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THE PRINCES
IN THE TOWER
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Josephine Wilkinson In June 1453, the
new king of England, the 12-year-old
Edward V was deposed by his uncle,
Richard, Duke of Gloucester and sent
to the Tower of London along with his
younger brother, Richard, Duke of York.
The boys disappeared and the rumour
began – and has never abated – that
they were dead, murdered by Richard III.
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re-examines the original sources and
presents a new theory about what
really happened and why.
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NEW ELIZABETH WOODVILLE
A Life
David MacGibbon First published in
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Sinclair McKay Bletchley Park’s cracking of the Enigma code helped
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debutantes, students and Wrens worked alongside Britain’s most brilliant
minds in conditions of the utmost secrecy. Here, for the first time, they
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The Barber Institute
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Ann Sumner; Jesse Campbell
et al Founded in 1931, the
Barber Institute of Fine Arts
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finest cultural centres in the
UK. Drawing on extensive
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volume explore the motives
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Culham Court by Nestor Cambier, pre-1928
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of the Institute’s early acquisitions. SCALA 2012 PB 160pp Illus
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In the 1830s two men – English
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– worked independently to develop
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authors focus on the protracted
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long beset efforts to fix images on
paper. The final chapters cover the
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art, daily life and the documentation
of the American Civil War.
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Stephen Friar’s Companion covers
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and effigies, traditions and folklore,
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and the role of the parish church in
the history of a community. The
book is arranged alphabetically
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entries on major features, and shorter
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historical associations and place
names, plus an index of places.
CAPTURING THE LIGHT
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Women in Chinese Erotic Art
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Philip Davies’s selection of 180 London interiors, all beautifully
photographed by Derek Kendall, reveals the architectural riches –
and eccentricities – hidden behind inscrutable London facades or
tucked away in sidestreets: houses such 11 Bedford Row, with its
magnificent Georgian painted staircase; hidden gems such as the
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in Malet Street; and the
complete 18th century dining room by Robert Adam, removed
from Bowood House in Wiltshire and reconstructed on the ninth
floor of the Lloyd’s Building. ATLANTIC 2014 HB 448pp Illus 287x242mm
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The Court Room in the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street
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LONDON UNDERGROUND
John R Day; John Reed London’s Underground is the
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Alice in Wonderland, the King and Queen of Hearts,
preliminary study by David Hall for Walt Disney Studios, 1951
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ONCE UPON A TIME: WALT DISNEY
The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios
Ed. Bruno Girveau The Once Upon a Time: Walt
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Bank Station, City & South London Railway, c.1910
Sark
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Barry Herniman Watercolour artist Barry Herniman has long combined
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the best pages of his sketchbooks, he employs plein air techniques to
depict English pastoral scenes, the rugged West Coast of Ireland, the
sun-drenched vistas of Andalucía, Greece and North Africa, and the
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beautifully reproduced here evokes a memory of a time and a place
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ARCHAEOLOGY
Jason Hawkes If you think there is nothing new to be seen of London
and its most iconic landmarks, Jason Hawkes may yet surprise you.
This collection of over 120 shots from above by Britain’s leading aerial
photographer reveals a London that completely differs from the view on
the ground. From Harrods appearing factory-like to a positively tranquil
Tottenham Hotspur FC and the beauty of housing built around a traffic
circle, this is certainly the capital’s quirkier aspect.
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HAWKES’ EYE VIEW: LONDON
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Memorial outside
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The ‘Holywell’,
Little Malvern
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IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE
The English Photographs of JWG Gutch, 1856/59
Ian Charles Sumner Travelling by cart along muddy tracks with a
cumbersome wet-plate camera, the pioneering photographer JWG Gutch
created an unparalleled record of the people and landscapes of western
England – from the Lake District to the Lizard – in the mid-19th
century. More than 100 of his long-neglected images of great houses
and simple farmsteads, pilchard fishermen and tin miners, are published
here for the first time, offering a Hardyesque vision of a vanished way
of life. WESTCLIFFE 2010 PB 192pp Illus 210x242mm
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FIRST WORLD WAR
POSTERS
Rosalind Ormiston Early
20th century improvements
in colour printing and a
largely literate population
in Britain, France and
America meant that posters
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they were widely used for
mass propaganda during
the First World War.
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Europe. FLAME TREE 2013 HB 144pp Illus 230x205mm
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THE BURGLAR
CAUGHT BY
A SKELETON
and Other Singular Tales
from the Victorian Press
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Richard Jones
Britain’s fascination
with the deceased and
their spirits dates back
to ancient times and
shows no sign of
dying out just yet.
Divided into seven
regions and with over
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infamous infanticide,
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a potted history, ‘Haunted Rating’ and information on recent
paranormal activity up to 2010. AA 2010 HB 256pp Illus 258x228mm
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MURDER IN THE
HINDU KUSH
George Hayward
and the Great Game
Jeremy Clay The British
Library’s newspaper collection
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tales, including the pallbearer
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Christmas whose beard caught
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consignment of embalmed cats. ICON 2013 HB 320pp
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HAUNTED
BRITAIN
Tim Hannigan George
Hayward was a maverick
explorer whose murder in
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Kush in 1870 was, from the
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Himalayas, the political
intrigues of the ‘Great Game’
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INDIAN WILDERNESS
Erach Bharucha The tracts of wilderness
in India offer an amazing diversity of
habitats and biodiversity of flora and
fauna, but these areas are shrinking
and their wildlife is endangered. This
magnificent book, the result of 30
years visiting and recording the Indian
wilderness, is a call for its preservation. A
wildlife photographer and conservationist,
Bharucha presents over 2,000 photographs,
with his own informative text, in two parts:
the flora and fauna; and the national parks
and wildlife sanctuaries. Slipcased.
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FRANCESCO’S
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THE BUMPER BOOK OF
LOOK AND LEARN
Francesco da Mosto The coasts and
islands of the eastern Mediterranean are
rich in the remains of successive cultures:
Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and
Ottoman. Who better to act as guide than
the architect, historian and film-maker
Francesco da Mosto? In this illustrated
companion to his popular TV series, he
sets sail from his native Venice in the
track of his ancestors to marvel at the
wonders of Dubrovnik and Delphi, Athos
and Istanbul, wearing his vast learning
with characteristic lightness and charm.
Ed. Stephen Pickles Look and Learn
magazine for children ran for 20 years, from
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that gradually waned as television became
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story from The Rise and Fall of the Trigan
Empire series from the magazine’s archive.
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MASTERPIECES OF ART SERIES
The Aristocrats
by Otto Portsel
Rosalind Ormiston From early
topographical watercolours to the
great masterpieces of expression
and light such as The Fighting
Temeraire (1839) and Rain,
Steam and Speed (1844), this book
offers a lucid introduction to the
work of Joseph Mallord William
Turner (1775-1851). Ormiston’s
illustrated text is followed by
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of Turner’s paintings, arranged
thematically in sections on
landscape and light, the sea, and history and mythology.
JMW TURNER
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ART DECO
The Golden Age of
Graphic Art and Illustration
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The Dort Packet Boat from
Rotterdam Becalmed
by Turner, 1818
Susie Hodge Art historian Susie
Hodge presents a very accessible and
beautifully illustrated introduction to
the work of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918),
one of the founders of the Vienna
Secession and often regarded as the
greatest painter of the Art Nouveau
period. An illustrated account of
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landscapes and portraits. FLAME TREE
GUSTAV KLIMT
Michael Robinson; Rosalind Ormiston
Beginning with an exploration of the ideas
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exuberant new style of the 1920s, this
illustrated survey covers the two areas in
which Art Deco triumphed: fashion and
advertising. It looks at the work of artists
such as Tamara de Lempica, Erté, René
Lalique and Georges Barbier in fashion,
and AM Cassandre and Paul Colin in
advertising, but also describes the media
in which they worked and the social
context of their extraordinary graphics.
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Portrait of Fritza Riedler by Klimt, 1906
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England, Archaeology and the Imagination
Richard Morris Archaeology is a scientific
discipline, but it has potent links to the imagination,
to biography, and to poetry. This extraordinary,
genre-defying book offers both a history of
archaeology and the author’s personal history
in archaeology. Its subjects range from the last
Ice Age to the destruction of the wildwood,
from the first farmers to the Industrial Revolution,
as Morris unearths the psychogeography of
humanity in England and offers a heartfelt
meditation on the history beneath our feet.
WEIDENFELD 2012 HB 480pp Illus
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ROMAN BRITAIN
THROUGH ITS OBJECTS
Iain Ferris Archaeologists’ ‘small finds’ – objects
in materials including metal, glass, baked clay, bone
or wood – can illuminate many aspects of Roman
life. Concentrating on finds from Roman Britain,
this book explores how objects such as votive
models, figurines and anatomical ex votos were
used, the ideas encapsulated in them and certain
artistic images from the province. Reconstructing
the ‘world of goods’, Ferris discusses the
sophisticated culture of consumption that such
objects represent. AMBERLEY 2012 HB 224pp Illus
£20.00 99364 now £7.99
Copper alloy clasp knife handle in the form of a
gladiator, from Piddington Villa, Northamptonshire
WOMEN IN ROMAN BRITAIN
New edition
Lindsay Allason-Jones vividly recreates the lives, habits and thoughts of women
who lived in Britain during the four centuries of Roman occupation. Traversing the
social strata from high-born ladies to farmers’ daughters, she examines the material
and textual evidence for their home lives, health, religion, dress and jewellery.
This new edition of the book adds fresh insights provided by the latest
archaeological discoveries, including burials, tombstones and curse tablets.
COUNCIL FOR BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY 2005 PB 220pp
$19.95 11707 now £4.99
ANCIENT SICHUAN
Treasures from a Lost Civilization
Ed. Robert Bagley From an almost lifesize horse
and groom to a filigree Money Tree, the great variety
of bronze, jade and clay objects illustrated and
described here were excavated from the Sanxingdui
site in Sichuan, China, and date from the 13th century
BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Treasures from a
Lost Civilization exhibition (Seattle Art Museum,
2001) made a significant contribution to the study
of ancient Sichuan and the catalogue includes eight
essays on aspects of this Bronze Age civilization.
PRINCETON UP 2001 HB 360pp Illus 305x245mm
£68.00 58786 now £19.99
Bronze Western Zhou lei, c. early 10th century BCE
THE VICARS CHORAL OF YORK MINSTER
The College at Bedern
(Two volumes)
Julian D Richards Published as part of The Archaeology of York Volume 10: The
Medieval Walled City North-East of the Ouse, this work records the archaeological
evidence for the College of Vicars General, both medieval and post-medieval, and the
once extensive complex of buildings in the area known as Bedern. After the Structural
Sequence the book discusses topics including Bedern Chapel, stained glass and daily
life in the college. The second volume comprises the unbound illustrations on 28
folded sheets. COUNCIL FOR BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY 2001 PB 676pp Illus 297x210mm
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Obelisk of the 18th Dynasty
pharaoh Thutmose I at Karnak
THE RISE AND FALL
OF ANCIENT EGYPT
NEW
Toby Wilkinson In this masterful history,
a leading Egyptologist tells the story of one
of the world’s greatest and longest-lived
civilizations: ancient Egypt. Wilkinson begins with its origins around 5000 BCE, and
traces the rise, the spectacular cultural
zenith and the decline of the Old Kingdom.
His richly detailed narrative goes on through
the Middle Kingdom, the great 18th Dynasty, the military might of the Ramesside
period, and the Late and Ptolemaic periods,
to the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE.
BLOOMSBURY 2010 PB 670pp Illus
£16.99 16802 now £7.99
THE ROYAL GOLD
OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Hans Wolfgang Müller; Eberhard
Thiem The 400 stunning colour images
in this collection feature the widest range
of ancient Egyptian gold jewellery and ornaments ever assembled in one volume,
and still they are a mere fragment of the
treasures produced between the Early and
Late Dynastic Periods (c.3000-300 BCE).
The authors draw on textual evidence,
tomb wall-paintings and other archaeological findings to examine the goldsmiths’ techniques and fashions, and
gold’s divine status in Egyptians’ lives.
IB TAURIS 1999 HB 256pp Illus 320x250mm
£44.00 23371 now £12.99
THE QUEST FOR THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT
The True History of
the Tablets of Moses
Stuart Munro-Hay Many people believe
that the Ark of the Covenant, the box built
to contain the tablets brought by Moses
from Mount Sinai, is kept to this day in a
chapel in the old city of Aksum in
Ethiopia. Stuart Munro-Hay’s investigation provides a scholarly review of the historical records, from ancient texts to local
stories and the writings of recent centuries,
and debunks some of the wilder theories
about the Ark. IB TAURIS 2006 PB 288pp
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ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
NEW
THE LATE MEDIEVAL
ENGLISH CHURCH
Vitality and Vulnerability
Before the Break with Rome
GW Bernard In this provocative study
GW Bernard argues that the Reformation
was not inevitable; he shows that the English
church combined a vibrant faith and energy with
weaknesses which reforming bishops worked to
overcome but which made the break with Rome
possible. He emphasizes royal control over the
church and examines the challenges facing
bishops and clergy, as well as considering the
condition of the monasteries, lay understanding
of church teaching, heresy and the extent of anticlerical sentiment. YALE UP 2012 HB 314pp Illus
£25.00 16738 now £14.99
THE PLANTAGENETS
The Kings that Made Britain
Derek Wilson At the accession of Henry
II in 1154, the Plantagenets ruled over a
realm that stretched from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. When Richard III
died in 1485, only Calais was left on the
European mainland, but the Plantagenets
had consolidated and secured royal control within Britain. In this lucid account
of their 300 year reign, Wilson chronicles
the turbulent and often blood-soaked
world of kings such as Richard the Lionheart, King John and Henry V, the hero
of Agincourt. QUERCUS 2014 PB 296pp
NEW
£9.99 16645 now £4.99
ST AUGUSTINE’S ABBEY, CANTERBURY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 13
(Three volumes)
Ed. BC Barker-Benfield The library of St Augustine’s abbey at Canterbury was
the richest in medieval England and a wealth of evidence survives in the catalogue
BA1, first compiled between 1375 and 1420. The present work provides detailed
entries for nearly 2,000 volumes and reports press-marks, contents and the names
of donors. Volumes I and II cover the main catalogue; Volume III contains other
sources (BA2-8), appendices and indexes. BRITISH LIBRARY 2008 HB 2,256pp
£175.00 98454 now £25.00
ENGLISH SAINTS IN THE MEDIEVAL
LITURGIES OF SCANDINAVIAN CHURCHES
Ed. John Toy Many thousands of fragments of liturgical manuscripts survive in
Scandinavia, thanks to the original books being re-used to wrap administrative
accounts. Every mention of an English saint has been painstakingly recovered and
recorded by Canon Toy, providing evidence of the liturgy appropriate to the saints
and the dissemination of their cults. Published for the Henry Bradshaw Society,
which was founded in 1890 for the editing of liturgical texts. No jacket.
HENRY BRADSHAW SOCIETY 2009 HB 249pp
£50.00 98811 now £19.99
Ed. Colin Richmond; Eileen Scarff Ten essays examine the cultural context of the
late Gothic St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle – a centre of religious, intellectual
and artistic excellence in 15th century England. DEAN & CANONS 2001 PB 221pp Illus
ST GEORGE’S CHAPEL, WINDSOR, IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
£14.99 33816 now £6.99
Peter Frankopan Why did Europeans have such a strong desire to liberate
Jerusalem at the time of the First Crusade, fully five centuries after the city had
come under Muslim control? Peter Frankopan addresses this question by restoring
the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to the heart of the story. Against
a background of catastrophic events in the Byzantine Empire during the 1090s,
he analyses the role played by Constantinople in the genesis of the crusading
movement. BODLEY HEAD 2011 HB 270pp Illus
THE FIRST CRUSADE: The Call from the East
£20.00 10716 now £8.99
MEDIEVAL PETITIONS
Grace and Grievance
Ed. W Mark Ormrod; Gwilym Dodd;
Anthony Musson These twelve studies
explore the mechanics and politics of petitioning and its place in the culture of
royal intercession, from the ancient world
to late medieval England. Drawing on a
major collection of documents made
newly accessible in the National Archives,
the authors analyse the broad geographical
and social range of petitioners, the cultural
and legal norms to which the petitions
attest, and the revealing ‘worm’s-eye
view’ of medieval life which they provide.
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS 2009 HB 266pp
£50.00 98573 now £19.99
NEW
ANGLO-SAXON
LINCOLNSHIRE
Peter Sawyer Covering the county’s history
from the collapse of Roman power in the
fourth and fifth centuries to the Norman
Conquest, this is Professor Sawyer’s personal
interpretation of the few contemporary texts
that mention Lincolnshire, as well as the
more abundant evidence of place-names and
archaeological material such as coins and stone
monuments. In ten appendices he addresses
many technical details and controversial issues,
providing complete lists of Anglo-Saxon burials
and coins found before 1994. HISTORY OF
LINCOLNSHIRE COMMITTEE 1998 HB 305pp Illus
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MODERN HISTORY
NEW HERETIC QUEEN
Queen Elizabeth I and
the Wars of Religion
Susan Ronald In this critically-acclaimed study
of Elizabeth I, Susan Ronald focuses on the
queen’s role in the Wars of Religion – the battle
between Protestantism and Catholicism that tore
apart Europe in the 16th century. Ronald shows
how, in the Tudor era, religion was high politics,
how domestic policy was governed by the
religious imperatives of the Reformation and how
Elizabeth ruled so successfully in a period that
saw a ‘monumental struggle of ideology and
survival’. ST MARTIN’S 2012 HB 368pp Illus
$27.99 16787 now £6.99
PIRATES OF BARBARY
Corsairs, Conquests and
Captivity in the 17th Century
Adrian Tinniswood Mediterranean
piracy reached its zenith in the 17th century, an age of economically important
trade between Europe and the Ottoman
Empire, when the pirates of the Barbary
Coast attacked and plundered ships, enslaved their crews and enraged European
governments. Tinniswood’s vivid history
of these increasingly intense clashes sheds
light on the origins of today’s religious
and moral battles in the resulting manoeuvrings between Muslim empires of the
East and Christian Europe in the West.
RIVERHEAD 2010 HB 363pp
CAVALIER AND
ROUNDHEAD SPIES
Intelligence in the Civil War
and Commonwealth
Julian Whitehead The crucial part played
by intelligence and espionage in Britain
during the Civil Wars has rarely been
studied, yet it is a key to understanding
the dangerous politics and the open warfare of the period. In a vivid narrative,
Julian Whitehead traces the rapid development of spying techniques during the
civil conflict; demonstrates how leaders
on all sides set up increasingly effective
systems for gathering and interpreting intelligence; and he describes the decisive
impact that intelligence had on events.
PEN & SWORD 2009 HB 255pp
£19.99 97852 now £9.99
David Loades When Henry VII seized
the throne after Bosworth, his crown was
far from secure; yet for more than 100
years his descendants, from Henry VIII
to Elizabeth I, ruled in England, surviving
religious turmoil, rebellion, foreign
armadas, diplomatic crises and losses
overseas. David Loades examines how
major conflicts were used in the service
of the royal image, and he explores how,
between the first and last Tudors, the
military and clerical governing elite gave
way to civilian and secular government.
THE FIGHTING TUDORS
NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2009 HB 240pp
£20.00 11990 now £7.99
$26.95 10856 now £6.99
ARGONAUT PRESS
REPRINTS
Originally published by the Argonaut Press between 1927 and 1938,
this series presents scholarly editions
of early accounts of great voyages of
discovery, with introductions, reproductions of early maps and charts
and indexes. Reprints. No jackets.
ISRAEL/DACAPO 1971 HB 423/292pp
now £9.99 each
THE THREE VOYAGES
OF MARTIN FROBISHER
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
ENGLISH REFORMATION
Derek Wilson When Henry VIII turned
against Rome over the issue of divorce
and adopted the Protestant religion, he
changed the course of British history.
Award-winning historian Derek Wilson
retells the story of how the Tudor monarchs transformed the nation and shows
that although the change was political, it
had a huge impact on English identity and
on England’s relationship with its European neighbours and the ‘Catholic superpowers’. ROBINSON 2012 PB 464pp
(Two volumes, bound as one) (1938)
George Best; Ed. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Frobisher’s search for a
North-west passage to Cathay and India (1576-8) is described in A True
Discourse (1578) by George Best
(who accompanied Frobisher), with
three shorter accounts, a substantial
introduction and a wealth of supple84185
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THE DISCOVERIE
OF GUIANA
Sir Walter Ralegh; Ed. VT Harlow
In this volume, Harlow introduces
Ralegh’s account of his 1595 voyage
and ‘discovery’ of Guiana with an engrossing account of Ralegh himself
and his quest for El Dorado, and also
provides a wealth of additional material from Spanish documents. 84193
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TUDOR SEA POWER
The Foundation of Greatness
David Childs During the 16th century
England gained new respect in Europe
through the creation of a professional
standing navy which could control the
country’s coast, threaten the trade of rival
states and lay the foundations for a
seaborne empire. David Childs describes
the development of this new navy, the
revolutionary ship designs which accompanied it and the new breed of sailors
who brought their experience as merchants and pirates to the needs of the state.
SEAFORTH 2009 HB 304pp Illus 286x242mm
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ARCHAEOLOGY
MODERN HISTORY
NEW THE APOCALYPSE OF
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
His Last Years, from Waterloo
to St Helena: A Medical Biography
Robert Richardson Since Napoleon died a
prisoner on St Helena in 1821, there has been
much speculation about the cause of his demise.
This groundbreaking study sidesteps rumour
and speculation, focusing solely on the reports
of the doctors who attended him. Its conclusion is
startling. While the immediate cause was a gastric
ulcer, Napoleon’s underlying poor health was due
to the hostility of the island’s governor, Hudson
Lowe, and a scandal involving the mistress of
Admiral Plampin, commander of its naval station.
QUILLER 2009 HB 292pp Illus
£20.00 16651 now £6.99
MADAME DE MAINTENON
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV
Veronica Buckley Born in a bleak French
prison, the child of a condemned man and
his jailer’s daughter, Françoise d’Aubigne
rose to become the most powerful woman
in France. Her intelligence and good looks
caught the attention of Louis XIV, who
elevated her to the aristocracy as the Marquise de Maintenon, forsaking his many
other lovers to make her his unofficial
consort. This engrossing biography sets
the life of this remarkable woman against
the glittering backdrop of the intrigue-ridden court of Versailles. (Previously in
Postscript as The Secret Wife of Louis
XIV.) BLOOMSBURY 2008 HB 480pp Illus
£25.00 16993 now £6.99
David Hanna On 5 September 1813, the
British brig Boxer engaged the USS Enterprise off the coast of Maine, within
sight of onlookers ashore. This account
of the ensuing battle explains the causes
of a war that was deeply unpopular in
both countries, charts the careers of the
two chivalrous young commanders,
Samuel Blyth and William Burrows, both
of whom perished, and describes how one
of the last battles of the age of sail established the US as a naval power.
KNIGHTS OF THE SEA
NAL CALIBER 2012 HB 285pp Illus
$25.95 11883 now £6.99
THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED
HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE
Ed. TCW Blanning Written by eleven
scholars of international standing, this is
a readable and authoritative account of
European history, from the French Revolution of 1789 to the no less momentous
revolution that began in the USSR in
1989. The chapters cover political, economic, social, cultural and military history, exploring change and continuity, revolution and stability during an epoch that
saw not only political turmoil, but waves
of industrialization and their economic
impact, military modernization, the Romantic revolution in European culture and
the shift to modernism in the early 20th
century. OXFORD UP 2001 PB 362pp Illus
THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT
IN BRITAIN, 1838-50 (Six volumes)
Ed. Gregory Claeys The ambitions of
Chartism encompassed all kinds of social,
economic and moral reform and improvement. This collection of tracts aims to give
a sense of the wide range of themes raised
in Chartist writings. After a general introduction, the six volumes are arranged
chronologically and include articles by major leaders such as O’Connor, Lovett and
Stephens and pamphlets published by the
London Working Men’s Association and
less well-known bodies such as the Federal
Democrats and People’s League. No jackets. PICKERING & CHATTO 2001 HB 2,940pp
£495.00 98519 now £80.00
£18.99 22277 now £6.99
TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS
The Gordons of Huntly in
Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Anne L Forbes After tracing the rise of
the Gordons from minor magnates in
Berwickshire to the height of their power
in the person of George Gordon, fourth
Earl of Huntly (c.1514-62), this study explores the history of 16th century Scotland
through biographies of six of the fourth
Earl’s sons and daughters. Their various
stories illuminate many aspects of this turbulent period – whether the fifth Earl’s involvement with Mary Queen of Scots, or
Father James Gordon, the banned Jesuit.
JOHN DONALD 2012 PB 300pp Illus
£25.00 11515 now £9.99
Simon Winchester How did America become
‘one nation, indivisible’? What unified a growing
number of disparate states into the country we
recognize today? Simon Winchester addresses
these questions, bringing together the stories of the
pioneers who helped forge and unify America.
From the 19th century Lewis and Clark
expedition, through railway, highway and
waterway ventures, to the creation of internet
communications, Winchester follows the
achievements of the explorers, inventors and
mavericks who shaped America.
THE MEN WHO UNITED THE STATES
WILLIAM COLLINS 2013 HB 465pp
£25.00 12007 now £9.99
DERVISH
The Rise and Fall of
an African Empire
Philip Warner Written in 1973 by the distinguished military historian Philip Warner
(1914-2000), this history spans the duration of the Dervish Empire, from the
Mahdi’s declaration of Holy War in the
Sudan in 1881 to Kitchener’s defeat of the
Khalifa’s army at Omdurman in 1898.
Warner draws on first hand reports (including Winston Churchill’s account of
leading a cavalry charge at Omdurman)
to describe the violent conflicts between
the Dervishes and the British and Egyptian
forces. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 235pp Illus
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ARCHAEOLOGY
CENTURY/CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
NEW SMALL WARS, FARAWAY PLACES
The Genesis of the Modern World
Michael Burleigh The collapse of Western
colonial empires after the Second World War led
to a series of vicious struggles for power in Africa,
Asia and the Middle East, whose consequences
haunt us still. With insight and authority, this
magisterial book takes the reader on a historical
journey from Palestine to Pakistan, from Kenya
to Cuba, from Algeria to Vietnam, to reveal the
national aspirations, ideological conflicts and
Cold War realpolitik that have shaped the world
we live in today. MACMILLAN 2013 HB 606pp
£25.00 16822 now £9.99
THE THIRD REICH
A Chronicle
THE THIRTIES
An Intimate History
Juliet Gardiner In September 1939, as
Auden famously wrote, the ‘clever hopes
... of a low, dishonest decade’ expired. But
what was that decade, which began with
the Wall Street Crash and ended in sandbags and gas masks, really like for those
who lived through it? Drawing on newspapers and magazines, letters, diaries,
memoirs and interviews, this absorbing
history paints a rich picture of a world of
high society and labour marches, Art Deco
and football pools, the abdication crisis
and appeasement. HARPER 2010 HB 969pp
£30.00 97776 now £7.99
Richard Overy The Third Reich was the
name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to
the dictatorship that began in 1933 and
ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler’s suicide.
In this very accessible volume, Richard
Overy draws on contemporary documents,
images and quotations to chart the rise and
fall of Nazi power, from the beginning of
Hitler’s movement in the early 1920s to
the legacy of the Third Reich in post-war
Germany. QUERCUS 2010 HB 408pp Illus
£25.00 10908 now £9.99
MUSSOLINI AND
HIS GENERALS
The Armed Forces and Fascist
Foreign Policy, 1922-1940
John Gooch This first authoritative study
of the relation between Fascist Italy’s foreign policy and its armed forces traces the
imperial ambition and growing military
power that led to war in Libya and
Abyssinia, examines the role of army
chiefs, and probes the weakness and incompetence that lay behind the show of
might. It also tracks the fluctuations in
Mussolini’s relations with Hitler that led
up to his catastrophic decision to enter the
war on the German side.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 HB 655pp
£37.99 69753 now £9.99
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MI6
The History of the Secret
Intelligence Service, 1909-1949
Keith Jeffery From its foundation in
1909, through two world wars to its present role at the heart of modern British
government, the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, has been a subject of sustained and intense public interest. This
study, the first to be written by an independent historian with unrestricted access
to the Service’s archives, analyses the
role and significance of intelligence and
gives an authoritative account of SIS’s
people and its organization, development
and operations over the first 40 years of
its existence. BLOOMSBURY 2010 HB 832pp
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THE BOMB
A New History
Stephen M Younger Does the United
States need its massive atomic arsenal
in the 21st century? How does the
proliferation of nuclear weapons by
North Korea and Iran affect American
nuclear policy? With his extensive
experience of nuclear politics and research, Younger looks back at the development of these weapons of mass
destruction and urges that ‘all of us
should have the opportunity to discuss
their future’. ECCO 2010 PB 254pp Illus
NEW
£8.95 11878 now £3.99
IRON CURTAIN
The Crushing of
Eastern Europe 1944-56
Anne Applebaum The phrase ‘Iron Curtain’ was coined by Winston Churchill in
a speech at Fulton, Missouri in 1946. But
was it? This elegant, original and wideranging history traces the origins of the
metaphor in a device to contain theatre
fires, through its use to describe the blockade of the fledgling Soviet Union after
the First World War, to its transformation
into a brutal reality after the Second, and
asks whether the curtain really came down
with the Berlin Wall.
ALLEN LANE 2012 PB 654pp Illus
£16.99 16851 now £7.99
FAITH MISPLACED
The Broken Promise of
US-Arab Relations, 1820-2001
Ussama Makdisi When Woodrow Wilson
included Arab self-determination in his template
for a new world after the First World War, many
in the Middle East saw the United States as a
beacon of hope. Today, mutual distrust could
not run deeper. This riveting, detailed and
nuanced account of US-Arab relations since
the 19th century unearths a forgotten history
of lost opportunities, and demonstrates how
the establishment of the state of Israel, the Cold
War, and the oil crisis soured a once-promising
relationship. PUBLICAFFAIRS 2010 HB 430pp
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ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
LOOKING BACK
AT BRITAIN: 1970s
Flower Power
to Union Power
CREAM TEAS, TRAFFIC
JAMS AND SUNBURN
The Great British Holiday
NEW
Brian Viner In this funny, acutely observed and engaging social history, Brian
Viner celebrates the British holidaymaker at home and abroad. A surprising
recent phenomenon is the increase in
holidays in Britain, while the holiday
abroad appears to be in decline. From
holiday flings to the hen night, from the
‘full English’ to the long-haul gap year,
the minutiae of British holiday-making
is examined here in all its glory.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2012 PB 318pp
£7.99 16630 now £3.99
James Harper Although
the 1970s conjure images
of union strife, power cuts, the
three-day week and dreadful
clothes, the decade was
actually a time of low
unemployment, rising living
standards and youthful ideals.
From the end of the hippie era
to the beginning of the
Thatcher years, this volume
from the Looking Back at
The main political party leaders Jeremy Thorpe, Harold
Britain series uses photographs Wilson and Ted Heath (l-r) at a ceremony marking the 25th
from the popular press to
anniversary of the United Nations in November 1970
survey the social history and the
newsworthy stories of the decade. READER’S DIGEST 2010 HB 160pp Illus 287x228mm
£17.99 11819 now £5.99
PORTRAIT OF AN ERA
An Illustrated History
of Britain 1900-1945
SCHOOL SONGS
AND GYMSLIPS
Grammar Schools in
the 1950s and 1960s
READER’S DIGEST 2011 HB 560pp Illus 286x225mm
HISTORY PRESS 2012 PB 192pp
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£9.99 97713 now £3.99
Reader’s Digest Two earth-shattering wars,
countless new technologies and profound social
upheaval changed Britain utterly during the
first half of the 20th century. It was also a time
when photography came of age and this extensive volume offers a dramatic portrait of the
period in a collection of well-chosen images.
The narrative encompasses the experiences of
ordinary Britons as well as great events and
people, from a last portrait of Queen Victoria
to soldiers returning home in 1945.
Tim Travers As well as the ‘golden age’
of piracy in the West, with its sea rovers,
privateers, buccaneers and notorious characters such as Blackbeard, Black Barty and
William Kidd, this history covers piracy
from ancient times to the present day; from
the bloodthirsty Viking raiders who terrorized northern Europe to Lai Choi San,
the legendary female Chinese pirate who
commanded a fleet of eleven junks in the
1920s, and recent piracy off the coast of
Somalia. HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 316pp
PIRATES: A History
Coral beads were worn by boys from c.1590
THE TUDOR CHILD
Clothing and Culture
1485 to 1625
Ninya Mikhaila; Jane Huggett This illustrated, in-depth study of children’s costume in the Tudor period draws on original
academic research to provide a social history of babies and children (up to the age
of twelve) between 1485 and 1625. As well
as putting the clothes and the conventions
of children’s dress into social context, the
authors have devised practical patterns,
with detailed instructions for making up
the garments and photographs of reconstructed examples, including babies’ linen,
underwear, head wear and knitted items.
FAT GOOSE 2013 PB 160pp Illus 280x230mm
£30.00 16384 now £9.99
£12.99 97708 now £4.99
Marilyn Yurdan With tales from the
days of indoor sandals and navy knickers, Latin verbs and transistor radios,
semolina pudding and O Levels, this
light-hearted social history is based on
the experiences of pupils from 18
schools around the country and describes how things were for grammar
school girls – at school and at home –
between about 1955 and 1965.
THE ENGLISH DEISTS
Studies in Early Enlightenment
Wayne Hudson In this volume from The
Enlightenment World series, Wayne
Hudson reinterprets the work of an important group of 17th century writers
known as ‘the English Deists’, among
them Herbert of Cherbury, Charles
Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins
and Matthew Tindal. Hudson warns
against assuming the label ‘deist’ represents a single relious identity, and he
reads the English deists’ works in the
light of their different personae and social roles. No jacket.
PICKERING & CHATTO 2009 HB 212pp
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Elizabeth Abbott What do Nell Gwynn,
Marilyn Monroe, Emma Bovary and Camilla
Parker-Bowles have in common? Desired and
despised in equal measure, the ‘other’ woman
enters a shadowy world of secret assignations
and fear of discovery. This compelling study
examines the role of the mistress throughout
history, from Chinese concubines to European
royal favourites, in life and literature. It
examines the reasons why women become
mistresses, the subversive threat they pose to
the established order, and the eternal fascination
they exert. DUCKWORTH 2010 HB 522pp
A HISTORY OF MISTRESSES
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SOCIAL & INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
NEW LIFE IN AN EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY COUNTRY HOUSE
Letters from the Grove
Peter Hammond; Carolyn Hammond While
the owner of Grove House, Chiswick, was in
Italy, the head groom, Will Bishop, kept him
informed about estate affairs by letter. Through
their correspondence, this absorbing book offers
a glimpse of daily life at the house, including
an armed robbery, the theft of the walnut crop,
and the arrival of Poor Law officers to force
a stable lad to pay for the upkeep of a child
he had allegedly fathered.
