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Dorset with its steep stepped gorge and the ancient St Aldhelm’s chapel, or the long beaches and smugglers’ creeks of the Pembrokeshire Coastal path. The wetlands of East Anglia, for instance the walk at the confluence of the Waveney and Yare, are hauntingly atmospheric. Firle Beacon, Hambleton, Knole, Selborne, Avebury and Stourhead are among the beautiful rural walks of the lush south. 320pp, softback, beautifully illustrated with colour photography. £14.99 NOW £6
69508 UNDERGROUND ENGLAND: Travels Beneath Our Cities and Countryside by Stephen Smith
Here is an underground odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh Marches to the Suffolk coast. Smith uncovers smugglers’ tunnels and drowned cities, underground waterfalls, burial mounds and investigates the errant nuns and secret societies, 18th
century rakes and troglodytes, communities who have made the netherworld their home. There is even a lengthy section on the life of Frankie Howerd and some personal anecdotes mixed in this rather odd book. 306pp in paperback.
£10.99 NOW £4
69597 IMAGES OF ENGLAND: Bath by Paul De’ath
Here are memorable images of a bygone age, scenes of quiet streets, small family run shops, horse drawn vehicles, quiet country lanes, the local stations, the beautiful crescents, the churches, the busy shopping streets, all remarkably similar to the modern town of Bath. Pulteney Bridge photographed in 1901 looks rather sad before the improvements were made; Laura Place in 1915 is a beautiful tree-lined square named after Henrietta Laura Pulteney. In the same place, Union Passage is bustling with merchants and Parade Gardens look as elegant as ever. Some captions are very scathing and opinionated. 200 archive photos. 128pp in paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4 69606 LIVERPOOL 800: Character, Culture
and History edited by John Belchem A warts-and-all portrait of the city, elegantly designed with 300 illustrations, many in colour. From obscure medieval beginnings, Liverpool rose to become one of the world’s greatest sea ports, partly as a result of the infamous slave trade. By 1907 Liverpool was proclaimed the proud second city of empire, at the pinnacle of fame and fortune, as its rich cultural heritage attests. Thereafter, events took a sharp turn for the worse and Liverpool came to be stigmatised. After a brief Merseybeat florescence in the 1960s, the city enjoyed a renaissance in the early years of the 21st century and has been recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. 532 large heavy pages. £16.50 NOW £6
69612 SOUTH DOWNS WAY by Martin King
The 100 mile long bridleway and footpath between Eastbourne and Winchester was opened in 1972. This historic route runs through some of Britain’s most beautiful countryside and is popular with families seeking a day out and serious walkers alike. But what made a self-confessed couch potato cabbie from London decide not only to cycle the Way with his three mates, but to walk it alone as well? Full of hilarious anecdotes, the book will have you in stitches. Paperback. Colour photos, 206 pages. Warning - some very fruity language is used.
£7.99 NOW £3
69861 STRANGEST UNDERGROUND PLACES IN BRITAIN: And the Best Worldwide
by Strangest Books Beneath Dover Castle are secret wartime tunnels, in Powys is King Arthur’s Labyrinth, take the cable car to lead mines at the Heights of Abraham in Derbyshire, discover Merseyside mysteries, Cheddar
Man and the Cannibals, underground concerts on the slate, the ghost who wants his heart back, the poached egg chamber, the Witch of Wookey and amazing phenomena like hollow mountains where bitumen still seeps from the walls more than 200 years after it was first discovered. Discover a street of shops and houses sealed and then entombed following the plague, massive power stations in hollow mountains, prehistoric burial grounds, the Ming Tombs, prisons and dungeons and an amazing underground cathedral made of salt. A super handbook for Great Britain and as far afield as Poland, Bermuda and Australia. 96 page paperback with colour photos.
£7.99 NOW £3
70029 FRONTIER COUNTRY: A Mid-Summer Walk Around the Borders of Essex
by Brian Mooney and Jon Harris Far removed from the jokes and clichés surrounding it, Essex brims with wonderful surprises. The two intrepid travellers set out to celebrate the people, the history, the architecture and geography of the county by walking every inch of its boundaries. Here they go, starting in Waltham Abbey, along the Thames to the marshes, rivers and creeks of the eastern seaboard, and up the Suffolk borders to the edges of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. 190 eventful paperback pages with exquisite drawings and maps. £8.99 NOW £3.50
68806 ANTIQUE MAPS BRENTWOOD AND EAST LONDON: Sheet 72
published by David & Charles Originally published in 1805 as a single sheet, the Brentwood copper-plate map was re-engraved in 1843- 44 on four quarter plates, here trimmed and bound together. Landmarks are located such as Limehouse Church and Wanstead House in the south west of the sheet. There were further interior stations at Brentwood Steeple, Billericay Cathedral and Epping Mill. Extensive railway revision was inserted after 1854 and the revisions continued to attempt the changing topography of East London. £4.99 NOW £2.50
69446 THE WESTMINSTER CIRCLE by David Sullivan
The City of Westminster today is home to the monarch, government and all associated offices of both for the entire nation, not to mention Westminster Abbey, St James’s Park, Trafalgar Square and Belgravia. The book includes the original settlement around the abbey and royal palace, the district of Charing and Old Strand, the former
“Convent Garden” and the market garden area of Aldwych, the district known today as Soho, all of which formed the Manor of Westminster, and the districts now known as Hyde Park, Belgravia, Mayfair and Pimlico which made up the adjacent Manor of Eye. Three colour maps and 20 colour and b/w plates, 432 heavyweight pages, 7½”×10".
