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brawls, girls’ laughter and the promise of maybe something more. 310pp paperback, photos and juvenilia. £11.99 NOW £4


68795 WILLIAM GOLDING: The Man Who


Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey Golding’s childhood in Marlborough resurfaces time and again in his novels, particularly the controversial Darkness Visible, which took him 24 years to complete and which he would never discuss. Wartime naval service included hunting down the Bismarck, while in the post-war years his teaching job at Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury, gave Golding some lifelong friends and the opportunity to observe boys at close quarters. The bestselling Lord of the Flies, recounting the descent into savagery of a class of boys marooned on an island, became a bestseller in 1954. The Spire, describing the technical challenge and human cost of building of Salisbury Cathedral, divides Golding’s admirers into two camps. 573 roughcut pages, photos. Remainder mark. $32.50 NOW £5


69432 BEATON IN THE SIXTIES: The Cecil Beaton


Diaries As They Were Written by Hugo Vickers


The enthusiastic reception accorded to the Unexpurgated Beaton - the first volume of the diaries of Cecil Beaton - prompted Hugo Vickers to return to the 145 original manuscript volumes and to choose a second un- retouched selection. Here is Cecil in the ‘swinging sixties’, the era of the


Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Mary Quant. As photographer, he is still contributing to Vogue. As designer, he works on the Alan Jay Lerner-André Previn musical Coco, and renders a chilling account of his encounter with the menacing figure of Katharine Hepburn. He sails with Greta Garbo on the Rothschild’s yacht, and meets Andy Warhol and Picasso. The waspish commentaries of Hugo Vickers serve as explanatory notes. 522 pages with b/w photos, and line drawings by Beaton himself. £25 NOW £5.50


70070 BRIEF LIVES: An Intimate and Very Personal Portrait of the 20th Century by Paul Johnson


The author draws on personal experience as former editor of the New Statesman. He has advised Margaret Thatcher, had dinner with Lee Kuan Yew, counselled Princess Diana, and received a drawing done of himself by Ernest Hemingway. He has been both an insider and an outsider in the human comedy but above all he is a shrewdly humorous analyst of a range of characters, all of whom have either changed history, or formed public taste or simply lightened our lives by their presence. During over 60 years as a writer, editor, historian, broadcaster and lecturer all over the world, he has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, plus Fleet Street hacks and bitchy Oxford dons - in fact all the celebrities of his times. A gripping selection of more than 200 of the people. 296 pages. £20 NOW £6


69803 ALAN CLARK: A LIFE IN HIS OWN


WORDS: The Edited Diaries 1972-1999 edited by Ion Trewin


Clark’s ministerial roles under Thatcher were always precarious and he would have been a footnote in political history were it not for the explosive diaries. This bumper edited edition covers the roller-coaster years of the Thatcher government up to his final illness in 1999, and his long-suffering wife Jane, the love of his life in spite of his many affairs, completes the story. After Geoffrey Howe’s famous resignation speech he is joined by a “wildish and gaunt” Norman Tebbit saying “we must fight to the death” for Thatcher. 758pp, paperback. £14.99 NOW £5.50


69464 LETTERS OF NOEL COWARD by Noël Coward and Barry Day


Precocious, provocative and painfully funny, the pages brim with actors’ tantrums, anxious auditions, despairing rehearsals, elation on first night, drubbing by obtuse critics and rows with grasping agents. It is a meticulously edited collection of Noël Coward’s letters and a marriage between biography and autobiography. Here are letters to and from some of the most famous names in history - G. B. Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietrich, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Alec Guinness, Gertie Lawrence, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin, the Queen Mother, his own beloved mother Violet, his longtime set and costume designer Gladys Calthrop and his business manager and one-time lover, Jack Wilson. Witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and surprisingly moving. Film stills, photos and cartoons. 780pp. Roughcut pages. $37.50 NOW £8.50