AMBERLEY 2012 PB 158pp Illus
£12.99 16489 now £4.99
NEW THE KEEN
COUNTRYMAN’S MISCELLANY
Peter Holt This book is as much for townies as for country-dwellers. Its gloriously
random collection of rustic ephemera will
educate the urbanite in the arcane ways
of the countryside. Alongside profiles of
great farmers through history, the reader
will find essential practical information
on the rules of a proper snowball fight,
the etiquette of dogging, and how to make
a hazel walking stick, blow up wasps’
nests, or trap magpies with a dead cat.
Fiona Rule Half way up Commercial Street, near
Spitalfields market, is a short strip of tarmac
that was once Dorset Street – resort of thieves,
prostitutes and, most notoriously, Jack the Ripper.
This engrossing book chronicles the rise and fall
of the street from its promising beginnings in the
17th century Huguenot weavers’ quarter, though
a gradual descent into poverty and crime. In doing
so, it presents a fascinating microcosm of the social
history of the East End and of London as a whole.
NEW
THE WORST STREET IN LONDON
IAN ALLAN 2008 PB 224pp Illus
QUILLER 2012 HB 208pp
£12.99 17137 now £4.99
£16.95 16652 now £5.99
NEW SHROPSHIRE DOCTORS AND QUACKS
Medical Care in Shropshire, 1740-1899
Richard Moore traces the emergence of modern healthcare through the activities of
practitioners in Shropshire during the 18th and 19th centuries which reflect developments
in the country at large. Using much previously unpublished archival material, contemporary prints and cartoons, he emphasizes the role of collective and individual voluntary
activity, the problem of uncontrolled quackery and the legal recognition of the medical
profession in the 1858 Medical Act. AMBERLEY 2011 PB 224pp Illus
£16.99 16493 now £5.99
ENTERPRISING WOMEN AND SHIPPING
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Helen Doe Far from the widely-held idea of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers, this study shows that women could and did manage ‘male’ businesses within
the maritime industries. Dealing with both shipowners and women managing shipbuilding and other port businesses between 1780 and 1880, the book examines the
commercial environment in which they worked, the challenges they faced and their
effectiveness, and it profiles women such as the warship builder, Mrs Mary Ross and
Petticoat Government, 1795, depicting Lord
foundry owner Mrs Christiana Rose. BOYDELL 2009 HB 283pp
Breadalbane being driven by the Marchioness
£60.00 98812 now £11.99
John Threlkeld The industrialization of coal mining in Britain in the 19th century created
communities whose lives were dominated by the pit; the harsh conditions for the workers
creating a special camaraderie and loyalty to the union. Focusing on Barnsley and the
South Yorkshire Coalfield, this combined volume of Pits 1 and Pits 2 tells the story of
British mining, and the hardy people it bred, from its medieval origins in the region
through to the miners’ strike of 1984-1985. WHARNCLIFFE 2003 HB 192pp Illus 297x210mm
PITS: A Pictorial History of Mining
£16.99 10988 now £6.99
Maureen Anderson The limited size and depth of early coal mines restricted potential
hazards but as mines were deepened and enlarged from the 18th century, the danger of
collapses, inundation by water and gas explosions became far greater and resulted in
many tragic accidents. This study tells the stories of mining disasters recorded in Northumberland and Cumberland between 1710 and 1951, detailing the plight of victims and
their families and the often heroic actions of rescuers. WHARNCLIFFE 2009 PB 168pp Illus
NORTHUMBERLAND AND CUMBERLAND MINING DISASTERS
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A SERIES OF ORIGINAL
PORTRAITS AND CHARACTER
ETCHINGS (Two volumes)
John Kay Previously a surgeon-barber,
John Kay (1742-1826) set up shop as a portrait etcher in Edinburgh in 1785. This
posthumously published work (commonly
called Edinburgh Portraits) presents Kay’s
etchings of people from all walks of Edinburgh life, with ‘biographical sketches and
illustrative anecdotes’ by James Paterson.
The two volumes contain around 300 portraits, giving an extraordinarily detailed
view of late 18th century Edinburgh’s
population. These volumes are facsimiles
of the first edition (1837-8). Slipcased.
BIRLINN 2007 HB 1037pp Illus 264x204mm
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NEW WE’LL MEET AGAIN
Britain at War
Maureen Hill With advances in camera
technology, photojournalists were able to record
everyday life during the Second World War with
much more flexibility than ever before and the
Home Front provided them with unforgettable
visual material. From bomb destruction and
ration queues to evacuees and women working
in heavy industry, this collection of 350
photographs from the Daily Mail archive
contains many arresting images and portrays a
remarkable sense of cheerfulness in the face of
adversity. ATLANTIC 2014 HB 160pp Illus 295x210mm
£16.99 16521 now £5.99
NEW ON THE RUN
Deserters through the Ages
Graeme Kent In his review of military
absconsion throughout history, Graeme
Kent reports that when the Second World
War ended, it was estimated that there
were over 20,000 deserters of various
nationalities on the run in Britain. His
survey of the ignoble art of running away
includes stories of disgruntled Roman
legionnaires, Civil War turncoats, naval
mutineers and even famous personalities,
such as General Custer and Herman
Melville, who couldn’t resist the urge to
go AWOL. ROBSON 2013 HB 348pp
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CRIME
FAIRFIELD FOLK
A History of the British
Fairground and its People
Frances Brown The histories of travelling show people have been safeguarded
down the centuries by memorizing ‘says’ that record every significant or amusing
event that has happened to a family. The daughter of show people herself, author
Frances Brown has been able to call upon the says of the Matthews family as far
back as the early 1800s,
as well as many early
photographs, to compile
this study of life on the
fairground and the
evolution of its rides
and attractions.
HALSGROVE 2012 HB
£24.99 16364
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Matthews family
members with their
Burrell engine
FOUL DEEDS AND
SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
IN THE WEST RIDING
OF YORKSHIRE
Vivien Teasdale Starting with the Yorkshire Chartists and a decade of disturbances between 1839 and 1848, Huddersfield-based historian Vivien Teasdale
describes more than 30 heinous crimes
committed in the ancient West Riding
during the 19th century, and one earlier
case that ended on the gallows – the Great
Mail Robbery at Rotherham in 1791.
WHARNCLIFFE 2009 PB 202pp Illus
£12.99 10974 now £4.99
FOUL DEEDS AND
SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Geoffrey Howse Local historian Geoffrey Howse begins his exploration of the
darker side of South Yorkshire’s past with
a chronological survey of murder and
mayhem from a ‘swell mob’ at the Doncaster races in 1834 to suicides in the
1950s, then goes on to examine eight celebrated cases, including highway robbery
in Wentworth Park in 1855 and ending
with the Wombwell Stabbing Affray in
1925. WHARNCLIFFE 2010 PB 169pp Illus
£12.99 10973 now £4.99
THE MOUNT STEWART MURDER
A Re-Examination of the UK’s Oldest Unsolved Murder Case
Bryan Burrough Legendary depression-era outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker, Bonnie
and Clyde and others were all at large
at the same time, and it was J Edgar
Hoover’s ‘G-Men’ whose job it was
to put an end to their daring crime
spree. With access to de-classified FBI
files and unpublished manuscripts and
statements by the gangsters, awardwinning journalist Bryan Burrough
is able to tell the exciting story as
never before. PENGUIN 2005 PB 619pp
PUBLIC ENEMIES
£9.99 98140 now £4.99
Chris Paton In March 1866 the Perthshire village of Forgandenny was the scene of one
of the Victorian era’s most horrific murders when Janet Rogers was killed by multiple
axe blows and her body left in the kitchen of her brother’s farm. Her descendant Chris
Paton looks again at the evidence to consider the unanswered questions raised by the
lengthy police investigation and the inconclusive trial of ploughman James Crichton.
£14.99 10820 now £5.99
THE MOAT FARM MYSTERY
The Life and Criminal Career of Samuel Herbert Dougal
MW Oldridge Samuel Herbert Dougal was a petty criminal and womanizer who, in 1898,
convinced a wealthy spinster to purchase a farm and live with him there. After the lady’s
disappearance, it took four years for suspicion to build and when her body was found, a
sensational murder trial followed. This account provides a new assessment of all the available records and a detailed biography of Dougal. HISTORY PRESS 2012 PB 320pp Illus
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ARCHAEOLOGY
BRITISH HISTORY
NEW MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN
An Expedition Round My Family
Ranulph Fiennes Ranulph Fiennes OBE, known for
his remarkable polar expeditions, mountaineering
and marathon running, here turns his attention to his
own family and England’s history. For 600 years,
the Fiennes have lived in Broughton Castle in
Oxfordshire, and through their story, Ranulph
Fiennes offers ‘a simplified squint at the history of
my country, England, warts and all, from its beginnings
until 1944 when I was born’. HODDER 2010 PB 400pp Illus
£8.99 16497 now £3.99
IN SEARCH OF
THE HOLY GRAIL
The Quest for the Middle Ages
BRITAIN
A Short History
TA Jenkins How did Great Britain take
shape? When were the first parliamentary
elections? And will it survive devolution?
From the Black Death to Black Monday,
this concise yet comprehensive history
explains how the nation evolved, how it
acquired and lost an empire, and how it
has been transformed since 1945. Charting
the effects of the Industrial Revolution,
the Great Depression and two world wars,
it is an essential introduction to the chequered history of these islands.
ONEWORLD 2001 PB 210pp
£9.99 91480 now £3.99
Veronica Ortenberg The religion,
chivalry and architecture of the Middle
Ages have left an indelible legacy on European culture, inspiring artistic, political
and literary movements and stretching as
far as Hollywood's portrayals of King
Arthur and Robin Hood. In an attempt to
discover why the Middle Ages are so attractive to the popular imagination of the
21st century, Veronica Ortenberg traces
the changing ways in which later ages
have learned about and reinterpreted their
medieval past. HAMBLEDON 2006 HB 350pp
£40.00
99047
now £9.99
REMAINS
CONCERNING BRITAIN (1870)
William Camden Although described by
William Camden (1551-1623) as ‘the rude
rubble and out-cast rubbish’ from his
magnum opus, Britannia (1586), Remaines (1605) offers a rich compendium
of material ranging from heraldic arms to
proverbs. Facsimile reprint. No jacket
OLMS 1970 HB 446pp 170x110mm
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DISCOVERING
FAMOUS GRAVES Second edition
Lynn F Pearson From Nelson’s tomb in
St Paul’s Cathedral to Dick Turpin’s head-
THE ENCHANTED GLASS
Britain and Its Monarchy
Tom Nairn In this acclaimed study of
British statehood, identity and culture,
Tom Nairn dispels the conviction that the
Royal family is nothing more than an
amusing relic of feudalism or a mere
tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that
the monarchy is both apex and essence of
the British state, the symbol of a national
backwardness. Nairn’s powerful and
bitterly comic prose lays bare 21st
century Britain’s peculiar, pseudo-modern
national identity. Updated second edition.
NEW
VERSO 2011 PB 440pp
£12.99 16741 now £5.99
stone in a public garden in York, this guide
gives details of the interesting graves and
mausolea of nearly 1,000 famous Britons.
Supported by photographs and illustrations, each entry gives directions to and
details of the memorial as well as brief biographical information about the deceased.
SHIRE 2004 PB 152pp Illus
£8.99 97760 now £3.99
Lindsey German; John Rees For traditional
history and the heritage industry, London is a seat
of power, the hub of empire and a playground for
the rich. Yet throughout its 2,000-year history, it
has been a working city where ordinary people
have struggled for life, freedom and their rights.
This groundbreaking history tells its story, from
Roman times to the present, through the eyes of
the workers and trade unionists, exiles and
immigrants, rioters and revolutionaries, who
have made the city what it is. VERSO 2012 PB 320pp
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF LONDON
ENGLAND
A Concise History
FE Halliday With this very accessible,
liberally illustrated volume FE Halliday
aimed to provide ‘a History of England
short enough to be grasped – and seen
– as a whole’. In the broad sweep of
his survey, from the Stone Age to New
Labour, Halliday emphasizes the
achievements and constructive features
of English history – above all, the
evolution of democratic institutions and
the successful reconciliation of order
and liberty in English society. First
published in 1964 and subsequently
revised and updated.
THAMES & HUDSON 2002 PB 240pp Illus
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NEW
LINCOLN CONNECTIONS
Aspects of City and County since 1700
Ed. Shirley Brook; Andrew Walker; Rob Wheeler A tribute to the geographer Dennis
Mills, who has contributed enormously to the study of rural life and the local history of
Lincolnshire, this volume comprises nine essays on topics including the building of
Skellingthorpe reservoir, the Sibthorp family of Canwick, the alehouses of Kesteven and
fairs and markets. There is also a short biography of Mills and a bibliography of his published work. SOCIETY FOR LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY 2011 PB 144pp
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ARCHAEOLOGY
BRITISH/GENERAL HISTORY
NEW CAMBRIDGE ORATIONS
1993-2007: A Selection
Anthony Bowen As orator of the University
of Cambridge, Antony Bowen delivered 121
Latin speeches in the Senate House in praise
of a variety of distinguished people on the
occasion of their receiving honorary degrees.
Of these speeches, 52 are presented here,
with facing translations. In orations on
such diverse figures as Margaret Attwood,
Quentin Blake, Noam Chomsky and Nelson
Mandela, Bowen rises to the challenge of
speaking of modern phenomena in the
language and cadences of antiquity.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 PB 113pp 262x195mm
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Edward VI, Henry VIII’s short-lived male
heir by Jane Seymour, born in 1537
HISTORIES OF NATIONS
How their Identities Were Forged
Ed. Peter Furtado History involves the actions
and experiences of many nations, but history books
are mostly written from the perspective of one.
But how do different countries view their pasts?
This is the first book to gather historians from 28
states – including the USA, China, Russia, India,
Turkey and Iran – to relate their own national
stories. With 202 illustrations, this original and
thought-provoking volume provides a rare insight
into the cultural and political differences that
both endanger and enliven our world.
ROYAL BABIES
A History 1066-2013
Amy Licence Babies are born every day,
but rarely does a child arrive who will
inherit the throne. This book tells the story
of 25 royal babies, some born in times of
peace, others delivered during episodes
of civil warfare. From the birth of Matilda,
granddaughter of William the Conqueror,
in 1102 to Prince George Windsor, the
latest addition to the royal family, these
stories describe the births of some of
the greatest British monarchs in history,
as well as many long-forgotten babies.
NEW
THAMES & HUDSON 2012 HB 320pp Illus 245x190mm
£24.95 11961 now £9.99
Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I, who also
became constitutional king of Hungary
£16.99 16737 now £6.99
DISCOVERING LONDON’S
GUILDS AND LIVERIES
John Kennedy Melling The history of
London is inextricably linked with its livery
companies, which originally regulated trade
and working conditions in the medieval
city. This general introduction looks at the
roots of the guild system in Europe, traces
its development in London, and provides a
brief history of each of the 109 London
companies. SHIRE 2003 PB 120pp Illus
£6.99 97768 now £3.99
WHY DID THE HEAVENS NOT DARKEN?
The ‘Final Solution’ in History
Arno J Mayer Was the ‘Final Solution’ part of the Nazi plan from the start?
This detailed, rigorous and sensitive study of the evidence reaches the conclusion
that, while Nazi anti-Semitism was always
virulent, the institutional and ideological
mechanisms of genocide evolved over time,
to be set in motion by the catastrophic war
with Russia. Placing the Holocaust within
the wider context of European history, it also
demonstrates how similar ‘holy causes’ have
triggered analogous – if less cataclysmic –
atrocities in the past. VERSO 2012 PB 540pp
£19.99 11796 now £7.99
FAMILY HISTORY
NEW SOLVING GENEALOGY PROBLEMS
How the Break Down ‘Brick Walls’ and Build Your Family Tree
Graeme Davis The genealogical researcher often comes up against difficult areas
and dead ends, but this book provides advice, information and extra techniques to
take the family tree back past apparently insurmountable difficulties. Drawing on
his own long experience of research in the British Isles, Davis suggests new ways
of looking at problems, offers advice on finding new and unusual records and
gives additional ideas on using the census and census substitutes.
HOW TO BOOKS 2012 PB 223pp
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NICK BARRATT’S BEGINNER’S GUIDE
TO YOUR ANCESTORS’ LIVES
Nick Barratt As well as giving advice on the practicalities of researching and
constructing your family tree, this guide explains how to use a range of sources to
look more deeply into the social history of each generation – their houses, streets,
communities and ways of life. Barratt also offers helpful suggestions for organizing
and shaping your findings and, with the help of the latest technology, creating an
archive of your personal heritage. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 282pp
Karen Dolby From the philosophers and
courtesans of ancient Greece to the seedier
side of Victorian England, this is an entertaining survey of history’s most notable
sex scandals and secrets. It combines the
stories of such infamous figures as the
Borgias, Casanova and the Marquis de
Sade with the letters, diaries and court reports which record the naughtier thoughts
and deeds of ordinary men and women.
£19.99 10985 now £7.99
HISTORY’S NAUGHTY BITS
MICHAEL O’MARA 2013 HB 224pp Illus
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GENERAL/CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
AT THE KREMLIN GATES
A Historical Portrait of Moscow
Gerald R Skinner, who observed the August
1991 coup attempt in Moscow from his post in
the Canadian Embassy, tells the story of the city’s
survival in the face of invasion and war, pestilence
and fire. His ‘portrait of the city over time’
discusses Moscow’s origins, its self-perception
and the influences upon its development and
character, from medieval citadel to the post-Soviet
Union era and a ‘New Moscow’ still ‘profoundly
affected by its past’. SIGNAL 2011 PB 402pp
£14.99 99868 now £4.99
NEW A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Tim Weiner At the heart Tim Weiner’s
history of the FBI is, of course, the Machiavellian figure of J Edgar Hoover, whose
career stretched from the First World War
to the Nixon presidency. Based on over
70,000 pages of recently declassified FBI
documents and more than 200 oral histories recorded by agents, Weiner reveals
the story of the service’s war against spies,
subversives and saboteurs, and the illegal
arrests, break-ins, burglaries and buggings
that have been its stock-in-trade.
ENEMIES: A History of the FBI
ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 555pp
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Christopher Catherwood Surveying
more than three millennia, Catherwood
traces the present-day crisis of the Middle
East back to its roots. He focuses in particular on the rise of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam, which once coexisted in harmony, and asks why the relationship between them is now so troubled. This updated edition covers the Iraq war, recent
developments in the Israel/Palestine conflict and the rise of Iran.
RUNNING PRESS 2011 PB 376pp
$14.00 16782 now £3.99
WHEN KINGS
RODE TO DELHI
Gabrielle Festing Written for the general
reader or the traveller in India, this book
draws on Indian mythology, folklore,
memoirs and chronicles as it traces the
history of India and the successive rival
rulers or invaders who took ‘the road to
Delhi’ in a bid to conquer Hindustan –
from Mahmud of Ghazni’s Muslim invasion of 1000-1030 to the end of the
Moghul empire after 1761. First published
in 1912. Reprint of the 1923 edition. No
jacket. LANCER 2008 HB 444pp
£20.00 99494 now £7.99
NINJA
1,000 Years of the Shadow Warriors
John Man Popular myth attributes the Japanese
ninjas – legendary warriors, spies, saboteurs and
assassins – with fantastical abilities: beyond skill
in martial arts they could fly or make themselves
invisible. The ninjas came to prominence in the
civil wars that ended with Japan’s unification
in 1600, but their origins are much earlier. In
this book John Man traces the ninjas’ history,
recounts the deeds of their medieval heyday and
explores the ethos and training that made them
the stuff of legend. BANTAM 2012 HB 303pp Illus
NEW THE COUNTRY
FORMERLY KNOWN
AS GREAT BRITAIN
Writings 1989-2009
Ian Jack As Scotland, Wales and
England go their separate ways, what
is left of Great Britain? Founding editor of the Independent on Sunday,
now a columnist with the Guardian,
Ian Jack is one of Britain’s most insightful social commentators. This
collection of his articles spans 20
years and ranges from the Titanic to
consumerism, and reflects – often
ruefully – on what it means to be
British today. VINTAGE 2009 PB 341pp
£9.99 11765 now £3.99
NEW
SOLDIERS, SPIES
AND STATESMEN
Egypt’s Road to Revolt
Hazem Kandil The Egyptian revolution
of 2011 confounded observers who assumed that Mubarak and the generals
would stand or fall together. Kandil delves
into the history of modern Egypt to explain why this view was mistaken; he
shows how the armed forces took advantage of events and sets the January 25 Revolt in the context of six decades of socio-political transformation and the power
struggle between the military, the security
services and the political apparatus.
VERSO 2012 HB 311pp
£16.99 10641 now £7.99
£20.00 99911 now £7.99
THE THISTLE AND THE JADE
A Celebration of 175 Years of Jardine Matheson
Ed. Maggie Keswick; Clara Weatherall Founded in Canton in 1832, the Scottish firm of
Jardine Matheson has grown to become an international trading house with bases throughout
the world. Magnificently illustrated with historic paintings, photographs, documents and
prints, this absorbing history assembles contributions from leading historians to trace the
company’s growth and development, from a trading outpost in the Qing empire, through the
opening of Japan and expansion throughout Southeast Asia, to its activities in the economic
powerhouse that is modern China. FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 HB 320pp Illus 300x250mm
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NEW A SOLDIER OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST
From De la Plata to Waterloo, 1806-1815
Joseph Sinclair The Journal of a Soldier of the 71st
or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry from
1806-1815, to give its full title, was first published
in Edinburgh in 1819. Writing from the ranks, yet
obviously well educated, the author graphically
describes life in the regiment and its exploits in
Whitlock’s disastrous South American adventure
in 1806, the Peninsular War, the Walchern Expedition
and Waterloo. The Journal is edited, with an
introduction by Stuart Reid, who unravels the puzzle
of the book’s true author. FRONTLINE 2010 HB 160pp
£19.99 11006 now £7.99
THE DAY WE
WENT TO WAR
Terry Charman At 11.15am on 3 September 1939, people gathered around
radios to hear the announcement they had
been dreading: that Britain was at war
with Germany. Drawing on the personal
stories of men and women across Europe
who lived through the first year of the
Second World War, Chapman’s book
evokes, hour-by-hour, sometimes minuteby-minute, the events and apprehensions
of the days leading up to the declaration
of war and the months of ‘phoney war’
that followed. (Previously published
as Outbreak 1939.)
VIRGIN 2009 PB 464pp
£6.99 99672 now £3.99
INFERNO
The World at War 1939-1945
Max Hastings Originally published as
All Hell Let Loose, this hardback edition
of Max Hastings’s ambitious work examines the Second World War, in all theatres
of conflict around the world, in one epic
volume. Concentrating on the experiences
of ordinary people rather than the generals
and politicians, Hastings explains the essential strategic developments while using
the diaries and letters of military and civilian participants to build up a picture of
the human experience of the war.
Published in the UK as All Hell Let Loose
(also available in Postscript). Slightly offmint. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed
edge. American-cut pages.
KNOPF 2011 HB 751pp Illus
$35.00 10697 now £9.99
Robert McQueen Despite the inactivity
implied by the term ‘Phoney War’ (the
period between September 1939 and May
1940) there were in fact countless exploratory German air raids and reconnaissance flights along the eastern coast of
Britain as well as harassment of coastal
shipping and attacks on the North Atlantic
convoys. Using eyewitness accounts from
British and German combatants, this book
describes some of the significant early
skirmishes of the Second World War.
HITLER’S EARLY RAIDERS
TOMMY GOES TO WAR
In Association with the
Imperial War Museum
Malcolm Brown The designation
‘Thomas Atkins’ was used on army documents from at least the beginning of the
19th century to describe the typical soldier. This, in turn led to the nickname
‘Tommy’ which has perhaps become most
associated with the British infantrymen
of the First World War. This classic study,
first published in 1978, collects the reminiscences of Tommies who lived through
the long years of struggle on the Western
Front. HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 240pp Illus
JULY 1914
Countdown to War
Sean McMeekin In this critically acclaimed history of the July Crisis, Sean
McMeekin tells the story of Europe’s
countdown to war – from the opening act
in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 to Britain’s
final plunge on 4 August, which turned a
European conflict into a world war – as
seen through the eyes of the European
leaders and statesmen who brought about
the catastrophe. ICON 2013 HB 478pp
£9.99 99915 now £3.99
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ARRAS
The Spring 1917
Offensive in
Panoramas
Peter Barton After a
lucid summary of the
progress of the war and
the political situation
from August 1914
to April 1917, this
book presents an
extraordinarily detailed
A British working party prepare for a shift
study of the Battle of
of repairing roads and tracks around Arras
Arras (incorporating the
Battles of Scarpe, Vimy Ridge, Bullecourt, Lagnicourt and Arlaux). The account
is illustrated with maps, plans and, as well as archive photographs, over 50
rediscovered British and German panoramas of the battlegrounds: photographs
that offer a view not seen for over 90 years – the prospect beyond the trench parapet.
CONSTABLE 2010 HB 312pp Illus 210x260mm
£30.00 84759 now £12.99
CHURCHILL 1940-1945
Under Friendly Fire
Walter Reid ‘There is only one thing worse
than fighting with allies’, said Churchill,
‘and that is fighting without them’.
Posterity has come to see him as the
unchallenged wartime leader behind whom
the country rallied. But as this revealing
study makes clear, Churchill’s position was
far from unassailable, and his most trenchant
opponents were within his own Conservative
party. Drawing on recent research, this
powerful narrative charts the secret war
that demanded much of his time and energy:
the war with his allies. BIRLINN 2008 HB 320pp
£25.00 88380 now £9.99
WHITTLES 2011 PB 140pp Illus
£16.99 10556 now £5.99
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MILITARY HISTORY
NEW BLITZKRIEG NO LONGER
The German Wehrmacht in Battle, 1943
Samuel W Mitcham The success of Germany’s
blitzkrieg tactics in the early stages of the Second
World War made Hitler’s relentless advance seem
unstoppable. By 1943 however, the picture was
changing: defeat at Stalingrad, surrender in Tunisia
and the loss of Sicily all demonstrated that the tide
had turned. This study focuses on this pivotal year
of the war as the Wehrmacht, now unable to mount
its feared lightning attacks, was forced onto the
back foot. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 320pp Illus
£25.00 10957 now £7.99
WORLD WAR II DATA BOOKS
NEW
A FIELD MARSHAL
IN THE FAMILY
Brian Montgomery The hero of El
Alamein and Normandy, Bernard Law
Montgomery is remembered as one of
Britain’s greatest military leaders, but he
also earned a reputation, among those who
encountered him, for arrogance, tactlessness and egotism. This assessment of his
achievements, written by his younger
brother and first published in the 1970s,
delves into Monty’s distinguished ancestry, as well as his upbringing, to discover
the factors that formed his singular character and equipped him for greatness.
£25.00 10972 now £7.99
These Data Books cover various aspects of
German military strategy and armed forces in
the Second World War, providing the historical
background as well as detailed facts and figures. Each volume is packed with tables,
graphs, charts and maps, illustrated with artworks and photographs, and contains
profiles of military and political leaders. AMBER 2009-11 HB 192pp Illus 240x190mm
£19.99 each
now £9.99 each
Chris McNab How would Europe have looked if Nazi Germany had been
victorious in the Second World War? In chapters on topics such as leadership, the
rebuilding of Germany and its economy, war and weaponry, race and culture, this
volume reveals the true scale of Hitler’s vision for a Greater Germany and a world
dominated by the Nazi ideology.
98424
HITLER’S MASTERPLAN 1933-1945
Chris McNab The so-called ‘Thousand Year’ Reich lasted from January 1933 to
May 1945, but in that time Germany underwent a radical social, political and military
transformation. This volume provides key data on the Third Reich, including details
of annexations, population changes, the economy, racial policy and ideology. 98436
THE THIRD REICH 1933-1945
Michael E Haskew The Wehrmacht
(‘defensive might’) encompassed the entire
German armed forces during the Second
World War, with over 18 million men passing
through its ranks over the ten years of its
existence. This Data Book focuses on the
German land forces, with chapters on the
history of the German Army, pre-war
development, command structures,
infantry, armoured formations, artillery
and support services.
98434
THE WEHRMACHT 1935-1945
S Mike Pavelec The German air force played
a crucial role in the Wehrmacht’s blitzkrieg
German
tactics, providing both air cover and air
infantry advance
artillery for Germany’s ground troops. Every
in Greece, April 1941
aspect of the Luftwaffe’s command structure,
resources and aircraft is covered in this volume, as well as its major campaigns,
from the invasion of Poland to the final, desperate offensive of January 1945. 98429
THE LUFTWAFFE 1933-1945
A BRITISH ACHILLES
The Story of George,
2nd Earl Jellicoe
Lorna Almonds Windmill The life of
George Jellicoe, son of the hero of Jutland,
was a rich blend of military adventure
and politics, undermined by a fatal taste
for womanizing. Drawing on Jellicoe’s
letters and diaries, this frank, sympathetic
biography does not fight shy of his links
with the Cambridge spies, his Churchillian
approach to alcohol, and the sex scandal
that ended his political career. His
wartime exploits on Crete are recalled
by Patrick Leigh Fermor in a foreword.
NEW
PEN & SWORD 2008 PB 301pp Illus
£14.99 10958 now £5.99
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Chris McNab examines the development of the Schutzstaffel from its origins as
Hitler’s personal bodyguard to its growth into a millions-strong organization by the
end of the war. Chapters deal with its constituent parts: the early, general AllgemeineSS; the armed Waffen-SS; foreign elements; the death squads and concentration camp
guards; and police and intelligence units, including the Gestapo.
98435
THE SS 1923-1945
THE AXMANN CONSPIRACY
The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the US Army Defeated It
Scott Andrew Selby After witnessing the Führer’s suicide and then evading capture,
Artur Axmann, the head of the Hitler Youth, was determined to set himself up as the
leader of a Fourth Reich. This book tells how American agents from the Counter Intelligence Corps uncovered and stopped a conspiracy that threatened to bring the Nazis
back into power in the heart of Germany – even while it was occupied by the Allies.
BERKLEY CALIBER 2012 HB 308pp Illus
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MILITARY
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
NEW RAF AT HOME
The History of RAF
Air Displays from 1920
Ian Smith Watson Seeking
to improve the public
perception of the fledgling
RAF, and even justify its
existence as a separate service,
the first Hendon Air Pageant
was organized in 1920 and
was soon established as a
popular annual event.
Examining the history of RAF
displays from these beginnings,
A Hurricane with a Bf109 in the background at the
and the first Battle of Britain
memorial ‘at home’ days, to the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary in September 1990
present day, this book includes archive photographs and detailed appendices
cataloguing participating aircraft. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 344pp Illus
CHURCHILL’S
SPEARHEAD
The Development of
Britain’s Airborne Forces
During the Second World War
NEW
£30.00 11002 now £9.99
Paul Ham Today most people believe that
the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945 forced the surrender of Japan
and spared the millions of deaths that would
have resulted from a continued war. Examining
the bombings, the science and politics leading
up to them and, through harrowing personal
testimonies, the experiences of some of the
survivors, Paul Ham concludes that, despite the
American claim that they had opted for ‘the least
abhorrent choice’, viable alternatives were never
considered. DOUBLEDAY 2011 HB 640pp Illus
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI
John William Greenacre Churchill set the
wheels in motion for a British airborne
force in June 1940. Over the next five years
these elite divisions were involved in some
of the most celebrated missions of the war,
including notable successes such as the DDay landings as well as failures such as
the operation to capture the bridge at Arnhem. This history considers how the Airborne Forces were rapidly formed and deployed during the war as well as examining
their equipment, training and leadership.
£25.00 10899 now £11.99
£19.99 10960 now £7.99
DEATHLY DECEPTION
The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat
Denis Smyth Operation Mincemeat was the stuff of espionage legend: an audacious
plan to fool Nazi High Command into believing the Allies were about to attack
Greece rather than Sicily. To that end, the dead body of a homeless Welshman
was given a new identity as a Royal Marine Major and a courier’s briefcase of
documents, then planted in Spanish coastal waters. Drawing on recently released
documents, Smyth provides a meticulously detailed and exhilarating account of
this complex and ultimately successful stratagem. OXFORD UP 2010 HB 400pp
£16.99 91292 now £6.99
THE UNSEEN WAR IN EUROPE
Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War
John H Waller served with the OSS in London and the Middle East during the
Second World War and later became inspector general of the CIA. He draws on
first-hand experience as well as in-depth research to provide an account of espionage and conspiracy during the war, from pre-war intelligence failures and their
consequences at Munich to the German surrender in Italy, April 1945. Waller focuses in particular on the German resistance and gives a full account of the role
of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. IB TAURIS 1996 HB 486pp
£29.00 99337 now £6.99
OPERATION DAMOCLES
Israel’s Secret War against Hitler’s Scientists, 1951-1967
Roger Howard From 1951 to 1967, Egypt’s President Nasser pursued a secret
project to build long-range missiles that could strike deep into Israel. To achieve
this, he hired West German scientists, many of them veterans of the Nazi rocket
programme. Half a century later, this tale of espionage and intrigue tells the dramatic story of how Mossad, the Israeli secret service, responded to the threat,
using covert operations, intimidation and even assassination squads to prevent
the project from coming to fruition. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. Offmint. PEGASUS 2013 HB 268pp
UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER
A Memoir of the Third Reich
and the Dönitz Administration
NEW
Walter Lüdde-Neurath Grand Admiral Karl
Dönitz became leader of Germany in May
1945 following Hitler’s suicide. This memoir,
written by Dönitz’s adjutant during the eventful weeks that followed, provides a unique
insight into this final period of the war, describing the infighting among the Nazi leaders,
the formation and dissolution of the shortlived Flensburg government and the final defeat of the Third Reich. The memoir was first
published in 1950; this is the first English
translation of Lüdde-Neurath’s historically
important work. FRONTLINE 2010 HB 204pp
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£19.99 11007 now £7.99
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REFERENCE
COMPACT OXFORD
ENGLISH DICTIONARY
OF CURRENT ENGLISH
Third edition, revised
Ed. Catherine Soanes; Sara Hawker
Fully revised, updated and redesigned,
this new edition of the Compact Dictionary aims to provide up-to-date and accessible information on the vocabulary of
contemporary English, together with practical advice on writing good English in
everyday situations. The dictionary also
has thousands of new example sentences,
more help with pronunciation, grammar
and usage, and a wide selection of technical terms from specialist areas such as
medicine and computing. No jacket.
