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66948 COMPLETE NUTRITION: How to Live in Total Health by Dr Michael Sharon Trace Elements such as iron and zinc are essential to the body’s functioning and the author covers their beneficial effects, deficiency symptoms, best natural sources and recommended daily dosage. The intricacies of digestion and absorption mean that foods act better in certain combinations, and the author explains the optimum pairings for different kinds of diet. Intestinal fitness has a section of its own, together with exercises to improve elimination. 491pp, paperback. £14.99 NOW £3
70108 MARY ROSE’S 1001 HEALTH AND BEAUTY
HINTS by Mary Rose Quigg ‘With reasonable care the human body will last a lifetime.’ - Arnold Glasgow. Lessons on pampering your feet, sensitive skin, natural beauty treatments, home remedies, the first aid box, the medicine chest, fitness and exercise, calorie data, smoking and drinking. Here are thousands of facts about natural products and hints to pass from one generation to the next, plus delightful poems and proverbs in
this very common sense guide. A companion to 70107 Mary Rose’s 1001 Country Household Hints. 128 long pages with line art. £9.95 NOW £3
68259 ANATOMY COLOURING BOOK by Dr C. R. Constant, Dr Cecilia Brassett and Michelle Spear
Learn the anatomical systems of the body while having fun with this interactive colouring book! Covering the muscles, skeleton, organs, nervous system, respiratory system and other processes, it displays very detailed anatomical sketches and numbered labels, with a key at the bottom of the page so that you can test yourself on the various body parts, and a clear, explanatory text. 240 large pages. £12.99 NOW £4
68520 ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTION CURE: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery by Chris Prentiss
Chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, false perceptions of the present and inability to cope are all contributing factors to addiction. Prentiss examines other case studies such as that of Jane, a bulimic alcoholic with a background of abuse by her stepfather. He interviews doctors and medical experts about fitness, family support, acupuncture and other approaches. 340pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £1
70049 VITAMIN D REVOLUTION by Soram Khalsa
Discover the power of this amazing vitamin and how it can change your life. Recent, groundbreaking medical research has made a connection between this vitamin D deficiency and 17 types of cancers including breast, colon and prostate. Illnesses such as influenza, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and
coronary heart disease have also been linked to a lack of vitamin D. Until not too long ago, not getting enough of the ‘sunshine vitamin’ was only associated with rickets, the childhood bone disease. Now Soram Khalsa reveals the consequences of vitamin D deficiency which has reached epidemic proportions in the West. We are experiencing this in great part due to the use of sunscreen, protective clothing and avoidance of sun exposure and the book is concerned with finding optimal levels of vitamin D intake and serum targets for 25- hydroxyvitamind for your personal health and preventative measures. Dr Khalsa advocates measurement of blood vitamin D levels to diagnose deficiency and to monitor therapy. He advocates alternative approaches as well. 214pp in paperback with charts.
£5.99 NOW £3 68788 CROHN’S-DISEASE AND ULCERATIVE
COLITIS: 2nd Edition by Fred Saibil Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes two chronic conditions known as Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. These have remained for far too long the secret illnesses that no-one wants to discuss. In this fully revised and updated bestseller, a renowned expert looks at signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests including capsule endoscopy and MRI, the effects of diet, various surgical options, how drugs work, effects on sexual activity and childbearing, and recent genetic discoveries. Diagrams, 224pp in paperback. $19.95 NOW £4
68964 ESCAPE THE FAT TRAP FOR LIFE by Judith Wills
Your body knows what it needs and likes, and if you can tune in to its natural intelligence you will look good and feel better for ever. The Atkins, Cambridge, Hay, Lemon Detox and Cabbage Soup diets are all given a full assessment, together with more moderate regimes such as the Glycaemic Index and the Total Wellbeing Diet. The author considers the pros and cons of surgery, and examines the efficacy of supplements. Finally she looks at the psychology of dieting, includes a questionnaire. 224pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.50
69574 MASSAGE IN MINUTES by Grace Wilson
Massage has been proven to improve mood, immune system and stress, and with the help of fully certified massage therapist Grace Wilson you can quickly learn simple, effective massage techniques that provide a wealth of benefits in a matter of minutes. For ease of reference, she divides the book into body areas: neck, shoulders and upper back; the back; the legs; the face and scalp; the arms; the feet, and then step-by-step describes a number of standard massages and then combines them into “recipes” for a full treatment ranging from one to ten minutes. Each description is further explained by means of a great many photos, so you will know that you are kneading the right bit! 144pp softback.
