Biography / Autobiography 68560 GANDHI: Naked


Ambition by Jad Adams The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India’s


independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance through mass civil disobedience, and the man honoured in India as ‘Father of the Nation’, Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired civil rights and liberation movements the world over. Yet he was also a man of contradictions - a


lifelong pacifist whose treatment of his wife and son bordered on cruelty; a self-denying ascetic who preached the virtues of chastity and marriage yet experienced a high degree of intimate physical female contact; a political radical whose resistance to racism struck a modern note, but whose vision of India was of an almost medieval village nation. Here too is his incredible drive including his relentless recreation of his own image, from London dandy to naked wise man. 323pp in paperback, photos. £8.99 NOW £3


68564 HOUSE OF MITFORD by Jonathan and Catherine Guinness Nancy, Diana, Pam, Unity, Jessica, Deborah - the ‘Mitford Girls’, as John Betjeman called them, were one of the 20th century’s most controversial families. They were glamorous, romantic and, especially in politics. Among the six daughters and one son born to Lord and Lady Redesdale were Nancy, the novelist and historian, Diana who married fascist leader Sir Oswald Moseley, Unity, friend of Hitler, Jessica who became a Communist and then an investigative journalist, and Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and mistress of Chatsworth. 646pp in paperback with many photos. £9.99 NOW £5.50


68596 WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham


An instant bestseller when first published in 1942, this is the classic of African exploration. Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learned to love, her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her near fatal tangles with its wild animals and her passions for race horses and aeroplanes. She achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. Her adventures and courageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the 1920s and 30s. Facsimile reprint paperback, 294pp. £9.99 NOW £3.75


68609 MACMILLAN: The Official Biography, 20th Anniversary Edition by Alistair Horne


Now published in one volume to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its original publication, this biography was universally acclaimed as one of the great political lives. It offers a vivid portrait of one of the 20th century’s most complex political


figures, the crofter’s grandson and the duke’s son-in-law, the soldier and the scholar, the bon viveur and the devout High Churchman. With acute insight, he describes the politician’s background and his full role in the Suez crisis, explaining his baffling volte-face and the role of his reputation in winning him the Prime Ministership after Eden’s resignation. Macmillan’s rehabilitation of the demoralised Tory Party, his inspired visit to Khrushchev to quieten down the escalating Cold War, his recognition of the rise of black nationalism within the Commonwealth and his re-establishment of the Special Relationship with America ensured his place as one of the most consummate politicians of British history. The Night of the Long Knives and the Profumo affair, as well as his battle with prostate cancer ultimately forced Macmillan out of office. 1,295 pages with notes and silk bookmark.


£60 NOW £12.50


68778 LIFE OF A LONG-DISTANCE WRITER: The Biography of Alan Sillitoe by Richard Bradford


Sillitoe’s first two works of fiction, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long- Distance Runner (1959) changed the history of the English language novel, and the abundance of work he produced subsequently - verse, criticism, poetry, fiction, travel writing and drama included - resists classification; his breadth and versatility were outstanding. As well as his ability to turn his pen to any written form, his work was also truly internationalist, addressing fundamental themes of identity, liberty and integrity. His life was as compelling as his fiction. Born in abject poverty in Nottingham in 1928, he left school with no qualifications. In the latter 1960s, he turned against these totalitarian states and campaigned tirelessly on behalf of political prisoners. At the turn of the 21st century he had developed a fascination with Judaism, becoming a staunch defender of the need for a Jewish homeland, and still enjoying ruffling feathers whilst still well into his 70s. Includes correspondence with Ted Hughes. 390pp, photos.


£25 NOW £6 68862 CONVERSATIONS


WITH MYSELF by Nelson Mandela


Here is the private man behind the public figurehead - from letters written in the darkest hours of his 27 year incarceration at Robben Island to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, doodles scribbled during meetings to the recording of troubling dreams, journals whilst on the run during the


early ’60s to sound recordings of chats with friends. This is the chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man in his own direct, clear words. Slightly scuffed. 454pp with b/w photos and green satin bookmark. £25 NOW £6.50