OXFORD UP 2008 HB 1263pp 207x132mm
11837 now £6.99
BREWER’S DICTIONARY
OF PHRASE AND FABLE
18th edition
Ed. Camilla Rockwood ‘Of all the dictionaries in the world it is the most like a
treasure hunt’, writes Philip Pullman in
the foreword to this 18th edition of
Brewer’s incomparable compendium.
Within the trademark blend of language,
culture, myth and legend, there are hundreds of new phrases here, but also 200
old entries from early editions compiled
by Dr Brewer himself that offer a glimpse
of Victorian curiosities such as jelly pardons and nose literature.
CHAMBERS HARRAP 2009 HB 1460pp
£30.00 10683 now £14.99
NEW COLLINS CHINESE
Your Essential Guide to
Mandarin and Life in Modern China
Duncan Poupard As China’s influence on world
affairs continues to grow, people in the West are
becoming increasingly curious about the country
and its ways of life. This book is designed as a
primer to engage that curiosity and introduce
aspects of Chinese life and culture, while presenting
interesting features of the Chinese language.
£7.99 16752 now £3.99
NEW COLLINS EASY LEARNING
SPANISH GRAMMAR
Designed for any age group and for both class and
self-study courses, this is an ideal text for learners,
from beginners up to GCSE students. The clearly
laid-out, easy-to-use guide presents all the basic grammar needed to
speak and understand modern, everyday Spanish. COLLINS 2011 PB 320pp
£7.99 16756 now £3.99
In addition to the clearly laid out German-English, English-German dictionary, with
its emphasis on up-to-date, everyday vocabulary and the language of current affairs,
business and tourism, this volume includes a complete 250-page grammar. The
dictionary also provides in-depth treatment of difficult words and cultural notes,
making it ideal for intermediate learners, or anyone wishing to improve their
German for business or pleasure. COLLINS 2010 PB 272pp
COLLINS GERMAN DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR IN COLOUR
£12.99 11903 now £4.99
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
An A to Zed Guide to
Distinctively British Words
CJ Moore Whether we're on the pull,
knuckling down, spending a penny or as
pleased as Punch, the oddities of the language we speak in Old Blighty can flummox foreign visitors. Heeding the words
of Oscar Wilde, 'we have really everything
in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language', this guide to
more than 100 very British words and
phrases engagingly demystifies their
meaning and delves into their origins and
history. READER'S DIGEST 2011 HB 128pp
$14.95 11036 now £3.99
OPENING PANDORA’S BOX
Phrases Borrowed
from the Classics and
the Stories Behind Them
IT’S A WONDERFUL WORD
The Real Origins of
Our Favourite Words,
from Anorak to Zombie
Albert Jack Blotto, spondulics, claptrap
and quango... Albert Jack has brought together hundreds of the strangest and most
delightful English words, and takes readers on a diverting anecdotal voyage into
their origins. If you’ve ever wondered
what assassins have to do with hashish or
lawyers with avocados, this book is here
to help. ARROW 2012 PB 286pp
£8.99 10719 now £3.99
Ferdie Addis We might know what it
means to be ‘under the aegis’, but what
was the aegis? In this A-Z of classical allusion, Ferdie Addis has gathered together
words and phrases – such as chimera,
Croesus, hoi polloi or lotus eaters – that so
READER’S DIGEST 2012 HB 177pp
$14.95 11033 now £3.99
CAVE CANEM
A Miscellany of Latin
Words and Phrases
Lorna Robinson Looking in turn at domestic and public life, the arts and the popular Latin of the streets, Lorna Robinson
introduces the ancient Roman world and
its legacy to our language and culture
through the meaning of phrases such as
res publica (public affairs), panem et
circenses (bread and circuses), and magna
taberna (one big shop). A final section of
res generalis has notes on the past and
present meanings of terms from a priori
to vice versa.
WALKER 2008 HB 128pp Illus 188x125mm
$17.00 84858 now £4.99
NAME DROPPING?
A No-Nonsense Guide to the Use of Names
Philip Gooden What exactly are expressions such
as Kafkaesque or Orwellian or Miranda-like trying
to pin down? Philip Gooden’s engrossing A-Z goes
where dictionaries usually fear to tread and offers
full explanations of terms derived from proper
names. As well as describing the original owner of
the name – real or fictional – and what it has come to
mean, the book provides examples of its use in the
press and other media and a pretentiousness rating,
lest you get carried away. A&C BLACK 2006 HB 218pp
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enrich modern English, and he tells of their
weird and wonderful origins in ancient
history and Greek and Roman mythology.
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STUFF YOU FORGOT
FROM SCHOOL
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NEW PEDLAR’S GUIDE TO
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Charlie Gladstone; Caroline Gladstone; Kate
Burt A childhood spent outdoors led the authors
of this inspiring book to offer their six children
a similarly free upbringing in the Highlands of
Scotland. Charmingly illustrated, this miscellany
of all things outdoors includes sections on bird
and tree identification, cloud spotting, treehouse
building, survival tips, foraging, outdoor games
and camping. For any family wishing to spend
more time in nature and less time in front of a
screen, this book is the perfect companion.
SQUARE PEG 2012 HB 272pp Illus
£16.99 16998 now £5.99
For people who like to solve harder Su
Doku puzzles, this third Times ‘fiendish’
collection contains 200 of the toughest Su
Doku puzzles around. There are 175 new
fiendish and 25 ‘super fiendish’ puzzles,
along with an introduction to solving super-hard Su Doku. Answers at the back.
FIENDISH SU DOKU: Book 3
THE I USED TO KNOW
THAT ACTIVITY BOOK
NEW
Caroline Taggart Just for fun, you understand, here are tests on English language and literature, history, geography,
maths, science and general studies. You
did know this stuff once – it’s just a matter
of bringing it out of those dusty cerebral
filing cabinets. Do not look at the answers
at the back until you are really stuck.
TIMES 2010 PB 318pp
£7.99 16757 now £2.99
MICHAEL O’MARA 2012 PB 224pp
AN APPLE A DAY
Old-Fashioned Proverbs
and Why They Still Work
Caroline Taggart Proverbs are used in
everyday English without much thought
ever being given to their meanings or,
indeed, their usefulness. This entertaining
A-Z turns the spotlight on sayings that we
take for granted, examining their often
surprising or fascinating origins, their
use and why they are true – or not. The
conclusion is that most proverbs are as
useful now as the day they were minted –
although ‘everything comes to those who
wait’ never was. Slightly off-mint.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2009 HB 190pp
£9.99 16988 now £3.99
£9.99 93426 now £3.99
THE BAFFLE BOOK
Fifteen Fiendishly Challenging
Detective Puzzles
Al Seckel From familiar op art illusions
to never-before-published effects, this is
a collection of over 80 entertaining visual
puzzles. Variously manipulating the way
we perceive pattern, shape and colour, or
the eye’s ability to briefly retain an imprint
of an image, the static illustrations appear
to become animated, melt or blur; patterned designs seem to pulse or slide or,
when intently studied, cause new shapes
to appear that you know cannot be there.
ACTION OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
I USED TO KNOW THAT:
GEOGRAPHY
Will Williams; Ed. Caroline Taggart
Your satnav might know the way to Uncle
Bob’s house, but can it tell you what
comes out of a volcano, the difference between a village and hamlet, or how a tornado develops? In this refresher course
Will Williams shows not only that there
is much more to geography than maps –
although ‘maps have made a pretty spectacular comeback’ – but that it is more
relevant than ever to everyday life on our
beleaguered planet.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2010 HB 192pp
£9.99 85667 now £3.99
Lassiter Wren; Randle McKay If you
revel in armchair criminal investigation,
this book is just your cup of poisoned
orange pekoe. Here are 15 old-fashioned
‘detective puzzles’, the unravelling of
which requires well-honed powers of observation and deduction. In words, charts
and diagrams, the authors put you at the
crime scene and present you with the facts
established by the police. Solving the questions that each case poses is your challenge. Answers at the back – if you must.
Slightly off-mint. GODINE 2006 PB 160pp
£7.99 94053 now £3.99
STERLING 2005 PB 96pp Illus 205x205mm
$9.95 16393 now £4.99
NEW
CHAMBERS CROSSWORD LISTS
Third edition
An easy alternative to a whole shelf of dictionaries
and an invaluable resource for cruciverbalists,
this book of lists brings together over 170,000
encyclopedic solutions to both quick and cryptic
clues. The 1,650 lists are arranged by number of
letters (from two to sixteen), then alphabetically
by 900 headwords, from Abbey to Zoology,
and some provide additional information such as
dates for people and battles, sources for literary
characters and state capitals for US states.
CHAMBERS 2013 PB 960pp
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BRITISH ISLES
NEW THE VOYAGES OF
THE PRINCESS MATILDA
The Adventure of a Lifetime
Shane Spall The actor Timothy Spall and his
wife Shane have shared a passion for wandering
England’s waterways in their narrow boat.
When they upgraded to a Dutch barge, the
Princess Matilda, they expanded their horizons
and set out to sea, the subsequent voyages being
documented in a popular TV series. This book
chronicles their adventures as well as reflecting
on the part that boating has played in Spall’s
recovery from cancer. EBURY 2012 PB 384pp Illus
£11.99 16890 now £3.99
NEW A POSTCARD
FROM WATFORD
BESIDE THE SEASIDE
A Celebration of the
Place We Like to Be
Jane Struthers A treasury of information about everything and anything to do
with the seaside, this is entertaining beach
reading. Lists of British lighthouses,
shells, sailors’ knots and sea areas are
interspersed with stories of pirates and
wrecks, legends of giants and mermaids
and recipes for Cornish Heavy Cake and
Potted Shrimps. There is history and tradition too, with a brief biography of Lord
Nelson and a summary of naval toasts.
EBURY 2011 HB 288pp
£9.99 91746 now £3.99
Jacqueline Fearn This little book provides
a gentle introduction to heraldry and its
sometimes daunting terminology, explaining each term with illustrations and text,
and expounding the principles of coats of
arms and the rules governing their arrangement. With a foreword by the late JP
Brooke-Little, formerly Clarenceux King
of Arms. SHIRE 2006 PB 96pp Illus 177x113mm
DISCOVERING HERALDRY
£5.99 97756 now £2.99
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
Tim Everson
KINGSTON UPON THAMES
96883
NORTH OXFORDSHIRE
COTSWOLDS
Stanley C Jenkins
16595
WEST OXFORDSHIRE
COTSWOLDS
Stanley C Jenkins
98868
THE SEVERN
Arley to Avonmouth
Jan Dobrzynski
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95169
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John Cooper takes the reader on a journey through Watford’s recent history using a selection of old photographs and
postcards. Watford has witnessed the great
industrial and residential expansion of the
19th and early 20th centuries, the Blitz,
and changes to accommodate growing
levels of traffic. This charming book documents these changes and shows how the
people of Watford worked, travelled and
relaxed. AMBERLEY 2012 PB 96pp Illus
£14.99 16735 now £4.99
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LONDON’S CHURCHES
AND CATHEDRALS
Stephen Humphrey From the sumptuous
glories of St Paul’s and the London Oratory to the more restrained charms of the
capital’s smaller chapels, this guide covers
47 of the most fascinating ecclesiastical
buildings located in the principal boroughs
of London. Colour photographs of each
building are complemented by short essays which draw attention to their most
noteworthy features and key moments in
their history. Foreword by Andrew Lloyd
Webber, founder of the Open Churches
Trust. NEW HOLLAND 2011 PB 160pp Illus
£14.99 91718 now £5.99
FROM THE AIR SERIES
The rugged cliffs facing the Atlantic on the North Devon and North Cornwall
coasts are in marked ontrast to the southern coasts along the English
Channel, with Devon’s red cliffs, sheltered harbours and long sandy beaches,
and Cornwall’s hidden coves and fishing villages. In each of these books,
around 110 aerial photographs by Jason Hawkes give a gull’s-eye view,
zooming in on cliff-top walks and landmarks such as Start Point lighthouse,
St Michael’s Mount and the Minack Theatre. HALSGROVE 2008 HB 132-144pp Illus
NORTH DEVON COAST FROM THE AIR
SOUTH DEVON COAST FROM THE AIR
SOUTH CORNWALL COAST FROM THE AIR
NORTH CORNWALL COAST FROM THE AIR
£14.99 each
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10780
10779
10770
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE
FROM THE AIR
Jason Hawkes Containing
some of England’s most
picturesque landscapes,
Gloucestershire includes the
greater part of the Cotswold
Hills, a significant stretch of
the Severn Valley and the
Forest of Dean. Jason
Hawkes’s aerial photographs
provide an alternative view
of familiar scenes such as
pretty Cotswold villages and
elegant Cheltenham terraces, and the collection includes
interesting modern structures such as the government GCHQ
building in Cheltenham as well as the county’s significant historic
houses and churches. HALSGROVE 2010 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 10761 now £6.99
Clearwell Castle,
a Georgian
‘Gothick’ house
of around 1740
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Dawn shadows at Stonehenge
Mark Denton travelled the length and breadth of England in all seasons, shooting
with a classic panoramic film camera, to produce this exceptional collection of 100
of England’s finest landscapes, featuring both towns and cities and areas of
outstanding natural beauty. Five years in the making, the book includes breathtaking
views, from Bamburgh Castle in the north to Beachy Head in the south, and takes in
magnificent buildings, soaring cliffs, picturesque coastline, dappled woodland and
quintessentially English rolling green hills. CONSTABLE 2010 HB 224pp Illus 240x295mm
NEW
ENGLAND: THE PANORAMAS
St John, Smith Square
and Lord North Street
£30.00 16830 now £9.99
David Stanford The county of
Essex is richly endowed with historic
churches of all eras, from the austere
Saxon chapel of St Peter at Bradwell
to the Art Nouveau splendour of St
Mary’s, Great Warley. This beautiful
book explores 59 of the finest,
including probably the oldest
surviving timber-built church in the
world. Illustrated with colour
photographs, the book explains the
history, structure and decoration of
each building, and includes a locator
map and a glossary of architectural
terms. FRANCES LINCOLN 2006 HB 112pp Illus 267x250mm
DAVID GENTLEMAN’S
LONDON
David Gentleman The Thames Barrier
or St James’s Palace, gleaming Nash terraces or hi-fi shops in Tottenham Court
Road, Battersea Power Station or Covent
Garden – David Gentleman lavishes the
same meticulous attention to detail on all
of London’s parks and thoroughfares, residential areas and monuments. Having
lived there for 34 years, he paints an intimate portrait of London in which historical landmarks rub shoulders with highrise offices and traffic-jammed streets are
glimpsed from tranquil squares and gardens. ACC 2010 HB 192pp Illus 274x215mm
ESSEX CHURCHES
£14.99 96695 now £5.99
The Church of St Mary the
Virgin at Woodham Ferrers
£25.00 98342 now £9.99
A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF... SERIES
In this popular series, accomplished photographers and authors record the
landscapes and life of their chosen town or region through a year. In each
collection of photographs and commentary the authors look at the wider picture
as the landscape progresses through the seasons, and use a narrower focus to
pick out the detail of flora and fauna and local life and traditions as well as
seasonal changes and pursuits. FRANCES LINCOLN 2009-11 HB 112pp Illus 267x250mm
£16.99 each
now £7.99 each
A YEAR IN THE LIFE
OF WESTONBIRT
Sarah Howard Westonbirt in
Gloucestershire is the site of the
National Arboretum, home to more
than 16,000 native and exotic trees
and shrubs, including some of the
oldest, tallest and grandest in the
world. In words and sumptuous
colour photography, this handsome
book celebrates the year-round
beauty of its magnificent sylvan
landscape, from the first buds of
spring through the glory of summer
and the golden glow of autumn to
the serenity of frosty winter. 96708
Clifford Musgrave For almost 30 years,
Clifford Musgrave was the director of
the Royal Pavilion. His history of the
town in five parts – Fishermen and
Farmers, Princes and Palaces, Late
Georgian, Victorian Marvels and Mysteries, Battle Scene and Transformation
– was first published in 1970. Among
the appreciative voices was Graham
Greene: ‘I have so much enjoyed your
book Life in Brighton and it has opened
so many points of interest for me in a
city I thought I knew well’. New edition.
LIFE IN BRIGHTON
Winter shadows
at Westonbirt
Beata Moore Set in the heart of the English countryside, the Cotswolds are a
magical landscape of rolling hills and picturesque villages. This photographic
celebration traverses the region by season, starting with the stark megaliths at
Rollright in winter, and ending with the autumnal glories of sunrise near
Cheltenham. Along the way, it takes in the splendour of Blenheim Palace, the
elegance of the Royal Crescent on Bath, dew-spangled hedgerows and church spires
of mellow golden stone.
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BRITISH ISLES
NEW
HERITAGE OF LAKELAND
A Centenary Collection
A Harry Griffin wrote an unbroken series
of Country Diary entries for the Guardian for
53 years; he documented the landscape, history
and people of the Lake District both in these
pieces and in personal notes of his walking and
rock climbing experiences. This anthology of
his writing also features articles from Cumbria,
the Lancashire Evening Post and the journal
of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 253pp Illus
£14.99 16834 now £5.99
ENGLAND: THE
PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS
A PEAK DISTRICT
ANTHOLOGY
A Literary Companion to
Britain’s First National Park
NEW
Comp. Roly Smith Literary visitors
have long been inspired by the wonders of the Peak District; Ruskin and
Byron extolled its beauties, while
Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
used peakland settings for some of
their most vivid narratives. The flowering of guidebook writing in the 20th
century added to the Peak’s outdoor
literature, including writers such as
Brian Redhead and Guardian Country
Diarist Roger Redfern. This wellillustrated anthology brings together
the finest writing about the Peak.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2012 HB 208pp Illus
£16.99 16839 now £5.99
SACRED PLACES
Spirit and Landscape
Crispin Paine From centres of prehistoric
and medieval devotion, to the Sandham
Memorial Chapel decorated by Stanley
Spencer, this beautiful volume describes
over 40 important sites managed by the
National Trust. NATIONAL TRUST 2004
Getmapping plc was established in 1998
specifically to produce the first ever full
colour, digital photographic map of the
UK, using vertical aerial photography.
Drawing on this ‘Millennium map’, the
atlas of England resembles a modern
Domesday book, recording in detail the
variety of natural landscape within the
country and human interaction with the
terrain – from Iron Age settlements to
sprawling 20th century suburbs. The Atlas
includes a 27-page cartographic section
(scale 1:288,000) keyed to the photographic maps, and index. With plastic carrying case. Due to its size, this book will
be sent under separate cover to other titles
purchased. HARPERCOLLINS 2001 HB
Roly Smith; Photo. John Morrison Running 256 miles from the Peak District to
the Cheviots, the Pennine Way was the
first of Britain’s National Park Trails, and
many consider it the toughest. In this lyrical celebration of its beauty and rigours,
award-winning travel writer Roly Smith
charts its course, while John Morrison’s
subtle, perceptive photographs capture the
rich variety of its scenery, from the rugged
Wainstones to the lush valley of the Tees,
from Haworth’s cobbled main street to
Hadrian’s Wall. FRANCES LINCOLN 2011
THE PENNINE WAY
HB 112pp Illus 265x250mm
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NEW SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE
COALFIELD
Nigel Chapman Descriptions of the
Black Country in the 19th century feature
burning heaps of coal, slag tips and glowing red furnaces. Gradually, over the last
century, most of its mining heritage has
been lost to light industry and housing,
and the landscape has changed beyond
recognition. This book contains a fascinating selection of photographs, old and
new, showing the changing face of the
South Staffordshire coalfields.
PB 128pp Illus 247x190mm
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NEW PORTRAIT OF
THE EDEN VALLEY
Graham Uney The River
Eden starts among the
fells of the Cumbrian
Pennines, and travels
northwards to meet the
sea at the Solway Firth.
On its journey it passes
through stunning scenery,
including peaks, moorland
plateau, woodland gorges
and rolling farmland.
This beautiful collection
of over 140 photographs
celebrates the diversity of the Eden’s landscape – its characterful The Settle to Carlisle
Railway cuts a
market towns, priories and castles, rare wildlife such as otter, red
straight line above
squirrel and black grouse, and ancient standing stones.
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meadows
THE SAND HOUSE
A Victorian Marvel Revisited
Richard Bell; Peter Tuffrey From the
1850s to the 1950s, Doncaster was home
to the remarkable Sand House. Carved
in situ out of a sandstone quarry, it expanded from a cottage to a ten-roomed
mansion where dances and social gatherings were held. Illustrated with atmospheric period photographs, this intriguing
history introduces the family who created
the house, describes its grandly furnished
rooms and mysterious catacombs
adorned with fantastic carvings, and continues the story to its eventual demolition.
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Van Greaves ‘There seems a greater
range of light and atmospheric conditions
in Britain’, writes photographer Van
Greaves, ‘than can be captured ... in the
Himalaya.’ This personal selection of 150
of his breathtaking photographs, ranging
from Snowdon, Scafell and Ben Nevis
to the Torridon peaks and the Cuillins of
Skye, bears out his assertion to the full.
The author’s captions tell of the pre-dawn
starts and overnight camps endured to
catch that elusive mountain light.
NEW
MOUNTAIN MAGIC
FRANCES LINCOLN 2009 HB
£25.00 16577 now £9.99
Scafells from Three Tarns in the Lake District
LOVELY BITS
OF OLD ENGLAND
Selected Writings
from The Telegraph
NEW
John Betjeman; Ed. Gavin Fuller John
Betjeman (1906-84) began writing for The
Telegraph in 1951 and in 1964 started his
‘Betjeman’s Britain’ series in the magazine supplement. This book brings together the best of his articles on architecture and contemporary Britain, including
‘Temple to the Age of Steam’, his famous
defence of St Pancras Station; and reviews
of books by, among others, Evelyn
Waugh, John Steinbeck, Kingsley Amis
and LP Hartley. The collection ends with
Betjeman’s obituary by Philip Larkin.
AURUM 2012 HB 238pp
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SCOTLAND
BURT’S LETTERS
from the North of Scotland
Edmund Burt In the late 1720s, Edmund
Burt went to Scotland to work as an engineer on Highland roads and bridges. From
his base in Inverness he wrote regularly
to a friend in London, describing his experiences and relaying information on
everything from the clan system to the
scourge of malhoulakins (midges). Written 20 years before Culloden, long before
the Highland clearances and first published in 1754, the letters offer a rare picture of contemporary Highland life. The
present single-volume edition is introduced by Charles Withers.
BIRLINN 2012 PB 359pp Illus
DISCOVERING ABBEYS
AND PRIORIES
£14.99 19519 now £4.99
James Miller Scotland’s largest firth or
inlet, the Moray Firth defines an area of
coastline stretching from John o’Groats
on the northern tip of the mainland to
Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. With the
natural advantages of fertile soil, availability of grain, timber and cattle, and an
abundance of fish, the area has been contested by five cultures: Pictish, Gaelic,
Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Norman-Flemish. James Miller’s illustrated study explores the region’s history over a period
of 2000 years. BIRLINN 2012 PB 260pp Illus
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A HISTORY OF DEATH
AND BURIAL IN
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
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THE GATHERING STREAM
The Story of the Moray Firth
SHIRE 2004 PB 128pp Illus 210x127mm
£14.99 92467 now £5.99
Peter Cairns; Mark Hamblin The
Cairngorms, Britain’s largest National
Park, is home to a huge variety of wildlife,
including the golden eagle, osprey and
red deer and the elusive peregrine, wild
cat and mountain hare. Photographers Peter Cairns and Mark Hamblin have spent
years exploring this spectacular wilderness, capturing its grandeur and beauty
on film. The 100 colour photographs in
this book celebrate the splendour of these
moors and mountains and are eloquent
testimony to the need to protect this
rugged, yet threatened landscape.
£16.99 88497 now £6.99
Geoffrey N Wright Britain’s ancient
monastic buildings are a familiar part of
our landscape, whether they survive as
picturesque ruins and country houses or
are still in use as churches and cathedrals.
Illustrated with colour photographs, this
book offers an historical introduction to
the buildings, life and influence of medieval abbeys and priories, followed by a
gazetteer with brief descriptions of more
than 200 sites open to the public.
Peter Hill Northamptonshire has a rich
heritage of social history in its churches
and churchyards and Dr Hill’s research
into burial sites uncovers a wealth of intriguing information. Ostensibly concerned with death, his book actually reveals a great deal about the lives, customs
and genealogy of the county’s erstwhile
inhabitants. AMBERLEY 2011 PB 160pp Illus
WILD LAND
Images of Nature
from the Cairngorms
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Louis MacNeice In 1937 Louis MacNeice visited the Western Isles of Scotland, following loosely in the footsteps
of Johnson and Boswell. In this account
he described with candour the people
he met, the customs he observed and the
landscapes he passed through on his nomadic travels through the archipelago.
The book offers both an idiosyncratic
record of what is now an all-but-vanished
culture, and an insight into the life of
the poet of Autumn Journal. Introduction
by Tom Herron. POLYGON 2007 PB 271pp
I CROSSED THE MINCH
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CLAP HANDS FOR THE
SINGING MOLECATCHER
Scenes from a Scottish Childhood
Roderick Grant’s memoirs of his adventurous boyhood in Morayshire in the late
1940s and 1950s paint a vivid picture of
life in a remote country community, from
his first day at school, accompanied by
his pet jackdaw, to skinny dipping with
his first love; and he portrays local characters including his grandfather, known
to all as The Red Terror, and top of the
bill at local concerts, ‘The Singing Molecatcher’. BIRLINN 2009 PB 176pp
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
BRUNETTI’S VENICE
Walks through the Novels
Toni Sepeda Visitors to Venice might hope to find a
local friend to guide them through its labyrinthine
streets, passing on bit of history here, a morsel of
gossip there, before stopping for a prosecco. Who
better than Commissario Guido Brunetti, hero of
Donna Leon’s bestselling detective novels? These
enjoyable, instructive walks take the reader through
the city’s sestieri in the footsteps of the amiable
sleuth. Leon herself provides the introduction.
NEW
WILLIAM HEINEMANN 2009 HB 300pp
£12.99 16539 now £4.99
THAILAND
The Worldly Kingdom
NEW
SUNRISE ON THE
SOUTHBOUND SLEEPER
The New Telegraph Book
of Great Railway Journeys
Ed. Michael Kerr ‘Railway termini are
our gates to the glorious and the unknown’, wrote EM Forster, ‘Through them
we pass out into adventure and sunshine’.
This much-acclaimed collection of journeys from the pages of the Daily Telegraph
and Sunday Telegraph celebrates the
magic of the railway, whether simply travelling in Cornwall or (with difficulty) in
Cuba; following famous routes such as the
Trans-Mongolian or India’s Maharajas’
Express; or being propositioned by a
stranger on a train. AURUM 2011 HB 351pp
£20.00 16701 now £6.99
PANTHER SOUP
A European Journey
in War and Peace
John Gimlette May 1945 found Europe
in chaos, its infrastructure wrecked, its
cities thronged with refugees. Accompanied by US veteran Putnam Flint, the
award-winning travel writer John Gimlette
sets out to uncover the legacy, and meet
the survivors, of that titanic conflict. Starting in Marseille, the pair make their way
though France and Germany to Austria,
providing a quirky, erudite and moving
insight into the ideals and ideologies of
the continent. ARROW 2009 PB 415pp Illus
£8.99 99912 now £3.99
Maurizio Peleggi Tourist brochures portray Thailand as an ‘exotic’ country with
a rich cultural heritage and strong religious tradition; the reality is more complex. This revealing study charts the development of the Thai nation-state, its
changing boundaries, the modification of
its ethnic and linguistic make-up, class
and gender relations, the role of institutions and ideologies, the emergence of a
modern culture, and Thai perceptions of
others – principally Burmese, Chinese and
Westerners. REAKTION 2007 PB 256pp Illus
£16.95 16583 now £6.99
Chris Bonington More than half a century
after Hillary and Tenzing’s successful ascent, Everest remains the mountaineer’s ultimate goal – and most lethal challenge.
This volume brings together Chris Bonington’s three published accounts of his attempts on the peak: the first charts his 1972
climb, defeated by savage winds and bitter
cold; the second, his triumphant ascent
three years later; and the third, the tragic
1982 expedition, on which two climbers
perished. WEIDENFELD 2002 HB 687pp Illus
EVEREST EXPEDITIONS
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NEW SIX MONTHS IN SUDAN
A Young Doctor in
a War-Torn Village
James Maskalyk In 2007, James Maskalyk set out for the Sudanese town of Abyei
to work as a doctor for Médecins Sans
Frontières. He returned six months later
profoundly changed. His best-selling account of his experiences offers a rare
glimpse into the life of an aid worker in a
war zone. Visceral and immediate, it is
essential reading for anyone wishing to
understand our conflict-ridden world.
CANONGATE 2009 PB 340pp
£8.99 12040 now £3.99
NEW 30 DAYS IN SYDNEY
A Wildly Distorted Account
Peter Carey After living abroad for years, novelist
Peter Carey returns home to his native Sydney and
attempts to capture its character. With the help of an
assortment of friends, he embarks on a picaresque
voyage of rediscovery that veers from the harrowing
to the insanely funny, laced with a humour as
bracing as the southerly winds that sometimes
batter the city’s shores. BLOOMSBURY 2008 PB 250pp
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Ed. Clare Harris; Tsering Shakya During the 1930s and 1940s the British cultivated close political and social ties with
Tibet. British and Tibetans ate and drank
together, watched films and played football together against the magnificent backdrop of Lhasa’s palaces and monasteries.
Based on an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers
Museum in Oxford, and illustrated with
many period photographs and a unique
set of watercolours by the Indian artist
Kanwal Krishna, this book offers an intriguing glimpse into a vanished way of
life. SERINDIA 2003 PB 176pp Illus 280x220mm
SEEING LHASA
HALF MOON
Henry Hudson and
the Voyage that Redrew
the Map of the New World
Douglas Hunter Disobeying orders from
the Dutch East India Company to find an
arctic route, north of Russia, to the Orient,
Henry Hudson sailed west to discover the
river that bears his name. This first full
study of his 1609 adventure plots the
course of his ship, the Half Moon, from
charts, logbooks and contemporary
records, sketching an entirely new route.
Against a backdrop of espionage and economics, it sheds new light on the motives
of this inscrutable and ruthlessly ambitious
seafarer. BLOOMSBURY 2009 HB 334pp
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HEALTH/MIND, BODY & SPIRIT
Jennifer Pohlman Rather than overstraining
the body with arduous and repetitive training,
Pilates employs simple low-intensity exercises
designed to promote greater physical strength
and flexibility as well as improve energy
levels and the ability to cope with stress. The
DVD contained in this boxed set demonstrates
a complete workout routine which can easily
be performed at home, and the accompanying
book demonstrates 27 different beginner-level
exercises with step-by-step photographs.
NEW
SIMPLY PILATES
HINKLER 2007 PB+DVD 64pp Illus
£12.99 16588 now £5.99
Graham Bryant; Lorraine James Practised
for centuries in China, Tai Chi has grown
hugely in popularity in the West in recent
years, providing simple and low impact
exercise that keeps the body strong and
supple and helps calm the mind. This boxed
set includes an illustrated book providing an
introduction to the movements that make up
the basic form, and a DVD of a 40-minute
class that demonstrates the correct positions
and postures. HINKLER 2006 PB+DVD 64pp Illus
OVERCOMING HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE
The Complete Complementary
Health Program
NEW
Sarah Brewer High blood pressure affects more and more people in the West
and if left untreated can lead to heart disease and kidney problems. Fatty foods,
alcohol, stress and a lack of exercise are
contributory factors and this guide offers
advice on nutrition and lifestyle and programmes of diet and daily exercise as well
as information about complementary
treatments such as acupuncture and yoga.
SIMPLY TAI CHI
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DUNCAN BAIRD 2008 PB 180pp Illus
FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY
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LOST LORE
A Celebration of
Traditional Wisdom
Mary Anne Dunkin This book provides
information about the various forms
of arthritis and the professional health
care available, and shows how self-help
techniques such as exercise and relaxation
can help manage pain and improve
well-being. CLASS 2009 HB 220pp Illus
MANAGING YOUR ARTHRITIS
Una McGovern; Paul Jenner How
did people cope without supermarkets,
satnavs and computers? This engrossing
compendium of ‘lore’ quotes from old
authorities as it describes – and hopefully
revives – knowledge and skills such as
calculating with logarithms, using a map
and compass, writing by hand or making
fire without matches. The book covers
health and well-being, education and
knowledge, socializing and celebration,
household tasks and outdoor life, and
delves into the histories of its topics as
well as their practical application.
68975 now £6.99
OSTEOPOROSIS
The Silent Epidemic
Marilyn Glenville Osteoporosis affects
one in three women over the age of 50
in the UK, yet public awareness and
understanding of the condition remains
very limited. Dr Glenville’s book provides
a complete account of what osteoporosis
is, the risk factors, tests for bone density,
alternative and conventional treatments
and, most importantly, how to take steps
to prevent bone loss by attention to diet
and lifestyle. KYLE 2010 PB 208pp
CHAMBERS 2009 HB 384pp Illus 245x190mm
£25.00 95501 now £9.99
HAUNTED SECOND
WORLD WAR AIRFIELDS
Volume One: Southern England
£10.99 91831 now £4.99
THE LOST EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS
History’s Greatest Mystery Revealed
Gavin Menzies The legend of Atlantis, dismissed
by scholars for centuries as myth, has generated
colourful theories, many of them proposing a lost
utopian society. In this book, Gavin Menzies
contends that Atlantis was in fact part of the Minoan
civilization, specifically located on the volcanic
island of Santorini, which before a major eruption
in 1450 BCE resembled the Atlantis described by
Plato. WILLIAM MORROW 2011 HB 400pp Illus
$26.99 10851 now £6.99
Christopher Huff During the last
century many paranormal phenomena
were reported at historic RAF airfields;
in this volume Christopher Huff
focuses on 79 sites that were in use
during the Second World War. He
provides details of their buildings,
specifications and condition, together
with plans and an outline of key
historical events at each airfield which
may have a bearing on the extent and
character of the reported phenomena.
FONTHILL 2012 HB 352pp Illus
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NEW MR SPEAKER
The Office and the Individuals since 1945
Matthew Laban Almost as old as Parliament
itself, the office of Speaker has progressed from an
internal parliamentary post into one of the most
recognized public roles in British political life.
