procedures
of kiln-formed glass and surveys the work
of 50 contemporary artists worldwide.
VICTORIAN CHINA FAIRINGS
The Collector’s Guide
Derek H Jordan Fairings are small china
ornaments depicting a scene or tableau,
usually with a caption, making a social,
political or humorous comment on English life. They were produced in Germany
between about 1850 and 1914 and sold
as souvenirs at the popular English fairs
of the day. This comprehensive guide
presents fairings arranged alphabetically
by their captions, with over 400 colour
photographs and guide prices, and provides notes on collecting, including advice
on how to spot fakes.
PENNSYLVANIA UP
£30.00 11929 now £12.99
ACC 2003 HB 176pp Illus 275x215mm
£35.00 11055 now £12.99
NEW BRITISH TOY BOATS
1920 Onwards
A Pictorial Tribute
NEW
STONE LITHOGRAPHY
A&C BLACK 2001 PB 160pp Illus
£15.99 12001 now £6.99
THE SECRET LIVES
OF FRAMES
One Hundred Years
of Art and Artistry
Deborah Davis Beautiful, hardworking
and frequently overlooked, the frame is the
Cinderella of the art world. Focusing on
the New York firm Lowy, the oldest framemaker in the United States, this book redresses the balance. Lavishly illustrated
with historic and modern photographs, it
explains the craftsmanship that goes into a
fine frame, the conservation techniques required to maintain historic examples, and
the taste and judgement required in selecting the right frame to show a painting to
its best advantage. Off-mint.
Roger Gillham Toy boats enjoyed a
popularity boom in Britain between the
wars, with some towns even building
special ponds to accommodate
model yachts and clockwork vessels.
Assembling numerous vintage toys as
well as product catalogues and press
advertisements by manufacturers
such as Tri-ang, Scalex and Bowman,
this volume recalls many of the toys
produced during that golden age, as well
as models of the 1950s and 1960s, when
the toys were falling out of favour.
FILIPACCHI 2007 HB 146pp Illus 300x255mm
$50.00 88835 now £12.99
VELOCE 2011 PB 143pp Illus 250x253mm
£19.99 16463 now £5.99
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Paul Croft Lithography is the process of
drawing on a flat stone with greasy crayon
or ink and fixing the image by chemical
treatment so that the marked areas retain
ink and the unmarked areas reject it. Prints
can then be produced from the resulting
stone. This practical artist’s manual describes the processes, from simple blackand-white printing to more difficult techniques such as acid tint and stone engraving,
and explores how a range of contemporary
artists have used lithography in their work.
MASTERCRAFTS
Rediscover British Craftsmanship
Tom Quinn The ubiquity of cheap massproduced goods has encouraged ever more
interest in traditional artisanal skills and
the value of unique, handcrafted objects.
In the BBC TV series which this book
accompanied, contestants were apprenticed to masters in six disciplines: stone
masonry, thatching, woodworking, stained
glass-making, metalwork and weaving.
Tom Quinn looks at the history, development and methods of each of these traditional crafts and profiles each of the master crafters. DAVID & CHARLES 2010 HB
BRITISH DOLLS OF THE 1950s
Susan Brewer Renowned doll expert Susan
Brewer presents the first book to cover all
types of doll from this innovative era, including plush, composite and plastic. Fifties
dolls commemorated important events,
such as the Coronation, and started walking,
talking and even dancing; many of them
are now very collectable. As well as the
history of important doll manufacturers,
the book includes information on accessories, advice on how to spot fakes and a
listing of doll museums and hospitals.
Susan Brewer This volume looks at the
decade when Sindy altered the concept
of the fashion doll and new vinyl techniques enabled Palitoy’s Tressy to ‘grow’
her hair. This was the era of the first Action Man, the sculptural Sasha doll, the
first wave of ‘clever dolls’ who could
walk or dance and water-resistant baby
dolls that could be bathed. Brewer presents
some of her favourites, including ‘retro’
dolls, and gives advice on doll conservation and cleaning.
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REMEMBER WHEN 2009 HB 239pp Illus
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NEW INSIDE THE WICKER MAN
How Not to Make a Cult Classic
Allan Brown Made on a shoestring, butchered in the
cutting room, The Wicker Man was a resounding flop
on release; but the eerie tale of a puritanical cop lured
to a remote Scottish island by a pagan sect went on to
become a cult classic. This meticulously researched
account charts the film’s darkly comic history, with
an introduction by its star, Edward Woodward, lost
footage, and Anthony Shaffer’s script for a sequel.
POLYGON 2010 PB 289pp Illus
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NEW THE ESSENTIAL
SHAKESPEARE LIVE ENCORE
The Royal Shakespeare
Company in Performance
NEW
LIFE BEYOND MEASURE
Letters to My
Great-Granddaughter
Sidney Poitier Brought up in the Bahamas, Sidney Poitier moved to New
York when he was 17 and endured years
of struggle before finding fame. This autobiography is arranged as a series of extended letters to his great-granddaughter
and mixes ruminations on the lessons
life has taught him with stories from a
career in which he has starred in over 40
films and won an Oscar for Best Actor.
Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
HARPERONE 2008 HB 303pp Illus
$25.95 10850 now £5.99
THE OXFORD COMPANION
TO THEATRE AND
PERFORMANCE
Ed. Dennis Kennedy A concise and
updated version of the three-volume
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and
Performance (2003), this authoritative
Companion covers theatre, performance
in the theatre and performance in a
broader sense, extending to issues
such as censorship, dance, opera and
ritual, other forms of live entertainment
and even some para-theatrical activities
such as public executions. The book
comprises over 2,400 entries, arranged
alphabetically – from Abbey Theatre
to Stefan Zweig – and includes a
timeline and extensive bibliography.
Following the success of Essential Shakespeare Live,
Gregory Doran has selected another 21 scenes and speeches from live RSC
productions, all published for the first
time. The pieces begin with Paul Robeson
playing Othello in 1959, include
performances by Elizabeth
Spriggs, Ian Richardson, Harriet
Walter and Ian Holm, and end
with David Tennant’s Hamlet
(2008) and ‘What a piece of work
is man’. Includes a booklet with scripts.
Two CDs, running time 147 minutes.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2009
£16.00 10737 now £6.99
NEW
THE CENSORSHIP
OF BRITISH DRAMA
1900-1968
Volume Three: The Fifties
Steve Nicholson Until 1968, all plays
performed on the British stage required
approval by the Lord Chamberlain,
who could ban them or demand
changes if he considered it ‘fitting
for the preservation of good manners,
decorum or of the public peace’.
