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70387 WHAT’S A POLITE WORD FOR ‘DRIED-UP OLD


HAG’?: Birthday Cards by Anne Taintor


Pretty young lady sits at a big old fashioned IBM typewriter and says


the slogan ‘What’s A Polite Word For ‘Dried-Up Old Hag’? to make us laugh and bring a smile to your recipient friend with a Good Sense Of Humour. Inside reads ‘Let’s not mince words: have a very happy birthday.’ Five to a pack of the same design, large birthday cards with five quality envelopes. ONLY £4.50


69716 PICCADILLY SMALL NOTEBOOK: Lined


Three sizes of blank books, all printed on acid free paper and with jet black mock leather cover, black satin bookmark and black elastic band. People use them as diaries, notebooks, for recipes or for that novel you were always going to write. Bibliophile has small, medium (69719) and large (69717) sizes, ruled paper, with inner pocket to slot in your receipts etc. at the back. 192 blank pages, 3½” x 5½”. ONLY £2.50


69719 PICCADILLY MEDIUM NOTEBOOK: Lined


240 blank pages, 5" x 8¼”. ONLY £3.50


69717 PICCADILLY LARGE NOTEBOOK: Lined 240 blank pages, 7½” x 10". ONLY £4.50


69898 PICCADILLY LINED NOTEBOOKS: Set of Three


Buy all three and save even further. ONLY £9


69748 PICCADILLY SMALL SOFT COVER NOTEBOOK: Lined


We have three different sizes of blank books, all printed on acid free paper and with jet black slightly laminated, droplet-resistant black covers, black satin bookmark and black elastic band. Bibliophile has small, medium (69747) and large (69746) sizes, all lined notebooks with inner pocket to slot your receipts etc at the back. Small note book 192 pages, 3½” x 5½”. ONLY £2


69747 PICCADILLY MEDIUM SOFT COVER NOTEBOOK: Lined


Medium soft cover notebook 240 pages, 5" x 8½”. ONLY £3


69746 PICCADILLY LARGE SOFT COVER NOTEBOOK: Lined


Large soft cover notebook 240 pages, 7½” x 10". ONLY £3.50


69897 PICCADILLY SOFT COVER LINED


NOTEBOOKS: Set of Three Buy all three and save more. ONLY £7.50


70379 MIND-NUMBING CHORES MAGNETIC NOTEPAD by Anne Taintor


4" x 9" lined shopping list, to do list, handy notebook, this magnetic notepad will stick to the fridge etc. and has 50 lined, recycled pages to use. The design is a 1950s kitsch one with the slogan ‘I’ll Take Mind-Numbing Chores over a Fulfilling Career Any Day!’ Featuring a young housewife with starched pinnie, enjoying the soapsuds in her kitchen on washing day. From Anne Taintor’s tongue-in-cheek series of vintage advertising designs. ONLY £3.50


69886 24 COLOURING PENCILS: Meerkat


Design by Robert Frederick Limited Measuring nearly 7½” square, a good old fashioned tin with a lovely group of three meerkats standing alert and on their hind legs in the artwork design decorates the tin box - which has been misprinted with a typo, hence available at such a bargain price through Bibliophile. Insid,e the contents are perfect, 24x7" long quality colour pencils, which can of course be re-sharpened, in a subtle colour range from peach through mustard to scarlet, bright green, two purples, five blues through to brown and black. Great value. ONLY £4.50


MODERN HISTORY


We are not makers of history. We are made by history.


- Martin Luther King, Jr.


70441 THE ALASTAIR CAMPBELL DIARIES: Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-


1997 by Alastair Campbell In 2007 The Blair Years, based on extracts from Alastair Campbell’s diaries, was published to worldwide critical acclaim. However, due to many legal and political constraints, the book withheld much of the diaries’ sensitive material, and the author made it clear that the full


story would have to wait. Well, the waiting is over. This is the first of four unmissable volumes in which Campbell records in meticulous detail every day spent alongside Tony Blair as press secretary - and so much more besides. Prelude to Power begins on 12 May 1994, the day that John Smith died. The most popular Labour leader for many years and odds-on to beat the increasingly shaky-looking John Major at the next election, Smith was a hard act to follow. Tony Blair was elected leader, and immediately work began on New Labour. With the central core of Blair, Gordon Brown, John Prescott, Robin Cook and Peter Mandelson and Campbell’s media-savvy machinations, the New Labour project went from strength to strength, culminating in Blair walking into No. 10 on 2 May 1997, which is where this volume ends. The book offers us an utterly unique perspective on the key personalities in New Labour, the bonds between them and the often explosive tensions which Campbell had to deal with. In painstakingly chronicling the forging of a formidable political machine


and Blair and Brown’s relentless drive in pursuit of the modernisation of the party, it dramatically captures an historic election campaign and the turmoil of political life. Campbell is both a skilled and funny journalist and political strategist par excellence. 774pp paperback. £18 NOW £5