Laban’s absorbing study details the powers, duties
and responsibilities of the office, describes its
development since 1945 and the process of
election, but his emphasis is on how individuals
have put their mark on an office that evolves
through precedent. With a foreword by the first
Madam Speaker, Betty Boothroyd.
BITEBACK 2013 HB 336pp
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NEW EMINENT PARLIAMENTARIANS
The Speaker’s Lectures
Ed. Philip Norton To celebrate the centenary of
the 1911 Parliament Act, John Bercow, Speaker of
the House, instigated a series of public lectures in which current parliamentarians
assessed the careers and characters of parliamentary giants. In this volume, Philip
Norton introduces eleven lectures on politicians from David Lloyd George to Tony
Benn, including Shirley Williams’s lecture on Nancy Astor, Nicholas Soames on
Winston Churchill and Andrew Adonis on Roy Jenkins. With a foreword by John
Bercow. BITEBACK 2012 HB 300pp Illus
MY TRADE
A Short History
of British Journalism
Andrew Marr How do you decide what
is a story and what isn’t? How do hacks
get scoops? These and other questions
are answered in Marr’s masterly short
history of British journalism – and his
part in it. Wry, witty, shrewd and selfdeprecating, it offers an insider’s account of the business, how it works and
what it really means, and makes an important contribution to the debate about
the future of the press. PAN 2005 PB 432pp
NEW
£22.00 16797 now £7.99
Janan Ganesh George Osborne is the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer in over
a century and author of the most radical austerity programme since the Second
World War. He is also the government’s political brain, a man with an eye on the
premiership and one of the most controversial figures in British politics. Janan
Ganesh, political columnist for the Financial Times, charts the arc of Osborne’s
ascent to power and chronicles the political era
he has helped to shape over two decades.
NEW
£9.99 16820 now £4.99
GEORGE OSBORNE: The Austerity Chancellor
BITEBACK 2012 HB 330pp Illus
£20.00 16798 now £6.99
Michael Spicer An MP from 1974 to 2010,
when he was elevated to the House of Lords,
Michael Spicer was a distinguished member
of Margaret Thatcher’s government, serving
as minister for aviation, housing, electricity
and coal. Honest, witty and perceptive, his
diaries chart the intrigues and rivalries of the
Thatcher administration, and the dispiriting
years in opposition before the rise of David
Cameron, while shedding light on the arcane
rituals of Parliament with humour and
insight. BITEBACK 2012 HB 654pp Illus
NEW
THE SPICER DIARIES
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CONSTELLATION
OF GENIUS
1922: Modernism
and All that Jazz
Kevin Jackson January 1922: TS Eliot is
in Paris working on The Waste Land with
Ezra Pound; in Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks decides to film the story of Robin
Hood; insulin is first successfully used to
treat diabetes; and Vaughan Williams’s
Pastoral Symphony is premiered in London: month by month, Jackson presents
that spectacular year through the diaries
of writers, artists, anthropologists and actors, philosophers, playwrights, politicians
and scientists at work during the heyday
of modernism. WINDMILL 2013 PB 544pp
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Ed. Vincenzo Merolle Presented with full introductions, notes and bibliographies,
these 32 essays by the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson (17231816) provide, in the words of Merolle, ‘an exhaustive picture of the thinking of the
author’. Although mostly within moral and political philosophy and aesthetics, the
essay topics range widely, including Ferguson’s thoughts on perfection and
happiness, cause and effect, the French Revolution and its consequences for Europe,
waking dreams and nature and art. No jacket. PICKERING & CHATTO 2006 HB 464pp
THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ADAM FERGUSON
NEW
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David James’s study reveals the ancient Celts and their ways through historical,
social, cultural and spiritual detail, it explains their spread throughout Europe, and
celebrates the thriving modern traditions of contemporary Celtic culture. This is part
of the New Celtic Library, a series of books that explores and celebrates Celtic
culture, history and tradition and the vital contribution of the Celtic peoples to our
cultural heritage. ST DAVID’S 2007 PB 114pp
THE CELTIC TRADITION
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MUSIC
THE VIOLIN
An Illustrated History
Yehudi Menuhin Drawing on his
long lifetime’s experience of the
violin, Lord Menuhin tells the
instrument’s story, from its
primitive origins to its ubiquity
in the popular, folk, classical and
jazz music of today. He also tells
anecdotes about the legendary
performers and composers whom
he met during his career and reflects
on his experience of different
performing traditions around the
world. The accompanying CD
features eight of Menuhin’s
recordings, ranging in date from the 1950s to the end of his
career. FLAMMARION 2009 HB + Audio CD 300pp Illus 275x210mm
HANDEL’S BESTIARY
In Search of Animals
in Handel’s Operas
NEW
Donna Leon Crime writer and Handel
enthusiast Donna Leon presents a collection of twelve Handel arias that make reference to animals, from the lion (Qual
leon che fere irato from Arianna in Crete)
to a turtle dove (Fuor di periglio from
Floridante). For each animal there is an
illustration by Michael Sowa, the words
of the aria in Italian and English and a
short essay on its significance. The arias
are performed on the accompanying audio
CD, with Alan Curtis conducting Il Complesso Barocco. WILLIAM HEINEMANN
2011 HB + Audio CD 141p Illus 176x140mm
£16.99 16879 now £4.99
£32.00 16413 now £14.99
Ginette Neveu: The
first among the great
women violinists
Chris Haigh What’s the difference between a fiddle and a violin? ‘Fiddle players have
more fun’ is Chris Haigh’s answer. Here, he presents a practical course in modern fiddle
playing, from buying an instrument to the whole range of today’s styles, including Irish,
Scottish, bluegrass, country, jazz, blues and rock. The book includes a history of the
fiddle, biographies of great players, more than 160 musical examples and pieces to play
and two CDs of exercises. Ringbound. BACKBEAT 2009 HB + Audio CD 304pp 267x203mm
THE FIDDLE HANDBOOK
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THE SECRET LIFE OF
MUSICAL NOTATION
Defying Interpretive Traditions
Roberto Poli Did instructions in musical scores
have the same meaning in the 18th and 19th centuries
as they do today? Using composers’ manuscripts,
engravers’ copies and contemporary writings, pianist
Roberto Poli analyses the evidence for the changing
uses of notational features such as ‘hairpins’,
sforzandi and rinforzandi. He argues that traditions
of interpretation have rested too much on received
knowledge, which can change over time, rather than
historical accuracy. AMADEUS 2010 PB 162pp
99991 now £5.99
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
A Lyric Symphony
Marc D Moskovtiz Zemlinsky is perhaps the most
important composer no one has ever heard of.
A protégé of Brahms and a crucial influence on Mahler and Schoenberg, he was a key
figure in the musical life of turn-of-the- century Vienna. By the time of his death in
New York in 1942, however, his work had fallen into obscurity. This authoritative yet
readable biography charts his life and career, and makes a powerful case for a re-evaluation of his symphonies, operas and songs. BOYDELL 2010 HB 403pp
£25.00 98795 now £9.99
NEW SHOUT!
The True Story of the Beatles
Philip Norman An absorbing examination
of unprecedented success, artistic achievement, disastrous business deals and disintegrating personal relationships, Philip
Norman’s biography of the Beatles has
long been considered the definitive work
on the subject. First published in 1981,
shortly after the assassination of John
Lennon, this updated edition takes the
story into the 21st century and includes
new insights from interviews, and information that has emerged in recent decades.
PAN 2003 PB 525pp Illus
£9.99 16647 now £4.99
PIANO: THE CLASSICS FROM A TO Z
(Two volumes)
Ed. Margarete Babinsky There is plenty for the keen pianist to enjoy in this twovolume boxed set of new cleanly-set editions, which brings together more than 160 of
the finest and best-known short pieces in the classical solo repertoire. Ranging from
Bach, Scarlatti and Couperin to Scott Joplin, the works include Chopin’s Minute Waltz,
dances by Schubert, and selections from Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words and
Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. NAUMANN & GOBEL 2005 PB 416pp 305x230mm
11063 now £6.99
ELVIS REMEMBERED 1935-1977
The Authorized Box Set from the Graceland Archives
Gillian G Gaar The first star of the rock ‘n’ roll era, Elvis Presley has been mythologized
like no other performer. This lavishly produced box set includes an illustrated book
telling the story of his career with dozens of removable facsimile reproductions of
telegrams, letters, concert tickets, set lists and other ephemera. There is also a reproduction of an early concert poster, a large format poster for the film Jailhouse Rock and
a DVD containing rare footage of The King. CARLTON 2012 Box 120pp Illus 280x315mm
£50.00 10571 now £19.99
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MUSIC/PERFORMING ARTS
NEW THE 100 BEST ALBUMS
OF ALL TIME
Toby Cresswell; Craig Mathieson
Whether your own favourite albums are
included in the list or not, this book offers
a thoughtful exploration of some
of the most significant music in pop
history, ranging from the rock ‘n’ roll
pioneers of the 1950s to a handful of
21st century releases. Each entry includes
notes about the album, the track listing,
a colour reproduction of the cover and,
in the case of the top ten, extended essays
and additional archive photographs.
HARDIE GRANT 2013 HB 256pp Illus
260x235mm
No. 1: Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
£20.00 11911 now £7.99
Graeme Thomson Subtitled ‘A History
of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood,
Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure
as Related in Popular Song’, this investigation of ‘death music’ draws on original
interviews with artists such as Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney to explore how
songs from Mississippi John Hurt’s Stack
O’Lee Blues (1928) to Muse’s Thoughts
of a Dying Atheist (2003) have documented evolving attitudes to death.
I SHOT A MAN IN RENO
A THEATERGOER’S GUIDE
TO SHAKESPEARE
Robert Thomas Fallon In his ‘surveys’ of
Shakespeare’s plays, Professor Fallon aims
to enhance the theatregoer’s enjoyment of
a performance by demystifing the language,
poetry and allusion of Shakespeare’s text
and sketching the essential shape of each
play. The most frequently staged plays such
as Hamlet and Othello, receive the fullest
treatment, with more detailed, scene by
scene appraisals of the dialogue and characters, but all the plays are covered, with
outlines of their plot, characters and setting.
CONTINUUM 2008 PB 270pp
£11.99 81521 now £3.99
THE POCKET GUIDE TO
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Diane Canwell; Jon Sutherland Reviewing Iolanthe in November 1882, the
Morning Advertiser’s critic opined, ‘Neither Mr Gilbert as an author, nor Mr Sullivan as a musician, write for immortality’; but well over a century later
enthusiasm for works such as The Mikado
continues unabated. The Pocket Guide
gives a concise, yet detailed account of
Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaboration, exploring the themes around each operetta,
setting them in historical context, and surveying some of their greatest performers.
REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 192pp Illus
£12.99 10991 now £4.99
IVAN R DEE 2001 PB 491pp
£11.95 10613 now £5.99
COMEDY RULES
From the Cambridge Footlights
to Yes Prime Minister
Jonathan Lynn Theatre director, film director, producer, actor and award-winning
co-writer of Yes Minister and Yes Prime
Minister, Jonathan Lynn has been making
people laugh since his ‘funny turn with
Eric’ (Idle) while they were both students
at Cambridge. His 150 rules of comedy are
both memoir and masterclass, full of hilarious anecdotes and a must-read for any aspiring comedy writer. FABER 2012 PB 203pp
£8.99 99883 now £3.99
THE THEATRIC
TOURIST
A Facsimile
Robert Thomas Fallon More than 800
characters appear in Shakespeare’s plays;
an astonishing variety of kings and
queens, villains and heroes, sinners and
sinned against. In this accessible guide to
Shakespeare in performance, Fallon examines 60 characters that modern theatregoers are most likely to encounter. Covering most of the central roles and
significant supporting figures such as Bottom, Caliban and Malvolio, the essays
analyse the characters’ qualities and follow the evolution of those who undergo
change over the course of the play.
IVAN R DEE 2004 HB 302pp
Ed. Iain Mackintosh James
Winston In the late 18th
century, actor-manager James
Winston toured Britain taking
notes on the theatres of every
town. Published in 1804-5
with 24 hand-coloured plates,
and reproduced here in
facsimile, his work is a unique
record of theatrical life.
Winston notes the history,
architecture and capacity of
The Theatre, Newbury, completed in 1802
each venue, painting a vivid
picture of Georgian England, from Plymouth (‘a nightly scene of riot and
debauchery’) to Brighton, where ‘the manager is perpetually bringing out women of
loose character.’ No jacket. BRITISH LIBRARY 2008 HB 91pp Illus 290x230mm
£45.00 97166 now £16.99
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A THEATERGOER’S GUIDE
TO SHAKESPEARE’S
CHARACTERS
£19.99 84848 now £6.99
HAMLET, PRINCE
OF DENMARK
William Shakespeare This extraordinary, beautifully crafted volume is an
unabridged reprint of an edition of Hamlet illustrated by John Austen and originally published in 1922. Austen was one
of a group of artists who fell under the
influence of Aubrey Bearsdsley after
1900, and he uses atmospheric black
and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces to astonishing effect, evoking
the play’s themes of treachery, revenge
and madness. Bound in black, embossed
mock leather. American-cut pages.
CALLA 2010 HB 176pp Illus 278x213mm
£23.99 10624 now £9.99
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PERFORMING ARTS
NEW THE STORY
OF THE SCENE
The Inside Scoop on
Famous Moments in Film
Roger Clarke During the filming of
David Lean’s famous film Lawrence
of Arabia, the costume department
gradually changed the fabric of Peter
O’Toole’s flowing robes to lighter and
finer materials, so that by the end of the
film he appeared more ethereal, almost
ghost-like. This enjoyable collection of
movie stories identifies 80 similarly
celebrated moments in cinema history
and investigates the myths and legends
that surround them.
METHUEN DRAMA 2009 PB 164pp Illus
Steve McQueen’s attempted escape to
Switzerland in The Great Escape, 1963
£14.99 11939 now £5.99
NEW THE GODFATHER WAS A GIRL
The Real-Life People Who
Inspired Famous Characters
Eamon Evans From Molly Bloom to Milo
Minderbinder, Dorian Gray to Crocodile
Dundee, Eamon Evans reveals some 400 real
people behind the creations of playwrights,
novelists, film makers and screen writers.
Among the revelations are Tennessee Williams’s
inspiration for Blanche Dubois (himself) and
the struggling actors with one light bulb
between them who became Withnail and I.
NEW PERIOD HAIRSTYLES
For Studio, Stage and Screen
Kit Spencer This practical reference for
actors, hair stylists, photographers, stage
managers and directors, provides step-bystep instructions to create period hairstyles.
Starting with a gallery of film stills showing authentically recreated hairstyles from
prehistoric times to the 21st century, the
author then picks a key look and shows
how to reproduce it. For professionals and
anyone seeking a touch of vintage style
for their own hair, this sourcebook will
provide the techniques and inspiration.
HARDIE GRANT 2011 PB 366pp Illus
£8.99 11921 now £3.99
METHUEN DRAMA 2008
HB 256pp HB 210x160mm
£19.99 11995 now £6.99
HAVE YOU SEEN...?
A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
David Thomson What was the greatest movie ever made – Citizen Kane or Vertigo?
To this and other cinematic posers, Thomson brings a lifetime’s experience as film
critic and movie lover. From Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein to Zabriskie
Point, and covering movie-making from 1895 to 2007, serious arthouse to wacky comedy, Thompson’s short, sharp essays rescue dozens of great films from obscurity and
puncture several undeserved reputations. American-cut pages. KNOPF 2009 HB 1024pp
$39.95 88827 now £9.99
Ed. Geoff Brown The incomparable correspondent of the BBC’s Letter from America
began reviewing films as a Cambridge undergraduate in the 1920s and continued to do
so for the BBC and The Guardian newspaper throughout his long career. In these articles
– most of them previously unpublished – Cooke gives his measured opinions on famous
films and the movie business, and recalls the various stars he knew personally, among
them Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart.
Selected and introduced by Geoff Brown.
ALISTAIR COOKE AT THE MOVIES
PENGUIN 2011 PB 395pp
£12.99 98047 now £4.99
MY LIFE IN PIECES
An Alternative Autobiography
Simon Callow is not only one of our most
mercurial and unpredictable actors; he is also
the author of the definitive biography of Orson
Welles and a classic text on the craft of acting.
In this stylishly written and richly insightful
autobiography, he reflects with wisdom and
humour on his chaotic boyhood in Southern Africa,
the stars – from Olivier to Frankie Howerd – he
has worked with, and the rewards and vicissitudes
of a life in the theatre. NICK HERN 2010 HB 444pp
£20.00 98529 now £7.99
NEW ANIMATION
A Handy Guide
Sheila Graber Arranged around 20 key
events in the development of animation,
this book explores the history of the art
from Muybridge’s early experiments with
sequential photography and the first animated films to the 3D computer-generated
images of blockbusters such as Toy Story.
Aimed primarily at the student filmmaker,
there are also instructional sections which
introduce different techniques such as rotoscoping and stop-motion, and the included CD provides supporting animated
examples and further reference material.
A&C BLACK 2009 PB + CD Rom
£19.99 11924 now £7.99
OBSCENE, INDECENT,
IMMORAL AND OFFENSIVE
100+ Years of Censored,
Banned and Controversial Films
Stephen Tropiano Surveying 100 years
of the battle between filmmakers and ‘the
institutions who believe it is their Godgiven right to determine what movies can
and cannot say and show’, Tropiano presents a history of film censorship in the
USA. He then discusses each of the six
major sources of contention – profanity,
violence, sex, nudity, politics and religion
– using case studies of films from The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913) to
The Passion of the Christ (2004).
LIMELIGHT 2009 PB 376pp Illus
$19.95 10596 now £5.99
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FICTION/POETRY
Flora Thompson First published in 1939, Lark Rise is the
first part of the autobiographical trilogy by Flora Thompson
(1876-1947). It tells of Laura’s childhood at the ‘end house’
in Lark Rise, from a decade when relics of ancient country
customs still survived to the Queen’s Jubilee in 1887, after
which ‘nothing ever seemed quite the same’.
NEW
ROBERT E HOWARD’S
COMPLETE CONAN
OF CIMMERIA
LARK RISE
Robert E Howard; Illus. Gregory Manchess
This volume completes the Wandering Star
collection of Howard’s tales of Conan, with five
stories – The Servants of Bit-Yakin, Beyond the
Black River, The Black Stranger, The ManEaters of Zamboula and Red Nails – and all the
writer’s drafts, fragments and ephemera,
including a map of the Hyborian Age. The
stories are illustrated with paintings and
drawings by Gregory Manchess, who has signed
these limited edition (1,000) copies. Slipcased.
Volume Three
£7.99 16574 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. In
these Polygon editions, the novels have
new introductions by Buchan enthusiasts.
WANDERING STAR 2005 HB 406pp Illus
£130.00 98478 now £30.00
NEW
SISTERS IN CRIME
Early Detective and
Mystery Stories by Women
THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN
Ed. Mike Ashley While women writers
dominated detective fiction in the 20th
century, their contribution to its development
in the 19th is seldom acknowledged. This
anthology of 12 stories by Mary E Braddon,
Anna Katharine Green, LT Meade and others
sets the record straight. Presented in
chronological order from 1865 to 1915, these
intricate and gripping puzzles exude a rich
sense of period. PETER OWEN 2013 PB 254pp
GREENMANTLE
Aldous Huxley This was Aldous Huxley’s
first novel, a comic account of young Denis’s
disastrous vacation from school as a guest at
Crome, an English country house inhabited by
the eccentric writer Mr Barbecue-Smith and
local historian Henry Wimbush.
POLYGON 2009-12 PB 282-286pp
£7.99 each now £2.99 each
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.
94725
In one of Buchan’s most unusual novels,
Sir Edward Leithen and fellow weekend
guests at a country house agree to take part
in an experiment that will give them a glimpse
of the future – in the pages of the following
year’s Times. First published in 1932.
Introduced by Stuart Kelly.
11462
In this classic espionage adventure, Richard
Hannay and three more of Buchan’s heroes –
Peter Pienaar, John S Blenkiron and Sandy
Arbuthnot – travel across war-torn Europe in
search of a German plot and an Islamic
Messiah. Introduction by Allan Massie. 11464
£9.99 16363 now £2.99
CROME YELLOW
DALKEY ARCHIVE 2009 PB 156pp
£8.99 98499 now £3.99
Carol Birch A chance encounter with a tiger
from Mr Jamrach’s menagerie in Victorian
London changes everything for young Jaffy
Brown, setting him on course for voyages and
adventures that will push faith and friendship
to their limits. Shortlisted for the Man Booker
Prize, 2011. CANONGATE 2011 PB 353pp
NEW
JAMRACH’S MENAGERIE
£8.99 12036 now £2.99
HUNTINGTOWER
THE LOST QUEEN
A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
£6.99 63407 now £2.99
THE KING’S GREY MARE
Written in 1922, just a few years after the
Russian Revolution, Huntingtower is both a
modern fairy tale and an adventure story, and
introduces some of Buchan’s best-loved
characters – the Gorbals Die-Hards.
Introduced by Ann Widdecombe.
11466
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
(1935)
Norah Lofts One of the best-loved historical novelists of last
century, Norah Lofts tells the story of Caroline Matilda, youngest
sister of George III, and of her life as Queen of Denmark,
married to an insane king, Christian VII. TORC 2008 PB 288pp
Rosemary Hawley Jarman In Jarman’s highly acclaimed
historical novel, Elizabeth Woodville becomes the tool of her
scheming mother, the witch Jaquetta, who is determined to marry
her daughter into royalty, yet blind to the tragedy that awaits
Elizabeth as Edward IV’s ‘Grey Mare’. TORC 2008 PB 400pp
£6.99 65552 now £2.99
AUDIO CDs
Evelyn Waugh Following Charles Ryder, from student
days at Oxford, where he was befriended by the
aristocratic Sebastian Flyte, through to the end
of the inter-war years, Evelyn Waugh’s famous
story of forbidden love and loss of innocence, is
read here by Jeremy Northam. 4 CDs, running time
approx 5 hours. CSA WORD 2008
NEW
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
£18.98 12032 now £5.99
NEW TENNYSON POEMS
To celebrate the bicentenary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
a native of Somersby, Lincolnshire, the Society for
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology reissued these 1969 recordings of his Lincolnshire dialect
poems. The seven works – amusing portraits of six people and one dog – are read by Edward
Campion and Edith Burgess. 1 CD, approx 1 hour. CANTORIS RECORDS 2009
in Lincolnshire Dialect
16769 now £3.99
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HESPERUS CLASSICS
The Hesperus Press is dedicated to
publishing ‘neglected and out-of-print
classics that are so good they deserve a
new lease of life’. Nearly every title has
an editor’s introduction or a foreword –
sometimes both, and information on the
author. HESPERUS 2004 PB 86-197pp
THE LIFE OF MR JONATHAN
WILD THE GREAT
Henry Fielding Based on the career and
crimes of a real-life 18th century gangland
criminal, Fielding’s black comedy is one of
the finest satires in English literature.
Foreword by Peter Ackroyd.
99597
THE MADWOMAN
ON A PILGRIMAGE
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A beautiful
stranger, a pilgrim in search of refreshment,
arrives one morning and straightaway a
wealthy gentleman and his son fall in love
with the ‘madwoman’. This strange tale of
love and betrayal is presented along with two
others written by Goethe in the 1820s – Who
is the traitor? and Not too Far!.
99603
FICTION/POETRY
Nelson Algren’s powerful novel chronicles the troubled life
of an aspiring musician and heroin addict, Frankie Machine,
on the mean streets of Chicago. Frank Sinatra played the part
of Frankie in Otto Preminger’s 1955 film adaptation. This
edition is introduced by Irvine Welsh, with an afterword,
written in 1986, by Kurt Vonnegut.
NEW
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
£12.00 12037 now £3.99
MISTERIOSO
Arne Dahl; The first novel in Arne Dahl’s Intercrime series,
this dark and absorbing thriller follows Detective Paul Hjelm
in pursuit of a serial killer who targets high-profile business
leaders and performs his murder rituals to a rare bootleg
recording of a jazz classic: Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso.
Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge and off-mint.PANTHEON 2011 HB 345pp
£25.95 98229 now £4.99
Franz Kafka’s nightmare story of
helplessness in the face of bureaucracy gone
mad is translated here by Richard Stokes.
Foreword by Zadie Smith.
THE TRIAL
HESPERUS 2005 PB 229pp
£8.99 99649 now £2.99
Joseph Conrad Spanning Conrad’s entire
writing career, the short stories collected
here are: The Warrior’s Soul, Prince Roman,
The Tale and The Black Mare. Foreword
by Philip Hensher.
THE TALE
Saki This anthology brings together 14 rare and
uncollected Saki stories: ‘short sharp tales that
leap effortlessly from weekends in the country
to werewolves, from tea parties to talking cats’
(Adam Newell, from his introduction).
Foreword by Jeremy Dyson.
99634
A SHOT IN THE DARK
Charlotte Brontë This ingenious and highly
imaginative early novella is a tale of love and
jealousy, rivalry and thwarted ambition, set
amid a crisis in the heir-less kingdoms of
Wellingtonsland and Angria. Foreword by
Nicola Barker.
99637
HESPERUS 2008 PB 117pp
£7.99 99640 now £2.99
AS THE PIG TURNS
THE SPELL
Alexander Pushkin This first work of fiction
by Pushkin is narrated by one Ivan Petrovich
Belkin, who tells Gothic tales of Byronic
heroes, lovelorn heroines and supernatural
happenings. Also in this edition is Pushkin’s
parody of contemporary Russia, The History of
the Village of Goryukhino. Translated by Hugh
Aplin. Foreword by Adam Thirlwell. 99642
THE TALES OF BELKIN
MC Beaton The pig roast on the green is
part of a January merriment in the Cotswold
village of Winter Parva; but sharp-eyed
Agatha spots something amiss on the spit –
pigs don’t have pierced heart tattoos with the
names of their loved ones. It’s the 22nd
mystery for Agatha Raisin to investigate.
An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Woody Guthrie This novel by legendary folk
singer Woody Guthrie was finished in 1947 but
remained unpublished until 2013. Set in the ravaged landscape of Dust Bowl America, it tells
the story of a tenant farmer and his wife who
yearn to replace their precarious wooden shack
with a simple adobe dwelling made from the
land itself. FOURTH ESTATE 2013 PB 237pp
NEW
HOUSE OF EARTH
MINOTAUR 2011 HB 299pp
$24.99 11016 now £3.99
POETRY
£8.99 12006 now £2.99
Carson McCullers Edited, with an introduction
by Margarita Smith, this collection begins with
previously unpublished stories or ‘exercises’
written when McCullers was an 18-year-old
student, and includes later stories, essays,
articles and poetry. PENGUIN 2008 PB 304pp
THE MORTGAGED HEART
£9.99 98121 now £3.99
PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
Katherine Anne Porter Selected and
introduced by Sarah Churchwell, these
12 short stories by Katherine Anne Porter
(1890-1980) include the three long tales
published as Pale Horse, Pale Rider in 1937
and widely considered to be her masterpiece:
‘Old Mortality’, ‘Noon Wine’ and ‘Pale
Horse, Pale Rider’. PENGUIN 2011 PB 382pp
The Selected Short Stories
THE WORDSWORTH
BOOK OF HORROR STORIES
NEW
MR James; Sheridan Le Fanu et al
With over 100 stories from 39 masters of the
genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan
Doyle, MR James, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and
Edgar Allan Poe, this is a magnificent collection
from the vintage era of the supernatural tale.
WORDSWORTH 2004 PB 1157pp
11900 now £4.99
£9.99 98130 now £3.99
THE MONK
Matthew Lewis’s 1796 Gothic saga of
sex, magic and violence was described by
Coleridge as ‘poison for the soul’ but garnered
praise from Lord Byron and the Marquis de
Sade. The novel tells of the downfall of
Ambrosia, a pious Spanish monk whose
voyage of seduction leads irresistibly to
corruption of his soul. PENGUIN 2010 PB 462pp
Sean O’Brien For almost 40 years, Sean
O’Brien’s songs, satires and elegies have
sketched a landscape of wild coasts and
urban dystopias as recognisable as those of
Eliot or Auden. This selection, drawn from
across his career, will allow the reader to
appreciate the variety and consistency of his
work, his flair for the dramatic, and his unique
ability to capture the texture of modern life.
£7.99 98119 now £2.99
NEW
COLLECTED POEMS
PICADOR 2012 HB 504pp
£20.00 16366 now £6.99
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CHILDREN’S
Illus. Andrew Grey Illustrated
with the characters of AA Milne’s
Winnie-the-Pooh stories, this
sturdy board book teaches very
young children the alphabet, with
one letter per page, from Apple
to Zebra (Christopher Robin’s
pull-along toy zebra). Age 2+
There’s a huge surprise – and clean socks – for Sir
Charlie Stinky Socks at the end of The Tale of the
Wizard’s Whisper, but all three stories in our special
bundle have good surprises. Is that a Coconut? Yuck!
(by Tony Bradman and Katharine McEwen) could
have ended very badly, but Mama monkey gets to
the ‘coconut’ just in time; and in Jane Fearnley’s
Harry and the Jaggedy Daggers, Harry gets a
hero’s reward after paddling to the rescue in his
teacup (below). Three books. Age 3+
WINNIE-THE-POOH ABC
NEW
DEAN 2012 HB 28pp Illus 208x208mm
£9.99 16855 now £4.99
EGMONT TRIO
EGMONT 2012/13 PB 96pp Illus 245x275mm
THE PETER RABBIT
LIBRARY (Ten volume set)
Beatrix Potter Leaving Flopsy,
Mopsy and Cotton-tail eating
blackberries, Peter Rabbit is off stealing carrots again – 111 years
after he first squeezed under Mr McGregor’s gate. Peter is joined
in this boxed set by the tales of Tom Kitten, the Flopsy Bunnies,
Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr Jeremy Fisher, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle,
Two Bad Mice, Benjamin Bunny, the Tailor of Gloucester and
Squirrel Nutkin. The books are based on the original, authorized
editions, with colourful covers and new reproductions of Beatrix
Potter’s illustrations. Slipcased set. Age 4+ WARNE 2013 HB 310pp Illus
£20.97 10930 now £8.99
‘Harry came dangerously close to the deadly daggers
But he kept going until every egg was saved’
£35.00 95032 now £19.99
Back by
popular
demand
ALICE’S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll; Illus. Harry
Rountree A reprint of the edition
published by Thomas Nelson &
Sons of London in 1908, this book
contains the unabridged text of
Lewis Carroll’s original Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, with the
92 watercolours by Harry Rountree
(1878-1950) that are considered to be
his masterpiece of book illustration.
Rountree was particularly adept
at illustrating animals – there is a
splendid whiting in evening dress –
but he also offers a fearsome duchess
and very, very mad Hatter. No jacket.
TALES
From the creation
Odysseus, J Emmers
the fantastic stories fr
its heroes, with colour
are intended for old
each volume helps w
vocabulary. NORTH
NEW
NEW
CALLA EDITIONS 2011 HB 250pp Illus
NEW
£37.99 94134 now £12.99
THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE
An Aesop Fable Retold
Helen Ward The timeless tale of the country mouse whose contented life is
disturbed by the arrival of a sleek city cousin is retold very simply and with
wonderful illustrations by Helen Ward. Every page is full of detail, whether
the two mice are among bluebells and boxing hares, or in the city, riding in
the ‘automatic ups and downs’. Age 3+ TEMPLAR 2011 HB 40pp Illus 280x230mm
£12.99 95417 now £5.99
NEW SARAH AND SIMON
AND NO RED PAINT
Edward Ardizzone Sarah and
Simon’s father is an impoverished
artist, reduced to selling the silver
teaspoons to buy food for his
family. Their hopes are pinned
on his ‘masterpiece’, but when he
runs out of red paint there’s no
money to buy more. In a wonderful
twist in the tale, Sally and Simon’s
love of reading in an old bookshop
saves the day. The book was
written and illustrated by
Ardizzone (1900-79) in 1965.
GODINE 2011 HB 48pp Illus 227x190mm
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NEW
NEW LEGEND OF
THE CHINESE
DRAGON
Marie Sellier; Illus.
Catherine Lewis
Marie Sellier tells a
simple legend of how the
children of five warring
tribes made a composite
creature from parts of the
guardian animals of each
tribe and the result, the
dragon, was so beautiful
it united the peoples and
became a enduring symbol
of peace. The tale is
illustrated with colourful
woodblock prints and
presented in Chinese by
calligrapher Wang Fei.
Age 5+ NORTHSOUTH 2006 HB 32pp Illus 300x150mm
£9.99 16402 now £4.99
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GREAT
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CHILDREN’S
THE ROBERT INGPEN
ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS
COLLECTION (3 volumes, slipcased)
r
Illustrated by the award-winning
Australian artist Robert Ingpen, this
collection contains three of the bestloved books in children’s literature:
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure
Island; The Wind in the Willows by
Kenneth Grahame; and The Jungle
Book by Rudyard Kipling. Whether
portraying Badger in overcoat and
wellies, the terrifying Blind Pew, or
Mowgli’s beautifully observed wild
animal friends, Ingpen’s paintings
and drawings capture the essence
of these timeless stories. Age 9+
al
ck!
rs
TEMPLAR 2011 PB 608pp Illus 235x198mm
£30.00 96688 now £9.99
TALES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY
creation story to the adventures of Achilles and
Emmerson-Hicks gives lively, modern versions of
stories from Greek mythology and the exploits of
ith colourful illustrations on every page. The tales
d for older children and a glossary at the end of
e helps with the Greek names and new (English)
y. NORTH PARADE 2009/10 HB 125pp Illus 285x210mm
GODS AND GODDESSES
GREAT HEROES
MYTHICAL CREATURES
and Minor Deities
EPICS OF HOMER
Oldřich Růžička; Illus. Tomas Tuma
Layer by layer, the pyramid of board
pages in this ‘Magic Shape Book’
describes the civilization of Ancient
Egypt, its religion, its writing, the
building of the great pyramids, the
Sphinx and mummification. There are
also pages devoted to Howard Carter’s
discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
‘Magic Shape Books’ are boxes; lifting
the lid reveals the pyramid. (Also in
Postscript as Ancient Egypt.) Age 7+
NEW
16349
16350
16352
16346
now £3.99 each
MYSTERIES OF EGYPT
FIREFLY 2011 HB 30pp Illus 188x188mm
$16.95 10590 now £5.99
OCTAVIUS
GRIMWOOD’S
GRAVEYARD
GUIDE
BUILD YOUR OWN
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
CARLTON 2010 HB 30pp Illus 310x225mm
2014 PB 12pp Illus 310x235mm
£9.99 16553 now £3.99
£7.99 12015 now £3.99
NEW
Rod Green
In a coffin-shaped
book, Octavius
Grimwood,
‘investigator of
the supernatural,
spooky and weird’,
conducts a scary
survey of vampires,
zombies and werewolves, ghastly ghosts,
wicked witches and
many more things you
wouldn’t want to meet
in the night. Age 8+
Roald Dahl; Illus. Quentin Blake
With press-out card, no glue and
scissors only to cut out the chimney
pieces, children can build their
own Chocolate Factory as drawn
by Quentin Blake, then bring it to
life with free-standing figures of
Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket,
Grandpa Joe and other characters
from Charlie’s wonderful
adventure. The press-out pieces are
all labelled and accompanied by
very clear assembly instructions,
illustrated with step-by-step
photographs. Age 8+ TOP THAT
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HUMOUR/SPORT
Christopher Matthew Inspired by AA Milne,
Matthew’s little volume of verses celebrates the
age when men and women ‘feel ready to grasp
life by the scruff of the neck, give it a good shake
and move serenely onwards’... or possibly when
‘The unlikeliest types get a taste for cocaine,/
And yachts and Ferraris and villas in Spain’.