£9.99 NOW £6 69329 DIET BIBLE: Use It To
Lose It! by Judith Mills Revised, fully updated and packed with no-nonsense advice and information. Over 50 diets are covered and the book is divided into 10 sections covering issues of weight, shape, health, fitness and the mental challenge, together with women’s, men’s and kids’ issues
tackling frequently asked questions. “How much weight can I lose through exercise?”, “I eat when I’m angry or frustrated - is there a cure?”. The final section of the book is an A-Z of 100 diets. With cross-referencing and a calorie chart, toning routine and assessment questionnaires. 288pp, softback, colour photos, diagrams. £12.99 NOW £3
69092 AN ASPIRIN A DAY by Dr. Keith Souter
Reveals how taking an aspirin a day could discernibly reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, cancer, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Souter looks at the pros and cons of the drug, sets out the many ways in which aspirin could maintain your health and looks at current research about its effects on diabetes, deep-vein thrombosis, depression, cancer of the prostate, breast and lungs and much more. 224pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4
69467 ACUPUNCTURE HANDBOOK by Angela Hicks
Here is a book that looks at how acupuncture works and how it can help you. The book demystifies what treatment is like with the needles and moxibustion, the network of 12 main Qi channels and acupuncture points and the theory of Chinese medicine. Additional treatment methods discussed are electro- acupuncture and cupping therapy, treating children, animals and facial rejuvenation. Looking at anxiety and panic attacks, asthma, back pain, colds and flu, constipation, depression, hot flushes and more. Useful addresses. 288pp in paperback with illus and diagrams. £9.99 NOW £4
HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
The whole of my life has passed like a razor - in hot water or a scrape.
- Sydney Smith
70355 ELIZABETH’S WOMEN: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin
Queen by Tracy Borman You may think that there is nothing more to say about Elizabeth I but, if you read this original study of aspects of her life that have hitherto been overlooked, you will realise how wrong you are. This is a book brimming over with female characters who played their part in
the development of arguably the strongest monarch Britain ever had. According to widely differing opinions she was at once a virgin, a whore, a she-wolf, the beloved Gloriana, worshipped by her subjects, and a witch. Here, in vivid detail, is a unique take on history’s most captivating queen and the dazzling court that surrounded her. Here is her bewitching mother, Anne Boleyn whose beheading taught Elizabeth never to mix politics and love. Here is Kat Astley, the governess who attended and taught the young princess, later queen, for almost 30 years, and who, after Henry VIII’s death, invited disaster by encouraging her pupil into a dangerous liaison with a married man, Edward Seymour. Here too are Mary Tudor, known as Bloody Mary, who envied her younger sister’s popularity and threatened to destroy her altogether, and Mary Queen of Scots with whom she had an intense 30-year rivalry that could only end in death. But there is more. This volume is also an unprecedented account of how the public posture of femininity figured in the English court, the meaning of costume and display, the power of fecundity and flirtation. It also dispels the notion that Elizabeth was the embodiment of feminism and shows, by startling contrast, how she shared popular views of female inferiority, and scorned and schemed against her underlings’ marriages and pregnancies. 475 roughcut pages with colour plates. $28 NOW £7
70093 NEVERLAND: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and
the Dark Side of Peter Pan by Piers Dudgeon
Horrifying revelations are rife in this incredible book. Readers may think of James M. Barrie as the gentle, fatherly author of the delightful Peter Pan and Wendy, but D. H. Lawrence was to write: ‘J. M. Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die’. This highly intriguing
book reveals in disturbing detail how Barrie brought his victims to nervous breakdown, early death and suicide and how, through the immortal characters in their novels: Svengali, Peter Pan and Rebecca - created by George du Maurier, Barrie himself and Daphne du Maurier respectively - these three authors formed an image of their dark side. Barrie was, from childhood on, tormented by inner demons, deprived of love by his mother, grieving for a dead son. Barrie more or less adopted Sylvia Du Maurier’s three boisterous boys and raised them after their parents’ early deaths. George understood how hypnosis could empower one person to gain control over the mind of another and Daphne, George’s enigmatic granddaughter, was the secret chronicler of her family’s history, on which she put a moratorium until 50 years after her death. What was the mystery that she was so keen to suppress? The answer may be found in this unflinching analysis of the lives both of the Du Mauriers and of Barrie who, immediately after George’s death, driven by a compulsion to dominate and destroy, assumed George’s mantle of authority. 333 pages with b/w archive photos, family tree, author’s note, notes and appendix: On Women in Love. $26.95 NOW £6