68942 ALAN CLARK: The Biography by Ion Trewin


To some, a castle-owning toff and lecherous cad, to others a colourful and life-enhancing figure - who was Alan Clark the man? Most people know of his


sensational Diaries and can picture him as a famous womaniser, Tory MP and controversial minister. His father was Kenneth Clark of Civilisation fame, but the son rarely spoke about his upbringing. Was it as unhappy as he hinted? The author talked to politicians of all persuasions, to those who knew Clark at a prep school, to friends at Eton and Oxford, and to some of the many women he found it impossible to resist - despite a loving marriage of 41 years. We witness him in unlikely situations: in the US as a bellhop and later in Moscow as a delegate to a Soviet Youth Congress. We learn of his struggles to teach himself to write, and the mentors who helped him become a formidable military historian. We see his political evolution and romantic nationalism, his enthusiasm for Margaret Thatcher, his controversial role at the Matrix-Churchill trial and the ‘drunk at the Commons dispatch box’ affair. 500 pages with colour and b/w photos. £25 NOW £9


68924 ROAD BACK HOME: A Bittersweet Northern


Childhood by Sid Waddell Everybody knows Sid Waddell as the overexcited voice of TV darts, the Geordie with the gift for the most bizarre quotes in the business, but how many of you knew that this son of a miner from Lynemouth in Northumberland graduated from Cambridge with a degree in history and ended up big in TV darts by


being a BBC Sports producer in the 1970s? Theirs was a colourful community with good times and hard work, peopled by god-fearing women and hard-drinking men, dominated by Auld Betty, the pit head, who took men down into the ground each day and, fuelled by the village’s prayers, back up again in the evening. B/w photos, 318 page paperback. Contents same as 67092. £6.99 NOW £2.75


68953 MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: The Long


Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham


As an adventure story, a searing memoir of self-destruction and self- renewal, and a visionary rallying cry for humankind once again to set course for Mars and beyond, this book is the thoroughly human account of a genuine hero. 40 years


ago, just minutes after Neil Armstrong, the author became the second human being to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. From the glory of being part of the mission that fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge to reach the Moon before the decade was out, the astronaut returned to a career stripped of purpose and direction. The twin demons of depression and alcoholism emerged, the first of which Aldrin confronted early and publicly and the second of which he met with denial until it nearly killed him. 326 pages with colour and b/w photos.


£16.99 NOW £7


68982 MUST YOU GO? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser


Partly based on the diaries of the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer, on her own recollections and on quotations from her husband’s words and those of his friends, this memoir is not Antonia Fraser’s complete life, nor the life of the universally renowned dramatist, but purely and simply her time with Pinter. A marvellously insightful testimony to modern literature’s most celebrated marriage. Intriguingly, her diaries always pay special attention to any green shoots where Pinter’s writing is concerned, perhaps a consequence of a biographer living with a creative artist and observing the process at first hand. The two stayed together for 33 years until his death, and this book is her utterly compelling and poignant question to him: ‘Must you go?’ 328 pages with colour and b/w photos. £20 NOW £7


69008 LONG LIFE: Memoirs by Nigel Nicolson


The son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson’s life was bound to be extraordinary. As a child he was the companion of Virginia Woolf when she was writing Orlando, the fantastical biography about his own mother. His later life as a soldier, MP and finally full time writer and publisher is recorded here with great insight and style. He shows the elegance of his father’s


writing as well as touches of his mother Vita’s romanticism in a delightfully honest, stylish and funny memoir of a more honourable age. 310pp in paperback, photos.


£9.99 NOW £5 69027 BITTER BLUE: Tranquilisers, Drugs,


Dependency by Jeremy Reed ‘My pills were always blue. Bitter blue.’ The book is a highly personal and subjective response to a 12 year benzodiazepine dependency, dealing predominantly with the creative mind and touching on the lives of those writers who have devoted themselves to inner experimentation. Lou Reed’s apprehension of ‘drug masturbation’ or recreational drugs is quite distinct from the committed explorations of imaginative potential realised in their writings by Anna Kavan, Jean Cocteau, Georg Trakl, Henri Michaeu and Marcel Proust to mention but five of the writers discussed here. It took him two and a half years with cravings, hallucinations and violent panic attacks, but he did not go back to the drug. 136pp.