WHEN WE WERE FIFTY
JOHN MURRAY 2007 HB 112pp Illus
£9.99 16844 now £3.99
Heath Robinson; Ed. Geoffrey Beare Although
famous as ‘The Gadget King’, William Heath
Robinson produced humorous drawings and illustrations on many more themes than the peculiar
contraption. This collection of drawings (ca 191239) from publications such as The Sketch and The
Humorist, brings together some of his favourite
MODERN MANNERS
subjects – golf, motoring, winter sports, holidays
The Essential Guide to
and courting, with some British virtues thrown in
Correct Behaviour and
– all brilliantly observed, however surreal the sceEtiquette
nario; and he never could resist a gadget opportunity. Edited, with an introduction by Geoffrey Philip Howard delighted Times
Beare. DUCKWORTH 2008 PB 192pp Illus 275x210mmm readers with his ‘Modern Times’
column on contemporary etiquette,
£14.99 94581 now £5.99
fielding questions of table manners,
THE BLACK-OUT BOOK
family feuds and sharing taxis, the
500 Family Games
dress code for kilt-wearers at a PakEvelyn August Compiled by Evelyn August (alias istani wedding (daytime tie, with
Sydney and Muriel Box) and originally published an emergency bow tie in your
in November 1939, this ‘101 black-out nights’ en- sporran) and what to do if it rains
tertainment’ became much sought-after by Lon- at Glyndebourne (‘Outdoor opera
doners forced to stay indoors or in bomb shelters in June brings out the ancestral forduring the Blitz. Reprinted here, with an introduc- titude of the British character’).
tion by Mike Brown, its games, puzzles, jokes, This compilation presents readers’
poems, articles and anecdotes would prove useful questions on ‘etiket’ and Howard’s
in a 21st century power-cut. No jacket.
witty, informative and often hilariBOUNTY 2009 HB 216pp Illus
ous replies. ROBSON 2013 HB 320pp
BRITAIN AT PLAY
THE HANNA-BARBERA
GUIDE TO LIFE
Cool Tips for Top Cats
Carolyn Madden This spoof self-help
guide uses Top Cat and other famous
Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters to present lifestyle tips. The comic advice includes Hong Kong Phooey’s guide to personal training, Dick Dastardly’s anger
management techniques and Fred Flintstone’s secrets of a happy marriage.
EGMONT 2009 HB 93pp Illus 196x145mm
£9.99 98041 now £3.99
SPORT
£9.99 98653 now £3.99
£12.99 16456 now £4.99
THE CLASSIC
MOTOR RACING
CIRCUITS OF EUROPE
Jack Wilson and ‘Ran’ Laurie won gold
for Britain in the coxless pairs at Henley
NEW THE 1948 OLYMPICS
How London Rescued the Games
Bob Phillips London had bid for the cancelled 1940 Olympics and been selected
to host the abandoned 1944 Olympics;
then, despite Lausanne and a host of American cities being far better equipped to
stage the event, the war-ravaged and impoverished city was awarded the 1948
Games, almost without a vote. Drawing
on first-hand accounts from competitors
and journalists, this history of the so-called
‘Austerity Games’ reveals how this came
about, how the event unfolded and its
political, social and sporting significance.
SPORTSBOOKS 2007 HB 336pp
£16.99 16383 now £6.99
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David Venables Putting the
circuits themselves centre
stage, this illustrated history
covers 20 European venues,
past and present, from the
earliest days of Grand Prix
racing at Le Mans to the
Hungaroring, constructed in
1985, and including all four
British tracks (Brooklands,
Donington, Brands Hatch and
Silverstone). Illustrated with around 300 photographs from Fangio drives his 159 Alfa
the world-renowned Ludvigsen Library, the book tells the
Romeo to victory in the
story of each circuit, the drivers associated with it and the 1951 Barcelona Grand Prix
most dramatic events from its racing history.
at the Pedralbes circuit
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 176pp Illus 252x250mm
£24.99 98332 now £9.99
Philip Porter; Foreword by Damon Hill Lavishly produced, including hundreds of
colour photographs and reproductions of original programme covers, newspaper
clippings and ticket stubs, the Original Scrapbooks series is a celebration of
motoring history. This volume is the first of a two-parter telling the story of
renowned speed freak Graham Hill (1929-75), who remains the only racing driver to
have won the triple crown of the World Championship, Indianapolis 500 and Le
Mans 24-Hour race. The book ends in 1966, with Hill having accomplished the
second of these famous victories. PORTER PRESS 2007 HB 177pp Illus 300x350mm
GRAHAM HILL SCRAPBOOK 1929-1966
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JOURNALS/STATIONERY
The journals are arranged clockwise
from Cowslip and Documents top left
FLAME TREE JOURNALS
With famous works of art, magnificently reproduced in colour on their embossed foil
covers, silk page markers and scarlet endpapers, these journals could lend splendour
to the most humble jottings. Each book has 144 ruled pages and a pocket for loose
papers, and closes with a solid magnetic side flap. FLAME TREE 2011-13 HB 144pp 215x155mm
£9.99 each
NEW MUCHA: COWSLIP
AND DOCUMENTS
NEW HIROSHIGE:
THE SEA AT SATTA
MACKINTOSH:
ROSE MOTIF
NEW TIFFANY: ANGEL
STAINED GLASS WINDOW
Bound in elegant red silk with a paisley motif, this
hardback journal contains 200 pages of good quality
plain paper for writing or sketching. Plus a ribbon
marker. DESIGNWALLAS 2011 HB 215x140mm
SILK JOURNAL: Red
£9.99 92058 now £4.99
THE THAMES THROUGH TIME
Heritage Postcards
From the Eisey footbridge at Cricklade in Wiltshire,
past Windsor Castle and Battersea power station
to the Ford Motor Works at Dagenham and sailing
boats at Gravesend, this journey down the Thames
captures life along the river during the century
from 1860 to 1960.
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2007 PB 24pp Illus 120x177mm
£5.99 61324 now £3.99
now £6.99 each
ERTÉ: THE BALCONY 17015
ERTÉ:
WINTER FLOWERS II
99822
NEW BARBIER:
THE BACKLESS DRESS
17014
VAN GOGH: STARRY NIGHT
OVER THE RHÔNE
95203
MUCHA: SUMMER
95196
NEW
17019
17017
98279
17020
EMMA
BRIDGEWATER
NOTECARDS
Covered in an Emma
Bridgewater design of pink
and red hearts on a cream
background, this little box
is made of rigid card and
holds 15 blank notecards –
five each of three designs
on the hearts theme, one
of them with ‘Love’ across
its centre – and envelopes.
BLUEPRINT 2012 155x105mm
£11.99
now £4.99
11907
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LIMITED QUANTITIES ONLY
Anne Brontë’s autobiographical novel provides
a powerful sense of the wretchedness of a governess’s life in Victorian England. This edition
includes Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Biographical Notice’ and a new foreword by Isabel Quigly.
AGNES GREY
CAPUCHIN CLASSICS 2010 PB 224pp
£9.99 93343 now £2.99
ANYTHING GOES
A Biography of the
Roaring Twenties
Lucy Moore interweaves the stories of the most
compelling people and events of the 1920s to
produce an engaging portrait of the decade –
an age, she observes, that was not unlike our
own. ATLANTIC 2008 HB 400pp
£19.99 99922 now £6.99
THE BEAUTY
AND THE SORROW
An Intimate History
of the First World War
Peter Englund; Trans. Peter Graves Exploring how the war years were experienced by the
‘average individual’ who lived through them,
the author uses the diaries and letters of 20 people from all sides, combatants and civilians, in
countries from Belgium to Mesopotamia.
John CL Sparkes
DOVER 2010 PB 176pp Illus 278x213mm
£12.49 11800 now £4.99
DANCE OF THE APPRENTICES
Edward Gaitens Acclaimed as ‘the first great
social critique of Glasgow’, this powerful novel
describes the experiences and struggles of one
family, from the First World War to the end of
the 1920s. CANONGATE 2001 PB 270pp
£7.99 11111 now £2.99
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
The Making of the
Pink Floyd Masterpiece
John Harris
DA CAPO 2005 PB 192pp Illus 200x200mm
£9.50 16784 now £4.99
THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR
Peter Ackroyd’s abridged version of Malory’s
mid-15th century masterpiece on the Arthurian
legends is rendered in modern prose, yet aims
to ‘convey the majesty and pathos of the great
original’. PENGIUN 2010 HB 330pp 227x150mm
Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
PROFILE 2011 HB 341pp 234x155mm
$26.95 95102 now £7.99
DELUX SCRABBLE DICTIONARY
£25.00 95127 now £8.99
THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS
HARPER COLLINS 2011 HB 885pp
Naomi Mitchison Set in Rome during Nero’s
reign of terror, Mitchison’s historical novel
traces the destruction of one cell of the early
church. Written in 1938-9, it echoes the contemporary plight of persecuted minorities under
European fascism.
£8.99 11101 now £3.99
BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE
Peter Pininski Charles Edward Stuart is remembered as the dashing hero of the Jacobite
uprising of 1745. This biography sets the Rising
and defeat at Culloden in the context of the
prince’s whole life, from a childhood in exile
to his sad decline into alcoholism.
The Life
£20.00 84797 now £7.99
THE BOOK OF EXPLORATION
Ray Howgego This lavishly illustrated volume
charts more than 150 of the most influential
voyages in history, from the ancient Egyptians
to the conquest of the poles.
BLOOMSBURY 2009 HB 360pp Illus 289x250mm
$50.00 95095 now £12.99
A BRILLIANT LITTLE OPERATION
The Cockleshell Heroes and the
Most Courageous Raid of WW2
Paddy Ashdown tells the story of the courageous ‘Cockleshell’ canoe raid on the German
merchant fleet at Bordeaux, but also reveals a
sorry tale of Whitehall rivalry behind the scenes,
which jeopardized the mission.
AURUM 2012 PB 448pp Illus
£8.99 16569 now £3.99
A CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND
Christian Miller’s autobiography recalls her
privileged, yet deprived upper-class childhood
in a castle in 1920s Scotland – one of the last
relics of feudal life.
£4.99 11106 now £2.99
COMMANDO MEDIC
Stephen Snelling
Doc Harden VC
SPELLMOUNT 2012 HB 240pp Illus
£14.99 10814 now £6.99
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE
TO ARTISTIC ANATOMY
Luxury quarter-bound edition, in a slipcase,
with ribbon marker.
£15.00 98259 now £7.99
A DOG’S LIFE
Photo. Araldo de Luca With over 200 photographs, including ‘fine art portraits’, images of
puppies and of dogs just fooling around, Araldo
de Luca has created a magnificent ‘voyage in the
dog world’. VMB 2010 HB 208pp Illus 272x220mm
£19.99 94623 now £8.99
DR JOHNSON’S RELIQUARY
OF REDISCOVERED WORDS
Dr N Johnson Aiming to reverse the amoindering of our language, Dr Johnson has emulated his lexicographical namesake in tracking
down obscure and forgotten words and giving
them his own idiosyncratic definitions.
SQUARE PEG 2009 HB 240pp
£9.99 93913 now £4.99
EDITH CAVELL
Diana Souhami This biography of nurse Edith
Cavell, a heroine executed by German firing
squad in 1915 for helping Allied soldiers escape,
offers a rounded portrait of a woman always
driven ‘to do something useful’.
QUERCUS 2010 HB 404pp
£25.00 84678 now £7.99
ERNEST DOWSON
Ed. Monica Borg; RKR Thornton
Post to ITN’s Political Editor, John Sergeant’s
account of his career is imbued with his mordant
wit, keen sense of the absurd and acute powers
of analysis. PAN 2002 PB 318pp
£9.99 97392 now £4.99
THE GREAT CENTRAL
FROM THE FOOTPLATE
Robert Robotham; Frank Stratford Packed
with photographs and data for enthusiasts, this
is a vivid, ‘insider’ account of life at a major
GC locomotive shed and the working of a variety of turns on the line during its final decade.
HEATHFIELD RAILWAY
80101 now £7.99
HERETICS
The Creation of Christianity from
the Gnostics to the Modern Church
Jonathan Wright
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
2011 HB 346pp
$28.00 11807 now £5.99
INSOMNIA AND OTHER
ADULT SLEEP PROBLEMS
Gregory Stores This guide gives clear explanations of insomnia and sleep problems, the
various medical treatments available and selfhelp strategies where exercise, changes in lifestyle or diet are an option. From The Facts series. OXFORD UP 2009 PB 154pp 196x130mm
£9.99 97539 now £3.99
JACK THE RIPPER
Andrew Cook Historian Andrew Cook puts
forward the thesis that Jack the Ripper, the serial
murderer who was never caught, was a media
invention, cooked up to boost newspaper sales
by a shadowy tabloid journalist.
AMBERLEY 2010 PB 256pp
£9.99 92468 now £3.99
JAPANESE WARRIORS,
ROGUES AND BEAUTIES
Ed. Kendall H Brown Dating from 1898 to
1903, these dramatic images of heroes, villains
and damsels in distress provide an interesting
bridge between traditional Japanese values and
a new popular culture of adventure books.
Woodblocks from Adventure Stories
DOVER 2010 PB 127pp Illus 210x280mm
£18.99 97333 now £7.99
JOHNSON’S LIFE OF LONDON
The People Who Made
the City that Made the World
Boris Johnson Both deeply knowledgeable and
incomparably entertaining, Mayor Johnson narrates London's history through its ingenious,
original and larger-than-life residents, from the
Romans to Keith Richards.
Collected Shorter Fiction
HARPER 2011 HB 336pp
BIRMINGHAM UP 2003 PB 189pp
Robin Jenkins Set amid the urban decay of
Lanarkshire, this is the story of Duffy, a seemingly unremarkable, jobless teenager; but, like
Hogg’s Confessions of Justified Sinner, an ambiguity of character and moral ambivalence pervades Jenkins’s novel.
£19.99 99091 now £4.99
GHOSTS OF EMPIRE
Kwasi Kwarteng
Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World
PUBLICAFFAIRS 2011 HB 477pp
$29.99 11737 now £7.99
GIANTS OF STEAM
Jonathan Glancey In this analysis of the technological zenith of the steam era, Glancey examines the innovations of the great locomotive
designers, and makes a passionate case for steam
– past, present and future.
ATLANTIC 2012 HB 381pp
£20.00 96408 now £7.99
GIVE ME TEN SECONDS
John Sergeant From a rather curious childhood
and early years as a reporter on the Liverpool
£20.00 10913 now £7.99
JUST DUFFY
£5.99 11476 now £2.99
KAFKA’S THE METAMORPHOSIS
AND OTHER WRITINGS
Franz Kafka This German Library volume
presents new translations of a selection of 11
of Kafka’s finest short stories, among them:
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The
Hunger Artist and The Great Wall of China.
Edited with an introduction by Helmuth Kiesel.
CONTINUUM 2002 HB 218pp
£75.00 32353 now £9.99
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THE KILLER TRAIL
A Colonial Scandal
in the Heart of Africa
Bertrand Taithe In this study of the VouletChanoine mission to Lake Chad, led by two
French army captains in 1898, Taithe describes
the mission’s descent into violence and how the
atrocity was viewed in Europe.
OXFORD UP 2011 PB 322pp Illus
£12.99 94369 now £4.99
MAJOR BARBARA
George Bernard Shaw Edited by Nicholas
Grene, this is the definitive text of Shaw’s famous drama of the conversion contest between
the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and
his daughter, a Salvation Army Major. New
Mermaids series. METHUEN 2008 PB 204pp
£8.99 11713 now £3.99
MAX PENSON
Photographer of the Uzbek
Avant-Garde 1920s-1940s
Ildar Galeyev; Mion Penson With an introduction to the work of the Uzbek photographer
Max Zakharovich Penson and a memoir by his
son, this volume presents over 140 images of
Uzbekistan in the 1920s and 1930s, researched
and reproduced from Penson’s negatives.
ARNOLDSCHE 2011 HB 184pp Illus 290x220mm
£35.00 11789 now £16.99
MEMOIR OF ITALO SVEVO
Livia Veneziani Svevo Written by his wife in
1950, this is a revealing and often humorous
portrait of the novelist and businessman Italo
Svevo (1861-1928), whose works now stand
alongside those of Joyce, Musil and Proust.
LIBRIS 1989 PB 191pp
£14.95 11026 now £4.99
MESSAGES FROM A
DISAPPEARING COUNTRYSIDE
Robin Page
BIRD’S FARM 2013 PB 202pp
Book club edition.
£14.99 16698 now £5.99
THE MIRACLES OF EXODUS
A Scientist’s Discovery of
the Extraordinary Natural
Causes of Biblical Stories
Colin J Humphreys Written by a physicist,
this study uses modern scientific resources to
explain the miracles of Exodus – the parting of
the Red Sea, manna, the burning bush – and reconstruct the Israelites’ route out of Egypt. Book
club edition. CONTINUUM 2003 PB 366pp Illus
31677 now £4.99
THE MOONSTONE
Wilkie Collins In Collins’s classic detective
‘romance’, Rachel Verinder is given the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond, on her 18th birthday. That very night, the jewel is stolen, and
the curse of the Moonstone begins. First published in 1868. PENGUIN 2010 PB 635pp
£7.99 98120 now £2.99
MOTHER TERESA
Greg Watts draws on Mother Teresa’s diaries
to tell how Agnes Bojaxhiu, a simple girl born
in Albania in 1910, founded her own order, the
Faith in the Darkness
MUSIC FOR THE MASS
Ed. Geoffrey Boulton Smith This is a collection of over 150 of the most popular and rewarding pieces written around 1975-85 for the
prayerful celebration of the Mass. This choir
edition contains the celebrant, cantor or choir
parts and full accompaniments. First published
1985. GEOFFREY CHAPMAN 1985 PB 328pp
Choir edition (full music)
£37.99 10512 now £6.99
Sisters of Charity, and became a figure of international renown. LION 2009 PB 192pp Illus
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS
Arthur David Snider Updated in 2006, this
text explores the solution of partial differential
equations by separating variables, rather than
by conducting qualitative theoretical analyses
of their properties. It is geared towards applied
mathematicians, physicists and engineers.
£10.99 92585 now £4.99
MURDO: The Life and Works
Sources and Solutions
£6.99 11490 now £2.99
NATIONAL GALLERY
OF IRELAND: Essential Guide
DOVER 2006 PB 670pp 280x210mm
Iain Crichton Smith With an introduction by
Stuart Conn, these are the tragi-comic stories
of Murdo Macrae, a social and emotional misfit
and also the ‘anarchic alter-ego cum anti-hero’
of the author. BIRLINN 2001 PB 290pp
Ed. Christine Davis
Ed. Brigid M Boardman Francis Thompson
(1859-1907) is best known for his great poem,
‘The Hound of Heaven’. In this first complete
edition from original manuscript and published
sources, the poet’s biographer reveals the full
range and variety of Thompson’s work.
A New Edition
SCALA 2008 PB 300pp Illus
£14.95 16639 now £5.99
THE NORTH DOWNS
Peter Brandon The relationship between London and the North Downs is a major theme in
this study of the landscape and society of the
region and its special contribution to the history
of early modern England.
PHILLIMORE 2005 HB 288pp Illus
£25.00 40181 now £7.99
THE NOVEL CURE
Ella Berthoud; Susan Elderkin
Book club edition. CANONGATE 2013 HB 462pp
An A-Z of Literary Remedies
£17.99 16699 now £5.99
OLIVIER
Philip Ziegler
$34.95 10637 now £9.99
THE POEMS OF
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Book club edition.
MACLEHOSE 2013 HB 463pp Illus
£25.00 16700 now £9.99
THE ORIGINS OF
FREEMASONRY
Margaret C Jacob Separating fact from fiction,
this study explores the origins of Freemasonry
in the 18th century and discusses topics such as
the ideals lodges sought to impart and the political implications of masonic membership.
Facts and Fictions
PENNSYLVANIA UP 2006 HB 176pp Illus
$39.95 10635 now £9.99
PAPERMAKING ON
THE WATER OF LEITH
Ed. Alistair McCleery; David Finkelstein;
Sarah Bromage Through the recollections of
seven men and women who worked in the paper
mills, this book examines the papermaking industry on the Water of Leith, near Edinburgh,
from the early 1930s to the closure of the last
mill in 1989. JOHN DONALD 2006 PB 192pp Illus
£7.99 11495 now £3.99
PARANORMAL NORFOLK
Frank Meers
£12.99 99662 now £4.99
PARANORMAL SUSSEX
True Ghost Stories
David Scanlan From the A23 between Brighton
and Pyecombe to Ye Olde Smugglers Inn, Alfriston, this is an illustrated gazetteer of Sussex
hauntings, plus a practical introduction to ghost
hunting. AMBERLEY 2009 PB 96pp Illus
£12.99 99663 now £4.99
MUSIC FOR THE MASS 2
Ed. Geoffrey Boulton-Smith; Christopher
McCurry This second collection includes
new music by well-established composers and
by a number of Irish composers. The book
contains the celebrant, cantor and choir parts
and full accompaniments. First published 1993.
Choir edition (full music)
GEOFFREY CHAPMAN 1998 PB 288pp
£34.99 10513 now £6.99
£50.00 10521 now £9.99
THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
AND CONFESSIONS
OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
James Hogg’s masterpiece is set in 18th century
Scotland and recounts the corruption of Robert,
a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, by the mysterious Gil-Martin. First published in 1824.
£6.99 11498 now £2.99
REALM: The Armada is Coming
James Jackson’s historical thriller is set in
1588, as the Spanish Armada prepares to set
sail for England and Elizabeth’s spymaster
Walsingham sends a young soldier and agent,
Christian Hardy, to join a deadly game of espionage, murder and treachery.
JOHN MURRAY 2010 HB 416pp
£12.99 92601 now £3.99
RELIGIONS OF STAR TREK
Ross S Kraemer; William Cassidy; Susan L
Schwartz What evil lurks beyond the stars?
Can science save one’s soul? This book looks
at how Star Trek’s creators tackled religious
questions, and how they maintained a humanistic faith in free will and scientific enquiry over
three decades of sci-fi adventures.
WESTVIEW 2001 HB 256pp
99928 now £5.99
SHADES OF GREENE
Jeremy Lewis Graham Greene’s remarkable
family included a Director General of the BBC,
a mountaineer and a senior MI6 agent; through
their history, Lewis offers a rich panorama of
English life in the 20th century.
One Generation of an English Family
JONATHAN CAPE 2010 HB 592pp
£25.00 93349 now £8.99
SKETCHES OF
YOUNG GENTLEMEN
AND YOUNG COUPLES
Charles Dickens Written while Dickens was
still ‘Boz’, this collection of early short pieces
includes ‘The Mudfog Papers’ – the basis for
what became Oliver Twist. First published in
1838. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 247pp Illus
With Sketches of Young Ladies
£9.99 10605 now £4.99
SLANG: The People’s Poetry
Michael Adams In what aims to be ‘a thorough
inquiry into the very nature and purpose of
slang’, Adams concentrates on American slang
as he investigates its lexical, social, aesthetic
and general linguistic aspects.
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 256pp
£11.99 11397 now £4.99
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF
THE DECCAN, 1300-1761:
EIGHT INDIAN LIVES
The New Cambridge History
of India (Volume 1.8)
Richard M Eaton
CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 PB 233pp Illus
£23.99 11952 now £7.99
A SOURCE BOOK OF
TRACTION ENGINES
Denis Miller From the first ‘self moving’ steam
engines to agricultural machines of the 1930s,
this pocket book is an illustrated reference to
100 vehicles representing the entire history of
the traction engine.
BOUNTY 2008 HB 128pp Illus 110x165mm
£5.99 98664 now £2.99
SPITFIRE VOICES
Life as a Spitfire Pilot in
the Words of the Veterans
Dilip Sarkar’s evocative account of aerial
combat during the Second World War uses the
words and photo albums of 23 surviving Spitfire pilots and the letters and diaries of many
who were killed.
£20.00 84747 now £7.99
STEAMING ACROSS BRITAIN
Julian Holland With more than 350 photographs, this nostalgic look back on the final
years of steam on Britain’s railways provides
potted ‘biographies’ of 33 lines and an overview
of the flourishing steam heritage industry.
AA 2011 HB 256pp Illus 280x220mm
£25.00 88704 now £12.99
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
Woody Guthrie and the
Journey of an American Folk Song
Robert Santelli
American-cut pages.
RUNNING PRESS 2012 HB 256pp Illus 230x215mm
£15.99 16795 now £7.99
TO SCALE THE SKIES
The Story of Group Captain
JC ‘Johnny’ Wells DFC
Peter Cornwell
SPELLMOUNT 2011 PB 223pp Illus
£12.99 10823 now £5.99
TOUGH WITHOUT A GUN
The Life and Extraordinary
Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
Stefan Kanfer What is about Bogie that has
captured the collective imagination for so long?
In answer to that question, this biography illuminates the private Bogart and explores some
of his most celebrated performances in film.
American-cut pages. KNOPF 2011 HB 299pp
$26.95 95465 now £7.99
UNCLE SILAS
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu This ‘romance of
terror’, the story of Silas Rutvyn and his niece,
Maud, is one of Sheridan Le Fanu’s most unsettling and most rewarding novels. Introduction
by Elizabeth Bowen (1946).
A Tale of Bertram-Haugh
NONSUCH 2006 PB 512pp
£6.00 42493 now £2.99
THE VOYAGE OF
THE DISCOVERY
Captain Robert F Scott This second volume
of Scott’s narrative of his first expedition to the
Antarctic provides a personal record of the harsh
conditions and dangers encountered in polar exploration, with illustrations and photographs by
the expedition’s assistant surgeon.
Volume Two
NONSUCH 2007 PB 416pp Illus
£20.00 46365 now £7.99
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WE SAW SPAIN DIE
Foreign Correspondents
in the Spanish Civil War
Paul Preston Drawing on the archives, diaries
and personal papers of writers such as Hemingway, Orwell, Dos Passos and Gellhorn, Preston creates a vivid account of the courageous
men and women who alerted the world to
Spain’s agony. CONSTABLE 2009 PB 537pp Illus
£12.99 16843 now £4.99
WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER
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 Brittain and Harold Nicholson – who
were living in Britain throughout the war. 6
CDs. Running time approx. 7 hours.
Wartime Diaries 1939-1945
MACMILLAN DIGITAL AUDIO 2011
£16.99 97793 now £5.99
WESSEX AVIATION INDUSTRY
Mike Phipp describes the proud aviation heritage of Wessex (Dorset, Wiltshire, western
parts of Hampshire and Berkshire) and details
the many companies that have been based there
over the years. AMBERLEY 2011 PB 320pp Illus
£19.99 99669 now £6.99
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel follows the fortunes
of Molly Gibson, whose world is turned upside
down when her father remarries and a new stepmother and stepsister enter her life. First published 1866. PENGUIN 2009 PB 924pp
£6.99 98170 now £2.99
ACADEMIC TITLES
AFTER MODERNITY
Archaeological Approaches
to the Contemporary Past
Rodney Harrison; John Schofield Drawing
on case studies as diverse as the Cold War and
IKEA, the authors explore what happens if we
take an archaeological approach to developed,
post-industrial societies of the recent and contemporary past. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 340pp
£75.00 11129 now £19.99
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
M Sukru Hanioglu In a concise history of the
Ottoman empire, 1789 to 1918, Hanioglu
examines the opposition of local groups, nationalist movements and foreign powers to imperial efforts to centralize, and the consequences
of that struggle.
PRINCETON UP 2008 HB 256pp
£32.95 97316 now £11.99
CATHOLICS IN ENGLAND
1950-2000
Historical and Sociological
Perspectives
Ed. Michael P Hornsby-Smith In 15 essays,
this volume offers the most comprehensive collection of research-based evidence so far available for the huge social and religious transformations that Catholics experienced during the
second half of the 20th century.
CASSELL 1999 PB 359pp
£50.00 29684 now £6.99
CHURCH-OF-ENGLANDISM AND
ITS CATECHISM EXAMINED
The Collected Works
of Jeremy Bentham
Ed. James E Crimmins; Catherine Fuller
First published in 1817, this work was part of a
wider project to undermine the whole political,
legal and ecclesiastical establishment in Eng-
land, and includes a scathing attack on the
Church’s Catechism and its system of education.
No jacket. OXFORD UP 2011 HB 671pp
£91.00 97320 now £40
COPPER SCROLL STUDIES
Ed. George J Brooke; Philip R Davies
T&T CLARK 2004 PB 360pp
£39.99 66149 now £9.99
CORIOLANUS
Ed. David George With extracts from writings
on Coriolanus ranging in date from 1687 to
1940, this volume from the Shakespeare: The
Critical Tradition series aims to show how the
play was received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. No jacket.
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
THOEMMES CONTINUUM 2004 HB 481pp
£160.00 99437 now £30.00
DARTMOOR’S
ALLURING UPLANDS
Transhumance and Pastoral
Management in the Middle Ages
Harold Fox provides a new perspective on this
famous area of moorland by focusing on transhumance – the seasonal transfer of grazing animals to different pastures – during the AngloSaxon and later medieval periods. No jacket.
EXETER UP 2012 HB 304pp
£55.00 99855 now £19.99
GEORGE III
Peter DG Thomas ‘Primarily a study of high
politics, for the power structure was centred on
the Crown and parliament’, this book provides
a detailed account of George III’s political behaviour. No jacket.
King and Politicians 1760-1770
MANCHESTER UP 2002 HB 269pp
98347 now £7.99
H E BATES:
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY
Twentieth Century
Writers Series No.6
Peter Eads From novels to Christmas cards,
this bibliography includes all the published work
of HE Bates, with the exception of reviews written for periodicals, but including some unpublished pamphlets and plays. No jacket.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2007 HB 238pp
£50.00 10738 now £12.99
HISTORY OF CORNMILLING
Richard Bennett; John Elton This fourth and
last volume of History of Cornmilling (1904)
deals with famous ancient mills going back to
medieval times: Castle Mills, Dublin; Shrewsbury Abbey Mills; Dee Mills, Chester; King’s
Mills, Liverpool; and Jedburgh Corporation
Mills. EP 1975 HB 242pp
Volume IV: Some Feudal Mills
11661 now £5.99
HOMER AND THE ODYSSEY
Suzanne Said A fresh overview of Homer and
Homeric criticism and a review of current approaches, this translation is a revised and expanded version of the original French text
(1998), with a new chapter on the representation
of women in the Odyssey.
OXFORD UP 2011 HB 426pp
£95.00 11258 now £30.00
HORSE AND MAN IN
EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Peter Edwards In this scholarly account, Edwards looks at all aspects of the horse in early
modern England, including attitudes towards
horses, how they were bred and trained, how
they were treated, the work they did, horse racing and cavalry horses.
HAMBLEDON 2007 HB 349pp
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THE IMAGE IN PRINT
Book Illustration in Late Medieval
England and Its Sources
Martha W Driver focuses on woodcuts in preReformation and early Reformation period
books and shows how these images can illuminate book production, reading culture and the
impact of books in late medieval England.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2004 HB 310pp Illus
£40.00 94775 now £19.99
INCONSISTENCY
IN ROMAN EPIC
Studies in Catullus, Lucretius,
Vergil, Ovid and Lucan
James J O’Hara
CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 PB 177pp
£21.99 16718 now £7.99
INFINITY
Ed. Michael Heller; W Hugh Woodin This
interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the
concept through the prism of mathematics and
then offers more expansive investigations beyond mathematics to reflect the broader, deeper
implications of infinity for human intellectual
thought. CAMBRIDGE UP 2011 HB 322pp
New Research Frontiers
£74.00 11797 now £24.99
J A HOBSON
Jules Townshend examines the life and ideas
of JA Hobson (1858-1940), a key figure in the
British social democratic tradition, who helped
lay the intellectual foundations of the Welfare
State. From the Lives of the Left series.
MANCHESTER UP 1990 HB 200pp
11659 now £5.99
LEARNING THE LAW
Teaching and the Transmission
of English Law, 1150-1900
Ed. Alain Wijffels; Jonathan A Bush Comprising 22 essays, this volume covers aspects of
legal learning from the Becket Conflict and the
invention of Lex Non Scripta in the 12th century
to Sir Frederick Pollock and the revival of English legal education in the late 19th century.
HAMBLEDON 2006 HB 444pp
£60.00 98679 now £9.99
MATTHEW AND THE MARGINS
A Socio-Political
and Religious Reading
Warren Carter’s detailed, line-by-line commentary presents the Gospel of Matthew as a
counter-narrative, a work of resistance written
from and for a minority community of disciples
committed to Jesus, the agent of God’s saving
presence. T&T CLARK 2000 PB 656pp
£39.99 65865 now £9.99
MEDIEVAL URBANISM
IN COPPERGATE
RA Hall; K Hunter-Mann
Refining a Townscape
COUNCIL FOR BRITISH
ARCHAEOLOGY 2002 PB 224pp 297x210mm
£15.00 11685 now £9.99
THE PASSING OF BARCHESTER
Clive Dewey This intriguing study of patronage
in the Victorian Church presents the real-life
equivalents of the clergy of Trollope’s Barchester novels in the history of a redoubtable Dean
of Canterbury and the relations he appointed to
lucrative benefices.