The third volume of this magisterial
survey focuses on that crucial decade,
the 1950s, when writers such as John
Osborne pushed the boundaries of
accepted taste and a private theatre club staged
Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
EXETER UP 2011 HB 279pp
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THE MASTERS OF SITCOM
From Hancock to Steptoe
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson met as
teenagers recovering from pulmonary
tuberculosis in a Surrey sanatorium. In
such extraordinary circumstances they
forged a partnership that was to introduce
a radical new type of comedy. Compiled
by Christopher Stevens from the 600
scripts the writers have chalked-up since 1951, this book of excerpts
Galton (left) and
shows how they developed the new genre of sitcom and illustrates
Simpson at work
the many different – but invariably funny – elements of the
with Frankie Howerd
Hancock and Steptoe characters. MICHAEL O’MARA 2011 HB 352pp
on the comedian’s
£20.00 97202 now £5.99
1964 show
Eric House as the Judge in the
private and unlicensed production
of Jean Genet’s The Balcony at the
Arts Theatre, London in April 1957
NEW DEATH OF A PIRATE
British Radio and the Making
of the Information Age
Adrian Johns On 21 June 1966,
pirate radio operator Reg Calvert
was shot dead at a country cottage
by a rival broadcaster. Pirate
stations had challenged the BBC’s
monopoly from rusting offshore
ships and forts, but were now being
forced to consolidate and being
drawn into contact with organized
crime. An intriguing whodunnit,
Adrian Johns’s account is also a
vivid recreation of the moment
when British pop conquered the
world. NORTON 2011 HB 317pp Illus
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MUSIC
UNLOCKING THE MASTERS SERIES
Each of these guides to key classical repertoire begins with a chapter introducing
the composer’s life and times, then provides analyses of a selection of works,
complemented by illustrative excerpts on the accompanying audio CD.
AMADEUS 2008/9 PB + Audio CD 164-225pp
£16.95-£18.95 each
ELGAR
An Anniversary Portrait
Nicholas Kenyon Published to celebrate
150 years since Elgar’s birth, this is a collection of 15 essays by musicologists and
performers, including Stephen Hough,
Dame Janet Baker and Tasmin Little. They
explore the contradictory aspects of Elgar’s
biography and reputation, discuss performances of the concertos and analyse the composer’s techniques and working methods.
In the final chapter a director of the Elgar
Foundation outlines the history of the Birthplace Museum. CONTINUUM 2008 PB 209pp
£13.99 99740 now £4.99
THE WORLDS OF JOHANN
SEBASTIAN BACH
An Aston Magna Academy Book
Ed. Raymond Erickson Bach’s music is
now played all over the world, but, in contrast to his more widely-travelled contemporaries Handel and Telemann, he lived
and worked in an area of Germany spanning only 100 miles. In these nine essays,
leading scholars draw on newly available
materials to examine the region’s political,
religious, architectural, literary and theatrical environment during Bach’s lifetime; and they argue that the study of its
richly multifaceted culture is key to understanding his genius.
AMADEUS 2009 HB 357pp Illus 253x175mm
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NEW SCHUBERT
A Survey of His Symphonic,
Piano and Chamber Music
John Bell Young Posthumously acclaimed as
one of the great composers of the Romantic era,
Schubert composed more than 1,000 works in a
career of less than two decades. Pianist John Bell
Young analyses a representative selection of his
non-vocal music – four of the symphonies, the
great String Quintet in C, the Wanderer fantasy
and other works for piano. The book is
accompanied by an audio CD featuring nine
movements from the works discussed.
11064
BACH’S CHORAL MUSIC
A Listener’s Guide
Gordon Jones Covering 30 cantatas, the B Minor
Mass, the two Passion settings and other works such as the motets and oratorios,
this guide presents the full range of Bach’s remarkable body of works for chorus.
The CD performances are all by the acclaimed Bach Collegium Japan. 99947
BRAHMS: A Listener’s Guide
John Bell Young Hailed as Beethoven’s Bell Young discusses a representative
true successor but disdainful of Liszt and sample, from a transcription of a
Wagner, Brahms was one of the 19th
Schubert song to the magniloquent
century’s most polarizing figures. This
B Minor Sonata.
99975
survey covers his piano music, the piano
PUCCINI:
A
Listener’s
Guide
quintet, all four symphonies, the violin
concerto and A German Requiem, setting John Bell Young With their sweeping
drama and such melodies as ‘Nessun
them in the musical context of Brahms’
time.
99949 dorma’, Puccini’s works are operatic
mainstays. This guide combines
LISZT: A Listener's Guide
description of the operas’ plots with
to his Piano Works
analysis of musical detail and character
John Bell Young Liszt was a virtuosic
development. As well as tracks from
pianist and left an enormous body of
the operas, the CD features the string
piano music in which he pushed the
quartet Crisantemi, source of two
boundaries of form and harmony. John
themes in Manon Lescaut.
99984
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 favourite 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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NEW 88 KEYS
The Making of
a Steinway Piano
Miles Chapin; Illus. Rodica Prato
Renowned around the world, the
pianos manufactured by Steinway &
Sons are still made by hand with great
artistry, in basically the same way as
they have been for the last century. In
this book the great-great-grandson of
the company’s founder takes the
reader on a tour of the factory to
explain the lengthy process of a
piano’s construction – from selecting
the right wood to the final delicate
adjustments to keys and hammers.
NATURAL FINGERING
A Topographical
Approach to Pianism
Jon Verbalis This book – the first
comprehensive study of piano fingering since
Hummel’s treatise of 1828 – explores the
implications of the keyboard’s topographical
symmetry, which was recognized by Chopin.
Demonstrating the compatibility of this
symmetry with the pianist’s most efficient
biokinetic capabilities, Verbalis challenges
conventional thinking and develops three
fundamental principles into a consistent
strategy which can be applied to even the
most complex repertoire. A companion
website supplements the printed edition.
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MUSIC/SPORT
MY SONG
A Memoir
Harry Belafonte Born in Harlem, New
York in 1927, Harry Belafonte grew up
amid poverty and racial discrimination;
by the mid 1960s he was one of the
biggest black stars in the world, and he
was using his fame to support and raise
funds to fight segregation. In this thoughtful autobiography he explores the roots
of his anger and describes the rise of the
civil rights movement from his perspective as a close friend of Martin Luther
King and a lifelong, passionate activist.
American-cut pages. Slightly off-mint
with felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
PRESTIGE RECORDS
The Album Cover Collection
Ed. Geoff Gans The production of the
early Prestige albums involved little
attention to the cover artwork but as the
label became established a creative style
emerged using more expressive photography and contemporary illustration. This
collection of classic Prestige covers reproduces the best examples from the earliest
10-inch records of the early 1950s through
to the 12-inch albums of the late 1960s
and includes many jazz classics by artists
such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny
Rollins and Thelonious Monk (above).