69807 ARTHUR MILLER: 1962-2005 by Christopher Bigsby


Scrupulously researched, this thoughtful biography discloses previously unknown facts about Arthur Miller’s public and private life. 1962 saw the death of his second wife Marilyn Monroe and his marriage to the photographer Inge Morath who was to transform him both as a person and as a writer. He still had ahead of him 18 plays, five films, a novella and a handful of stories but, as well as his writing, he became intimately involved in politics, visiting Mauthausen concentration camp, travelling widely and defending imprisoned writers. He opposed the Vietnam War, campaigned for Senator Eugene McCarthy, appeared as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and even negotiated with the North Vietnamese. 589 pages with photos in b/w and colour. £30 NOW £6.50


69847 A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway


Hemingway’s memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only on his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - literary ‘stars’ such as James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafés, he discovered his vocation. Includes chapters with such headers as Shakespeare and Company, Ford Madox Ford and the Devil’s Disciple, With Pascan at the Dôme and There is Never Any End to Paris. 182pp in facsimile reprint of the 1936 original. Paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.75


70256 A CAMERA IN THE HILLS: The Life and Work of


W. A. Poucher by Roly Smith There can be few hill walkers of a certain age whose bookcases do not contain one or more books by Walter Poucher. For over two decades after the Second World War, his name was synonymous with mountain photography, while his prolific pictorial books inspired


several generations to take to the hills. Here is the story of a true English eccentric, a man in love with fast cars and mountain scenery, who also loved mascara and lipstick. He was chief perfumer for Yardley for more than 30 years. With Poucher’s own evocative photos of the most beautiful of hills and mountains, alongside personal illus. 192 pages 20cm x 26cm with plates in colour and b/w, £20 NOW £6.50


70054 PEELING THE ONION by Gunter Grass and Michael Henry Heim Grass reveals the many layers of his emotional and complex life. It started in Danzig, with the family of four living in a two-room apartment. The young boy collected cigarette cards featuring the masterpieces of Renaissance art and dreamed of enlisting in the submarine corps. Aged ten, he joined the Jungvolk and, when he was 15, volunteered for the navy but, sadly, was rejected. Two years later he was drafted, assigned to the Waffen-SS as a tank gunner and sent to the Eastern Front in 1945. After being wounded, he ended up in an American POW camp. There he spent time taking theoretical cookery classes and playing dice with a pious Bavarian fellow prisoner. Finally he began his great novel The Tin Drum. 425 pages. $26 NOW £5


70160 ROSEMARY AND BITTER ORANGES by Patrizia Chen


Suffused with the scents of simmering pots of cacciucco - a hearty, local seafood stew, and the vibrant coastal blossoms - Patrizia Chen’s childhood was centred in the sun-drenched kitchen and adjoining herb garden of her family home in Livorno on the Tuscan coast. In a world struggling to recover from the devastation of WW2, Emilia the cook shared her craft with her young charge, while her grandmother Nonna Valentina managed a household still containing chamber pots, sacks of chestnut flour and coal-burning stoves. Eccentric characters, aromatic dishes, white Carrara marble terraces and the magical garden come alive in a warm and richly textured humorous narrative. With recipes. 242pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


BUSINESS AND COMPUTERS


I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.


- Charles Lamb


70910 HOW REMARKABLE WOMEN LEAD by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston A combination of intimate stories from top women leaders and the fascinating results of an ongoing proprietary research programme called the Centred Leadership Project. The book reveals what drives and sustains the most successful women in business today and ‘puts to rest stereotypes we have about who leaders are and how they lead.’ Covers such psychological aspects of the happiness equation, starting with your strengths, dream catching, the practice of optimism, ready for change, the path to belonging, your organisation as family, reciprocal relationships, the tapestry you weave, standing up and speaking up and making your own luck among them. The fifth chapter looks at energising. Among the 24 amazing women leaders chosen to give their real insights are Stella Rimmington and the Chairman and CEO of Avon Andrea Jung. 355pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £1.50


70187 I’M WITH THE BRAND: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker


As technology increasingly allows advertising anywhere and everywhere, “tagging” public buildings and viral videos, people are actually embracing brands more than ever. Here is a sophisticated take on how consumers interact with brands, defining and controlling them, as companies struggle to keep up. Using profiles of brands old and new, such as Timberland, Apple, Red Bull, iPod and Nike. 320 paperback pages. £8.99 NOW £3.75