70571 THE ROYALS by Kitty Kelley


This book caused a sensation on publication and was banned in the UK. We have here the American edition and to the best of our knowledge it is now freely available and you will not be an accessory to a crime! The crimes of the House of Windsor speak for themselves. Kitty Kelley is the most fearless biographer of our time and she has interviewed past and present


employees of the royal household, royal friends and relations, courtiers, members of Parliament and other intimate observers. Here are sexual ambiguities, alcoholism, gambling and womanising: arrogance, naïveté and lust as well as hard work, dedication and an astonishing ability to survive humiliation. An unforgettable read complete with family trees and many pages of b/w photos. 575pp. Paperback. $16.99 NOW £4


68557 THE FORSAKEN by Tim Tzouliadis In the depths of the Depression of the 1930s, vast numbers of men, women and children emigrated to Stalin’s Russia. Among the thousands who vanished into the gulags were Gorky Park’s American baseball players. Tzouliadis focuses on two men, Thomas Sgovio and Victor Herman, who miraculously survived, and tells the heart-rending and courageous stories of their years in captivity. No one cared to remember the forgotten exiles who stood with their families watching New York fade into the distance as they set off for Leningrad. The author brilliantly links high politics to the torment of innocents. 472pp. Photos. £10.99 NOW £3


68812 VIOLENT LONDON: Two Thousand Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolt by Clive Bloom


Here is the underground world of radicals and subversives from Wat Tyler to the Anti-Globalisation Movement via the Gordon Riots, the Cato Street Conspirators, the Suffragettes, Mosleyites and the IRA. From the Peasants’ Revolt, Guy Fawkes, Red Ken, Enoch Powell, Notting Hill and Hackney, Brixton to Broadwater Farm and even assassination attempts on the royal family. 597pp in chunky paperback, illus and photos.


£9.99 NOW £3 70254 BRAZZAVILLE


CHARMS by Cassie Knight Brutalised by colonialism, plundered by politicians and destroyed in terrifying civil wars, Congo Brazzaville is Africa at its worst. But it is also home to people who inspire hope through their courage, determination, enduring optimism and their sense of fun. The book tells the story of militiamen who are led by a dreadlocked reincarnation


of Christ, of exorcisms and sorcery, of pygmies who are owned by their masters, of timber companies exploiting the rainforest, and of the wars that have been caused by oil. 240pp with 26 colour photos. £14.99 NOW £4


69088 THE EITINGONS: A Twentieth Century Story by Mary-Kay Wilmers


A family history that deals with war, displacement, murder, espionage, the Jewish diaspora and psychoanalysis. Who were the Eitingons? Just three of them were Leonid, Max and Motty. The first was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the civil war and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was killed. Max was a psychoanalyst and a colleague, friend and protégé of Freud’s, implicated in the abduction of a White Russian general in Paris in 1937. Motty was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest fur trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, and questioned by the FBI, was Motty everybody’s friend or everybody’s enemy? 476 pages, maps, archive photos. £20 NOW £4.50


69306 LOOKING BACK AT BRITAIN: The Road to Recovery 1950s


by Brian Moynahan The 1950s got off to a good start with the Festival of Britain in 1951, celebrating the technologies which were going to improve everyone’s lives in the very near future. As Supermac remarked, we had never had it so good. The Coronation in


June 1953 confirmed a sense of national pride, and the Queen is pictured struggling with her voluminous garments in the pouring rain while still managing to look serene. Pogo-sticks came and went, and Liverpool was one of the first cities to become a multi-ethnic community. The exploits of the jet set featured in gossip columns as glamorous young people started jetting around the world. 160pp, photos. £17.99 NOW £4


69566 FUELLING THE EMPIRE: South Africa’s


Gold and the Road to War by John J. Stephens The author was an MP who worked on the development of constitutional reform and his grandmother and her children became internees in a British concentration camp. Those last three words hardly seem possible. The slide into a war that nobody wanted was caused by the mining magnates’ exploitation of workers on the newly discovered goldfields. Approximately 60,000 men, women and children were killed. They came not only from Britain and South Africa but from France, the US and the British Commonwealth, and the peace terms that allowed for the continuation of discriminatory racial policies were to lead to a century of racial inequality and strife in South Africa. 324 pages, photos. £18.99 NOW £5