CONCORD 2009 HB + Audio CD
10600 now £7.99
NEW
MUSIC AND IDEAS
in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
Claude V Palisca When Claude Palisca
died in 2001 he left a draft of this book,
which brings together the insights of his
lifetime’s work on the musical thought of
the Renaissance and reflects his special interest in the many philosophical, literary
and scientific treatises in which music plays
a prominent role. He investigates how religious reform, the humanists’ rediscovery
of classical antiquity and the emergence of
the scientific movement influenced the theory, composition and performance of music. ILLINOIS UP 2006 HB 312pp
£23.99 10701 now £11.99
KNOPF 2011 HB 780pp Illus
$30.50 11886 now £5.99
ANYONE WHO
HAD A HEART
My Life and Music
Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield One of the most influential songwriters of all time, Burt Bacharach was
touring as Marlene Dietrich’s musical director when his composing career took
off in the early 1960s. He went on to create a string of memorable hits such as
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head and
The Look of Love. This autobiography
mixes Bacharach’s recollections with
those of people who have been prominent
in his life, among them Hal David, Angie
Dickinson, Elvis Costello and Mike Myers. ATLANTIC 2013 HB 300pp Illus
£20.00 98935 now £5.99
Gregg Allman started the Allman Brothers Band with his brother Duane in 1969,
taking on the lead vocals and playing keyboard. Success quickly followed and despite his brother’s death in 1971, Gregg’s
career continued to develop with successful solo projects and reformed versions
of the band. This biography tells the story
of a life in rock, from musical triumphs
and the trappings of celebrity to bitter disputes and substance abuse.
NEW
MY CROSS TO BEAR
SPORT
WILLIAM MORROW 2012 HB 400pp Illus
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UNTOUCHABLE
The Strange Life
and Tragic Death
of Michael Jackson
Randall Sullivan Michael Jackson’s undoubted talent made him the most famous
performer in the world, but abused and
exploited by his father in early life, and
hounded by his brothers as his career left
theirs behind, he became increasingly eccentric and reclusive. Allegations of paedophilia irreparably damaged his reputation and his unexpected death revealed
that he had long been addicted to prescription drugs. Compiled with access to
Jackson’s inner circle, this comprehensive
biography provides the inside story on
this most extraordinary life.
GROVE 2012 HB 785pp Illus
£25.00 98943 now £7.99
Paul Trynka Feted as style
icon, innovator and pop
superstar, David Bowie’s
career has been one of constant
reinvention. With insights
gleaned from hundreds of
interviews with Bowie’s
friends, lovers, band members
and family, Trynka’s biography
traces the life of the singer
from his South London origins
through the many phases of his
artistic and personal life, and
Spiders on a train:
explains how the charming but not unduly gifted David Jones
Bowie and Mick Ronson
became one of the most influential figures in the history of
en route to a gig in
popular music. LITTLE, BROWN 2011 HB 542pp Illus
NEW JIU JITSU FOR ALL
Yellow Belt to Green Belt
David Walker; Photo. Richard Goulding
With its roots in the hand-to-hand combat
techniques of Japanese Samurai warriors,
jiu jitsu is essentially a defensive art,
founded on the theory that aggression can
be overcome by using an attacker’s
strength, size and momentum against them.
This instruction book explains the key
principles of the method and, with the help
of step-by-step photographs, guides you
through the skills needed to achieve the
first three belts: yellow, orange and green.
£16.99 11993 now £5.99
DAVID BOWIE: Starman
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Aberdeen in May 1973
TOM MORRIS
OF ST ANDREWS
The Colossus of Golf
David Malcolm; Peter E Crabtree
As well as being a great golfer (his 13stroke victory in the 1872 Open remains
the largest winning margin), Tom Morris
(1821-1908) was the first golf professional, the first to design and build a golf
course (Prestwick) from scratch, and his
development of the Old Course at St Andrews made it the most famous golfing
arena in the world. His biography tells
the story of how one man presided over
the greatest period in the development of
the sport. BIRLINN 2010 PB 336pp Illus
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BRITISH RAILWAY
COACHING STOCK
SINCE 1960
For the Modeller
and Historian
West Yorkshire Type 141/1
Railbus in August 1990
Robert Hendry As steam
was phased out from the
1960s, BR strove for
uniformity in its rolling stock
with blue liveries applied to
locomotives and carriages.
After privatization in the
1990s, the new operators
applied their corporate identities to the old stock and have since introduced new
passenger trains in an array of colourful designs. With the railway modeller in mind,
this collection of more than 170 photographs charts the changes in liveries.
IAN ALLAN 2006 PB 96pp Illus 280x215mm
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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 re-openings 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.
TIMES 2014 HB 304pp Illus 285x220mm
£30.00 94872 now £12.99
DOW’S DICTIONARY OF
RAILWAY QUOTATIONS
Ed. Andrew Dow No means of transport
has aroused as much affection, indignation, poetry and persiflage as the railways. With more than 3,400 entries from
over 1,300 writers and speakers, this
compendium of quotations is full of railway fact and folklore and teeming with
heroes and villains from Dr Beeching to
Thomas the Tank Engine. The entries
are arranged by subject matter, from accidents to yards (via Bristol Temple
Meads, Crewe, Taunton and Victoria),
and indexed by author, subject and keyword. JOHNS HOPKINS UP 2006 PB 379pp
£16.00 11801 now £7.99
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
HANDBOOK
The Southern Railway 1923-47
David Wragg The first railway operator to
introduce main line electrification in 1931,
‘even interval’ timetabling and international
services, with special train ferries to France,
the Southern Railway was perhaps the most
innovative of the ‘Big Four’. Wragg’s comprehensive history charts the formation and
operation of the Southern, details the locomotives, named expresses, rolling stock, depots and major termini and describes the
contributions of its most influential employees, such as chief engineer, Oliver Bulleid.
£27.50 95514 now £9.99
THE GRAND
EXPERIMENT
The Birth of the
Railway Age: 1820-45
Stuart Hylton In 1820, Britain
was a nation connected by
turnpikes and coaching inns; by
1845 the broad outlines of our
present railway network were in
place. Drawing on contemporary
documents and illustrations, this
engrossing history creates a vivid picture of a period of dizzying technological and
social change. Profiling the pioneering personalities and charting the key developments,
it tells a story of vision and short-sightedness, honour and corruption, ambition and
entrepreneurship, that ushered in the modern world. IAN ALLAN 2007 HB 208pp Illus
£19.99 91562 now £7.99
Jack Simmons As remarkable as the locomotives and engineering projects of the
railway pioneers were, the wider effects of the transport revolution on the nature of
Britain are just as notable. This history of the Victorian railways examines the initial
construction of the network but also charts the social changes wrought as the
railways changed the face of town and country, accelerated communications,
encouraged standardization and widened the horizons of ordinary people.