£25 NOW £6
67401 YORKSHIRE DALES published by Ward Lock & Co
Originally published in the 1950s, these delightfully nostalgic guides offered detailed information on everything the visitor, traveller or holidaymaker could possibly require, making them the bestselling handbooks of their time. This nostalgic volume covers the Yorkshire Dales, stretching from Wharfedale in the south to Teesdale in the north, with every castle, abbey, stately home, church and ruin in between, plus suggested excursions, walks and leisure activities. With original adverts. 168 pocket sized pages with sturdy cover, with nine maps and plans, notes for anglers and b/w illus. £9.99 NOW £4.50
67725 THE COTSWOLDS by Stephen Dory Mellow Cotswold stone gives distinction to towns like Chipping Campden, whose high street is a textbook of different building styles: medieval cottages co-exist with grand houses in the classical style, the row of 17th century almshouses is still in use by Campden pensioners, while the old Silk Mill, now a museum, is where the Arts and Crafts designer C. R. Ashbee set up his workshop in 1902. Bourton-on-the Water and Stow- on-the-Wold are all worth a detour, while Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Stroud are major centres at the margins of the area. 96pp, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £2
69264 GLASTONBURY
THROUGH TIME by Steve Wallis
Glastonbury is one of Britain’s most attractive historical towns. Its many ancient buildings are set in a stunning landscape and with its legendary connections with King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea, the magnificent ruined abbey and, of course, the Tor. Here, 180 “then
and now” photos show the many ways that Glastonbury has changed and developed over the 20th century. We visit some of the town’s notable curiosities including Wick Hollow, a Galilee, The Tribunal and other views of the town. Explains points of interest and relevant dates. 94pp softback. £14.99 NOW £5
68593 VILLAGE BUILDINGS OF BRITAIN by Matthew Rice
A gloriously good-looking tour of Britain’s regional riches of rural architecture, we are taken from Aberdare in Glamorgan to Budleigh Salterton in Devon, Cheddar in Somerset to Wiverton in Norfolk. The Cotswolds with wonderful honey coloured limestone; fine half-timbered buildings from the 18th century. Watercolour drawings and a pithy text. 160 outsize pages in softback. £9.99 NOW £2.50
69182 DISCOVER WEST MIDLANDS FROM
ABOVE by Adrian Warren and Dae Sasitorn Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Greater Birmingham (now known as the West Midlands), Staffordshire and Warwickshire are dominated by industry. Warwick has the most spectacular medieval castles, including the extraordinary ruin at Kenilworth and, of course, Stratford-upon-Avon. Cannock Chase with its wildlife, grouse, foxes, badgers, deer and red squirrel and the Cotswolds, the Severn Valley Railway and the historic Malvern Hills are all seen from a bird’s eye view. Colour, softback of 32pp. £6.99 NOW £2
68950 A BOOK OF BRITAIN: The Lore, Landscape and Heritage of a Treasured Countryside by Johnny Scott with photography by Christian Barnett
Bound in tan leather, tweed patterned cloth and gold tooled, here is a collectable landmark tome. Divided into seasons and chapters that include farming and the landscape, woodland, weather and folklore, wildlife, wild harvest, crafts and country sports, the book starts with the amazing events at the birth of the author, now Sir Johnny Scott, in the Kent and Sussex Weald, when his father carried the midwife on his back through the snowdrifts of a great storm. Interwoven with the commemoration of our way of life are unexpected lively digressions such as how saints’ days prophesy the weather and how aphorisms predict what will happen during a certain month. Days of falconry, breeding, wonderful wool and riotous dining, all told with an energy and enthusiasm that
instantly transfers itself to the reader. Nearly 600 large pages, colour countryside plates, woodcuts and line drawings and silk bookmark.