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Were Britain 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook Of course it was four decades ago, and time is very good at softening unpleasant memories, but reading Dominic Sandbrook’s vivid and compelling narrative really brought it back to us just how close we were to economic and social meltdown in this country in the early ’70s. The


headlines told a woeful tale of strikes, blackouts, unemployment, inflation, car bombs, muggers and fuel shortages, and the world looked on utterly bemused as a great nation seemed intent on tearing itself apart. Yet at the same time was born a creativity and cultural dynamism that would continue to influence our lives long after the travails of the early ’70s were past. Sandbrook recreates the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the times: Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, Don Revie and Brian Clough, Slade, Sweet and David Bowie, Lord Longford, Germaine Greer and Mary Whitehouse, Harold Wilson and Jeremy Thorpe, package holidays, gay rights, IRA atrocities and glam rock, all presided over by the strange, figure of Edward Heath. With source material as varied as declassified documents and long- forgotten sitcoms, he examines every aspect of the British early ’70s experience, comic and tragic. 755pp with 24 pages of evocative b/w photos. ALL COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.


£30 NOW £10


69275 WOMEN IN THE 1920s by Pamela Horn


The day’s fashions, with their close-fitting dresses, cloche hats and cropped hair, emphasised a new spirit of female emancipation. From the revival of the round of high society by the social élite to the lives of the new middle- class professionals and working-class women employed in the still traditional milieu of factory and domestic service, the changing lives of women are explored. Other topics under review are the bringing up of children and attitudes to family planning, as well as the widening leisure and political activities which some women could now afford. 256 paperback pages with b/w archive photos, cartoons and other illus. £16.99 NOW £5


69841 HUGO YOUNG PAPERS: Thirty Years of


British Politics - Off the Record edited by Ion Trewin


Hugo Young was political editor and deputy editor of the Sunday Times and senior political commentator of the Guardian and, as such, exceptionally well informed. Here are the personal opinions of 190 interviewees of the highest standing in politics and the law from 1969 to 2003 including such luminaries as: diplomat Paddy Ashdown, polemicist Tony Benn, QC Cherie Blair, barrister Sir Leon Brittan, journalist Alastair Campbell, prime minister of France Jacques Chirac, Alan Clark, Henry Kissinger and Salman Rushdie. Their revelations, and those of the other 180 unwitting chatterers, are mind-boggling. 834 pages with chronologies for each year. £30 NOW £9


70360 FAITH AND POWER by Bernard Lewis


Subtitled Religion and Politics in the Middle East, it is written by an author who is recognised around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Here Lewis has brought together writings on religion and government to highlight an interrelationship quite different than in the Western world. Chapter headings include License to Kill: Osama Bin Ladin’s Declaration of Jihad, Europe and Islam, Religion and Politics in Islam and Judaism, Islam and Liberal Democracy, The Arab World in the 21st Century, Gender and the Clash of Civilisations, Democracy and Religion, Peace and Freedom, Legitimacy and Succession, The Relevance of History, Freedom and Justice and The Modern Middle East. 208pp. £14.99 NOW £6


MUSIC AND DANCE


I don’t dance, but I’d love to hold you while you do.


- Leslie Phillips


70739 ORIGINAL JELLY ROLL BLUES


by William Schafer


The man who started life around 1890 in New Orleans as Ferdinand Joseph Lamoth and ended it in Los Angeles in 1941 as Jelly Roll Morton was revered, admired, emulated and despised. His flamboyant Creole manner of boasting, jiving and teasing was widely


misunderstood by musicians outside New Orleans, but even those he irritated valued his musical skills and insights. In the rough-and-tumble world of black showbusiness, jazz and pop music, Jelly Roll Morton was an improviser and a consummate entertainer. His story is far more interesting and entertaining than the sordid analogy of lies and fables circulated since his death. His music, now reissued in myriad recordings rolls ebulliently into the future. The self-styled ‘Originator of jazz’ he was a virtuoso pianist, composer and band leader whose famous songs include Wolverine Blues, Shake It and the virtual anthem of the swing era, King Porter Stomp. He was also a conflicted husband and lover, a gambler, a dandy and much more. 256pp in large well illustrated softback.