THE VICTORIAN RAILWAY
1909 bird’s-eye view map of Tees-side
RAILWAY MAPS
OF THE WORLD
Mark Ovenden’s huge, colourful collection of maps is in two parts: the
first is arranged chronologically from
the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
of 1830 to the proposed high-speed
networks of China in the 2020s; while
the second, atlas section is an A-Z of
countries, each with an example of the
most recent map of passenger services,
along with historical maps and posters;
and between the two parts is a chapter
on the ‘World’s Greatest Rail Routes’.
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STEAM MEMORIES: 1950s and 1960s
Number 12: Devon and Cornwall Lines
DH Beecroft Railway enthusiast and photographer Don Beecroft made two
extended trips to Devon and Cornwall in 1956 and 1960, travelling widely
across both counties. This collection of 70 of his black-and-white photographs
provides a snapshot of the railway scene of the period, including main line and
local services, city and branch line station scenes and the comings and goings
of the depots and engine sheds. BOOK LAW 2008 PB 72pp Illus 200x210mm
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NEW THE COMPLETE UK
MODERN TRACTION
LOCOMOTIVE
DIRECTORY
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY:
ENGINE SHEDS
Volume 3: Yorkshire
and Lancashire
Colin J Marsden This truly
comprehensive reference book
lists every diesel, electric and
gas-turbine locomotive to have
operated over the main line
network of Britain’s rail system,
including those running prior to
nationalization as well as during
the British Railways era and since
privatization. Over a million cells
of data provide names and numbers, builder’s details, depot allocations, withdrawal
dates and disposal information. The listings also include hundreds of photographs
illustrating every class of locomotive. RAILWAY CENTRE 2011 HB 336pp Illus 210x295mm
Roger Griffiths; John Hooper Established in the 1840s to build a line from
London to York, the GNR’s rapid expansion saw the company running services
into Manchester and Liverpool by the end
of the 1850s. Illustrated with track plans
and archive photographs, this final volume
in a survey of GNR locomotive sheds
traces the history and analyses the operational careers of the sheds at Ardsley,
Bradford, Doncaster, Halifax, Holmfield,
Ingrow, Leeds, Manchester and York.
£35.00 16469 now £11.99
£19.99 10827 now £7.99
THE SOUTH DEVON
RAILWAY
Don Bishop The line between Buckfastleigh and Totnes in Devon was closed
in 1962 but soon reopened, a pioneering
venture of steam preservation, in 1969.
Since it was renamed in the early 1990s,
the South Devon Railway has established
an excellent fleet of locomotives and carriages, creating the authentic feel of a
GWR branch line in the 1950s. This photographic collection captures the nostalgic
flavour of steam trains in the landscape
along a beautiful stretch of the River Dart.
HALSGROVE 2009 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 10787 now £6.99
BOOKLAW/RAILBUS 2007 PB 150pp Illus
21st CENTURY
EXTREME STEAM
Steve le Cheminant; Vernon
Murphy; Michael Rhodes
China began phasing out steam
locomotion on its vast rail network
in the late 20th century but by the
beginning of the 21st there were still
hundreds of working engines to be
seen, often pulling freight for heavy
industry. This album of over 300
colour photographs celebrates this
last outpost of the steam era with
locomotives in full cry against vast
Chinese landscapes, rural narrow
gauge railways and dramatic scenes
of industrial haulage. TELE RAIL 2003 HB 168pp Illus 285x235mm Double-headed freight at
£40.00 10824 now £14.99
dawn on the Ji-Tong line
MR BECK’S
UNDERGROUND MAP
RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN:
LONDON NORTH
OF THE THAMES
Colin McCarthy; David McCarthy
The railways of London developed as a
myriad inter-city and local lines were incorporated into a network. This study of
the area north of the Thames presents a
series of colour-coded maps which show
the railway infrastructure and the major
roads. Accompanying these is a history
of the original overground, underground
and industrial lines (arranged alphabetically), the great London termini, locomotive sheds and other facilities. Finally,
there is a gazetteer of the stations featured.
£19.99 99391 now £7.99
Ken Garland In 1931, a former
Underground Group employee created a
diagram of London’s underground railway
system after realizing that passengers were
more interested in how lines connected
than where they were above ground. His
name was Harry Beck and his journey
planner is still in use today. Garland’s
now classic book about the map’s
development under Beck, first published
in 1994, uses colour prints, first hand
accounts and original correspondence to
chart the early history of this much-loved
piece of London iconography. CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2008 HB 80pp Illus 245x285mm
£12.95 88604 now £6.99
Antony Badsey-Ellis; Mike Horne
Opened in 1907, the branch of the Piccadilly Line from Holborn to Aldwych
was a little-used appendage that managed
to survive until 1994. This illustrated history of the Aldwych branch explains why
it was built at all and describes the alternative ways in which the Strand (later Aldwych) and Holborn stations and the track
have been used, including their roles as
art depository, offices and shelters during
the Second World War and for experimental architectural purposes since 1994.
THE HAMPSTEAD TUBE
A History of the First 100 Years
THE ALDWYCH BRANCH
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2007 HB 152pp Illus
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2009 HB 112pp Illus
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£19.95 88616 now £7.99
Antony Badsey-Ellis Today’s Northern
Line began life as two separate railways,
the City & South London between the City
and Stockwell and the Hampstead Tube between Charing Cross and Golders Green or
Highgate. With around 100 illustrations, including plans and maps, this book traces the
history of the line, from the drawing board
to opening in 1907, through the growth of
the northern suburbs, the link with the City
& South London at Kennington in 1926, up
to the recent plans for rebuilding stations.
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THE LAST DAYS OF
SCOTTISH STEAM
In Full Colour
A4 Pacific Lord
Faringdon at
Glasgow St Rollox
Peter Tuffrey Bill Reed’s
collection of railway
photographs was compiled
while working for British
Rail during the 1950s and
1960s. Unusually for an
amateur of that time his
photographs are in colour
and of superb quality.