A Real Life Version of Trollope
HAMBLEDON 1991 PB 219pp Illus
£19.99 67125 now £6.99
PERSIUS AND JUVENAL
Ed. Maria Plaza Recent decades have seen a
lively interest in Roman verse satire and this
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
collection of 17 essays introduces the best of
modern critical writing on Persius and Juvenal.
The editor’s introduction provides a conspectus
of recent scholarship. Latin quotations are given
in English. OXFORD UP 2009 PB 566pp
£47.00 97609 now £19.99
PETER
Pheme Perkins describes the search for the historical Peter and the influence his image has
had for both Roman Catholics and Protestants.
Apostle for the Whole Church
T&T CLARK 2000 PB 216pp
£25.99 24570 now £7.99
PHILOSOPHICAL AND
POLITICAL WRITINGS
Martin Heidegger
Slightly off-mint.
£95.00 99100 now £9.99
THE RAPE OF TROY
Evolution,Violence
and the World of Homer
Jonathan Gottschall
CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 HB 235pp
£68.00 16720 now £14.99
SERVANTS AND
GENTLEWOMEN
TO THE GOLDEN LAND
Cecille Swaisland presents a scholarly study
of the emigration of single women from Britain
to southern Africa between 1820 and 1939, exploring the women’s reasons for emigrating and
what kinds of work and opportunities awaited
them. BERG 1993 PB 198pp
£18.99 99191 now £5.99
SIR JOHN AUBREY
Sixth Baronet of Llantrithyd
1739-1826
John Aubrey-Fletcher
LEOPARD’S HEAD 1988 HB 388pp
£9.00 11697 now £5.99
THE STORY OF LIBRARIES
From the Invention of
Writing to the Computer Age
Fred Lerner Exploring ‘the ways in which men
and women collected and organized the records
of human experience’, Lerner’s historical narrative spans temple records in antiquity to the
internet today. CONTINUUM 2007 PB 246pp
£27.99 99805 now £6.99
SUPERSYMMETRY
AND BEYOND
From the Higgs Boson
to the New Physics
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
VICTORIAN SENSATION
or the Spectacular, the
Shocking and the Scandalous
in 19th Century Britain
Michael Diamond This entertaining survey
shows how the Victorian popular press regaled
the public with lurid accounts of murder, scandal
and corruption, and laid the groundwork for today’s tabloid media. ANTHEM 2003 HB 328pp Illus
£50.00 84306 now £7.99
THE VISUAL OBJECT OF DESIRE
IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Sarah Stanbury Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety, much
of the devotional arts having fallen victim to
the Reformation. In this study Stanbury explores
that lost traffic in visual images and its impact
on contemporary authors and artists.
PENNSYLVANIA UP 2008 HB 298pp Illus
$65.00 10643 now £14.99
VOLPONE or THE FOX
Ben Johnson Part of the Revels Plays series,
this critical edition (1999) of Volpone edited by
Brian Parker is based on a wider collation of
the 1607 quarto and the 1616 folio versions
than was previously possible.
MANCHESTER UP 1999 PB 365pp
£11.99 98357 now £4.99
VOTING RECORDS OF THE
BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS
(Six volumes)
1761-1820
Ed. Donald E Ginter
No jackets.
HAMBLEDON 1995 HB 3100pp 215x300mm
£400.00 35599 now £35.00
WAR OF EXTERMINATION
The German Military in
World War II 1941-1944
Ed. Hannes Heer; Klaus Naumann First published in Germany in 1995, this volume of 17
essays demolishes the myth, perpetuated by its
generals, that the Wehrmacht was not involved
in the Third Reich’s programme of mass murder
in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
BERGHAHN 2004 PB 476pp
Gordon Kane
£18.50 55766 now £6.99
WILHELMINISM
AND ITS LEGACIES
£13.99 11748 now £5.99
THE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS
IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
German Modernities,
Imperialism, and the
Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
BASIC 2013 PB 211pp
Jeffrey B Gibson This study lays the groundwork for establishing the validity of the thesis
that the early church held a selective and unified
view of the nature and content of the various
temptations Jesus was subjected to in his lifetime. T&T CLARK 2004 PB 378pp
£37.99 94826 now £8.99
THOMAS AND REBECCA
VAUGHAN’S AQUA VITAE:
NON VITIS
Ed. Donald R Dickson The alchemical notebook from the 1650s documenting the work of
a leading ‘experimental philosopher’ and his
wife, is presented here in the original Latin with
facing English translation, and an extensive introduction. ARIZONA 2001 HB 328pp
(British Library MS, Sloane 1741)
£31.00 91988 now £9.99
Ed. Geoff Eley; James Retallack
BERGHAHN 2004 PB 279pp
£15.00 55768 now £6.99
WITTGENSTEIN
Avrum Stroll offers a guide to ‘the greatest
modern philosopher’, outlining the achievements of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and
providing a straightforward analysis of his ‘three
great ideas’. ONEWORLD 2002 PB 162pp
£9.99 91514 now £4.99
WHY WAS CHARLES I
EXECUTED?
Clive Holmes poses and answers eight questions on the Civil War, beginning with ‘Why
did Charles I call the Long Parliament?’ and
ending with ‘Was there an English Revolution?’
HAMBLEDON 2006 HB 260pp Illus
£40.00 94957 now £9.99
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BIOGRAPHY
NEW ANNE BOLEYN
The Queen of Controversy:
A Biographical Essay
Lacey Baldwin Smith Anne Boleyn was the
cause of three of the most important events
in English history: the break with Rome,
the development of the nation state, and the
reign of her daughter Elizabeth I. This elegant
biographical study not only traces her early
life and education, her marriage to King Henry
VIII, and her trial and execution accused of
adultery and incest; it probes the mystery of
how an apparently unremarkable young woman
became the fulcrum of profound historical
change. AMBERLEY 2013 HB 256pp Illus
£20.00 16727 now £7.99
Anne Boleyn as she may have looked
when she first came to court in 1521
NEW CONSTANTINE
Unconquered Emperor,
Christian Victor
Paul Stephenson In 312 CE, Constantine
– one of four emperors ruling a divided
empire – marched on Rome to establish
control of the western empire. On the eve
of the decisive battle he saw a vision
which led him to convert to Christianity.
Stephenson’s biography uses literary,
artistic, numismatic and archaeological
evidence to examine the religious background of Constantine’s conversion and
the life and legacy of a seminal figure
in the political and cultural history of
the West. QUERCUS 2011 PB 384pp Illus
£9.99 16643 now £4.99
Alison Plowden Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the child of Henry VIII and Anne
Boleyn. The Spanish ambassador Count de Feria was later to remark that she ‘gives
her orders and has her way as absolutely as her father did’. In this compelling
narrative history, beginning 100 years before Elizabeth’s birth, Plowden explores
how the motherless and disinherited daughter, yet future queen, gained the strength
of character to become England’s ‘Gloriana’. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 252pp
THE YOUNG ELIZABETH
£9.99 93600 now £3.99
CASTLEREAGH
Enlightenment,
War and Tyranny
John Bew Shy, inarticulate but intensely
driven, Castlereagh helped to defeat
Napoleon and won respect from the great
powers of Europe and America; but he
remains a controversial figure nearly two
centuries after his death, still dogged by
the reputation as a tyrant and reactionary
which followed him from his native Ireland. In this new study Bew reassesses
Castlereagh’s achievements and legacy,
arguing that he reflected the complexity
and tensions at the heart of the European
Enlightenment.
QUERCUS 2011 HB 762pp Illus
£25.00 11836 now £9.99
GLADSTONE
God and Politics
NEW SULEIMAN
THE MAGNIFICENT
André Clot Suleiman I, called ‘the Magnificent’ by Europeans, ruled as Ottoman
sultan from 1520 to 1566, controlling his
state firmly, capturing Constantinople and
extending his empire as the Christian
world struggled to unite against him. In
an informed and intelligent study, Clot
describes the military and economic
successes of a reign which marked the
apogee of Ottoman power, setting them
in the context of Europe’s recent troubled
centuries and examining Suleiman’s reputation as a lawgiver. SAQI 2012 PB 409pp
£14.99 16873 now £5.99
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Richard Shannon ‘We don’t do God,’
Alastair Campbell famously said of
British politics. This was not always the
case, though the traditional view of Gladstone, one of the most influential British
statesmen of the 19th century, has largely
ignored the fact. Drawing extensively on
Gladstone’s own diaries, this masterly and
elegantly written biography restores the
balance to demonstrate the importance of
the great Liberal Prime Minister’s religious faith in shaping his policy on reform
and his sense of Britain’s imperial mission. CONTINUUM 2008 PB 572pp
£30.00 76678 now £7.99
SAMUEL MORTON PETO
A Victorian Entrepreneur
Adrian Vaughan Peto’s bust at Norwich
station is labelled ‘Baptist, Philanthropist
and Entrepreneur.’ Others called him a
liar and a fraud. Chiefly known as a railway contractor, he was also responsible
for Britain’s first shopping mall and other
significant developments. Using personal
letters alongside his political speeches and
articles, this biography reveals the public
and private lives of an entrepreneurial genius who paved the way for the Victorian
industrial age – and for whom the end
mattered more than the means.
IAN ALLAN 2009 HB 192pp Illus
£19.99 97224 now £6.99
NEW BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER
Madame Rachel of Bond Street
Helen Rappaport tells the thrilling story of a
Victorian woman who began life as a fish-fryer
and ended up with a shop on New Bond Street
where wealthy clients flocked to buy her creams
and potions, on the promise of eternal beauty.
Fraught with tales of love affairs, blackmail,
high-profile court cases and suicide, Madame
Rachel’s extraordinary story provides a portrait
of the seamier side of 19th century London.
VINTAGE 2012 PB 320pp Illus
£8.99 16641 now £3.99
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BIOGRAPHY
NEW THE SUGAR GIRLS
Tales of Hardship, Love and
Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
Duncan Barrett; Nuala Calvi The most sought
after employer for young East End women in
the immediate aftermath of the Second World
War was the famous sugar refiner Tate and
Lyle. The company offered the best pay and
provided an unrivalled social life. Highlighting
the camaraderie as well as the hard work, this
book recounts the adventures of some of the
young women who worked there in the 1940s
and 1950s. COLLINS 2012 PB 352pp
£7.99 16648 now £3.99
THE LIFE OF IRENE
NEMIROVSKY 1903-1942
NANCY
The Story of Lady Astor
NEW
Adrian Fort The first woman to take a
seat in the House of Commons in 1919
was in fact an American, Nancy Astor.
This revealing biography tells how she
rose from penury in Virginia to marry into
one of the richest families in the United
States. It traces the religious roots of the
steely moral purpose that underlay her
glamour, and charts her glittering social
circle, which included Churchill,
Lawrence of Arabia and Charlie Chaplin.
ST MARTIN’S 2013 HB 396pp Illus
$25.99 16793 now £5.99
Olivier Philipponnat; Patrick Lienhardt The discovery and publication of
Suite Française in 2004 created a sensation, and revived interest in its author, a
celebrate novelist of the 1930s whose
work had fallen into neglect since her
death in Auschwitz. Drawing on interviews, untapped archives, and Nemirovsky’s diaries, this authoritative biography tells a story as gripping and tragic
as any of her novels, from her childhood
in Kiev and emigration to France after the
Revolution, to the heights of literary fame
and her deportation by the Nazis.
wards, Lev’s incarceration in one of
Stalin’s most notorious labour camps. For
14 years they exchanged letters – Lev’s
beautifully written, uncensored, and
smuggled from the Gulag; Svetlana’s a
testament to constancy and hope from a
grim post-war Moscow. Using their correspondence – the largest cache of Gulag
letters ever found – Figes reconstructs a
story of love’s triumph over adversity.
ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 339pp
£20.00 98106 now £7.99
£9.99 99889 now £3.99
Lothar Machtan In this biographical
study, Machtan’s controversial thesis is
that Hitler was homosexual, and that one
cannot begin to understand him, his entry
into politics and the early Nazi movement
without a clear understanding of this aspect of his identity. The book documents
the homosexual milieu in which the young
Hitler lived in Vienna, describes the homoerotic nature of the early Nazi movement and reveals the way in which
Hitler’s homosexual past threatened him
politically and left him open to blackmail.
Translated by John Brownjohn. Slightly
off-mint. PERSEUS 2001 HB 448pp Illus
THE HIDDEN HITLER
HOW TO SURVIVE
THE TITANIC
The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay
Frances Wilson As the Titanic slid beneath the waves, its owner, J Bruce Ismay,
jumped into a lifeboat and was rowed to
safety. But if Ismay survived, his reputation did not. Condemned by an inquiry
and vilified in the press, he became a
guilt-ridden recluse. Drawing on his unpublished letters to Marion Thayer, with
whom he had fallen in love on the voyage,
this insightful, perceptive account unravels the reasons behind his jump and his
struggle to live with its aftermath. Felttip mark on lower trimmed edge.
HARPER PERENNIAL 2011 PB 348pp Illus
$15.99 16788 now £6.99
63786 now £6.99
JUST SEND ME WORD
A True Story of Love
and Survival in the Gulag
Orlando Figes tells the story of two Muscovites, Lev and Svetlana, whose love
survived the war of 1941-45 and, after-
ALIX AND NICKY
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
Virginia Rounding Opinion is divided over the last
Romanovs: the last Tsar of all the Russias, Nicholas
II, has been described as both lacking in intellect
and intellectually astute; and his wife Alexandra
Fyodorovna has been cast as both evil genius and
saint. Beyond dispute is their love for each other.
In this biography, Rounding uses texts including
diaries and letters to look again at the lives of these
two complex characters and their passionate
relationship. ST MARTIN’S 2011 HB 394pp Illus
Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant
Mountbatten in August 1947 on the
announcement of their engagement
NEW HER MAJESTY
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Diamond Jubilee 1952-2012
Michael Patterson Published to mark
the Silver Jubilee in 2012, this collection
of photographs from the archive of the
Daily Mail shows Queen Elizabeth from
soon after her birth in 1926, through her
childhood and the war years, to her marriage, coronation and on through the
events of 60 years on the throne. The
photographs, including both formal and
informal portraits of the Queen and her
family, are set in context by Michael
Paterson’s narrative of her life and reign.
$29.99 10835 now £7.99
RUNNING PRESS 2012 PB 190pp Illus
$20.00 16786 now £3.99
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BIOGRAPHY
Ashley Jackson Uniquely endowed with talent,
energy and determination, Winston Churchill
was, in the words of Professor Jackson, ‘a
formidably powerful human being, a man
whose achievements and greatness have become
so interwoven with 20th century world history
that it is easy to take them for granted’. In this
much-acclaimed account, Jackson describes the
contours and contradictions of a remarkable life
and career and ‘Winston Churchill’s appointment
with destiny’. QUERCUS 2012 PB 432pp
NEW
CHURCHILL
£9.99 16642 now £4.99
NEW THE SECRET MINISTRY
OF AG AND FISH
My Life in Churchill’s School for Spies
OUTLINES SERIES
The Outlines series of profiles explores
and portrays the various and often
unexpected ways in which homosexuality has informed the life and creative
work of influential gay artists, writers
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David Lancaster Drawing on biographies, critical studies and gay and film
histories, Lancaster presents a significant
re-examination of the life and work of
Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), one of
Hollywood’s most emotionally ambiguous and tragic stars.
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Noreen Riols When Noreen Riols applied for the
Wrens in 1943, it was noted that she was a fluent
French speaker and she soon found herself working
for Maurice Buckmaster, the head of SOE’s
F Section (although she told everyone she was
working for the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries). This memoir recalls her time at the hub
of the French section’s spying operations, helping
to train and brief agents and delivering coded
messages via the BBC. MACMILLAN 2013 HB 318pp
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NEW HARRY H CORBETT
The Front Legs of the Cow
Susannah Corbett Before landing the role of
’Arold Steptoe in 1962, Harry H Corbett had
been gaining a reputation as one of Britain’s
most promising serious actors. Appearing in
Shakespeare, TV drama and Joan Littlewood’s
Theatre Workshop, his intense performances
provoked comparisons to Marlon Brando. This
biography, written by his daughter, recounts
how he rose from a Manchester slum and how
the enormous success of Steptoe and Son restricted
his later career. HISTORY PRESS 2012 PB 460pp Illus
DAVID HOCKNEY
and His Friends
Peter Adam Based on candid conversation with the artist, this profile of David
Hockney traces his artistic development
and, from the perspective of his enduring
fascination with the male nude, charts
his relationship with the friends and
lovers who fired his imagination and are
portrayed in his work.
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LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
Helen Amy In the mid-19th century, a
verger of Winchester Cathedral, puzzled
by the number of visitors to Jane Austen’s
grave, asked ‘Was there anything particular
about this lady?’ Drawing on a little-known
diary, memoirs and letters, this book tells
the story of Austen’s life in her own words,
and those of the people who knew her: her
quiet rural existence as a parson’s daughter,
her development as a novelist – and the
extraordinary posthumous growth of her
literary fame. AMBERLEY 2013 HB 208pp Illus
JANE AUSTEN
MALCOLM X
A Life of Revolution
Manning Marable Malcolm X is
etched into the American imagination
– all too often in negative terms as an
uncompromising militant. In this biography, Marable sifts the evidence to
paint a compelling portrait of this complex, charismatic figure, evoking the
complicated outlines of a black life at
a critical juncture in US history. Brimming with revelations, it shreds popular
misconceptions, restores justice to this
important Civil Rights leader, and
probes the terrible secrets of his untimely death.
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JOHN KEATS
A New Life
Nicholas Roe This fresh and observant biography explodes the conventional view of
the great Romantic poet as a delicate, sensitive figure. Meticulously researched, it
tracks his childhood in the City of London,
the locations that inspired his poems, his
raffish circle of friends - Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Lamb, Severn - and his doomed love
for Fanny Brawne. It magically conveys
Keats's shifting moods and burning ambitions to reveal a passionate, flesh-and-blood
young man in thrall to alcohol, opium, and
sexual desire. YALE UP 2012 HB 446pp
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Vladimir Nabokov In this critical biography, Nabokov analyses his compatriot
Nikolai Gogol (1809-52), ‘the oddest Russian in Russia’, focusing on the masterpieces
– Dead Souls and the short stories The
Overcoat and The Government Inspector.
First published in 1944.
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Tom Williams What we know about Raymond
Chandler is obscured by secrets and half truths
as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long
Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews
and unpublished letters and archives, literary
gumshoe Tom Williams reveals the dark material
that shaped the lonely, ambiguous world of
Chandler’s thrillers: a childhood scarred by his
father’s alcohol-fuelled violence, a wrecked
career as an oilman, and a troubled relationship
with an older woman. AURUM 2012 HB 386pp
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RAYMOND CHANDLER
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The Poetic Lives series offers short,
authoritative biographies of the
world’s best-known poets, illustrated
by extracts from their works. Each
book traces its subject’s youth, writing career and literary legacy, while
demonstrating the interplay of art
and life. HESPERUS 2009-11 PB 144-160pp
POETIC LIVES
DICKENS
A Memoir of Middle Age
Peter Ackroyd Charles Dickens was a
complex personality. Fame, success and
wealth could never assuage the shame and
sadness of his father’s bankruptcy and imprisonment which fuelled his great fiction.
In this abridged edition of his acclaimed
biography, novelist and cultural historian
Peter Ackroyd offers a fresh view of Dickens’s life, demonstrating how the novels
are set in places where he lived, peopled
with characters he knew, and inspired by
the dark preoccupations that haunted him.
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EDITH SITWELL
Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius
Richard Greene One of a trio of aristocratic, eccentric and artistically inclined
siblings, Edith Sitwell is largely remembered for her severe and striking profile
and for her exotic and extravagant costumes. This sympathetic and impressively
researched biography uncovers her troubled upbringing, her religious beliefs, her
passionate love affairs, and the deep pain
she felt at two World Wars. Above all,
however, it establishes the author of ‘Still
Falls the Rain’ as a pioneering Modernist
and a major English poet.
PHILIP LARKIN
Letters to Monica
Ed. Anthony Thwaite Monica Jones was
Philip Larkin’s lover and confidant for 40
years until his death in 1985. On her death
in 2001, almost 2000 letters, postcards
and telegrams came to light. Relaxed, intimate, affectionate and often very funny,
they chronicle, day by day, almost every
aspect of Larkin’s life: his poetry and the
events that shaped it, his work as a librarian, his friendships, and his insights on
literature, from Hardy and DH Lawrence
to WH Auden and Kingsley Amis.
PG WODEHOUSE
A Life in Letters
Ed. Sophie Ratcliffe One of the funniest
writers of the 20th century, PG Wodehouse shied away from a biography.
Drawing on unpublished sources, this definitive edition of his letters gives an unrivalled insight into his life and his comic
creations. Covering his schooldays, his
family’s financial troubles, his musical
comedy career in New York and the unhappy episode when, interned by the Germans, he was accused of broadcasting
Nazi propaganda, it is a book every fan
of Jeeves and Wooster will want.
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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
A Part of Life
LOVE FROM NANCY
The Letters of Nancy Mitford
Ed. Charlotte Mosley Nancy Mitford (1904-73)
was one of the great letter writers of last century,
and her sparkling correspondence to her famous
family and wide circle of friends sheds an
extraordinary light on their lives and the times
in which they lived. The first published collection
of Nancy Mitford’s correspondence, this volume
draws on 8,000 letters spanning six decades
from 1912 to 1973. With introductions, notes
and biographical notes on recipients.
John Mortimer This first part of the autobiography of John Mortimer (19232009) recounts his solitary childhood in
the English countryside, with an increasingly unconventional barrister father
whose blindness must never be mentioned
and a vague but endlessly patient mother;
his boyhood dreams of a tap-dancing
career on the stage and his early years in
the career his father pushed him into,
the law – the profession that was to inspire
his hilarious literary creations.
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LITERATURE
NEW CARELESS PEOPLE
Murder, Mayhem and the
Invention of The Great Gatsby
Sarah Churchwell A former Sunday Times Book of
the Week, Sarah Churchwell’s evocative book takes
us back to the jazz age of 1920s and tells the true
story behind The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald’s
masterpiece, exploring in detail the book’s relation
to the extravagant, scandalous and chaotic world in
which its author lived. VIRAGO 2013 PB 347pp
£9.99 16496 now £3.99
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE
A Feast for Book Lovers
Christopher Frayling One day in 1747,
Horace Walpole’s cat Selima fell into a
tub of goldfishes and drowned, inspiring
Thomas Gray to write his much-loved Ode
on the Death of a Favourite Cat. This delightful, handsomely produced book takes
the poem as a starting point for an exploration of 18th century matters feline, drawing in Rousseau, Johnson and Christopher
Smart. It features three sets of illustrations
for the poem: engravings by Richard Bentley (1753), watercolours by Blake (1797)
and previously unpublished drawings by
Kathleen Hale (1944), above. THAMES &
HORACE WALPOLE’S CAT
HUDSON 2009 HB 80pp Illus 310x240mm
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Roberto Calasso The mid-19th century
metropolis was a new and, for many, a
terrifying phenomenon. Like no poet before him, Charles Baudelaire captured its
ephemeral, fleeting essence. In this extraordinary, genre-defying book, Roberto
Calasso ranges through the poet’s life and
work, focusing on two painters – Ingres
and Delacroix – about whom he wrote
acutely. In a dazzling mosaic of stories,
insights, dreams and analysis, Calasso
explores Baudelaire’s phantasmagorical
vision of Paris – and the nature of modernity. ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 338pp
NEW
LA FOLIE BAUDELAIRE
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John Sutherland Which author had the
heaviest brain? Which railway station is
named after a novel? When did cigarettes
first appear in English literature? And
what do 12 percent of Booker prizewinners have in common? These and many
more arcane questions are answered in
this richly entertaining anthology of trivia
for book lovers, illustrated with the characteristically scabrous drawings of the
Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson.
SKYHORSE 2011 PB 303pp Illus
$12.95 10565 now £3.99
THE POCKET GUIDE
TO POETS AND POETRY
Andrew Taylor After chapters reflecting
on what poetry is, tracing its history and
describing the different types of metre and
verse forms, the Pocket Guide gives brief
biographies and details of the principal
works of over 250 poets, arranged chronologically from Homer to Simon Armitage.
There is also a glossary and an index of
poets. REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 160pp Illus
William Maurice During his lifetime, the
literature-loving mining engineer William
Maurice (1872-1951) amassed a collection of poetry and prose about life in the
pits. Never published before, it is presented in this handsome volume with a
biographical introduction and illustrations
from his collection of drawings and prints.
Some of the pieces are by well-known
writers such as DH Lawrence, JB Priestley
and Emile Zola; others by miners themselves. The result is a powerful, absorbing
portrait of hardship, danger and camaraderie. JAMES & JAMES 2004 HB 309pp
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£12.99 10993 now £4.99
ARIEL’S GIFT
A Commentary on Birthday
Letters by Ted Hughes
Erica Wagner When Birthday Letters
was published in 1998, it was greeted with
astonishment and acclaim. Few suspected
that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a
quarter of a century, on a cycle of poems
addressed almost entirely to his first wife,
the American poet Sylvia Plath. Here, Erica Wagner provides a commentary on
the Birthday Letters poems, indicating the
events that shaped them and, crucially,
showing how they draw upon Sylvia
Plath’s own work. FABER 2000 HB 231pp
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NEW POSSESSED OF A PAST
A John Banville Reader
John Banville; ‘The past beats inside me like
a second heart’, wrote John Banville in his
Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea. This
selection by Raymond Bell includes extracts
from all of Banville’s published novels, radio
plays (some printed for the first time), essays,
fragments of memoir, and his earliest fiction.
The Reader is a compelling overview of the
work of one of the world’s great novelists, and
testimony to the haunting power of memory
in his writing. PICADOR 2012 HB 501pp
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NEW A PITMAN’S
ANTHOLOGY
Orcadian poet Robert Rendall
in the late 1960s
THE HISTORY OF
ORKNEY LITERATURE
NEW
Simon W Hall From Viking sagas to the
poets and novelists of the 20th century,
Orkney has a long and brilliant literary
culture. This first full survey of writing
from and about the archipelago covers the
full historical sweep, and is generously
furnished with extracts. It traces the roots
of the tradition in the Orkneyinga Saga,
its 19th century revival, and its influence
on modern writers such as Edwin Muir
and George Mackay Brown, to identify
the islands’ unique and compelling voice.
JOHN DONALD 2010 PB 236pp Illus
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SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS
Giles Sparrow Featuring over 100
specially produced star maps and the
latest space photography, this carefully
produced book charts the 88
constellations of the celestial sphere
and the movement of the planets, as
well as providing a month-by-month
guide to the night sky in the northern
and southern hemispheres. The digitally
produced charts are particularly clear,
with stars precisely sized according
to their brightness or magnitude, and
deep sky objects such as nebulae and
galaxies represented distinctly.
NEW
CONSTELLATIONS
QUERCUS 2013 HB 320pp Illus 184x245mm
£16.99 16893 now £6.99
Richard Happer Mercury, Venus, Jupiter
and Saturn can be seen with the naked
eye, and a good pair of binoculars is
enough to reveal some detail in the planets
of the Solar System. With clear and concise explanatory text, large colour illustrations, photographs and star charts, this
introduction to astronomy explains the
formation of stars, galaxies and nebulae,
provides a guide to the constellations
and gives advice on how to get started
with star-gazing. Published in association
with the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
STARS AND PLANETS
NEW
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO
ASTRONOMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
John M Steele Astronomy, one of the world’s oldest sciences, was born in
ancient Mesopotamia; many centuries later it was the work of medieval Islamic
astronomers that built on ancient Greek advances and, through the production of
astronomical instruments, led to the breakthroughs of Copernicus and Kepler.
Steele tells the story of Middle Eastern study of the heavens, from the earliest
surviving cuneiform documents to the legacy of ancient observations, models
and theories in modern science. SAQI 2008 PB 154pp Illus
£7.99 16862 now £3.99
THE REASON WHY
The Miracle of Life on Earth
John Gribbin There are several hundred billion
stars in our Milky Way Galaxy , yet out of all these,
Earth is the only planet with intelligent life on it.
Why? John Gribbin argues that life on Earth is the
result of an extraordinary set of cosmic events have
not, as yet, occurred anywhere else in our galaxy;
he explains why Earth is the only intelligent planet
and why it is so special. PENGUIN 2012 PB 238pp
COLLINS 2013 HB 176pp Illus 300x230mm
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THE DICTIONARY OF
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
BRITISH SCIENTISTS
(Four volumes)
Ed. Bernard Lightman With more than
1,200 entries on both prominent and lesserknown figures, this major reference work
offers a detailed summary of the development of British science in the 19th century.
With equal attention paid to amateur and
professional scientists, the dictionary covers
areas such as phrenology, mesmerism, scientific journalism and instrument making,
as well as the more traditional sciences. No
jackets. THOEMMES 2004 HB 2,296pp
£850.00 56875 now £60.00
THE MYSTERY OF
METAMORPHOSIS
A Scientific Detective Story
Frank Ryan The idea of ‘metamorphosis’
conjures up stories from mythology and
science fiction, but many real creatures
undergo wondrous transformations which
remain some of the least understood phenomena in nature. Evolutionary biologist
Frank Ryan elucidates the last two centuries of debate between the scientists who
have tried to solve this riddle. He brings
the story up to date with Don
Williamson’s iconoclastic theory that the
origins of metamorphosis could lie in the
fusion of completely different species.
Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
CHELSEA GREEN 2011 HB 317pp
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The Spire in the Eagle Nebula, M16
£9.99 98145 now £4.99
EASY AS PI
The Countless Ways We
Use Numbers Every Day
Jamie Buchan Numbers are all-pervasive in our
world; Pythagoras even said they rule the universe.
This guide to the numbers of everyday life explains
how they influence our religion, myth, fiction and
linguistic idioms, why some numbers are considered
lucky or unlucky, how they are exploited in games and
scams, and their vital role in the realms of mathematics
and science. READER’S DIGEST 2009 HB 175pp
$14.95 88057 now £3.99
Ian Stewart The celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart provides an overview of the
role of mathematics in life science – from the study of cellular organization to the
behaviour and evolution of entire living beings. Off-mint. BASIC 2011 HB 365pp
THE MATHEMATICS OF LIFE
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Anthony E Labarre Jr Geared toward those who have studied elementary calculus
and intend to progress to more advanced mathematics, this book stresses concepts
rather than techniques. It emphasizes the simplest setting of basic theorems so that
students may progress from ‘one-space’ to ‘n-space’ calculus. Each chapter features
several helpful exercises. DOVER 2008 PB 265pp
INTERMEDIATE MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
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RELIGION
Fr Jose Maria Roman CM St Vincent de Paul
(1581-1660) is revered by Catholics and Anglicans
alike for his pioneering charitable work. Translated
from the Spanish, this is the most important
biography of the saint to be published in English
in recent years. Piecing together the fragments
of the historical record, it recounts his dramatic
abduction by Barbary pirates and subsequent
slavery, his escape, and his founding of the
Congregation of the Mission, and sets his life
in the context of his times. Translated by
Sr Joyce Howard. MELISENDE 2002 PB 729pp
ST VINCENT DE PAUL
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A PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE
or THE COUNTRY PARSON
with Selected Poems
George Herbert In 1630, George Herbert
became parson in a rural parish with tumbledown churches and an uninhabitable
rectory. Written at that time, when country
people were often ignored by the clergy
and church buildings were scandalously
neglected, The Country Parson was, as
Ronald Blythe writes in his introduction,
Herbert’s ‘clarion call to the rural Church
of England to re-order itself and become
worthy of its Lord’. The book also contains Blythe’s personal selection of Herbert’s poetry. CANTERBURY 2003 HB 136pp
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JACOB’S WOUND
Homoerotic Narrative in the
Literature of Ancient Israel
Theodore W Jennings Jr The religion
and culture of ancient Israel have been
seen as resolutely opposed to same-sex
erotic relationships. Here, Jennings argues
that the well-known erotism of the Hebrew
Bible includes material that lends itself to
homoerotic interpretation. He examines
the saga associated with David and the
complex erotic connections between David
and Saul and David and Jonathan; the
shamanistic forms of erotism involving
Samuel and Saul and Elijah and Elisha;
and the transgendering of Israel by several
prophets. CONTINUUM 2005 PB 288pp
A CONCORDANCE TO
THE GREEK TESTAMENT
According to the Texts
of Westcott and Hort,
Tischendorf and the
Fifth edition
English Revisers
Ed. WF Moulton; AS Geden; HK Moulton First published in 1897, the New Testament concordance familiarly known as
‘Moulton and Geden’ reached this fifth
edition in 1978, when a 76-page Supplement was added to give fuller citations
for the most common words from the volume’s 5,624 entries. It otherwise retains
all the features of the earlier editions, with
quotation of every passage of the Greek
text that includes each word, together with
an indication of the vocabulary which also
appears in the Septuagint. No jacket.
T&T CLARK 1996 HB 1,110pp
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Bart D Ehrman As a prominent biblical
scholar, Bart Ehrman is often asked: ‘Did
Jesus exist?’ So in this book he addresses
the claims most often made, whether by
atheists, humanists, conspiracy theorists
or scholars, to argue against the historicity
of the itinerant preacher from Nazareth.
Carefully analysing the available evidence
and explaining the techniques used by researchers, he offers a compelling picture
of the historical Jesus, his first century
context and the early Christian movement.
HARPERONE 2012 HB 362pp
£18.99 16386 now £8.99
JESUS, AN EMERGING
JEWISH MOSAIC
Jewish Perspectives,
Post-Holocaust
Daniel F Moore examines how the figure
of Jesus has been viewed in recent
decades by seven Jewish scholars, including Samuel Sandmel and Eugene B
Borowitz, who have sought to present Jesus objectively from a Jewish perspective.
Assessing the validity of their viewpoints,
he asks how their work has contributed
to the quest for the historical Jesus, to ecumenical relations between Jews and
Christians and to contemporary Jewish
and Christian theology.
T&T CLARK 2008 HB 334pp
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THE CAMBRIDGE
HISTORY OF JUDAISM
Volume IV: The Late
Roman-Rabbinic Period
CLERICAL CELIBACY
The Heritage
William E Phipps The sexual abuse crisis
in the Catholic Church has raised questions
about clerical celibacy. Drawing on an impressive range of sources, this authoritative
and wide-ranging study traces the history
of the priesthood from Old Testament Judaism through the church fathers, the Middle Ages and the Reformation to the present. The author’s researches reveal that
mandatory celibacy was a late introduction, while interviews with today’s priests
suggest that it has damaged the church,
and continues to do so. Slightly off-mint.