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68597 WISH YOU WERE HERE: England On Sea by Travis Elborough
Elborough argues that our national character, our snobbishness, grouchiness and willingness to laugh at ourselves, our attitudes to sex and fair play and our chequered relationship with national pride has been forged against a backdrop of stormy skies and pebbly beaches. 240pp in paperback with illus. £8.99 NOW £2.25
68638 JEWISH MANCHESTER: An Illustrated History by Bill Williams
Manchester Jewry is today the largest Jewish community in the British provinces with a population conservatively estimated at 35,000. This includes 20 Zionist organisations which highlight Manchester Jewry’s support of the State of Israel. It has its own newspaper, The Jewish Telegraph, founded in 1950 and consists of immigrants and refugees from almost every part of the Jewish world. Locally, members of the community have played major roles in the development of Manchester and Salford since the late 18th century. Throughout the 200 years which this book covers, differences have played a central role in communal history Fantastic archive of photographs of buildings, places, events, shops, schoolchildren, newspaper cuttings, photos of picnics, members of the International Brigade in Spain, numerous bulletins, posters and certificates. 192 large pages. £16.99 NOW £6.50
68995 WHITEHALL: The Street that Shaped a Nation by Colin Brown
Whitehall is built on top of a Tudor palace whose ruins were uncovered during the building of the present Ministry of Defence in 1939. It was here that Henry VIII had his wine cellar and kept fit on the tennis court and Charles I was executed at Inigo Jones’s newly built Banqueting House - an event witnessed by Samuel Pepys who played truant from school. Churchill laid his strategy for countering a possible invasion here, building the network of tunnels under Whitehall which were later developed into a nuclear bunker. 388pp, colour and b/w photos.
£17.99 NOW £5 69101 ASPECTS OF BLACKBURN -
DISCOVERING LOCAL HISTORY edited by Alan Duckworth
In the 1801 census Blackburn had an astonishing 7,000 cotton handlooms yet as the handloom was superseded by the power loom, many workers were laid off and the town became a centre for the revolutionary workers’ Chartist movement. Mike Clarke tells the story of the local boatyards in their heyday and their gradual decline as motorised transport came in. “Workers’ Playtime” tells the story of holidays in Morecambe and trips to the Lyceum Theatre. 192pp, paperback, b/w photos. £9.99 NOW £2.75
69375 WINDERMERE by John Morrison
In the summer of 1930, aged just 23, Alfred Wainwright made his first visit to the Lake District. Wainwright’s moment of epiphany came when he viewed Lake Windermere from the vantage point of Orrest Head. England’s longest lake cradled by hills, with the sands of Morecambe Bay glistening on the southern horizon, and to the north, the craggy peaks of central Lakeland. But even when Ambleside, Bowness, Windermere and Lakeside are all heaving with visitors, there is still room to roam - on the lake itself and on the fells which surround it. Full of glorious large colour photos. 128 large pages.
£16.99 NOW £6
69177 DISCOVER LANDSCAPES: Peak District Villages by Simon Kirwan
Kirwan does justice to some of the most beautiful countryside scenes in the region from Alport three miles south of Bakewell on the edge of the Peak District National Park to Youlgreave on the banks of the River Bradford by way of Rowsley, Monyash and Chapel-en- le-Frith. This is the area taking in Peveril Castle, Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall. Charming colour photos, 32 page large softback. £6.99 NOW £2.50
69178 DISCOVER TIMES PAST: Greater Manchester by Robert Gibb
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Piccadilly Gardens, Exchange Station and Cromwell’ Statue circa 1885, the Manchester Guardian building, King Street, bustling Spring Gardens with the new Art Deco style Midland Bank designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, transport, cotton, the city at war, around Manchester and surrounding towns like Bolton, Rochdale, Stockport and Wigan are all captured in these nostalgic b/ w and sepia photos. 32pp in large softback. £6.99 NOW £3
69179 DISCOVER TIMES PAST: The Lake District by Jerome Monahan
Windermere and Ambleside, Kendal and the Langdales, here is the poetry of the Lakes captured in really beautiful monochrome photographs from the Hulton Getty Picture Library. Traditional sports of Cumbria are celebrated, including the senior race at Grasmere 1912. Water-skiing on Ullswater, wartime in the Lakes and down on the farm, all captured in large, clear monochrome stills. 32pp, softback. £6.99 NOW £2.50
69181 DISCOVER TIMES PAST: Yorkshire by Susan Nowak
Photos from the archives of the Hulton Getty Picture Library included many from the famous Picture Post magazine. See the scrap metal merchant and hanging out laundry in the mid 1930s, cricket, famous landmarks in Sheffield, mining, the mills in Bradford, hotels and royal baths in Harrogate, the beaches at Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington and glorious old photos from the Yorkshire Dales. 32pp, softback. £6.99 NOW £3
69271 TORQUAY THROUGH TIME by Leslie Retallick