Arranged alphabetically from
Aberdeen to Tillynaught
Station, and accompanied by
Tuffrey’s detailed text, the pictures in this volume show steam locomotives working
many of the now-defunct Scottish branch lines as well as mainline routes and all the
Edinburgh and Glasgow sheds. GREAT NORTHERN 2013 HB 160pp Illus 247x190mm
£17.99 12010 now £7.99
AN ILLUSTRATED
HISTORY OF THE
TRAVELLING POST OFFICE
Peter Johnson The Travelling Post Office
– the transport of mail by train, with sorting
carried out on the move – was a part of
Britain’s railway operations for over 160
years. In a history illustrated with some
250 photographs, Peter Johnson charts the
development of the TPO since 1838; he
describes the routes, services and rolling
stock it used, the consequences of the 1963
Great Train Robbery, and the deteriorating
relationship with the privatized railways,
up to the abandonment of TPO services in
2004. OPC 2009 HB 144pp Illus 290x215mm
£19.99 97207 now £7.99
Stanley Hall; Peter van der Mark Level
crossings are, from a safety point of view,
the most vulnerable aspect of the railway
system, operators having limited control
over the unpredictable behaviour of the
general public. Written by a former Head
of Signalling and Safety for the British
Railways Board, this well-illustrated volume is the first detailed history of the level
crossing and gives an analysis of its development and operation from the 1830s
to the present day, cataloguing all notable
accidents and technical innovations.
LEVEL CROSSINGS
IAN ALLAN 2008 HB 128pp Illus 295x215mm
LONDON MAIN LINE
WAR DAMAGE
BWL Brooksbank London’s rail network
suffered heavy damage during the Second
World War, both from deliberate attacks
on the transport infrastructure and from
accidental hits. This book provides a dayby-day account of destruction wrought on
the railways throughout the Blitz of 194041 and the rocket raids of 1944, and recounts the heroic struggle of railway staff
to restore services in difficult and dangerous conditions. Dramatic wartime photographs show familiar landmarks such
as Waterloo Station transformed into
scenes of utter devastation. CAPITAL
TRANSPORT 2007 HB 144pp Illus 281x219mm
£19.95 67009 now £9.99
COMMUTER CITY
How the Railways Shaped London
David Wragg The 19th century expansion of
London into a sprawling metropolis would
have been impossible without one crucial
innovation: the railway. Suddenly, far-flung
hamlets were within an hour of the centre and
ripe for development. This absorbing study
charts the railways’ effect on the growth of the
city, its layout, its governance and its society.
It profiles the companies and individuals that
drove the process, the decisions that shaped it,
the massive upheaval it caused – and its legacy
today. WHARNCLIFFE 2010 HB 301pp
£19.99 11958 now £6.99
John Christopher From the first horse-drawn omnibuses to ‘bendy buses’
and the new generation Routemasters, this little History Press book tells the
story behind London’s famous red buses. It is illustrated with nearly 100 sepia
or colour photographs, and includes a chronology of ‘milestones’ and vehicle
specifications for the buses. HISTORY PRESS 2009 HB 128pp Illus 125x185mm
THE LONDON BUS STORY
£8.99 99418 now £3.99
ABC BUS AND COACH RECOGNITION
Fifth edition
Alan Millar After a brief introduction to bus and coach operators and
manufacturers and a glossary of terms, the fifth edition of this popular guide
is in four parts, each arranged alphabetically: double-deck buses, single-deck
buses, coaches, and a short section on minibuses. Each entry lists the manufacturer,
engine, transmission, bodywork and main areas of operation, as well as giving a
general description and a colour photograph. IAN ALLAN 2007 PB 176pp Illus 185x120mm
£9.99 93601 now £4.99
£19.99 97208 now £7.99
BRITISH TRAMWAY
ACCIDENTS
Frank E Wilson was a tramway and railway engineer, who wrote on technical aspects of trams; his work on tram accidents
was unfinished when he died in 1975. Edited and completed by GB Claydon, who
provides a chapter on the administrative
and legal background, the book covers
over 60 accidents between 1874 and 1959,
describing and providing expert engineering commentary on each event. It is illustrated with archive photographs, line
drawings and facsimiles of Railway Inspectorate accident reports. No jacket.
ADAM GORDON 2006 HB 228pp Illus
305x215mm
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NEW RUSSIAN
MOTOR
VEHICLES
Soviet
Limousines
1930-2003
Maurice A Kelly
Despite being a
distinctly bourgeois
ZIL-111 limousine
product, Stalin
recognized that he
needed limousines for state occasions, visiting diplomats and government officials.
Reluctant to waste valuable foreign currency on vehicles from abroad, he ordered the
development of the Leningrad L-1 during the first five-year plan of 1928-32. This
unique automotive history charts the development of Soviet limousines from these
beginnings up to the last model produced in 2003 and also explores the Chinese cars
developed with Russian assistance in the late 1950s. VELOCE 2011 HB 128pp Illus
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TRANSPORT IN BRITAIN,
1750-2000
From Canal Lock to Gridlock
Philip S Bagwell; Peter Lyth A key component of British history over the last 250
years has been the developing transport
system. In this complete history of the subject, the authors chart the progress from
the canal networks and railways that were
the arteries of the Industrial Revolution to
the gridlocked streets and congestion
charges of today. Covering nationalization,
privatization, air, rail and coastal transport,
the book concludes with an appeal to make
efficient transport a political priority.
HAMBLEDON 2002 HB 287pp Illus
£45.00 38675 now £7.99
TRANSPORT
NEW CARGO LINERS
Ambrose Greenway Unlike tramp
steamers, cargo liners offered regular
services with advertised sailings that
merchants and importers could rely
upon. These vessels, characterized by
the forest of derricks and winches on
their decks, dominated the world’s
trade routes for 100 years from the
later 19th century. This illustrated
history tracks the development of the
cargo liner from early steamers and
the impact of the Suez Canal to their
eclipse by container ships in the 1970s.
SEAFORTH 2011 PB 184pp Illus 260x241mm
£18.99 16464 now £8.99
GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS
1910-1920
William H Miller With millions emigrating from Europe to America and technology allowing bigger, faster and more comfortable vessels, the early 20th century was
a golden age for shipbuilding. In 1910,
Britain, Germany and France were vying
with each other to build the most impressive passenger liners but the First World
War forced the great ships into other duties.
This illustrated history tells the stories of
some of world’s most famous liners during
a momentous decade in shipping history.
NEW COASTERS
Roy Fenton The term ‘coaster’
describes any type of craft designed
to work coastal routes or short sea
passages. Although not defined by
size, they are likely to be limited by
the dimensions of the ports, harbours
and waterways they use. Illustrated
with over 300 photographs, this
history traces the evolution of steam
and diesel coasters from the 19th
century to the present day and
explores the various vessels’
capabilities and operation.
HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 96pp Illus 227x248mm
£19.99 98642 now £6.99
SEAFORTH 2011 HB 208pp Illus 260x240mm
£30.00 16468 now £12.99
ARTEMIS
The Original Royal Princess
Andrew Sassoli-Walker; Sharon
Poole Built in 1984, P&O’s Royal
Princess was a trendsetter in
commercial cruising: it was the first
modern cruise ship that could boast
all outside cabins and, at the time,
one of the largest afloat. From its
design and construction and its
launch by Princess Diana, this
lavishly illustrated account follows
the career of the Royal Princess,
later renamed Artemis, to 2010 and the final voyages before it was
sold to a German cruise line. AMBERLEY 2010 PB 120pp Illus 227x243mm
Aurora of the 1911-14 Australasian
Antarctic Expedition
£19.99 85072 now £5.99
ORDEAL BY ICE
Ships of the Antarctic
Rorke Bryan Antarctic expeditions
travel through some of the world’s most
hazardous seas, so their success is dependent on the quality of the ships involved. In this comprehensive record,
Bryan brings together his extensive researches on the ships themselves – technical details, paintings, photographs –
as well as highlighting the critical role
they have played over the centuries in
the voyages that opened up the continent, from the first sightings by fleets
of the Ming dynasty to today’s research
conducted using sophisticated reinforced
vessels. SEAFORTH 2011 HB 544pp Illus
NEW CELEBRATION
OF FLIGHT
The Aviation Art of Roy Cross
NEW
£35.00 16477 now £14.99
Roy Cross; Arthur Ward Many
aviation enthusiasts will have had their
interest nurtured, in childhood and
perhaps beyond, by assembling Airfix
model kits and poring over the
evocative illustrations on the box lids,
mainly provided by artist Roy Cross.
This handsome volume collates the
best of Cross’s paintings, illustrations
and technical cutaways, produced for
the aviation press and aeronautical
manufacturers as well as Airfix. The aircraft depicted range
from Bleriot’s Channel-crossing monoplane of 1909 to civil and
military aircraft of the 1960s. AIRLIFE 2012 HB 128pp Illus 280x304mm
Artemis refuels
at Piraeus
in May 2010
Cross’s painting for
the Airfix ‘Superkit’
of the Spitfire I
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ARCHITECTURE
BAROQUE
ARCHITECTURE
IN PIEDMONTE
Back by
popular
demand
The south end of Castle Drogo, Devon
EDWIN LUTYENS
COUNTRY HOUSES
From the Archives
of Country Life
Enrico Peyrot; Domenico
Prola; Photo. Giorgio
Jano Selected from around
1,500 Baroque buildings in
the Piedmonte region, these
120 churches, sanctuaries
and oratories are lesserknown or even unknown
examples, but are
considered to be significant
for their Piedmontese
regional characteristics.
Church of San Giorgio in Monferrato, late 18th century
Each building is briefly
described and illustrated with a floor plan, a colour photograph of the exterior
and a beautifully serene monochrome photograph of the ceiling – the camera
turned upward to reveal the complex articulation of Baroque space.
Text in Italian and English. Off-mint. ALINARI 1988 HB 280pp Illus 395x300mm
€144.00 96733 now £14.99
NEW TUDORESQUE
In Pursuit of the Ideal Home
Andrew Ballantyne; Andrew Law In almost
any UK suburb, you will see rows of semidetached houses sporting black timbers on a
rendered ground. Despite the scorn of the
Modernists, ‘Tudoresque’ remains one of the
nation’s most popular styles of domestic architecture. This absorbing, extensively illustrated study examines its Tudor models (in
which the timbers were structural rather than
merely decorative), 19th century revival, inter-war heyday, and its extraordinary spread
as far as Manhattan and Singapore.
Gavin Stamp One of the most significant English architects of the early 20th
century, Edwin Lutyens created a distinctive blend of vernacular and neoclassicism that was imbued with the spirit of
the Arts and Crafts movement. Throughout his career, he maintained a unique
relationship with Country Life magazine,
which published photographs of all his
commissions. Drawing on its archive,
this pictorial survey reproduces 200 superb images of Lutyens’s buildings,
while Gavin Stamp’s masterly essay offers a fresh perspective on his practice.
REAKTION 2011 HB 286pp Illus
AURUM 2013 PB 192pp Illus 305x250mm
£25.00 16584 now £9.99
£20.00 10867 now £12.99
THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF
CHURCHES AND CATHEDRALS
Decoding the Sacred Symbolism
of Christianity’s Holy Buildings
THE SUPREME COURT OF
THE UNITED KINGDOM
Ed. Chris Miele In October 2009 the new
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom began its work as the highest court in the
land, located in a spectacularly refurbished
building, the former Middlesex Guildhall
on Parliament Square. With contributions
from the President of the Court, the Lord
Chancellor, legal historians and art and architectural historians, this book celebrates
aspects of the new court including the history of its magnificent building and its architecture and decoration, and the change
in the process of law it embodies.
MERRELL 2010 HB 224pp Illus 295x295mm
NEW
MARTELLO TOWERS
WORLDWIDE
Bill Clements The British Martello
towers of the late 18th and 19th centuries were built to defend the coasts
of Britain and its empire, but the
Martello design was much older, originating on the Spanish and Italian coasts
in the 15th century. Clements provides
a complete, illustrated history of these
defensive structures across the world,
from the early, single-gun towers of the
Mediterranean to gun-towers built in
Britain during the First World War.
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.
PEN & SWORD 2011 HB 240pp Illus
DUNCAN BAIRD 2010 HB 224pp Illus 295x230mm
£19.99 16474 now £9.99
$35.00 10905 now £9.99
£35.00 94601 now £12.99
Ahmed Vefa Çobanoğlu; Tarkan Okçuoğlu The Süleymaniye
Mosque and the Sultan Ahmed or ‘Blue’ Mosque in Istanbul,
completed in 1557 and 1617 respectively, are two of the finest
examples of Ottoman art and architecture. Each is adorned with
intricate carvings and sumptuous decoration and each was built
with an adjacent complex containing schools, hospitals, shops
and public baths. This illustrated guide provides an analysis
of the buildings and the decorative art that adorns them.