NEW
Ed. Steven T Katz Comprising over 40
essays, arranged chronologically, this volume covers the period from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem
in 70 CE to the rise of Islam around 640
CE. It deals with the major historical, political and cultural developments in Jewish
history and the history of Judaism in this
crucial era during which the faith took on
its classical shape. With the editor’s introduction and index.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2006 HB 1,163pp
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DID JESUS EXIST?
The Historical Argument
for Jesus of Nazareth
Trans. Hermann Gunkel First published
in 1901 and hugely influential on subsequent Old Testament research, Hermann
Gunkel’s commentary on Genesis displays
great breadth of learning and literary sensitivity. This English translation of the third
edition makes available to a wider readership the work in which Gunkel developed
his new methods and grappled with issues
such as the nature of patriarchal religion
and the interrelationship between documentary sources, oral tradition and editorial activity. MERCER UP 1997 HB 578pp
NEW
GENESIS
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RELIGION
Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok Covering both the Eastern
and Western Christian traditions, from New
Testament times to the present, this volume offers an
invaluable guide to the men and women who have
influenced the course of Christian history, including
the founding fathers, saints, popes, philanthropists,
theologians, monarchs, missionaries and heretics.
The A-Z of entries describes the lives, opinions and
achievements of personalities from Peter Abelard to
Ulrich Zwingli, with bibliographic references for
major figures and a glossary of theological terms.
WHO’S WHO IN CHRISTIANITY
ROUTLEDGE 1998 PB 374pp
99292 now £5.99
SACRED SCRIPTURES
OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS
THE FIRST MUSLIM
The Story of Muhammad
NEW
Lesley Hazleton How did Muhammad,
an ‘outsider’ of humble origins, come to
revolutionize his world as a radical thinker
who challenged the social and political
order, and whose influence is felt so
strongly in today’s politics and religion?
Lesley Hazleton, who reported on the
Middle East for more than a dozen years,
has produced a readable and demystifying
study of the prophet of Islam, telling his
dramatic story of trial and triumph and
combining early eyewitness sources with
historical research and psychological
insight. Felt-tip mark on lower edge.
RIVERHEAD 2013 HB 334pp
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Joan A Price In our globalized world, it is vital
to understand the philosophical differences and
similarities between religions, to appreciate what is particular and what is universal.
Starting with the oral traditions of African, Polynesian, Native American and
Australian Aboriginal societies, this clear, concise introduction compares the
scriptures of the major religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism,
Taoism, and Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each chapter explains key issues,
illustrated by scriptural passages to convey the unique character of each faith.
CONTINUUM 2010 PB 240pp
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WORLD RELIGIONS: WESTERN TRADITIONS
Third edition
Ed. Willard G Oxtoby; Amir Hussain This wide-ranging survey provides a
succinct guide to the beliefs, practices, history and distribution of the major Western
faiths. Chapters by specialist contributors cover the religions of the ancient world,
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, indigenous beliefs and new religious movements,
with fact boxes highlighting key points and sacred places, extracts from essential
texts and glossaries of terms. This fully revised and updated edition is illustrated
with a rich array of colour photographs. OXFORD UP 2011 PB 480pp 253x203mm
£45.00 11439 now £9.99
Ed. Philip Law Based on the Revised
English Bible’s translation, this book presents the Bible as an easily readable epic
narrative, reduced by two-thirds through
the omission of parts which repeat information or disrupt the flow of the storytelling. The abridgement is designed to
help readers to gain a sense of how different stories and characters fit together
and to appreciate the scriptures’ literary
qualities. CONTINUUM 2005 PB 678pp
ABSOLUTE MONARCHS
A History of the Papacy
TESTAMENT
John Julius Norwich brings his historical
talents to bear on the world’s oldest continuous absolute monarchy, discussing the
popes from St Peter to Benedict XVI.
From the men (and maybe one woman)
who have held this position he selects for
special attention those who have been the
most significant, politically, culturally and
socially, for Rome and the world – such
as Leo I, who tamed Attila the Hun, and
John XXIII, whose reforms ‘opened up
the Church to the twentieth century’.
£10.99 94827 now £5.99
ENGLISH CATHOLICISM
1680-1830
(Six volumes)
RANDOM HOUSE 2011 HB 523pp
$30.00 97314 now £9.99
THE CANONS
Cathedral Close Encounters
Trevor Beeson Although their role is little
understood outside ecclesiastical circles,
residentiary canons are key figures in the
Church of England, administering the affairs of its cathedrals and other major
churches – and many have been largerthan-life figures. This entertaining, informative book charts the careers of several
canons of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Tractarian Edward Pusey, the
novelist Charles Kingsley and the CND
campaigner John Collins, and assesses
their impact on Church and society.
SCM 2006 HB 258pp
£19.99 98879 now £5.99
WORSHIP SONGS
Ancient and Modern
This collection of 100 worship songs from
the publishers of Hymns Ancient and
Modern presents less formal words and
music suitable for most church services.
The book is arranged alphabetically, from
William Boyce’s Alleluia to You shall go
out with joy and includes words set to folk
melodies, new words and tunes by established songwriters and established
favourites from existing collections. Although the accompaniments are for keyboard, many songs have guitar chords
added. CANTERBURY 1992 PB 224pp
Ed. Michael Mullet This survey comprises excerpts from the English Catholic
press between 1680 and 1830, offering a
conspectus of types of writing ranging
from polemics to devotional, spiritual, hagiographic, catechetical, moral and liturgical texts in facsimile. With a general
introduction, bibliography and introductions to each writer. No jackets.
PICKERING & CHATTO 2006 HB 2,714pp
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NATURE
NEW DEFINING THE WIND
The Beaufort Scale and
How a 19th-Century Admiral
Turned Science into Poetry
Scott Huler ‘Calm; smoke rises vertically
...’ In just 110 words, the Beaufort scale
provides a clear, elegant measure of wind
speed from 1 to 12 (‘devastation occurs’).
This quirky, compelling book uncovers the
life and voyages of its creator, Sir Francis
Beaufort, hydrographer to the British Admiralty in the age of sail. Equal parts history, mystery, textbook and memoir, it
charts the scale’s antecedents and influence
through two centuries of exploration and
scientific discovery. CROWN 2004 HB 302pp
$23.00 16846 now £6.99
NEW ATLAS OF OCEANS
Exploring this Hidden World
John Farndon Water covers 70 percent of
the Earth’s surface, yet we know less about
parts of the ocean than we do about outer
space. This beautifully designed book
explores this environment from coastal
habitats to ocean depths, from the Arctic to
the tropics. Lavishly illustrated with colour
photographs, maps and diagrams, it details
the wealth of species that inhabit the seas,
while special features profile threats, such as
pollution and overfishing, to this complex
ecosystem on which all life depends.
ADLARD COLES 2011 HB 256pp Illus
£25.00 16796 now £9.99
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
New Life Stories
David Attenborough Famously squeamish about being voted Britain’s greatest
living national treasure, David Attenborough shares more stories from his awardwinning BBC Radio 4 series in this collection of reminiscences on a life spent in
the natural world. In his distinctive, conversational, yet scholarly style, Attenborough considers a range of nature’s mysteries, including why the remarkably
dissimilar Jerusalem and globe artichokes
share a name; the feisty truth about seemingly feeble butterflies; and the animal
which, against his better nature, he cannot
help but loathe.
NEW STORMS AND
WILD WATER
Dag Pike Where the sea collides with the
elements is the wildest, most unpredictable
arena in the natural world. Even with the
sophisticated craft of today and highly
evolved weather warning systems, storms
can still take even the most experienced
sailor by surprise. Covering all types of
wild weather such as cyclones, monsoons
and hurricanes, the book explains weather
systems throughout the world, and features
dramatic photography, personal
reminiscences and stories of rescues and
tragic losses. ADLARD COLES NAUTICAL
2009 PB 159pp Illus
COLLINS 2011 HB 224pp Illus 245x188mm
£16.99 16853 now £5.99
£20.00 91172 now £7.99
Janet Menzies Published in association
with Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and
Cruft’s ‘Friends for Life’, this book presents the stories and pictures of police dogs,
search and rescue dogs, sniffer dogs and,
of course, the hearing dogs who have
changed the lives of deaf children, adults
and their families. There are also chapters
on the ‘Friends for Life’ award winners
and army dogs, a round-up of famous
Hearing Dogs supporters and a foreword
by Ben Fogle.
HERO DOGS
QUILLER 2012 PB 128pp Illus 245x190mm
£10.99 10757 now £4.99
Steve Parker London’s Natural History
Museum is home to one of the world’s
largest and most important collections of
natural history specimens and literature.
Published to accompany a BBC TV series,
this magnificent book takes the reader
behind the scenes to explore this ‘cathedral to nature’. Colour photographs illustrate the collection, from gigantic dinosaur
skeletons to minute insects, while the
lucid text explains the museum’s history
and current role at the cutting edge of the
fight to preserve our natural world.
MUSEUM OF LIFE
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
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MAKING ANIMALS HAPPY
How to Create the Best Life
for Pets and Other Animals
Temple Grandin; Catherine Johnson
A horse’s instinctive urge to flee makes it
more skittish than a herd animal, whereas
a pig’s urge to forage means it needs room
to explore. Based on her own research,
animal scientist Temple Grandin’s study
discusses animal behaviours and motivations and delivers practical insights into
how to interact with dogs, cats, horses,
cows, pigs and chickens, wildlife and zoo
animals. BLOOMSBURY 2010 PB 345pp
£8.99 11893 now £3.99
George Stubbs Famous for his portraits of thoroughbred race horses,
George Stubbs (1724-1806) was also the author and
illustrator of this remarkable anatomical study.
First published in 1766, the
work was based on numerous
dissections, a practice far
from generally accepted at
that time. Stubbs’s horses, shown
here in 36 large monochrome
plates along with detailed
anatomical explanations, are
memorable for their life-like
quality, nobility and extreme
anatomical accuracy.
THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSE
DOVER 1976 PB 121pp Illus
373x274mm
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NATURE
NEW THE MOST AMAZING
BIRDS TO SEE IN BRITAIN
Reader’s Digest The birds of the British Isles
are remarkable for both their abundance and
variety, from the mighty golden eagle to the
tiny goldcrest. This sturdy and handsome
guide details the appearance, size, nesting
and feeding habits and life cycle of more
than 100 British birds, arranged in chapters
according to habitat: parks and gardens,
farmland, woodland, mountain and moor,
wetlands and coast. Each species is illustrated
with colour photographs and clear artwork
for identification, and a locator map showing
its range.
READER’S DIGEST 2010 PB 256pp Illus 253x178mm
CATTLE
History . Myth . Art
£14.99 10901 now £6.99
Catherine Johns Drawing on art and artefacts in the British Museum collections,
Catherine Johns first describes the relationship between cattle and human society
since prehistory. She goes on to present a
pictorial survey, bringing together images
of cows and bulls from different ages and
cultures – from the ancient Egyptian cowgoddess Hathor and the great bull Nandi in
Hindu belief to 18th century English porcelain cows – and exploring themes including religion, myths and monsters, species
and breeds, cattle at work, and in art.
BRITISH MUSEUM 2011
HB 192pp Illus 245x245mm
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The kingfisher, the most
brilliantly-coloured British bird
MANX BIRD ATLAS
An Atlas of Breeding and Wintering Birds on the Isle of Man
April 1998 to March 2003
Chris Sharpe This very handsomely produced volume is an up-to-date, structured
survey providing not only information on the status of all Manx bird species, but
also a clearer understanding of the relative significance of different parts of the
island for various species. The book includes background information on the island
and its climate along with the detailed accounts of 258 species. Linen-bound and
slipcased. LIVERPOOL UP 2007 HB 397pp Illus 276x240mm
£100.00 96620 now £19.99
THE PEREGRINE
The Hill of Summer and Diaries
JA Baker; Intro. Mark Cocker Now recognized as one of the most important
British nature writers of the last century, John Alec Baker (1926-87) published just
two books: The Peregrine, acclaimed as a masterpiece as soon as it appeared in
1967, and The Hill of Summer (1969). Both works have a narrow geographical
focus, from the eastern edge of Chelmsford to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex –
‘a land to me as profuse and glorious as Africa’ (Baker). This edition also includes
his nature diaries for the years 1954-63, edited by John Fanshawe. No jacket.
£20.00 91177 now £7.99
TREES AND FORESTS
Wild Wonders of Europe
Florian Möllers; Annick Schitzler et al
In a world where areas of natural woodland
are shrinking, a journey through Europe’s
forests is a salutary reminder of what we
could lose. For a year, an international
team of wildlife photographers roamed
the continent recording its surviving
woodlands, from Sweden’s Arctic taiga
to the cork-oak forests of Sardinia.
Whether arboreal details or panoramic
landscapes, of caterpillars or brown bears,
the photographs are a celebration of these
richly varied ecosystems and the amazing
diversity of flora and fauna they support.
ABRAMS 2011 HB 240pp Illus 320x240mm
£29.99 98973 now £9.99
A boreal owl in a Swedish forest
ANCIENT TREES IN THE LANDSCAPE
Norfolk’s Arboreal Heritage
Gerry Barnes; Tom Williamson Norfolk is rich in woodlands, many of which have
been traditionally managed for centuries, but this account of the county’s ancient
trees is of more than local interest: it is an exploration of how trees can be studied
as part of the landscape. Among the topics discussed are the dating of trees; trees
of farmland and hedgerow; woods and wood-pastures; orchards, pine rows and
willow lines; and how trees have been used in parks, gardens and churchyards.
WINDGATHER 2011 PB 187pp Illus
£25.00 99556 now £9.99
THE GLOBAL FOREST
40 Ways Trees Can Save Us
Diana Beresford-Kroeger Trees provide
shelter, medicine, food; they are part of
our imaginations, folklore, ecosystems
and our lives. Weaving together ecology,
myth, horticulture, spirituality and science, these 40 interlocking essays show
the enormous significance of the global
forest and how our future is bound up in
the future of trees. PENGUIN 2012 PB 189pp
£9.99 98088 now £3.99
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NATURE/GARDENS
NEW LATE SUMMER
FLOWERS
Marina Christopher While
gardeners may be happy with
their gardens in spring and
early summer, late summer often
proves more of a challenge.
Here, gardener Marina
Christopher describes the
plants that have a late flowering
season or that offer attractive
foliage, seeds or berries, to help
you get the best from the garden
all the way through to autumn.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book shows how
to grow the plants and includes a handy plant directory.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2006 PB 208pp Illus 245x190mm
Richard Mabey When Richard Mabey
wrote this book in 1972 it was ahead of
its time and became an instant success.
Now, foraging is positively fashionable
and wild food even appears on restaurant
menus. This beautifully illustrated pocket
edition helps you identify 240 wild foods,
including fungi, shellfish, vegetables, fruit
and nuts, and suggests the best ways to
cook them. Forty years on, Mabey’s classic guide remains the perfect antidote to
the over-processed and over-packaged.
NEW
FOOD FOR FREE
£16.99 16884 now £6.99
NEW OF RHUBARB AND ROSES
The Telegraph Book of the Garden
Ed. Tim Richardson The Daily Telegraph
has long been popular reading among
gardeners, and its pages have featured
some of the nation’s finest horticultural
writers. Compiled by the newspaper’s
gardening columnist, this lively and
varied anthology includes articles by
Fred Whitsey, Rosemary Verey and
Bunny Guinness, along with the more
esoteric musings of Bill Deedes,
Germaine Greer and Roy Strong.
The subjects range from Vita Sackville
West’s garden at Sissinghurst to how
to grow prize-winning pumpkins.
Book club edition. AURUM 2013 HB 460pp
COLLINS 2007 PB 272pp Illus 188x111mm
£12.99 16847 now £5.99
A BRUSH WITH NATURE
25 years of Personal Reflections
on the Natural World
Richard Mabey For three decades
Richard Mabey has written a regular column for BBC Wildlife Magazine, in which
he has created a passionate and personal
archive of reflections on the natural world
and its relation to language, art and life.
For this volume he has selected more than
80 of his favourite columns, on subjects
ranging from conservation and tree-planting to Derek Jarman’s garden and Keats’s
‘Ode to a Nightingale’. BBC 2010 HB 255pp
£12.99 11854 now £4.99
NATURE ILLUMINATED
Flora and Fauna from the
Court of the Emperor Rudolf II
Lee Hendrix; Thea Vignau-Wilberg
The Mira calligraphiae monumenta,
(the Model Book of Calligraphy) of
Rudolf II was created by the master
calligrapher Georg Bocksay in 1561-2,
and illustrated around 1590 by the great
illuminator Joris Hoefnagel. This little
volume reproduces a selection of 41
pages featuring plants and animals
from this extraordinary Renaissance
work, with an introduction and a
short essay. THAMES & HUDSON
£25.00 16702 now £6.99
THE CLASSIC HERB GARDEN
Gordon Thorburn In his witty, informal
style, Gordon Thorburn traces the history
of herb cultivation, before describing the
properties, real or imagined, of all the important herbs, with recipes such as Goosnargh Cakes, which use caraway and coriander seeds. Other chapters deal with
wild herbs and which of them you can
eat, planning your own herb garden, herbs
with medicinal benefits and those that are
good for bees and butterflies. Finally,
there are a select few herbs for magic.
THE CLASSIC ALLOTMENT
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 HB 189pp Illus
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 PB 184pp Illus
£19.99 10962 now £6.99
£14.99 10961 now £5.99
Gordon Thorburn If you decide to grow
your own vegetables, Thorburn has some
emphatic advice: ‘Don’t spend a fortune
at the garden centre on computerized
propagators, solar-powered seed drills...
Away with all that modern flim flam. Go
green. Go basic. Go old fashioned.’ Just
how to do that he explains in this practical
guide to getting started, choosing which
fruit and vegetables to grow, and growing
them successfully, with asides on cooking
your produce and keeping chickens.
Leslie Geddes-Brown Margery Fish
writes on ‘The Joy of Compost’; Geoffrey
Grigson makes a plea on behalf of the
monkey puzzle tree; and in a hymn to
disorder Mirabel Osler declares that ‘the
very soul of a garden is shrivelled by
zealous regimentation’. Geddes-Brown,
author of Books Do Furnish a Room, has
collected from the shelves of horticultural
literature some of the finest practical
wisdom (‘at least one pure 24-carat nugget
per extract’) from great gardeners and
garden writers, with illustrations and
endpapers by Angie Lewin. No jacket.
GARDEN WISDOM
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FOOD
NEW SCOTTISH SEAFOOD
Its History and Cooking
Catherine Brown The unsurpassed
wealth of seafood off Scotland’s rugged
shores has been fished, foraged, smoked,
cooked and eaten for thousands of years.
Illustrated with archive photographs
and line drawings, this book takes a
refreshingly original approach to the
subject. After an historical overview,
it tours the regions, then offers practical
instructions on the different methods of
cooking seafood. It also includes advice
on identifying seafood, conservation
issues, and a directory of suppliers.
BIRLINN 2011 HB 336pp Illus 232x190mm
£20.00 11505 now £6.99
NEW AT ELIZABETH DAVID’S TABLE
Classic Recipes and Timeless Kitchen Wisdom
Elizabeth David With books such as French Provençal Cooking, published in 1960,
Elizabeth David (1913-92) transformed British attitudes to cooking and eating, importing
Mediterranean influences, but also celebrating the best in English cuisine and particularly
English baking. This beautifully presented anthology contains a selection of both quick
recipes and classic dishes from David’s books, some in her narrative style, some with
their ingredients listed. The recipes have been sympathetically photographed in muted
style, and interspersed with essays and articles, including ‘My Dream Kitchen’.
Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. ECCO 2010 HB 383pp Illus 246x186mm
$37.50 11877 now £8.99
Christopher Lloyd has an unrivalled reputation as a gardener and writer. Here, he
provides recipes for the very produce he
grows in his garden, and shows us the best
growing varieties of fruit, vegetables, salad
plants and herbs. The recipes include such
tasty and seasonal dishes as Dover Sole
Florentine, Lettuce Soup, Tomato Chutney
and Apple Charlotte. The freshest ingredients take centre stage in these simple
and elegant recipes. FRANCES LINCOLN
GARDENER COOK
£19.99 11959 now £5.99
Patrick Holford According to Patrick
Holford, founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, the key to successful dieting is to eat foods with a low Glycemic
Load. These foods do not significantly
raise blood sugar and help one to banish
cravings, gain energy, improve health and
THE LOW GL DIET COOKBOOK
lose weight. The 150 recipes in this book,
which include puddings, are accompanied
by individual GL calculations, weightloss menus and a maintenance plan. Felttip mark on lower trimmed edge. Slightly
off-mint; felt-tip mark on lower trimmed
edge. PIATKUS 2010 PB 192pp 232x184mm
NEW YES CHEF!
20 Great British Chefs
100 Great British Recipes
James Winter; James Bulmer Yes Chef!
celebrates the excellence of 20 British
chefs including Mark Hix, Michael Caines
and Marcus Wareing, and demonstrates
that Britain really can claim to rule the
culinary waves. Here they offer 100 signature recipes such as Rump of Lamb
with Szechuan Pepper Compôte, Poached
Mallard with Confit Leg Canneloni, and
Earl Grey Jelly with Citrus Salad, challenging the ambitious home cook to take
their culinary skills to the highest level.
ABSOLUTE 2009 HB 288pp Illus
£20.00 11868 now £7.99
£14.99 92418 now £5.99
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
FAVOURITE PUDDINGS,
DESSERTS AND CAKES
Barbara Dixon Baked and steamed puddings, pies, tarts, creams, mousses and jellies, ice creams and sorbets, cheesecakes,
gateaux, meringues and trifles, chocolate
everything... All 250 delicious recipes in
this Good Housekeeping cookbook are
tried and tested – and photographed. The
recipes are given with imperial and metric
measurements, and with nutritional information. COLLINS & BROWN 2011 HB 288pp
Illus 245x188mm
£14.99
85387
now £6.99
NEW THE APHRODISIAC
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
A Gourmet Guide
to Culinary Come-Ons
Mark Douglas Hill Of life’s many joys, the
pleasures of the table and the boudoir are
what make life worth living. Mark Douglas
Hill has spent a lifetime in pursuit of foods
that encourage friskiness, culminating in
this compendium of aphrodisiac delights.
Alongside the recipes, featuring foods such as
figs, foie gras, lobster, truffles and asparagus,
each entry features fascinating historical,
literary and biographical facts and examines
the aphrodisiac qualities of the ingredients.
SQUARE PEG 2011 HB 256pp
ANTONIO CARLUCCIO’S
SIMPLE COOKING
Antonio Carluccio is one of Italian
cookery’s most popular and persuasive
ambassadors. In this delightful book,
illustrated with vibrant colour photographs, he distils the wisdom 50 years
of culinary experience. Ranging
from starters and salads, soups, pasta,
polenta and rice, through meat, fish and
vegetables to desserts, he focuses on
choosing the best ingredients to produce
simple, authentic and delicious dishes.
QUADRILLE 2010 HB 176pp Illus 255x200mm
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£20.00 10677 now £7.99
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES
CRAFT TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD
Locally Made, Globally Inspiring
Bryan Sentance; Polly Sentance Celebrating the
diversity of folk crafts all over the world, this survey
examines the traditional skills of the peoples of six
continents. From the willow basketry of
Northern Europe to Persian carpets, Peruvian
knitted hats and Native American beadwork,
each discipline’s techniques are explained
and illustrated with hundreds of carefully
photographed examples. The selection
favours the practical crafts of ordinary
people and each section examines how a
region’s culture and resources shaped the
nature or their artisanal practice. THAMES &
HUDSON 2009 HB 240pp Illus 280x240mm
THINGS THAT
GO BOOM
or Fly, Float and Zoom!
£24.95 98397 now £11.99
Russian turned-wood Matryoshka dolls
STITCH MAGIC
Sculpting Fabric with Stitch
NORTHERN KNITS
Designs Inspired by the Knitting
Traditions of Sandinavia,
Iceland and the Shetland Isles
NEW
Ed. Sophie Collins If you like making
things, the 18 machines featured in this
book cover a wide range of interests and
skill levels, and they all do something
when they are completed. The six-volt
wind turbine will provide enough power
to light up your workshop while you create
the paddle-operated punt, the lemon cannon, or possibly the ‘compact theremin’
for playing eerie tunes. These inventive
projects are all clearly illustrated, use affordable components and really do work.
ST MARTINS GRIFFIN 2009 PB 160pp Illus
$19.99 16354 now £4.99
HOW TO MAKE THE
BEST USE OF SALVAGE
Barty Philips Reclaimed and retro furniture has never been more popular and
when searching for the ideal fittings for a
period home, is often the best as well as
the cheapest option. This practical guide
explains the different types of household
salvage, from old bricks to Persian carpets, and offers tips on renovation, guidance on how to use the items in your
home, and advice on buying, including a
directory of specialist outlets.
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 PB 232pp
£16.99 10980 now £5.99
Alison J Reid Cushion covers, fabric jewellery and a tote bag are among the projects
in this practical book, which shows how
to create your own original textile designs.
Using a variety of hand and machine stitch
techniques, including pleating, pintucking,
cording, quilting applique and smocking,
the book includes diagrammatic illustrations and instructions for each method as
well as colour photographs of finished
projects and more than 50 design samples
demonstrating the techniques.
A&C BLACK 2011 PB 144pp Illus 250x190mm
£16.99 16381 now £5.99
QUICK COLOURFUL QUILTS
FOR BEAUTIFUL BEDS
Ed. Rosemary Wilkinson This collection
of designs features 14 warm, bright and
colourful quilts for double, queen and king
size beds. Using only simple techniques,
each pattern mixes traditional block
shapes with modern fabrics to create vibrant contemporary effects, with four alternative colour schemes for each template. Step-by-step instructions guide you
through the technical demands of each
design and there is a comprehensive section on basic tools and techniques. GOOD
BOOKS 2006 PB 111pp Illus 279x214mm
Caroline Vincent This
design sourcebook for
makers of contemporary
samplers contains motifs
and patterns based on
both traditional themes
and imaginative new
designs. Pattern subjects
including animals, birds,
buildings, trees, figures,
Georgian
flowers and border patterns are presented in graph form, with stitched
examples shown in photographs. The workbook describes a number of house design
in crossmotifs in simple, step-by-step format and provides information about
stitch and
techniques and materials, making it suitable for a variety of skill levels.
back-stitch
Cross with single ribbon interlace,
from the time of the Celtic design
revival in the late 19th century
DESIGNING CELTIC
ORNAMENT
David Balade Dating back to the eighth
century BCE, Celtic designs were used
to decorate items such as jewellery,
weaponry, cauldrons and wine jars as well
as illuminated manuscripts. This sourcebook surveys different types of ornament
including spirals and triskels, interlace,
labyrinths and portrayals of animals.
Colourfully illustrated and complete with
accounts of the history and symbolic
meanings of the designs, the book also includes a practical guide to drawing the
motifs. VIVAYS 2011 HB 240pp Illus 215x215mm
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£16.99 11998 now £6.99
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£17.99 11030 now £5.99
$24.95 98545 now £5.99
SAMPLER
WORKBOOK:
MOTIFS AND
PATTERNS
Lucinda Guy In this practical guide, Lucinda Guy explores the folk motifs and
traditional techniques of the knitting cultures of Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the
Shetland Isles. The book contains illustrated patterns and finishing instructions
for 20 women’s garments and accessories
– including pullovers, shawls, socks,
gloves and mittens – introducing a range
of techniques and ideas such as knitting
in the round, Icelandic laceweight wool,
and Fair Isle. INTERWEAVE 2010 PB 160pp
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COLLECTABLES
NEW LOUIS OSMAN (1914-1996)
The Life and Work of
an Architect and Goldsmith
Jenny Moore Louis Osman trained as an
architect in the 1930s and established a
successful practice designing buildings and
decorative works for both public and private
clients. From the 1950s he became
increasingly interested in making objects in
silver and gold and his success in this field
led to prestigious commissions, including
the crown for the investiture of Prince
Charles in 1969. This illustrated biography
examines Osman’s career in both disciplines
and includes an inventory of his works.
HALSGROVE 2006 HB 184pp Illus
£19.99 16661 now £9.99
HORNBY MAGAZINE
YEARBOOK No.3
Ed. Mike Wild Inspiration for perfecting
your model railway is provided in this
annual round-up of the best of Hornby
Magazine with a number of accomplished layouts including a recreation of
a South London scene in the late 1960s
and a 1950s Yorkshire seaside railway in
‘N’ gauge. The book also gives technical
advice, with tutorials on locomotive
detailing, building a micro layout and
constructing a country bus station, and
there are articles on railway history.
ARTISTIC LUXURY
Fabergé . Tiffany . Lalique
Emmanuel Ducamp; Jeannine Falino;
Stephen Harrison The works of Fabergé,
Tiffany and Lalique are synonymous with
bygone opulence. Yet these three great
designers came together only once, for
the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.
The fabulous jewellery, furnishings
and objets d’art on display there were
reunited for the first time in a major
exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of
Art. Sumptuously illustrated with modern
colour photographs and richly atmospheric
period images, this magnificent catalogue
explores their work, and the glittering
milieu for which it was created.
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB
£16.99 10754 now £6.99
SMOKE FIRING
Contemporary Artists
and Approaches
Jane Perryman The most ancient of ceramic techniques, smoke firing is still
practised today by some traditional societies. Pots are simply baked in an open
fire and decorative effects achieved by
controlling the burning or blackening of
the clay. This book explores the innovative and creative possibilities of this ancient art by examining the techniques of
29 contemporary artists around the world
who use bonfires, earth pits and simple
kilns to smoke-fire their work.
A&C BLACK 2008 HB 176pp Illus 275x220mm
$49.95 16390 now £7.99
GODDEN’S GUIDE
TO ENGLISH BLUE AND
WHITE PORCELAIN
Geoffrey A Godden Blue-and-white 18th
century porcelain is one of the most popular
and affordable of collectables, and its handpainted decorations have a spontaneity and
charm of their own. This first major reference book on the subject since the 1970s
outlines its history and profiles the main
manufacturers. Illustrated with 150 colour
and over 700 monochrome photographs,
the Guide lists identifying features such as
foot-rims, handles and makers’ marks, and
warns how to spot reproductions and forgeries. ACC 2004 HB 592pp Illus 274x210mm
£65.00 98339 now £19.99
YALE UP 2008 HB 371pp Illus 267x302mm
Tiffany Oriental Poppy lamp, 1900-10
£40.00 11015 now £19.99
THE ENGLISH WATCH 1585-1970
A Unique Alliance of Art, Design and Inventive Genius
Terence Camerer Cuss Watchmaking was introduced in England in the late 16th
century, by the 17th, the quality of English watches meant they were in demand
across Europe and their reputation continued to grow, reflecting pioneering
inventions in England and the watches’ distinctive character. This book covers all
aspects of English watches from all periods. In six chronological sections, it
illustrates over 290 examples and, for each period, discusses watchmakers in
London and the provinces, case makers, decoration, mechanisms and timekeeping.
ACC 2009 HB 504pp Illus 305x245mm
£125.00 91893 now £50.00
Susan La Niece In tracing the history of gold through the ages,
this beautifully illustrated book describes the multiple uses to
which the precious metal has been put. Drawing on examples in
the collections of the British Museum, it shows gold used in
coinage, jewellery and ornament, vessels and grave goods,
and as religious artefacts, but the author also discusses
the goldsmith’s craft and the purity and hallmarking
of gold. HARVARD UP 2009 HB 128pp Illus 190x190mm
GOLD
$22.95 99963 now £4.99
The ‘Royal Gold
Cup’, France, c.1390
Philippa Merriman’s book ‘invites the reader to notice,
understand and enjoy silver a little more by looking at it in a
variety of contexts’. In chapters illustrated primarily with
examples from the British Museum collections, she explores the
history of silver, its role as a measure of value and of status; its
use as adornment and its symbolic value in different cultures;
the silversmith’s craft; and assaying and hallmarking.
SILVER
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THE CHANGING RAILWAY SCENE SERIES
Laurence Waters The British Railways
Modernization Plan of 1955 set in motion
substantial investment across the ‘great’
Western Region and, amid regional boundary
changes and line closures, steam was gradually
phased out and replaced by diesel-hydraulic
(unlike anywhere else in Britain) and then
diesel-electric locomotives. With an extended
introduction reviewing the changes that took
place across the region, this photographic
survey includes over 180 colour images from
the 1950s to the mid-1980s.
NEW
WESTERN REGION
£16.99 16467 now £6.99
Derek Huntriss In 1955, British Railways
announced its Modernization Plan, which in the
London Midland Region called for the phasing out of steam over the following 15 years,
to be replaced by electrification on the West Coast Main Line and diesel elsewhere.
This collection of over 160 high quality colour images documents this period of change,
showing steam, diesel and electric locomotives on passenger, freight and shunting
duties, as well as shed and works scenes. IAN ALLAN 2008 HB 96pp Illus 292x216mm
NEW
STEAMING THROUGH BRITAIN
A History of the Nation’s Railways
Chris Ellis; Greg Morse Starting with
the very earliest use of rails – hundreds
of years before Stephenson’s Rocket or
the Stockton and Darlington Railway –
this richly illustrated history follows
the whole sequence of the development
of the railways in Britain up to the present
day. Chapters deal with ‘railway mania’
in the mid-19th century; the amalgamation of companies into the ‘Big Four’;
railways in wartime; the coming of
diesels; the Beeching report and modernization; and today’s preservation railways.
CONWAY 2010 HB 192pp Illus 275x212mm
£20.00 85394 now £9.99
LONDON MIDLAND REGION
£16.99 16466 now £6.99
RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN SERIES
Each volume in this series of invaluable
reference works by Colin and David
McCarthy includes a succinct illustrated
history of the railways in the region and
detailed large-scale mapping which displays
every railway built in the counties covered,
identifies passenger, freight, closed and
preserved lines, and gives dates for the
opening and (if relevant) closure of every line
and station. IAN ALLAN 2007/8 HB 112-128pp Illus
£19.99 each
now £4.99 each
Without the heavy industry that provided
the impetus for new lines elsewhere in the
country, railways came late to East Anglia,
the Eastern Counties Railway finally
reaching into Norfolk and Suffolk in the
early 1840s. Norwich and Ipswich and the
ports of Felixstowe and Great Yarmouth are
the focal points of the network but most of the
branch lines had been closed by the 1960s. 16476
NEW
The early development of railways in Kent and Sussex was dominated by competition
between the London, Brighton and South Coast, London, Chatham and Dover and
South Eastern railways. Being a largely agricultural area there have been few
industrial railways but access to
seaside resorts, historic ports and
the Channel Tunnel has profoundly
influenced railway development in
the region.