£15.99 NOW £3


69060 SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN: The Remarkable Story of Dana and Christopher


Reeve by Christopher Andersen It is one of the most terrible ironies that Christopher Reeve, not only the most iconic screen Superman but also a man of action in every way off-screen, should end up paralysed from the shoulders down and unable to breathe unaided after a freak showjumping accident shattered his 1st and 2nd cervical vertebrae. It was only due to some Superman-like tenacity that he survived the accident at all, but then, slowly, slowly he began to rebuild his life. None of this would have been possible, he said, without the heroic efforts of his wife Dana.


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69504 HOLY BIBLE: New International Version: Slipcased Gift Bible by Hodder & Stoughton A small white slipcased mini gift Bible with silver edged pages and tiny print, exquisitely designed and printed on 1262 pages. The New International Version is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible made by over 100 scholars working directly with the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek text. It had its beginning in 1965 when a group of transdenominational leaders met in Chicago and the whole work involved thousands of hours of research and discussion regarding the meaning of the text and the precise way of putting it into English. Welcome to the Bible, a wonderful collection of 66 different books written by at least 40 different authors from a variety of cultures over a period of at least 1,500 years. Running through it is the common theme of God’s love and practical concerns for the world. Here are tales of great courage, faith and daring matched by examples of extreme human stupidity and evil. The Bible gives guidelines for personal conduct and practical instructions about how to know and worship God. The New Testament includes accounts of the life of Jesus Christ and how God showed his love and purposes through Him. And it tells the story of the early Church, demonstrating the dynamic life-changing effect of the risen Christ on people’s lives. With ribbon marker. £12.99 NOW £6


69599 BRITISH STEAM ENGINES by O. S. Nock


Oswald Stevens Nock, Ossie to his many friends and colleagues, is probably the world’s most prolific and well respected author on the subject of railways. When he died in 1994 he had completed his 143rd railway book. He always thought of writing as a second string to his bow. He said, ‘The real job was as an engineer.’ His other real love apart from his wife Olivia was his model railway. The introduction to this book is an expanded version of his bestselling title British Steam Locomotives, first published in 1964. It has been brought up to date by Jon Mountford. The book explores the key role that steam engines played from their humble beginnings through early tragedies to great leaps forward in safety and design. Here is detailed information on specifications, classes, development, construction, the engines and the tracks they ran on. It begins with how a steam locomotive works, early high-pressure steam engines, the Rainhill trials, the Stephenson’s success, Brunel and the Great Western Railway, the Armagh disaster, the first underground train and the Metropolitan railway, the Big Four, railways in wartime, nationalisation, both standard guage and narrow guage heritage railways, preserved steam locos, steam centres, museums and works. Very well illus in colour throughout. 304 large pages. £14.99 NOW £7


69450 COLLINS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MILITARY HISTORY: Fourth Edition by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy


Completely revised and updated in 2007, this is the new version of a classic compendium and reference guide describing not only wars and combat operations in general, but also the concurrent growth of military arts - tactics, strategy and weaponry. The book contains 22 chronologically arranged chapters with succinct essays summarising the highlights of the period, outstanding leaders, unusual developments, tactical and strategic trends and placing each major operation in its political and social perspective. A very large number of maps assist our comprehension throughout the text, plus diagrams and line art in coverage from 3500 BC to 1990. Here is the rise of great empires in East and West, the decline of Rome and the rise of cavalry, the Dark Ages, the age of the Mongols, the end of the Middle Ages, the era of Napoleon, two world wars and superpowers into the nuclear age. Very clear layout with bold headers and text across one or two columns, here is at-a-glance history in a superb reference. 250 maps and illus. 1654 pages in heavy hardback. £40 NOW £10


69621 GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT by Owen Jones


This classic Victorian compendium of decorative art was produced in 1856, long before the 20th century theories of functionalism called into question the necessity of adorning buildings with lavish decoration. The author, Owen Jones, voyaged throughout the Mediterranean as a young man and in 1850 joined a group of architects working on the Crystal Palace, creating displays in the styles of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Alhambra. This book is divided into 20 chapters, each covering a particular historical style and including Jones’s analysis of the structural and aesthetic qualities of examples from each culture. Although he starts with “savage tribes” he recognises the beauty and skill of such artefacts as an ancient Maori paddle which “would rival works of the highest civilisation”. The ancient world is followed by Byzantine, Turkish, Moorish, Indian, Hindu, Chinese and Celtic ornament. In the Medieval section, beautiful line-drawings of Romanesque capitals are accompanied by ten pages of colour motifs from stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, and this is followed by the Renaissance ornament developed in Italy by masters such as Donatello and Ghiberti. The author concludes with drawings from nature identifying the geometrical structure of leaves, flowers and fruit as the universal basis for ornament. This fascinating history gives an insight not only into the decorative arts of the world but also the viewpoint of a Victorian designer at a particular moment in British history. 228pp, softback, 112 colour pages and numerous line drawings. ONLY £15