SULTANAHMET AND SULEYMANIYE
SCALA 2012 PB 112pp Illus 210x210mm
£14.95 99483 now £5.99
The inner courtyard of the Sultanahmet
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DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION
NEW BEAUTIFUL THING
An Introduction to Design
Robert Clay Beginning with such
intangible subjects as taste and
beauty, this book is an accessible
introduction to how thoughtful
practitioners approach all forms
of design, whether architecture,
product or graphics. Illustrated
with examples from the Parthenon
to a Kenwood mixer, the London
Underground map to a Jaguar car,
the author explains technical issues,
such as balance, composition,
colour, texture and form, as well
The Munsell colour tree,
as discussing how more philosophical considerations
contribute to good design. BERG 2009 PB 214pp Illus 245x190mm the first practical colour
The Spotlight Kid by Captain Beefheart, 1972
classification system
£19.99 11926 now £7.99
CLASSIC ALBUM
COVERS OF THE 1970s
NEW
Aubrey Powell If the 1960s was the era
of the single and the 1980s of the CD, the
1970s was the time of the album. The musicians’ innovations of the period were
matched by designers utilizing the ample
canvas of the LP sleeve to produce memorable cover images. This visual celebration, presenting over 150 classic designs,
has been compiled by the co-founder of
Hipgnosis, the influential design agency
responsible for iconic covers such as Pink
Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. COLLINS
ORIENTAL CARPET DESIGN
A Guide to Traditional Motifs,
Patterns and Symbols
PRJ Ford Emphasizing the influence that
ethnographic history exercises on carpet design,
this richly illustrated book provides a practical
guide to identifying the styles and places of
origin of the 600 or so types of carpet sold
around the world today. The full range of
designs used across the east, from the Balkans
to Beijing, are grouped according to the essential
characteristics of the designs themselves, thus
illuminating their cultural backgrounds.
& BROWN 2012 HB 192pp Illus 218x218mm
£14.99 16570 now £6.99
THAMES & HUDSON 2007 PB 352pp Illus 320x240mm
£24.95 98860 now £9.99
Reciprocation,
a screen-printed
furnishing fabric
design by Barbara
Brown for Heal
Fabrics, 1962
Repeating medallion design
carpet from Chelabi, Azerbaijan
WALL CALENDAR
NEW HOW TO READ PATTERN
A Crash Course in Textile Design
Clive Edwards This concise and practical guide to
looking at and appreciating the art of pattern begins with
an introduction to the materials, techniques and usage
of patterned textiles. It goes on to examine the various
types of pattern in turn – from those that derive from
the natural world to abstract designs, grids and stripes –
using over 500 illustrations of examples from the
V&A collections. HERBERT 2009 PB 256pp Illus 165x140mm
£9.99 11991 now £4.99
IT’S QUICKER BY RAIL
LNER Publicity and
Posters, 1923 to 1947
Beverley Cole Once seen on
station platforms across the
country, posters for the railway
companies represented a highpoint
of 1920s and 1930s commercial art.
This collection, featuring posters
and other publicity materials,
illustrates how the ‘golden age of
steam’ was also a golden age of
graphic design. From King’s Cross
to Scotland, the London and North
Eastern Railway issued Holiday Handbooks and lured passengers
Poster by John
to resorts the length of the east coast – ‘the drier side’.
Littlejohn promoting
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2006 PB 60pp Illus 200x200mm
£7.95 58971 now £3.99
FIRST WORLD WAR
POSTERS
Wall Calendar 2015
NEW
Drawn from the Imperial War Museum
collection, these posters range from a
variation of Kitchener’s famous ‘Your
Country Needs You’ for January to a
reminder to ‘Buy a Christmas Present for
Your Soldier Friend’ in December. The
calendar is 30 x 60 cm when open and
shows one month per page, with holidays
marked and notes on the pictures.
night bathing at
Whitley Bay, 1929
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ART
THE PARTHENON
SCULPTURES
Ian Jenkins; Ivor
Kerslake; Dudley
Hubbard The Parthenon
sculptures in the British
Museum are unrivalled
examples of classical
Greek art, and have been
an inspiration to artists and
writers since their creation
in the fifth century BCE.
With dramatic photographs
by Ivor Kerslake and
Dudley Hubbard, and Ian
Jenkins’s account of the
history of the Parthenon
and of the sculptures in
their architectural, art-historical and cultural contexts, this volume is
a superb introduction to the most famous of the surviving sculptures
from ancient Greece. HARVARD UP 2007 HB 144pp Illus 258x250mm
$35.00 99982 now £9.99
Emily Howe; Henrietta McBurney et al The two wall painting
schemes in Eton are rare survivals of late medieval art, dating from
two early phases of
building work under
the patronage of
William Waynflete
and Roger Lupton.
The Miracles of the
Virgin (c.1477-87)
decorated the chapel
of Our Lady of Eton;
the other painting,
in the Head Master’s
Chambers, is a
secular scene of
school life. Here, the
context, iconography
and technical aspects
of both schemes are discussed in eight essays Scene 5 of The Miracles:
the mythical Empress
accompanying the detailed catalogues,
has a vision of the
with specially commissioned photographs.
WALL PAINTINGS OF ETON
SCALA 2012 HB 192pp Illus 240x280mm
£35.00 11057 now £12.99
LEONARDO
DA VINCI:
LA BELLA
PRINCIPESSA
The Profile Portrait
of a Milanese Woman
Virgin, flanked by St
Ursula and St Dorothy
Martin Kemp; Pascal
Cotte This book tells the
story of the astonishing
authentication of a portrait
by Leonardo da Vinci
(pictured right), formerly
selling for a few thousand
pounds but now worth
around £150 million.
The authors, who worked
on this project, recount
the progress of their
investigation, outlining the
methods they used to piece
together the evidence needed to authenticate the painting.
They also discuss the life of the most likely candidate for its
melancholy sitter – the tragically short-lived illegitimate daughter
of Duke Ludovico Sforza. HODDER 2010 HB 208pp Illus 260x175mm
NEW TULLIO LOMBARDO
and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
Alison Luchs; Adriana Augusti Around 1500,
North Italian painters such as Titian and Giorgioni
went beyond traditional devotional images to
develop imaginative representations of classical
mythology for a growing audience of collectors.
Less well known are the similar innovations of
contemporary sculptors led by Tullio Lombardo.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, this
lavishly illustrated monograph presents the haunting,
sensuous and enigmatic carvings of Lombardo
and his followers, setting them in their art-historical
context. YALE UP 2009 HB 158pp Illus 298x248mm
£45.00 11046 now £19.99
BEAUTY, SEX AND POWER
A Story of Debauchery and Decadent Art
at the Late Stuart Court (1660-1714)
Brett Dolman; David Soudan; Olivia Fryman
Inspired by the Stuart apartments of Hampton Court
Palace and the two sets of 17th century paintings they
contain – the ‘Windsor Beauties’ of Peter Lely and
‘Hampton Court Beauties’ of Godfrey Kneller, The Wild,
the Beautiful and the Damned exhibition at the Palace
explored the notions of beauty, sexual attractiveness and
portraiture in these paintings of Charles II’s mistresses.
