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of children and money, divorce and discrimination, she finessed the holding of glass, plate, handbag, gloves and fork in one hand at cocktail parties and helped abolish the distinction between ‘women’s writing’ and anything considered serious. From her childhood in Mill Hill, North London, two universities, about a dozen jobs, two families, and a long career in journalism, here is her long and happy life with the thriller writer Gavin Lyall and their two sons. A splendidly engaging autobiography. 269pp in paperback with photos. £8.99 NOW £4


69601 HAPLESS TEACHER’S


HANDBOOK by Phil Ball ‘I’m pinned to the floor, the youth’s face is so close to mine I can feel the smutty caress of his bum-fluff… Behind my frozen head, a wet draught blows in from the January playground and mixes with the sickly smell of school dinners…Their leader is a boy named Alan Plant, but I don’t know that yet. Neither does the boy know that I am about to become his English teacher for


the next two months. This is the beginning of the fabled ‘TP’…’ Here is the comic story of one man’s muddled metamorphosis into a teacher at an everyday comprehensive school. It is a tale of the highs and lows of attempting to teach, the joy of really making a difference to young minds to being physically set upon by a teenage horde. And that is just what happens in the classroom. Behind closed staff-room doors lie desperate lives, unseemly professional competition, a diet of cigarettes, alcohol and cold coffee, casual sex and general social dysfunction. Startling, funny and educational for all the wrong reasons! 312pp in paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3


69808 BILLY BROWN, I’LL TELL YOUR MOTHER by Bill Brown


Although Bill Brown retired from the Fire Service in 1984, it was another 25 years before he wrote about his Brixton childhood. The war is over, and London is getting back on its feet. Rationing is still a part of everyday life, and for ten-year-old Billy, this means opportunity. With both his parents at work, after school and weekends are spent scouring the bomb sites and markets, working in a scrapyard and selling everything from bricks to horse muck, machetes to baby chicks. Packed full of wonderful characters, from the barrow boys to the first West Indian immigrants, the girls at Woolies to the rag and bone men and even Maisie, the smelliest and most incontinent horse south of the Thames, this heartwarming tale of Billy’s scrapes and shenanigans will have you laughing aloud as you remember Britain emerging from the war. 326pp paperback with b/w photos. £6.99 NOW £4


69904 BAD FAITH: A Forgotten History of


Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil Here is the true, harrowing, in-depth story of one of history’s most despicable villains and conmen, Louis Darquier, who, during the abhorrent reign of the Vichy government in France, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jewish men, women and children. He was a practising Catholic, a Nazi collaborator and Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, which in reality meant that he conspired to exterminate the Jewish population. Here is the incredible account of how he rose to power, driven by an obsession with racial purity, continually reinventing himself until he was able to become responsible for confiscating the property of Jews and sending them off to the death camps. Perhaps even more gruesome is the fact that, after the war, Darquier fled to Spain - never to be brought to justice. Together with his alcoholic wife, he abandoned their daughter, Anne, who grew up in England, not surprisingly hating her father, and suffered a tragic fate. 614 pages illus in b/w, archive photos, maps. £20 NOW £5.50


69910 EDWARD HEATH by Philip Ziegler


Current interest in the seventies is booming and no figure sums up the conflicts of the decade more effectively than Prime Minister Edward Heath. Himself a mass of contradictions, Heath’s humble beginnings can be contrasted with his flamboyant taste in interior decoration, and his notoriously appalling French accent with his passionate championship of Europe.


Always ill at ease with women, in 1938 Heath opposed admitting them to the Oxford Union, saying “Women have no original contribution to make to our debates”. In spite of this, Heath enjoyed entertaining, and as a musician himself it gave him great satisfaction to host a 70th birthday party for the composer Sir William Walton, with music commissioned for the occasion. Politically speaking Heath’s most turbulent year was 1974 when he faced the militant miners, strikes, a blackout, confrontations in Northern Ireland, a personal and ideological struggle with Harold Wilson, a hung parliament and two disastrous elections, while in the Conservative party Margaret Thatcher was beginning to challenge his leadership. Heath’s later years were darkened by resentment of both Wilson and Thatcher. 654 pages, photos. £30 NOW £6.50