This wonderful selection of over 180 colour and b/w “then and now” photos traces the way in which Torquay has changed over the 20th century such as the natural arch London Bridge, the Imperial Hotel, Maidencombe Beach, Lucius Street, Howzat! And the oldest building in the village, Cockington Forge, plus tea rooms, parks and gardens, churches and a bird’s eye view. Many of the original photos came from the golden age of the picture postcard, the late Victorian era to the start of the Great War. With fact, observation and whimsy. 96pp softback. £12.99 NOW £5
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70686 COLOUR INDEX 2 by Jim Krause
Designers, fine artists and photographers often rely on differences in the relative values of colour in their layouts and images to direct attention and establish mood. Strong contrast tends to attract notice and generate energy; low levels of contrast are often employed amongst backdrop
elements and as a means of quieting a composition’s visual impact. Many of the colour combinations in this book were influenced by the methods of palette creation. Here are over 1500 new colour combinations in this sequel to the bestselling predecessor, which is a stand alone publication. Chapters are organised by dominant hue and with unique expansion palettes - sets of four related hues arranged from dark to light that allow you to explore even more colour combinations for limitless possibilities. Heavyweight softback published by David & Charles in very accurate colour. 360pp. £14.99 NOW £6
70334 BUILD YOUR OWN PAPER ROBOTS: 100s of Mecha Model Designs on CD
to Print Out and Assemble by Julius Perdana, Josh Buczynski et al
The beauty of these designs is that, if your model gets damaged in battle, you can easily and quickly print out a replacement, so your fun is never ending. The book contains
14 amazing mecha models to colour, print and build, with simple step-by-step instructions on how to assemble them. The CD contains ready-to-print PDF colour templates, plus plain line art templates that can be coloured in any standard image-editing package, allowing for as many variants of the models as you can make. There is a huge variety of robot styles to suit all skill levels. Articulated joints mean the robots are poseable, and the templates include a Mecha Cityscape and a Cyber Port to pose them in. What is more, the designs are customisable with standard image-editing programmes such as Photoshop Elements, Photoshop and Coral Paint Shop Pro, for both windows and Mac. So get building your terrifying Blazefighter, Destructor, Spiderbot and many more. 96 pages 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm in colour, with printing colour templates and colouring line art templates INCLUDING FREE CD. $18.95 NOW £6
70485 LEARN TO BEAD EARRINGS
by Company’s Coming Crafts Create a dazzling pair of earrings to complete any look, or make your friends the perfect gift, with this thorough and extensively explained guide. With step-by-step
instructions, skill levels rated beginner, easy and intermediate, and wonderfully helpful full-page colour photos of the finished product, this book is the perfect partner to the budding jewellery maker. The Visual Glossary starts, not only by listing the tools you will need, but providing pictures of each, so you can ensure you are suitably equipped. It takes you through understanding the basics of beading, to making earrings which suit any occasion. We at Bibliophile love the elegance of the Dew Drops design on page 46, along with the wonderful Evergreen Earrings on page 114 - perfect for Christmas! If you’re jetting off to an exotic location this summer, be sure to create a pair of Queen for a Day earrings from page 74 - their sumptuous pearls and glittering gold will be iridescent in the sun. 126 pages, softback, including colour photos and an imperial to metric conversion chart. £9.99 NOW £4
70494 MEND IT! 400 Easy
Repairs for Everyday Items: from Kitchenware and Jewellery to Furniture and Textiles by Siân Berry Even the most DIY-shy person will find this book a revelation. In today’s throw-away culture, it can often seem easier to ditch a broken
item rather than attempt to repair it. But this seems like madness when we are all trying not only to be thrifty but to reduce the amount of rubbish we contribute to landfill. In this timely new book, the author sets out to prove that mending is empowering. With a bit of common sense and know-how, your much-loved table with the wonky leg, broken earring or dodgy door handle can be given a new lease of life. Helped by chapters covering furniture, kitchenware, electricals, electronics, textiles, jewellery and more - all of them simplified by step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions - you are guided through 400 achievable repairs. 256 softback pages illustrated in striking colour with list of websites. £16.99 NOW £7
70498 NO-PATTERN KNITS: Simple Modular Techniques by Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer
Put the fun back in knitting and create beautiful and original clothing and accessories from simple geometric shapes. Forget about the
complicated increases and decreases or pouring over a difficult pattern book - learn just a few basic stitches and discover how you can effortlessly create sweaters, bags, hats, booties, cushions and scarves. There are eight easy-to-follow projects and step-by-step colour photos to knit two-dimensional shapes and then how to combine these shapes into fabulous three-dimensional garments. Diagrams and colour photos, 128pp. $23.99 NOW £6
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