This book, which originally accompanied the exhibition,
explores those themes through a whole range of 17th
century painting. SCALA 2012 PB 128pp Illus 248x202mm
£16.95 98557 now £7.99
Right: Princess Anne by William Wissing, c.1683
PORTRAIT
MINIATURES FROM
THE NATIONAL
GALLERIES OF
SCOTLAND
Stephen Lloyd There
are around 150 portrait
miniatures in the collection
of the National Galleries
of Scotland, including
portraits of eminent Scots
and paintings by key
Scottish miniaturists such
as Richard Cosway and
Archibald Skirving. This
volume, which accompanied
an exhibition in Edinburgh
in 2004, presents colour
reproductions of and
commentary on 20 miniatures, Unknown Girl Holding a Dog by
Robert Thorburn, c.1850
along with an essay on the
‘close-up’ portrait and the catalogue of the 101 paintings
exhibited, with notes and small monochrome reproductions.
NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND 2004 PB 120pp Illus
£9.95 92941 now £3.99
Laura Cumming Encountered in a gallery, self-portraits
produce a shock of recognition like no other pictures. They
are about more than physical appearance: they tell us how
the artists saw themselves, and hoped to be seen by the
world. Illustrated with 100 powerful colour reproductions,
this brilliant and perceptive study uncovers the intimate
and sometimes uncomfortable truths of self-portraiture –
from Dürer and Rembrandt to Picasso and Warhol – and
what it tells us about ourselves and our self-awareness.
A FACE TO THE WORLD: On Self-Portraits
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HARPER 2010 PB 316pp Illus 245x190mm
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Tullio Lombardo, c.1505
ART
NEW PAUL KLEE
Masterpieces of Art
Susie Hodge A hugely influential artist,
Paul Klee (1879-1940) eludes
classification. During a prolific career he
produced astonishing artworks full of
colour, inspired by his many travels and
by time spent at the revolutionary
Bauhaus. Beginning with Susie Hodge’s
introductory essay, this fresh look at
Klee’s art presents some 90
reproductions aranged in three sections:
early mystical and abstract subjects;
works from his years at the Bauhaus and
in Dusseldorf; and the late works.
Masterpieces of Art series.
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Karen Hearn Nicholas Hilliard’s miniatures show
us the celebrities of the Elizabethan age with far
more naturalism than paintings ‘in large’, but
his portraits ‘in little’ share some characteristics
of formal portraiture, particularly the texts
accompanying the images and the all-important
detail of costumes that display the sitter’s wealth
and position. Along with an informative essay,
Hearn presents reproductions, with commentaries,
of 30 works, including the famous images of
Elizabeth I, George Clifford and Sir Walter Raleigh.
NICHOLAS HILLIARD
UNICORN 2005 HB 160pp Illus 155x155mm
£19.95 88277 now £4.99
Gordon Kerr The ‘bestknown living architect in
Europe’ during his lifetime,
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
is still admired today as
an innovative architect,
craftsman, designer and
artist. This volume from
the Masterpieces of Art
series presents Mackintosh’s
finest works as well as some
lesser-known details and
pieces by his wife and
collaborator, Margaret
Poster for the Scottish Musical Review, 1896
Macdonald. After an
illustrated introduction, the book contains colour photographs of around
90 examples, including buildings, tea rooms, watercolours and interiors.
FLAME TREE 2014 HB 128pp Illus 232x205mm
£12.99 11058 now £6.99
Richard R Brettell Throughout his
career, from the early years in the
Caribbean and Venezuela to his death
in Paris in 1903, Camille Pissarro
produced a vast oeuvre of drawn, painted
and printed figures, the result of a
lifelong interest in the human condition
and a profound knowledge of social
philosophy. Illustrated with reproductions
of over 200 paintings, works on paper
and archival photographs, this study is
the first to investigate the connections
between the art and political ethics of
this important Impressionist painter.
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FRANCISCO 2012 HB 320pp Illus 267x227
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Senecio by Paul Klee, 1922
Ed. Beyeler Museum AG Henri Rousseau’s masterpiece, Le lion, ayant faim, se jette
sur l’antilope is one of the most popular paintings in the Fondation Beyeler, Basle.
This monograph accompanied an exhibition at the museum marking the centenary of the
artist’s death in 2010. Illustrated with over 80 reproductions, it features a catalogue, with
commentary on around 40 major works, and four essays, including a survey of other avant
garde artists’ responses to Rousseau’s art. HATJE CANTZ 2010 HB 120pp Illus 310x270mm
HENRI ROUSSEAU
Self-portrait by Jacques-Louis David, 1794
The Market Stall by Pissarro, 1884
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ART
LONDON: 1,000 YEARS
Treasures from the Collections
of the City of London
NEW THE LENS OF IMPRESSIONISM
Photography and Painting along
the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874
Carole McNamara The craggy coast of
Normandy was a magnet for painters and
photographers in the later 19th century.
This magnificent catalogue of an exhibition
at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
features more than 100 superb reproductions,
juxtaposing work by pioneering photographers
such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq
with paintings and drawings by Manet, Monet,
Courbet, Whistler and Degas. The images and
text demonstrate the crucial role of the new
medium in the development of Impressionism.
Ed. David Pearson The City Corporation,
the local authority that governs London’s
Square Mile, is older than Parliament,
and its unparalleled archive of books,
manuscripts, paintings, prints and posters
spans 1,000 years. The wealth of items
illustrated here range from illuminated
manuscripts to Pre-Raphaelite paintings,
from a deed signed by Shakespeare to a
love letter by Keats. The text provides
an overview of the collection and a
compelling account of London’s
development as a commercial, scientific,
industrial and cultural powerhouse.
HUDSON HILLS 2009 HB 208pp Illus 310x250mm
£35.00 11023 now £14.99
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Design for the dome of St Paul’s
by Nicholas Hawksmoor, c.1690
WILLIAM ORPEN:
AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE
A Critical Edition of
the Artist’s War Memoirs
Robert Upstone; Angela Weight
William Orpen was the only official war
artist to publish an extensive memoir of
his experience in the First World War. He
was a talented 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 Foch’s headquarters. An
Onlooker in France is presented here, with
an introductory essay by Robert Upstone,
commentary and reproductions of 75
drawings and paintings by Orpen. PAUL
HOLBERTON 2008 HB 232pp Illus 255x190mm
£30.00 98374 now £14.99
The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt, 1918
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