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70593 PAIN AND THE PRIVILEGE: The Women Who
Loved Lloyd George by Ffion Hague
Intensive research has enabled the author to gain a sympathetic appreciation of ‘the pain and the privilege’ of being married to a prominent politician. David Lloyd George, prime minister from 1916 to 1922, challenged, charmed and mystified the English establishment
all his political life. He lived by his wits in both his public and private lives, attracting and fascinating women and loving them in return. It was an open secret at Westminster that he had not one wife but two. Margaret Owen, a fellow Welsh speaker from rural North Wales, was the mother of his five children. Frances Stevenson, 23 years younger than he, was his political confidante, his private secretary and his mistress for 30 years. The women in Lloyd George’s life had the extraordinary task of smoothing the often rocky path of a famous man. This is a sensational, but true, tale of passion, loyalty, infidelity and duty. A huge 590 paperback pages with exclusive extras including interviews, insights and features, plentifully supplied with b/w archive photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50
70229 THE POPE’S DAUGHTER
by Caroline P. Murphy Felice della Rovere witnessed Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. She saw her father Pope Julius II lay the foundation stones for New Saint Peter’s and she was immortalised by Raphael in the frescoes in the Vatican Palace apartments. But Felice was no reticent bystander. Astonishingly fearless and outspoken for a woman
of her day, she scandalised the Vatican Court by refusing no fewer than five husbands, and fought off all attempts to interfere with her independence, engaging in a bitter feud with her stepson which culminated in murder. Felice thrived in Renaissance Rome, a world as treacherous as it was thrilling and ruled her family with single-minded devotion to become the most powerful woman in Italy. Murphy successfully fleshes out the customs and historical background of her Machiavellian princess. 359pp in paperback with line art and colour plates.
£8.99 NOW £5
70437 YOUNG ROMANTICS The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay
The English Romantic poets in their creative heyday, from 1813 until Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death by drowning in July 1822, are the subject of Daisy Hay’s enthralling book. Unlike other studies of the group, Hay looks at their interlinked stories from a fresh perspective,
celebrating their youthfulness, yearning for friendship, individuality and political radicalism. Naturally, the big names loom large - Shelley, Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt - yet she also brings to our attention a host of lesser-known but equally important figures such as Claire Clairmont, Elizabeth Kent, Vincent Novello, Benjamin Haydon, Joseph Severn, Charles and Mary Lamb, Thomas Love Peacock and William Hazlitt. All were characterised by their talent, idealism and youthful ardour, as well as their typically chaotic family arrangements, whereby the women, despite their manifold talents, often ended up facing the consequences of the men’s philosophies. The author skilfully weaves in and out of the lives of these poets, novelists and philosophers and in so doing lays bare the dual nature of the creative impulse - its individuality and the essential stimulus provided by kindred spirits. 32 b/w illus, including manuscripts, portraits and sketches. 364pp. $27.50 NOW £6
70587 FANNY BURNEY: The
Mother of English Fiction by Nigel Nicolson
As Richard Holmes said, ‘A tender and beguiling account of Miss Burney, the great scribbler and literary chatterbox, with tantalising glimpses of her celebrity circle.’ Her witty and vivacious diaries are constantly quoted from. Today the author of Evelina and Cecilia, both of which created new dimensions for
the novel, is well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her gruesomely detailed description of her mastectomy (the operation was conducted without anaesthetic) and her lively account of the Battle of Waterloo. Here is the ultimate portrait of a remarkably clever, forward-thinking woman who has intrigued and delighted critics and biographers for more than two centuries. 109pp in paperback Short Book. £4.99 NOW £2
68728 PAULINE BONAPARTE: Venus of Empire by Flora Fraser
Although celebrated for her looks and notorious for her passions, not to mention her deep loyalty and love for her brother (accusations of incest were rife) there was much more to Pauline Bonaparte Borghese. She was by his side at his famous victories in Italy, a regular at Malmaison with him and her rival for his affections, the Empress Josephine, followed him to exile on Elba and, following his final defeat at Waterloo, begged to be allowed to join him on St Helena. 306 roughcut pages, colour plates.