16472
NEW
NEW BELL’S COMET
How a Paddle Steamer
Changed the Course of History
PJG Ransom Predating the Stockton
and Darlington Railway by more than
a decade, Henry Bell’s steamboat service from Glasgow to Greenock began
in 1812 and was the first viable mechanized passenger transport system in
Europe. This book tells the story of
Bell and Comet, the pioneering little
steamer that made the 24-mile trip up
the Clyde, and reviews the astonishingly rapid spread of steam navigation
that followed over the next few years.
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NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
KENT AND SUSSEX
The main lines into Devon and Cornwall
were routed to avoid the significant
obstacles of a rugged coastline and
high moorland but the earliest railways
were local ones, built to transport stone,
tin and china clay, particularly in
Cornwall. Thanks to the decline in
mining and the withdrawal of rural
passenger services, the region is
peppered with closed lines, some now
operating as preserved railways. 16471
NEW
DEVON AND CORNWALL
Edwardian Embankment: Postcard of the Sphinx
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THE FLYING SCOTSMAN
The Legend Lives On
ITALIAN RACING RED
Drivers, Cars and Triumphs
of Italian Motor Racing
WHARNCLIFFE 2009 HB 192pp Illus
£19.99 94755 now £7.99
£24.99 10878 now £9.99
SPEED TO THE WEST
Great Western Publicity
and Posters, 1923 to 1947
FRENCH RACING BLUE
Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of French Motor Racing
Brian Sharpe LNER’s A1 Pacific, The
Flying Scotsman acquired its evocative
name in 1924, setting it on the path to becoming the best known steam locomotive
in the world. A distinguished operational
career ended in 1963 but the engine’s fame
ensured it was never abandoned. Sold and
resold, it visited America and Australia
before retiring to the National Railway
Museum. Brian Sharpe examines every
aspect of the locomotive’s colourful history from its design and engineering to the
millionaires who bought and sold it.
Aldo Delicata; 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.
Taking its title from the GWR’s most successful poster of the late 1930s – a King
Class locomotive steaming westward by
Chas Mayo – this book features posters
for the west and south-west resorts, Wales
and GWR’s air services.
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2000 PB 64pp Illus
£7.95 94568 now £3.99
LONDON TRANSPORT
IN THE 1920s
Michael HC Baker During this momentous decade for transport in the capital,
the expansion of the city into the suburbs
increased traffic and technological advances saw the introduction of new underground lines and improved buses and
trams. Through a series of archive photographs, mostly from the author’s own collection, and with chapters covering rail,
the tube, buses, trams, the General Strike
and building projects, this book describes
the development of the network during
the 1920s, with an emphasis on the vehicles used.
Karl Ludvigsen The best known
bearer of the rosso corsa, Ferrari,
did not start racing in earnest until
after the Second World War, before
that it was Fiat, Alfa Romeo and
Maserati who set the pace for Italy.
This is the story of the great cars of
these marques, their famous drivers,
including Nuvolari and Ascari, and
iconic races such as the Targa
Florio, the Mille Miglia and the
Grands Prix at Monza. IAN ALLAN
3.0 litre Ferrari Type 250 Testa Rossa
of 1958 in its ‘pontoon’-winged form
David Venables The French were the originators of international motor racing
and the most powerful car-making nation in the early years of the sport. With
photographs of cars and drivers, from the 1900s to the 2007 season, this volume
traces a proud history that includes victory in the first Grand Prix in 1906, the
dominant Delage and Bugatti cars of the 1920s and 1930s and the equally
distinguished post-war record of Matra, Ligier, Peugeot and Renault racing.
£24.99 10872 now £9.99
Rainer W Schlegelmilch;
Hartmut Lehbrink; Jochen
von Osterroth Illustrated with
outstanding colour photographs
by Rainer Schlegelmilch that
relish every detail of beautifully
preserved cars, this book is
a complete history of Aston
Martin, from the initial
partnership of Robert Bamford
and Lionel Martin, forged
through a shared passion
for motorsport in 1913, to the
company’s move from Newport
The 2-litre Sports, David Brown’s first Aston Martin
Pagnell to the Gaydon works and
the launch of the DB9. The history is followed by profiles of each production model
and a final section of technical specifications. ULLMANN 2008 PB 280pp Illus 252x218mm
ASTON MARTIN
£14.99 76885 now £5.99
THE MAGIC OF A NAME
The Rolls-Royce Story
Robert J Harley Victoria Embankment, known
to Londoners as simply ‘The Embankment’, was
opened in 1870, when, according to The Times,
the inauguration ceremony was marred by ‘a
great mob of roughs’ invading the carriageway.
Robert Harley’s richly illustrated book is packed
with such anecdote. It traces the history of
Vulliamy and Bazalgette’s combined
embankment and sewage conduit, along with
the Westminster, Blackfriars and Waterloo
bridges, focusing on the changing modes of
transport – from steamboats to motor cars –
that have plied the once elegant thoroughfare.
(Three volumes)
Peter Pugh From the meeting
of Henry Royce and CS Rolls in
1904 and their decision to design
and sell ‘the best cars in the
world’, to the global company
of 2002, involved in both RollsRoyce and Bentley motor cars
and civil and military aeroengines, Peter Pugh presents
the definitive history of Britain’s
most prestigious manufacturer.
Illustrated with photographs from
the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
collection, the book recounts in
detail the story of genius, skill,
hard work and dedication that
made the name of Rolls-Royce
synonymous with excellence.
CAPITAL HISTORY 2005 HB 120pp Illus 250x216mm
ICON 2000 HB 1020pp Illus
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The British
Concorde
prototype
takes off on its
maiden flight
from Filton on
9 April 1969
Stephen Skinner Concorde’s development was beset with design problems,
political battles and escalating expenses; only 14 aircraft entered regular service
and they were ultimately withdrawn due to high maintenance costs. Despite this tale
of apparent failure, Concorde remains one of the greatest engineering achievements
in aviation history. This illustrated book tells the story of the Anglo-French
collaboration, the service career of the airliner and the crash of 2000 that marked
the beginning of the end for Concorde. MIDLAND 2009 HB 128pp Illus 215x290mm
NEW
THE ELEPHANT
NEVER FORGOT
London’s Trams in Retrospect
Paul Collins The first horse-drawn tramcars ran in London in 1860 and by the
1920s electric services covered much of
the city. This history of the capital’s
tramways describes the network’s rise and
fall and is illustrated with maps, advertisements and archive photographs. The
title derives from a definitive film recording the last days of operation in 1952: the
documentary opens with a shot of the Elephant and Castle inn sign which had
watched over passing trams since the 19th
century. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 128pp Illus
£16.99 98012 now £6.99
TUBE LONDON
Discovering London
by Underground
Rebecca Sams London’s Underground is
the world’s oldest urban rail network: and
while it is the vehicle for millions of workers’ daily commute, no stop in central
London is more than a few yards from a
wealth of history. Illustrated with around
170 colour photographs, this original
guidebook covers the stations of Zone 1
alphabetically, from Aldgate to Westminster, and their surroundings. Each entry
is packed with famous landmarks, little
known curiosities, local legends, ghost
stories and strange happenings. CAPITAL
HISTORY 2012 HB 160pp Illus 188x222mm
£19.99 16470 now £7.99
LONDON TRANSPORT
IN THE BLITZ
Michael HC Baker
In extraordinary detail and
with a remarkable collection of
photographs, Baker tells the story
of how London Transport coped
with the demands and dangers of
wartime. As well as the familiar
images of the Blitz, with buses
in bomb craters and Londoners
sheltering in Underground stations,
Baker covers topics such as the
spartan wartime-specification buses, the recruitment of
The Green Line returns:
women drivers and conductors, and bus maintenance
Two 9T9s in January 1946,
men remoulding tyres to save rubber after the Japanese one repainted, the other still
conquest of Malaya. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 144pp Illus
as used by American forces
£19.99 10876 now £7.99
Malcolm Cooper; Bill Harvey; Bill Laxon When the Suez Canal opened in
1869, it offered an 8,000-mile shortcut to the East. Just a few years earlier, the
development of a reliable and fuel-efficient maritime steam engine had also made
it viable to use steamships on long ocean voyages. With comprehensive fleet lists
and many photographs, this book tells the story of two of the first shipping lines
to exploit these developments, pioneering the liner routes to the Far East.
GLEN AND SHIRE LINES
SHIPS IN FOCUS 2005 HB 188pp Illus 295x215mm
£24.00 10676 now £9.99
BUSES BY DESIGN
NEW TUGS
IN COLOUR
Northern Europe
BERNARD McCALL 2010 HB 80pp Illus 188x240mm
£12.95 16501 now £6.99
Gavin Booth Bus design is affected by
many factors, among them the availability
of new technologies and materials, passenger expectations and demand, government legislation and changing aesthetic
values. This history charts the development of design in Britain from 1950 onwards, focusing on ‘service buses’ – the
everyday carriers intended for multiplestop urban routes – rather than luxury
coaches. Copiously illustrated, the book
includes photographs of buses in service
as well as contemporary manufacturers’
or operators’ images of the vehicles.
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CONCORDE
Bernard McCall In recent
years, towage in Northern
European ports has been
dominated by standard
design tugs from Dutch and
Spanish shipbuilders; but
this photographic survey
focuses on port activities in
the later 20th century when
a much greater variety of
designs were in service.
Pulling power:
The images show a range of scenes with tugs at work, at sea and
Tugs Herbert and
at the quayside, and the captions provide information about each
Lars at Oskarshamn
vessel, including notable design features and engine power.
£16.00 16484 now £6.99
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Sweden, 2002
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THE GLORY OF THE SULTANS
Islamic Architecture in India
Yves Porter; Gerard Degeorge Arab invaders arrived in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent in the 8th century, but the foundation of the sultanate of Delhi in the 12th
century marked the beginning of the era
of monumental building as a display of
power. The sultanates and the Great
Mughals left an architectural legacy that
includes masterpieces such as the Qutb
Minar and the Taj Mahal. This volume is
a chronological account of the major
phases of Islamic architecture across the
subcontinent, illustrated with superb photographs by Gerard Degeorge. Slipcased.
FLAMMARION 2009 HB 304pp Illus
305x240mm
£50.00 16400 now £29.99
ARCHITECTURE
NEW HAVANA
History and
Architecture of
a Romantic City
María Luisa Lobo
Montalvo The legendary
Cuban capital bears
traces of every stage
of the island’s rich and
complex history, from
its indigeneous traditions
through the Spanish
colonial era to Communist
rule. Lavishly illustrated
with colour photographs
Plaza de la
and archival images, this magnificent volume explores the city’s
Catedral,
development through its architecture. Discussions of each period are
Havana
accompanied by detailed studies of its most significant buildings,
including the fort of Castilla del Morro, the church of La Merced and the
Palace of the Captains General. MONACELLI 2009 HB 320pp Illus 305x255mm
£80.00 16388 now £16.99
Kenneth Scott St James’s Palace is one of London’s oldest royal palaces and
remains the official seat of the monarchy, the Court of St James’s. Built by Henry
VIII in 1530, it was here that Elizabeth I held councils of war at the time of the
Spanish Armada and Charles I spent the night before his execution. Written by
a former Private Secretary to the Queen, who once lived at the palace, this is
an illuminating and beautifully illustrated history of a magnificent building.
ST JAMES’S PALACE: A History
SCALA 2010 HB 160pp Illus 255x195mm
£25.00 91914 now £12.99
NEW LETAROUILLY ON
RENAISSANCE ROME
SCOTLAND’S
CASTLE CULTURE
Ed. Audrey Dakin; Miles Glendinning;
Aonghus MacKechnie While in many
ways Scotland’s castle culture marched
with European fashion, the reluctance to
abandon castles as residences and the castle’s resurgence as a building type in Scotland during the otherwise ferociously modernizing Victorian age were distinctly
Scottish traits. In two parts, a chronological survey and a section of ten case studies,
this illustrated volume covers the entire
history of Scotland’s castles, from the first
stone buildings in the 13th century to those
protected today as national heritage. JOHN
DONALD 2011 HB 271pp Illus 242x186mm
£25.00 11502 now £9.99
THE COMPANION
TO CASTLES
Stephen Friar More than a thousand castles were built after the Norman Conquest,
and many remained in use for centuries,
modified as a result of sieges, new
weaponry or changing fashion. This illustrated encyclopedia discusses every aspect
of their history and construction, from
Abacus (the slab that tops a capital) to Zplan (a form of Scottish tower-house), and
from the earliest keeps to Henry VIII’s
coastal forts. The book includes an index
of castles and list of useful addresses.
£16.99 99408 now £5.99
The Gesù and the Casa Professa dei Gesuiti
John Barrington Bayley; Ed. Henry
Hope Reed The French architect Paul
Letarouilly devoted more than 30 years
to drawing the churches, palaces and
monuments of Renaissance Rome. This
student’s edition contains almost 200 plates
from the five volumes originally published
between 1825 and 1882. Accompanied
by an informative text by John Barrington
Bayley, Letarouilly’s lucid plans and
elevations provide a systematic overview
of the design principles of Michelangelo,
Bramante, Bernini and other great
architects of the Italian Renaissance. The
book includes a useful guide for visitors to
Rome. DOVER 2012 PB 224pp Illus 275x210mm
£20.99 16740 now £7.99
LONDON
UNDERGROUND
STATIONS
Stephen Durnin
Photographer Stephen Durnin
spent over a year travelling
around London compiling
this photographic record of
London Underground’s
street-level stations – only
Blackfriars is missing as it
was being rebuilt. Arranged
alphabetically, the buildings
range in date from 1868
Paddington
(originally the District Railway, as at Gloucester Road and Bayswater)
to very recent structures at Wembley Park, Walthamstow and Shepherd’s station by
architect
Bush, and they include celebrated designs by Charles Hodden and
Charles
Leslie Green as well some stations one might describe as architecturally
Clark,
undistinguished. CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2010 HB 192pp Illus 240x275mm
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NEW THE RUSSIAN
ORNAMENT
SOURCEBOOK
10th-16th Centuries
Ed. V I Butovski Following the
arrival of Christianity in the 10th
century, the art of manuscript
illumination flourished in
Kievan Rus; at first continuing
Byzantine traditions of
ornamentation, but later evolving
into genuinely Russian creations.
Based on the original publication
History of Russian Ornamental
Ornaments from Sviatoslav’s Miscellany, 1073
Design in Ancient Manuscripts
(Moscow, 1870), this source book presents hundreds of richly coloured decorative
details, followed by design templates for tracing or scanning. An introduction
gives a brief history of Russian ornament. VIVAYS 2011 HB 336pp Illus 330x250mm
A Leonardo ‘theory machine’, a spiral
gear attached to a barrel spring
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Experience, Experiment
and Design
Martin Kemp Leonardo da Vinci was the
archetypal Renaissance man: artist, scientist, architect, inventor and philosopher.
Yet as the sketches in his notebooks show,
his thinking in all these fields was primarily visual. Produced in association with a
major exhibition at the V&A, this fascinating study examines 200 of his drawings
– all reproduced in colour – to provide an
unrivalled insight into the workings of his
creative mind on every subject from human anatomy to the laws that govern the
universe. V&A 2009 PB 240pp Illus 335x245mm
£19.99 90523 now £8.99
£24.95 16677 now £9.99
THE CHRONOLOGY OF PATTERN
Pattern in Art from Lotus Flower to Flower Power
Diana Newall; Christina Unwin An invaluable
sourcebook for designers and art students, this
chronological journey through 3,000 years of
pattern styles reveals geographical and cultural
contrasts and connections through the
centuries, from late Bronze Age
metalwork patterns to 21st century
textile designs. Every chapter is
richly illustrated with examples
drawn from a great range of
media as well as textiles, and
there are summaries of the
design elements for each period.
The book concludes with a
timeline, from 3050 BCE to 2011.
A&C BLACK 2011 PB 288pp Illus
260x207mm
Dishes from
Deruta in
Umbria, Italy,
mid-16th century
£25.00 11985 now £9.99
LEWIS FOREMAN DAY
(1845-1910)
Unity in Design and Industry
Joan Maria Hansen Though less well-known
than his friend and contemporary William
Morris, Lewis F Day was one of the most
influential figures of the Arts and Crafts
movement. Convinced that the highest aesthetic
ideals could be applied to industrial design,
he produced a range of distinctive furniture,
clocks, stained glass, pottery and tiles, while
his magazine articles provided a perceptive
commentary on the changing fashions of his
day. This handsome book is sumptuously
illustrated with examples of Day’s striking
work. ANTIQUE COLLECTORS’ CLUB
PUFFIN BY DESIGN
Phil Baines In 1939 a chance meeting between Penguin founder Allen Lane and
publisher Noel Carrington led to the
founding of the children’s imprint, Puffin
Books. Richly illustrated with cover designs – from the first book, War on Land
(1940) to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and today’s gritty YA fiction, this attractive
book looks back over 70 years of publishing Puffins, chronicles the role of its
editors, illustrators and designers and explores the dynamic changes in typography, illustration and printing since 1940.
ALLEN LANE 2010 PB 256pp Illus 222x185mm
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Stained-glass window by Day for the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Dunmow, Essex
TRAMWAY ART
The Distinctive Poster Art of the London County Council Tramways
Jonathan Riddell London’s trams are long gone, but in their heyday during the 1920s
and 1930s they gave rise to some of the most stylish and imaginative posters of the Art
Deco era. With more than 100 colour reproductions, this attractive volume presents
most of the original posters: vibrant, richly atmospheric images celebrating the
capital’s monuments, parks and open spaces from Hampstead Heath to Eltham Palace.
This books includes a succinct history of the LCC tramway company and brief
biographies of the poster artists. CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2010 HB 128pp Illus 280x220mm
£25.00 88605 now £9.99
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NEW
ILLUSTRATED
PERIODICALS OF THE 1860s
Contexts and Collaborations
Simon Cooke The ‘Sixties’ of the 19th century
formed a golden age of British illustration, with
periodicals such as The Cornhill Magazine and
Once a Week printing high-quality engravings of
work by leading artists, including Rossetti and
Millais. This attractive book reproduces more
than 120 of these beautiful works, and explores
the complex relationships between authors,
publishers, artists and engravers that lay behind
them. Appendices discuss the challenge of
collecting such works, and list key magazines,
illustrators and editors.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2010 HB 228pp Illus 275x180mm
£45.00 16430 now £12.99
CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES
Fougasse and the
Art of Public Information
Illustration by Millais for Trollope’s Framley
Parsonage in The Cornill Magazine, March 1861
James Taylor Among the most popular
cartoonists of the early 20th century,
Fougasse made his name through his association with Punch magazine and with the
London Underground, but it was his ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ series of Second
World War propaganda posters that secured
his reputation as one of the great British
illustrators. Filled with classic examples
of his work, this is a guide to Fougasse’s
distinct style and his design philosophy.
No jacket. CONWAY 2010 HB 96pp Illus
NEW TITANIC STYLE
Dress and Fashion on the Voyage
Grace Evans The era of the Titanic
witnessed a considerable shift in style,
particularly for women, with overtly
feminine Edwardian fashions being replaced
by straighter lines that heralded the 1920s.
There were, however, enormous variations
between classes – while the attire of ladies
in first class was luxurious, those below
decks dressed in second-hand or homemade clothes. Illustrated with contemporary
photographs and examples of clothes from
museum collections, Titanic Style describes
passenger dress on that last fearful voyage.
£9.99 98299 now £4.99
MOONRISE 2011 HB 184pp Illus
£20.00 16650 now £7.99
High-waisted evening gown design, 1910
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 as discussing how more philosophical
considerations contribute to good design. BERG 2009 PB 214pp Illus 245x190mm
£19.99 11926 now £7.99
Millicent Rogers with her dachshund by John
Rawlings in American Vogue, March 1945
DOGS IN VOGUE
A Century of Canine Chic
Judith Watt From a cartoon by Fish depicting ‘the moneyed wife’ trailing a husband and three lapdogs in 1916 to David
Bailey’s photograph of designer Marc Jacobs and Alfred, his English bull terrier, in
2006, Judith Watt presents a superbly illustrated history of dogs in Vogue magazine
as they accompanied, and sometimes upstaged, the fashion models and socialites.
In one 1980s fashion spread the dogs actually took over the modelling – Paloma Picasso’s British brindle bulldog wore the
silk taffeta by Christian Lacroix. LITTLE,
BROWN 2009 HB 287pp Illus 265x220mm
£18.00 97667 now £8.99
PARIS/NEW YORK
Design . Fashion . Culture
1925-1940
Donald Albrecht During the 1920s and ’30s,
New York and Paris vied for supremacy in
fashion, design, art and architecture. These
12 essays by leading French and American
scholars explore the rivalry and mutual
influence of the two cities in the heyday of
Art Deco, and assess the role of key figures
such as Josephine Baker, Salvador Dalí,
Paul Poiret and Helena Rubinstein.
Stunningly illustrated with 250 photographs,
posters and paintings, this elegant volume
is as stylish as the era it celebrates.
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MICHELANGELO:
SCULPTOR
NEW PAINTINGS FOR THE PLANET KING
Philip IV and the Buen Retiro Palace
Ed. Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos Between 1633 and
1640, King Philip IV of Spain had the Buen Retiro Palace
built in Madrid and filled with the work of Europe’s
leading artists. The palace was destroyed in the early 19th
century, but a major exhibition at the Prado has recreated
its decorative scheme. This magnificently illustrated
catalogue features more than 60 works, many newly
identified, X-rayed and restored, including paintings
by Leonardo, Poussin, Claude Lorraine, Velázquez
and Zurbarán, and explains their role in the palace decor.
Cristina Acidini Luchinat
Superbly illustrated with Aurelio
Amendola’s photographs of the
sculptures in detail and from
different angles, this volume
is an in-depth study of
Michelangelo’s entire oeuvre
as a sculptor. It traces the course
of the artist’s career from the
very earliest works to the small
wooden Christ, unfinished at
his death, examining each
individual sculpture and group
with details of its origins,
history and iconography,
and reproductions of related
drawings.24 ORE CULTURA
PAUL HOLBERTON 2005 PB 304pp Illus 300x243mm
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Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback by Velázquez, c.1635
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Detail of the tomb of Pope Julius II
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Manuel Jover Caravaggio (1571-1610) is acknowledged now as one of the great
Italian artists, whose work represents a revolution in figurative art; but he was also a
man condemned to death for murder and a fugitive from justice. This richly illustrated
study traces the story of his all too brief life and provides commentary on the technique
and spirituality of works such as The Supper at Emmaus and The Conversion of St
Paul. (NB: Black pages, white text.) TERRAIL 2007 PB 256pp Illus 220x170mm
CARAVAGGIO
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NEW MASTER DRAWINGS OF
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Head of a Woman by Andrea
del Verrocchio, c.1475
Claire van Cleave ‘Drawing’, wrote
Vasari, ‘is the father of our three arts,
architecture, sculpture and painting’.
Based on the collections of the
British Museum, the Louvre and
other French museums, this volume
presents 112 superbly reproduced
drawings by artists of the 15th
and 16th centuries, including
Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo
and Titian. The lucid commentary
describes the artists’ materials and
techniques; analyses stylistic and
geographical trends; and explains
how, through this intimate medium,
we come closest to witnessing the
creative process. HARVARD UP
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Flavio Febbraro; Alexandra Wetzel Since
prehistoric times, across cultures and millennia, artists have been inspired by the human
body as an object of desire. This authoritative, insightful and lavishly illustrated volume
examines its depiction through the ages, in
ancient Greece and Rome, India, China and
Japan, and in works by masters such as
Titian, Caravaggio, Goya, Ingres, Rodin and
Warhol. Close-ups reveal telling clues to the
meaning of these sometimes explicit images,
and the often conflicted attitudes of the
societies that created them. Sexually explicit.
HOW TO READ EROTIC ART
LUDION 2011 PB 392pp Illus 238x170mm
ART TREASURES
IN THE NORTH
Northern Families
on the Grand Tour
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Anne French focuses
on the men and women
from northern England
who travelled around
Europe on the Grand
Tour and recorded
their interests and
experiences in letters
and journals. She also
discusses the numerous
art treasures which they
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brought back to the great
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houses of the North, many
of which have remained there and continue to enrich the region’s cultural heritage.
This book is the long-awaited companion volume to the millennium exhibition at the
Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. UNICORN 2009 HB 319pp Illus 240x208mm
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Portrait of a Woman (Lucrezia Borgia) by
Bartolomeo Veneto, c.1525
NEW
COUNTRY PURSUITS
British, American and
French Sporting Art
Malcolm Cormack Drawing on the
celebrated Mellon Collections in the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Malcolm
Cormack presents the first study to examine
together the national traditions of sporting
art in Britain, America and France. An
introductory essay defines sporting art
with a particular emphasis on British artists
in the context of prevailing art trends; and
the catalogue, arranged by country and
by sports, reproduces 127 works, each
accompanied by a commentary.
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VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN,
CÉZANNE AND BEYOND
Post-Impressionist Masterpieces
from the Musée d’Orsay
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Guy Cogeval; Sylvie Patry; Stéphane Guégan
Drawn from one of the world’s premier
collections, the paintings featured in this
volume provide a splendid overview of French
art in the wake of Impressionism. Eleven
illustrated essays discuss artists from Monet,
Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrec to Bonnard and
Vuillard; while the catalogue of paintings,
beautifully reproduced and with commentary
by Nicole Myers, includes masterpieces such as
Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Seurat’s Bathers at
Asnières and The Snake Charmer by Rousseau.
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Eugène Boch or The Poet by Van Gogh, 1888
EDWIN LANDSEER
The Private Drawings
Richard Ormond Celebrated for animal
paintings such as The Monarch of the Glen,
Landseer (1802-73) was Victorian Britain’s
most popular artist. What he most enjoyed,
however, was producing quick, intimate penand-ink sketches of his aristocratic friends
and hosts in salons and drawing rooms or
on sporting expeditions in Scotland. This
handsome volume reproduces more than
100 of these charming and often humorous
drawings, many reproduced for the first time,
alongside a history of the artist’s life and
times. UNICORN 2009 HB 192pp Illus 280x243mm
IN THE PRESENCE OF THINGS
Four Centuries of European Still Life Painting
Part Two: 19th-20th Centuries (1840-1955)
Neil Cox Beginning with paintings from around 1840, Part Two of the exhibition held
at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon charted a transformation in the nature
of art, as the notion of a thing – and the development of still life painting – was
challenged by both philosophy and photography. Among the 93 exhibits illustrated
and discussed in this catalogue are works by some of the greatest names in 19th and
early 20th century art, among them Monet, Braque, Matisse, Léger and Magritte.
CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION 2011 PB 247pp Illus 281x237mm
£39.95 98976 now £16.99
DANGEROUS BEAUTIES
AND DUTIFUL WIVES
Popular Portraits
of Women in Japan, 1905-1925
Ed. Kendall H Brown In the early
years of the 20th century, Japanese
popular magazines featured elegant
kuchi-e (frontispiece pictures) of
glamorous women. Created for mass
production using modern Western
lithography rather than the traditional
woodblocks, these graceful images
nevertheless embody the elegance and
economy of the classical Japanese print.
This attractive book reproduces 100 of
these portraits, offering a rare glimpse
into women’s lives in Taisho-period
Japan. DOVER 2011 PB 128pp Illus 280x213mm
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THE ZEN ART BOOK
The Art of Enlightenment
Stephen Addiss; John Daido Loori When a Zen
master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is
an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It
is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately
stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider
ultimate truth. Here, 40 masterpieces of painting
and calligraphy by masters such as Hakuin
Ekaku (1685-1768) and Gibon Sengai (17501837) are reproduced along with commentary
that illuminates both the art and its teaching.
SHAMBHALA 2007 PB 106pp Illus 235x183mm
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Journey to Burghclere
Paul Gough In 1915 Stanley Spencer left his
contented life in the village of Cookham to
enlist as a medical orderly and was plunged
into the carnage of war in Macedonia. When,
in 1923, the Behrend family commissioned
him to paint murals for their chapel at
Burghclere, the result was a powerful
reflection on his experiences. Drawing
on Spencer’s own letters and sketchbooks,
this absorbing book examines the impact
of the war on his work, placing it alongside
that of other soldier-artists of the period.
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NEW ANDRÉ MASSON
AND ANCIENT GREECE
THE GREAT BRATBY
A Portrait of John Bratby RA
Ed. Kyriakos Koutsomallis; Margarita Kataga
With three essays investigating the references to
Ancient Greek mythology, and particularly the
image of the Minotaur in the work of the
Surrealist André Masson (1896-1987), this
volume accompanied an exhibition at the Basil
and Elise Goulandris Foundation in the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Andros in 2007. The
essays are followed by reproductions of 83
works, including paintings, drawings, bronze
sculptures and designs for operas, with notes
on the myths and quotations from the artist.
Maurice Yacowar In the late 1950s
John Bratby (1928-92) became the most
prominent of the Kitchen Sink Realist
painters and the celebrity artist of his
day, providing the model for Sir Alec
Guinness’s Gulley Jimson in the film,
The Horse’s Mouth (1958). Bratby’s
rediscovery by the art world has led to
critical interest in his art. This study,
the first to mine the Bratby Archive,
examines his art and his writings, from
the bestseller Breakdown to unpublished
(and pornographic) short stories.
UMBERTO ALLEMANDI 2007 HB 143pp Illus 294x238mm
£29.95 16653 now £14.99
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Oedipus by André Masson, 1939
Paul McCartney by Bratby, 1967
THE EYE AND THE WORD
Collected Writings on Art and Literature: The Gagosian Edition
Werner Spies This set of ten volumes brings together seminal works on the art
and literature of the 20th century by the renowned German art historian Werner
Spies. Vols 1 and 2: Max Ernst Collages. Vol 3: Max Ernst – From Material
to Style. Vol 4: Picasso – The Sculptures. Vol 5: The Continent Named
Picasso. Vol 6: Paths to the 20th Century. Vol 7: Surrealism and its Age.
Vol 8: Between Action Painting and Pop Art. Vol 9: From Pop Art to the Present.
Vol 10: Literature and Business. Boxed set. BERLIN UP 2008 HB 4,500pp
£175.00 98975 now £75.00
Maria-Christina Boerner Despite his early death at the age of 36, Henri de ToulouseLautrec left a body of work that, perhaps more than any other artist's, evokes the mood of
Paris during the belle époque. This volume reproduces over 150 drawings, lithographs and
posters demonstrating Lautrec's mastery of line and his invention of a compelling new graphic
style; while documentary photographs of some of the people and places of Lautrec's world
further bring to life fin-de-siècle Paris. Texts in English, Spanish, French and German.
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND HIS WORLD
VIVAYS 2012 HB 176pp Illus 340x255mm
£19.95 94762 now £8.99
LANDMARKS IN
PRINT COLLECTING
Connoisseurs and Donors and
the British Museum Since 1753
Ed. Antony Griffiths The Department
of Prints and Drawings in the British
Museum holds one of the world’s
greatest collections of prints, with all
the major names of Western printmaking
represented, often in complete series
and in excellent impressions. This
volume of ten richly illustrated essays
traces the history of the collection
since the Museum's foundation in
1753 through studies of the principal
collectors and benefactors, from
Back by
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) to a
popular
demand
survey of curatorial collecting in
the 20th century. BRITISH MUSEUM
$40.00 17083 now £9.99
GARDEN PAINTERS
Contemporary Artists
Ariel Luke Despite its distinguished
history, garden painting seems to have
fallen from favour. This delightful survey
of the work of 21 contemporary artists –
including the author – demonstrates that
the genre is alive and well. Working in a
wide range of media and styles, the artists
hail from the United States, Britain and
continental Europe, and reproductions of
their pictures are accompanied by brief
biographical sketches. Among the gardens
depicted is that of Sir Roy Strong, who
has contributed the foreword.
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Les Epiègles (The Mischief Makers) by Charles
Melchior Descourtis, after Frédéric-Jean Schall
Julian Halsby; Paul Harris Now in a fully revised edition, this is an essential
reference work for everyone interested in Scottish art – whether collector, dealer,
student, gallery, museum or simply an enthusiast. The alphabetically arranged entries
outline the careers of over 2,000 painters who have worked in Scotland and cover
artistic institutions and groupings ranging from the National Galleries of Scotland to
the Glasgow Boys. The book is illustrated throughout with colour reproductions,
including works by some of the most exciting contemporary artists.
THE DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH PAINTERS: 1600 to the Present
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Diana Newall For anyone who loves to visit
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Tracey Emin’s Everyone I Have Ever Slept
With. Arranged chronologically within themes
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and Landscape, it offers intelligent insights
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significant movements in the history of art.
NEW FIRST SEEN
Portraits of the World’s
Peoples 1840-1880
Kathleen Stewart Howe
Almost as soon as photography
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rushed to the four corners of
the earth to document its
peoples. Accompanying a
major travelling exhibition,
this catalogue reproduces
more than 240 rare photographs
from the Wilson Centre for
Photography in London. On
subjects ranging from Italian
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struggled with issues of
personal and national identity
in an age of exploration and imperial expansion.
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PHYSIQUE
Classic Photographs
of Naked Athletes
Peter Kuhnst’s selection of over
150 images traces the history of the
nude athlete in photography from
the mid 19th century to the present.
From Eadweard Muybridge’s
motion studies of runners and
javelin throwers, through European
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work under the Third Reich, to
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Weber and Annie Liebovitz,
the photographers’ styles range
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humorous and provocative.
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Magnum Photos
With its hippy music festivals,
happenings and charismatic
actors, artists, musicians
and political activists, the
pop culture of the 1960s
was revolutionary and
transformative. Drawn from
the archives of Magnum, the
world’s preeminent photo
agency, this collection of
photographs captures the
spirit and style of the period
and includes portraits of
Andy Warhol, Marilyn
Monroe, Muhammad Ali
and the Beatles, by
photographers including Eve
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and Dennis Stock. ABRAMS 2008 HB 192pp Illus 260x215mm
POP SIXTIES
Figure in the Garden by David Inshaw, 1989
A SINGULAR VISION
Fifty Years of British Painting
at the Portal Gallery
Jess Wilder; Laura Gascoigne The Portal
Gallery in London has provided a venue
for works by up-and-coming as well as
established artists since 1959. Its unusual
pictures, which lean toward the fantastic,
magical and surreal, often with a dash of
humour, include works by Beryl Cook, Peter
Blake and Kit Williams, Jane Lewis and
Heather Nevay. In this volume, more than 160
reproductions of paintings first shown at the
Portal chronicle the gallery’s first 50 years,
its artists and its flair for the unconventional.
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In the 1830s two men – English
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about working in the mines (A Pitman’s
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