70159 HONS AND REBELS by Jessica Mitford


Jessica Mitford was the fifth of the six Mitford daughters and always the rebel among her sisters - Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity and Debo. At the age of 19 she eloped to the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, and the two of them moved to the USA in 1939. A one-time member of the American Communist Party, Jessica was a passionate supporter of civil rights and wrote a number of books. Here is her classic memoir of one of last century’s most extraordinary families and it is an extremely amusing autobiography which evokes a whole generation. The Mitford family was made notorious by Nancy’s novels, Diana’s marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity’s infatuation with Hitler, Debo’s marriage to a Duke and Jessica’s passionate commitment to Communism. The book is a deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling. 259pp in paperback, photos. £7.99 NOW £4


70021 BEARLY BELIEVABLE: My Part in the


Paddington Bear Story by Shirley Clarkson Whoever would have thought that Jeremy Clarkson’s mother would not only design and make a stuffed bear called Paddington, based on the characterful illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, but that she would also write an endearing book about it? For Christmas each year, she used to make a soft toy to sit on top of the children’s stockings and, in 1971, it happened to be this particular bear. Shirley tells with warmth, modesty and a blunt Yorkshire wit, her tale of building an international business, being invited to meet the Queen and then watching the whole thing collapse. A story of triumph and adversity with a touchingly happy ending. 210 pages illus in colour and b/w. £16.99 NOW £4.50


69488 HAROLD MACMILLAN by Charles Williams


The author is otherwise known as Lord Williams of Elvel, former industrialist and Labour peer and one of Britain’s most distinguished biographers. His subject, Harold Macmillan, was a figure of paradox. He was a courageous soldier in the First World War and from then on it was politics which was to be his future. Appointed Minister in Residence in North Africa, his career flowered, and as Churchill’s Minister of Housing in the early 1950s he achieved the target of building 300,000 houses annually. Over the Suez affair in 1956 he played a difficult and somewhat devious hand and Eden’s resignation left him as the clear choice of his cabinet colleagues to become Prime Minister. 548pp in paperback, photos. £14.99 NOW £5


70205 TALES FROM THE COUNTRY


MATCHMAKER by Patricia Warren Here is a book that reminds us that there really can be a happy ever after. Patricia is a born matchmaker whose warmth, patience and humour has literally changed the lives of thousands of people. Here she brings to life the stories of love and romance that she has helped to create. Since she founded the Farmers’ and Country Bureau from her farmhouse in the Peak District more than 20 years ago, Patricia has been helping love to blossom and been the instigator of hundreds of marriages and numerous babies, including one set of quads. 248pp in paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


BUSINESS AND COMPUTERS


I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.


- Jerome K. Jerome


69912 CD PACKAGING KIT by Kirsten Ulve and Alethea Morrison A really fun and novel kit to turn your music or photo CDs into instant gifts. First you burn your music or photos on to a writeable CD, choose a label and write a title on the label before applying it to the disc, secure the centre hole of your disc onto the foam spindle provided. Choose one of the fun designs - a red and pink background gingerbread man or an icy blue sausage dog and satellite dish - both fun and modern. Use the stickers provided to include a note on the sleeve and to seal it shut. Contains 25 CD sleeves and dozens of stickers, two repeating designs. £9.99 NOW £3


69041 IMAGINARY FUTURES: From Thinking


Machines to the Global Village by Richard Barbrook


Barbrook traces the emergence of the computer era in the Cold War context of two desperately competing ideologies, economies and empires, and how it served the ideological needs of both élites. The West’s invention of the Western utopia was a vital factor in the struggle for global power, and the Internet was essential for getting that message across. However, the Soviet East arguably had a more accurate vision of the future, which is beginning to look more and more likely. Barbrook shows us how we can reclaim the revolutionary purpose of the web to change information technologies to suit us, the general public. 334pp, paperback. £17.99 NOW £2.25


CHILDREN’S


Children, like dogs, have so sharp a scent that they detect everything - the bad before all the rest.


- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


70678 ENCHANTED WORLD OF WINNIE-THE- POOH


by A. A. Milne and Anna Bowles


“You are cordyally invited to elevenses with Winnie the Pooh and the 100 Aker Wood.” Welcome to the forest where we will find Kanga’s House and Eeyore’s Gloomy Place, where all the adventures take place except the Poohsticks which is played on a bridge to the north. Pooh’s world is actually based on the Ashdown forest in Sussex where oak trees are excellent for climbing - and falling out of! We can walk along Pooh’s nature trail, enjoy the trees, gorse, heather, dandelions, thistles, haycorns and bees he would have seen with his real life friend Christopher Robin who was used as a model for E. H. Shepard’s enchanting drawings. Many of the characters are here on these very large colourful pages with lift-the-flap real postcards stuck down, the blue check fabric from Christopher Robin’s shirt inserted in the page, as are his red tunic and rubbery wellington boots. Isn’t it funny how a bear likes honey? We could make a list of Pooh’s more fluff-brained moments and it would be a very long list, but perhaps rather unkind. He is after all A Bear of Very Little Brain. See him pop up from the pages, discover what colour piglet is, about wincing and blinching, and stroke the real fabric and cotton Eeyore tail stuck on to the pages of this very exciting interactive experience. The rules and tactics of Poohsticks are actually reproduced in a booklet and folded over towards


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70676 TALE OF PETER RABBIT AND BENJAMIN BUNNY: A Pop Up Adventure by Beatrix Potter


Youngsters of all ages love to collect pop ups and here is the story that was originally published as The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. The little rabbit sat on a bank, pricked up his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot


of a pony. A gig was coming along the road; it was driven by Mr Macgregor, and beside him sat Mrs Macgregor in her best bonnet. Watch Benjamin Bunny hop, skip and jump down the road and visit his aunt and cousins Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-Tail and Peter. They too jump up from the pages and you can pull tabs to read the narrative, and watch the rabbits start across the pages and see the movements of the lettuces and scenes unfolding when you open the magical tab and help the cat get up and stretch herself before the classic story reaches a happy ending. Very large pages all in colour with the traditional original Frederick Warne illustrations. Paper engineering by Geoff Rayner. £14.99 NOW £6.50


70502 SECRET MESSAGE JOURNAL


A private journal, with a secret message pen with its own built-in light switch so you can write under the covers at night and an LED book light are presented in an attractive and colourful box set. The blank


lined journal measures 5" x 6" and has a green and pink floral design, rainbow coloured dots and silver wavy lines to match the silver flowers on the pink pen and book light. There is no better way to keep your private thoughts more secure than by using the invisible writing pen - watch your secret messages appear by shining the black light over your notebook. Make reading more comfortable by clipping the bendable long-last LED light on any book. Great for travel or any dimly lit area, you need two 3v batteries and one 1.5v battery when the need arises to replace them. Suit little girls aged 6+. With CE safety mark. ONLY £3.50


70487 ALICE IN


WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll


A much-loved and much-told family favourite is vividly brought to life in this lavishly illustrated edition from Parragon books. We follow Alice down the rabbit hole on her voyage of discovery in the mysterious world of Wonderland. The realm of bizarre tea parties, strange croquet games


and talking playing cards is wonderfully constructed by Carroll, and accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations. The complete unabridged text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is here presented in conjunction with the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both in clear, large print for both younger and older readers alike. Whether you are looking to treat a child to the stories you, yourself, have enjoyed, or to replace your own well- thumbed copy, this edition is not one to be missed. 287 pages with exquisite full colour illustrations. ONLY £5


70461 DAYDREAM JOURNAL by Jacqueline Wilson,


illustrated by Nick Sharratt The dedication page has space to put a passport size photograph of you, name and address, phone number, birth date and e-mail address before going on to encourage you to write your favourite hopes and dreams and learn about what Jacqueline Wilson loved reading and writing as a child


- stories. She was a little girl with a very vivid imagination, losing herself in a new world - the very best way to spend your time. Here you are encouraged, along with Tracey Beaker, to learn how Nick Sharratt doodles his drawings to create expressions on Tracey’s face and on characters in stories, animals and items you may wish to incorporate in your doodles in your new diary. Without date, this can be an any year diary from January 1st to 31st December, two days per page with cartoon illus in the margin. A rich Cadbury coloured purple spangly cover with Jacqueline and her characters in daydream bubbles to illustrate. Large blank unlined book.