69494 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by Antonia Fraser


Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense, formed at the absolute court of France, plunged her country into a maelstrom of intrigue, marriage and murder that triggered one of the most turbulent periods of history, and her untimely end. Lady Antonia Fraser’s biography movingly blends insight and scholarship in a story full of romance, violence and intrigue. She has the perfect eye for physical detail and a high feeling for the central tragedy. First published in 1969 and dedicated to the publisher George Weidenfeld to salute his 90th birthday and celebrate nearly 60 years of friendship, we have the 40th anniversary edition in paperback. An infant queen, a teenage widow. 760pp in chunky paperback with many photos. £9.99 NOW £6


69169 WHY I AM SO WISE by Friedrich Nietzsche


Written in 1888, the book was finally published in 1908 under the title Ecce Homo and subtitled How We Become What We Are. This became one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most compelling messages. Born in Saxony in 1844, and brought up in a family consisting entirely of females, he received an outstanding classical education and graduated in theology and classical philology at the University of Bonn. With this his final book, he looks back on his literary output and tells us why he wrote those books, where they came from and whether his position had changed at all over the course of the years. Above all, he was against all systems of belief: ‘Beware lest a statue crushes you!’ Shortly after completing the book, Nietzsche suffered a complete mental collapse from which he never recovered and he died in Weimar in 1900. Unfortunately, the Nazis feasted on the poet-philosopher’s polemics and concepts such as the ‘Last Man’, ‘Master Slave Morality’, ‘Super Man’ and the ‘Will to Power’, were all taken out of context and wilfully misunderstood. Having resigned his professorship at the University of Basel in 1879, this book was written while Nietzsche travelled around France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In effect it is his singular autobiography, translated into English. Illustrated edition, 128pp. £6.99 NOW £3.50


69284 ADVANCED CALCULUS: Second Edition by David Widder David Widder (1898-1990) was one of the US’s most distinguished mathematicians and Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, and this is an unabridged facsimile reprint of the second edition of his Advanced Calculus, first published in New York in 1961. It leads students who are familiar with elementary calculus into confronting and solving theoretical problems which require advanced methodology, and is thus equally useful as a text in applied mathematics and in engineering. Widder’s maxim was that clarity of exposition depends upon precision of statement, and he takes pains to explain exactly what is to be proved in every case. Each of the 14 chapters contain definitions, theorems, proofs, examples and exercises, and every effort has been made to make the statement of each theorem so concise that the student will see at a glance the essential hypotheses and conclusions that can be made and drawn from it. The exercises are graded in difficulty and are to be found in abundance, and the answers to most (but not all!) are to found in


the final section. A classic text. 520pp paperback. £19.99 NOW £6


69295 EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD by E. A. Wallis Budge Unquestionably one of the most influential books in all history, the Egyptian Book of the Dead embodies a ritual to be performed for the dead with detailed instructions for the behaviour of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods. It served as the most important repository of religious authority for some 3,000 years. Chapters were carved on the pyramids of the ancient dynasty, texts were written in papyrus, and selections were painted on mummy cases well into the Christian era. In a sense it stood behind all Egyptian civilisation. Here is a selection of the text as inscribed on sarcophagi, tombs, papyri and amulets by the Egyptians in order to ensure the wellbeing of their dead. In a perfect state of preservation, a copy of the Egyptian Book of the Dead written around 1500BC is represented here by Dr Budge in a clear copy of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. There is an inter-linear transliteration of their sounds (as reconstructed), a word-for-word translation, and separately a complete smooth translation. All this is preceded by an introduction of more than 150 pages. Unabridged large softback reprint of the 1895 edition. 380pp. £15.99 NOW £6


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