£12.99 NOW £5


70937 THIS MAN AND MUSIC by Anthony Burgess


Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books including A Clockwork Orange but always emphasised music as the ruling passion of his creative life. Largely self-taught in music, he composed his first symphony before he was 20, many years before his first novel, and was the composer of over 65 musical works. In these deeply insightful meditations, he explores the meaning of music, the intention of the composer and the process of


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composition, and the seemingly elusive relationship between literature and music. He gathers evidence to understand the ‘inexplicable magic’ of the details of the operation of music. From Shakespeare to the lyric verse of Gerard Manley Hopkins, from the modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce to the modern lyricists Lorenz Hart and Stephen Sondheim, Burgess reveals how prose writers have struggled to tap the inherent musicality of their material. This treasured classic is at last back in print. 192 page paperback with musical scores. £11.50 NOW £5.50


70598 ULTIMATE PIANO by Nick Freeth et al


This brilliantly produced interactive collection comprises a 96 page softback book which provides a brief history of the pianoforte and looks at the various options available, before taking us gently by the hand for a series of graduated lessons. We learn how the keys are fingered,


which hand does what, how scales, chords and other musical “building blocks” work and how the pedals work, all illustrated with a wealth of colour photos and accompanied by an interactive DVD. Next there is another 96 page softback containing the scores to 28 classic pieces for every taste and mood, from the 16th century to modern times, accompanied by a CD of specially made recordings of each piece, so you will know if you are doing it right! The whole set comes in a sturdy glossy black ring-bound binder, held together with an elasticated strap, and with storage wallets for extra CDs. Published Remarkably good value. £20 NOW £8.50


70599 ULTIMATE GUITAR by Nick Freeth et al In the last ten years worldwide guitar sales have trebled, and no other instrument generates such a passion or obsession, even among those who cannot play a note. This magnificent guitar primer is designed to take you from air guitarist or guitar lover to actual, real-life


guitarist with no previous musical knowledge needed. The 96 page softback explains history, what is on the market, what will suit you, acoustic or electric, tips on buying axes and amps, fully illustrated in colour to show the notes and chords, song structure, solos and much more, all accompanied by an interactive DVD. The second 96 page softback has scores to 28 pieces suitable for every style, mood and type of guitar, with some old favourites as well as a few delightful surprises, and this is accompanied by a specially recorded CD to help you get it right. As with Ultimate Piano (cat.70598) it is sturdily bound on a ring binder, and includes an elasticated strap and storage space for CD and other ephemera. Excellent value. £20 NOW £8.50


70495 MILES: The Autobiography by Miles


Davis and Quincy Troupe Miles Davis was just 18 years old when Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Buddy Anderson, Gene Armstrong, Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey all played in Billy Eckstine’s band at the Riviera Club in St Louis, and the fledgling trumpeter took his instrument along. The band’s trumpeter went sick, and the rest is history. First


published in 1989, two years before Davis’s death, this autobiography, just like the man himself, holds nothing back. He is brutally honest about his battles with drugs and racism, and more than candid about the women in his life. But above all he talks about music and musicians, usually with scant regard for diplomacy. Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, Duke, Sinatra and many others all loom large here, as the man who gave us some of the most exciting music of the 20th century gives us a fascinating insight into his quite extraordinary life. Warts, drugs, sex and all. 420pp 2012 paperback with 111 b/w photos. £10.99 NOW £5


70497 THE NINTH: Beethoven and the World in


1824 by Harvey Sachs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 - or, simply “The Ninth” - is one of the most towering, precedent- shattering and influential


compositions in the history of music. It has been adopted as an anthem for political organisations of all hues from Nazis to Communists and all points in between. Music historian


and biographer Harvey Sachs sets this immense work in its historical context. After a decade of retrenchment and repression across all Europe following the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1824 was a watershed year. The death of Lord Byron, who had been helping the Greeks attain independence, Delacroix’s painting of the massacre of Chios, Pushkin’s play Boris Gudunov and the dramatic première of the Ninth on 7 May at the Imperial Royal Court Theatre, Vienna, all signalled that the desire for freedom was far from dead, and these events are widely regarded now as the catalyst of the High Romantic period. Sachs employs his encyclopaedic knowledge of music, history, memoir and anecdote to show why the première of Beethoven’s astounding last symphony was a work of art unlike any other. B/w illus. plus translations, 225pp. £12.99 NOW £5


70549 THE PIANO: The Complete Illustrated Guide to the World’s Most Popular Musical Instrument by Jeremy Siepmann From modest 18th century Italian beginnings to society drawing rooms, from the saloons of the Wild West to Harlem and from the concert hall to Tin Pan Alley, here is


the history of, and all the details you could wish for about, the world’s most popular and versatile musical instrument. Info is given on all the fascinating developments in piano technology, from its first construction by Bartolomeo Cristofori in about 1709.


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