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70451 THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING CAT by Enid Blyton


Lady Candling’s prize Siamese cat has been stolen and the Five Find- Outers are on the case. Luke, the gardening boy, is the main suspect but Bets, Pip, Daisy, Larry and Fatty are sure he didn’t take the cat. They have their own suspicions - why is Mr Tupping, Lady Candling’s gardener, so unfriendly? And why won’t Mr Goon, the


village policeman, listen to them? 232pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £2.50


70450 THE MYSTERY OF THE BURNT COTTAGE by Enid Blyton


Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster the dog turn detectives when a mysterious fire destroys a thatched cottage in their village. Calling themselves the ‘Five Find- Outers and Dog’, they set out to solve the mystery and discover the culprit. The final solution, however, surprises them almost as much as Mr. Goon, the village policeman.


Can they solve this whodunnit? 216pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £2.50


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The Oldie magazine’s Soho Literary Festival sprang to life in 2011 and went down a storm with the London audience. This year’s festival, September 27th – 30th,


promises to be even better. If you are a Pam Ayres fan, a Craig Brown fan, a groupie of Virginia Ironside; if you long to know about John Major’s connections with Music Hall; or Giles Coren’s views on the world of eating out; if you would like to see Michael Palin in the flesh or hear what Michael Frayn has to say on fiction or pay homage to literary giants Fay Weldon, Colin Thubron, P D James or Ruth Rendell, this is a festival for you. All events take place at the Soho Theatre in Dean St. For full details, visit www.soholitfest.com.


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70446 BE A LITTLE BRIDE by Sue Barraclough and Sue Reeves


Make all your wedding dreams come true with this gorgeous pack. Comes complete with a ‘big diamond’ engagement ring, a pink love heart box, and hundreds of rainbow coloured heart shaped sequins to make your invitations sparkle. Make a beautiful bouquet


of flowers, design a divine dress, play the best wedding party games and make all your wedding day dreams come true. Big softback book and lots of extras to suit romantic little girls aged five and up. With CE safety mark.


£5.99 NOW £2.50 70390 SHREK! BOOK AND


CD SET by William Steig Shrek, a horrid ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in shining armour, a dragon and finally a hideous princess who is even uglier than he is. Before Shrek made it on to the big screen, here is the original book about the


ogre who leaves his swampy home behind and marries a stunningly ugly princess. An irresistibly comic, charming and cheery book we can highly recommend. Comes with CD and ages 4-8 will enjoy listening. Large softback.


$9.99 NOW £5


70375 JINGLE BELLS: A Pop- Up Holiday Song


by Eren Blanquet Unten We all know the tune, so sing-a-long and enjoy this masterly example of paper engineering by Michael Caputo. Dashing through the snow on a one horse open sleigh (three


children and a very proud white horse laugh as they cross the snow) ‘bells on bob tails ring, making spirits bright…oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...’ The pop-up colourful storybook has never looked so good as in this festive fun ride. Suit ages three and up. $12.99 NOW £5


70338 CASPER THE CATERPILLAR by Katy


Hewat and David Dunston A wiggly eyes book which means you can poke two fingers through the holes into the stretchy yellow fabric onto which are stuck two big black bug eyes, all shiny and with white surrounds to make everyone laugh. Help Casper the Caterpillar find the perfect costume for the


party. Visit Barty Beetle with him because Barty will know what to do. Meet his charmingly illustrated big bold colourful friends also with bug eyes along the way in this super story book. Ages two and up, big board pages, all in colour. ONLY £4


69313 COMPLETE STORIES


OF OZ by L. Frank Baum When Uncle Henry and Aunt Em’s grey, grim Kansas farmhouse was picked up by the great summer cyclone, a wondrous adventure had begun. The whole house whirled around two or three times then rose slowly through the air with little Dorothy and dog Toto inside. After what seemed an age to Dorothy the house landed with a great crash and upon opening the door she and


Toto were amazed to see a beautiful brilliant green land full of sunshine and flowers. It is not long before she and Toto meet the motley crew - Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Woodman - who are to become her travelling companions along the Yellow Brick Road which leads to the Emerald City and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and Toto have many adventures before the Good Witch grants them their wish - to return home to Kansas. But that is just the beginning; many more adventures lie ahead, with the weirdest folk to meet and the most fantastical places to explore - all in the Land of Oz. Paperback. 1486 pages. ONLY £7


69997 MIFFY’S SURPRISE PARTY by Dick Bruna


It is rare ever to find a Miffy book available on the bargain market to sell at discount, and we are thrilled to have this US first edition 2010 featuring Miffy and friends based on the stories by Dick Bruna. Miffy’s birthday was only a few days away. Family and


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