$28.95 NOW £6 69604 IMPERIAL MARRIAGE: An Edwardian
War and Peace by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil Lord Edward Cecil, an adventurous Guards Officer and younger son of the great Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, married the unconventional Violet Maxse in 1894. During the Boer War, as Chief Staff Officer to Robert Baden-Powell, Edward was besieged at Mafeking. Meanwhile in Cape Town, Violet fell in love with Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner responsible for British Policy. Her love for him dominated the rest of her life. Peopled by such famous figures as Edward Burne-Jones and Georges Clemenceau. 366pp, photos, paperback. £12.99 NOW £4.50
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69548 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR THOMAS BODLEY introduced by William Clennell
Written in 1609, the autobiography of Sir Thomas Bodley could be considered the first autobiography in English, and has been described as a forerunner to the modern political memoir. While Bodley is perhaps best known as the founder of the
Bodleian Library of Oxford University. We follow the subject from his early education through his involvement in affairs of state, in politics and diplomacy, to the great crisis in which his ambition was frustrated amidst factional strife in the mid 1590s. 70pp. £4.99 NOW £2
67644 ANNE BOLEYN
by P. Friedmann and Josephine Wilkinson Originally published in the 1880s, this exciting, monumental biography is still regarded as a standard work of reference by historians. Here is charted the rise and fall of the woman who refused her sexual favours until King Henry VIII promised her marriage. From her origins as the daughter of a gifted and ambitious courtier, through her elevation to the greatest height a woman could reach, to her tragic fall and execution, she ended as the victim of the man who had once loved her and who had altered the course of his country’s history forever in order to have her. 348 pages illus in colour and b/w. £20 NOW £6
67973 SAMUEL JOHNSON: A Life by David Nokes
The first and most enduring image of Dr Johnson was created by James Boswell in 1791. Although they have always been regarded as one of the great literary double acts, Boswell spent barely more than a year in Johnson’s company. In 1755, defying both European academicians and his friend Jonathan Swift - who, like other conservatives, despised progress and worried that a dictionary signalled the rise of the middle class - Johnson gave the world the first modern dictionary. For him, language was a living thing and would always change, some words withering away while others sprang up to take their places. 419 pages with b/w illus and map of London.
$32 NOW £4.50 67995 THE RED PRINCE: The Secret Lives of a
Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of an archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a sabre, a pistol, a rudder or a golf club. He handled women by necessity and men for pleasure. Coming of age during the First World War, he repudiated his family to fight alongside Ukrainian peasants, in the hope that he would become their king. When this dream collapses, he became, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, an opponent of Hitler and a spy against Stalin. 344 pages illus, maps and family trees. £18.99 NOW £5
68068 PRINCE OF EUROPE: The Life of Charles-Joseph de
Ligne 1735-1814 by Philip Mansel
Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne was a provocative writer, an ambitious general, a brilliant conversationalist and an innovative garden designer. An international aristocrat, equally at home in Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg, he electrified everyone he met from Catherine the Great to
Casanova, from Marie Antoinette to Goethe. With great delicacy and skill, it tells much of the complex dynastic and diplomatic history of late 18th century Europe. 414pp, b/w plates, maps and family tree. ONLY £1.75
68335 LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily
Dickinson And Her Family’s Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
Unanswered questions resonate in the wake of lives, and no one more elusive than the famous poet Emily Dickinson. The first step was to map her social landscape - New England in the 1880s. What Gordon exposes is a seething Peyton Place of adultery, betrayal and lifelong feuding. This is the book that cracked one of poetry’s most enduring enigmas and rescues Dickinson from the image of the passive, heart-broken recluse. Family tree, maps and cast list. 492pp in paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £2
68415 TRICKSTER TRAVELS: The Search for
Leo Africanus by Natalie Zemon Davis Subtitled ‘A 16th Century Muslim Between Worlds’, the book recounts how, in 1518 a Spanish pirate, fresh from successful raids against Muslim ships in the Mediterranean, presented the Pope Leo X with a captured North African traveller and diplomat from Fez named al-Hasan al-Wazzan. Baptised in St. Peter’s in 1553 as Giovanni Leone, he is better known as Leo Africanus. The Pope had granted him freedom, baptism and a European life of scholarships, but at his core he was very Arabic. 435pp in paperback, plates. £10.99 NOW £1.15
68574 NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA by Robert Massie
Subtitled ‘The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and his Family’, Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir’s haemophilia and the decisive influence of Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The fall of the Romanovs is a subject of compelling interest, an exquisite story of love and compassion with every imaginable ingredient. 584pp with maps and many photos. Paperback. £10.99 NOW £4.50
68921 OUT OF THE STORM: The Life and
Legacy of Martin Luther by Derek Wilson One of the few people to change world history, Martin Luther was in many ways an unappealing character - uncompromising, aggressive and opinionated - but also very human, a man who, as a student, enjoyed the pleasures of the bierkeller and the brothel. At the Law School in Erfurt he became increasingly interested in theology, questioning the Catholic Church’s guardianship of religious truths, decided to enter the cloister of the Observant Augustinian Friars. He would eventually leave the order to marry, but by that time he had
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