69963 WINSTON CHURCHILL, CEO: 25


Lessons for Bold Business Leaders by Alan Axelrod


In this entertaining, thought-provoking and inspiring book, Alan Axelrod, bestselling author of ‘Elizabeth I, CEO’ and ‘Patton on Leadership’, shows how Churchill’s leadership in Britain’s darkest hours can teach valuable lessons that will help business leaders succeed in today’s daunting business environment. Lessons such as how in 1915, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill took full responsibility for the disastrous Gallipoli assault, although he had nothing remotely approaching full authority over the operation. He accepted his fate - sacking from his post - but never again allowed himself to be put in the position of accountability without responsibility. Altogether there are 25 chapters, each dealing with a particular time during the great man’s career, analysing what he did, how successful he was and how the situation can apply to the business world. Also a fascinating précis of Churchill’s career. 276pp paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


68357 BUSINESS STRIPPED BARE:


Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur by Richard Branson


The common themes of a Branson enterprise are the people, the brand, delivery, learning from setbacks, innovation, entrepreneurship and the wider responsibility of business. Starting with people, Branson believes that pay is important, but so are rewards. Branson covers the strategies behind his many business empires, failures such as his attempted takeover of Northern Rock, and rounds off with his commitment to the environment. 342pp. £20 NOW £1.80


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70690 GIRLS’ DRESS-UP AND GIRLS’ PRESS-OUT DOLLS: 2 in 1


A Two-in-One giant softback with over 350 press out costumes so little girls aged 5+ can become a dress designer. A short story with colour illustrations begins the book entitled Pretty Princesses who are all dressing up to go to the Grand Ball


tonight. Help the girls put on their regal outfits and beautiful long gowns and tiaras. Then follows fantastic fairies and fashionable fairies, beautiful ballerinas with their tutus and accessories all to fold by tabs onto the press-out dolls included in the book. Then flip the book around and enjoy another set of dress-up dolls and design your own fairy outfits by colouring in the cut-out shapes provided. Puzzles, games and activities too. Large softback.


£9.99 NOW £4.50


70597 HIDE AND SEEK CHUGGERS: Interactive


Storybook by Chuggington Join Koko, Wilson and Brewster and take part in this train-tastic story. Pull the different tabs to see the Chuggers ride the rails as you read. Wahay! Honking horns, here are


the best Hidey-Chuggers ever. Big cartoon illus on each page, lift the flap to see more whooshing and zooming as we ride the tracks with our colourful train friends. There is a surprise at the end to tickle your bumpers when you see the pop up on the final page. Suit ages 2 and up. Colour.


£5.99 NOW £3.75 70779 ALICE’S ADVENTURES


IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll


Abridged and retold by Harriet Castor to suit ages six and up. Use the White Rabbit’s Guide to Wonderland booklet inserted in the front cover of this big beautifully illustrated softback to help you get more out of Wonderland. Tumble


down the rabbit hole with Alice for magical adventures where rabbits can talk and playing cards walk and cats can vanish at will. With dedication page, gorgeous new illustrations, big blue-eyed Alice finds a world that becomes curiouser and curiouser. Large softback. £7.99 NOW £3


70279 ANATOLE by Eve Titus Anatole is a most honourable mouse. He is shocked - shocked! - when he learns that humans don’t like mice to sample their leftovers. What’s a mouse to do? He must provide for his family, but he is determined to earn his supper. Perhaps he could offer his services at the Duval Cheese Factory? Words burst with fresh metaphors in a book which allows children to think, imagine and dream. 32 page very large softback. £4.99 NOW £3.50


70280 ANATOLE AND THE CAT by Eve Titus A companion to Anatole code 70279 these books won the Caldecott Children’s Book Award in the US. Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice President in Charge of Cheese Tasting at Duval’s Cheese Factory. The people at Duval have no idea that their mysterious taster is a mouse, so m’sieu Duval thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat to the factory. Anatole must act to protect his job and his life! Bon chance. 32 page large softback. 20 minutes reading, ages 4+. £4.99 NOW £3.50


70303 SPONGEBOB


SPOOKYPANTS by Lauryn Silverhardt It was Halloween, and SpongeBob and Patrick were getting ready to go trick-or-treating. But Patrick did not know what costume to wear. Luckily SpongeBob had an


idea...First he dressed up as a ghost. Boo! Then SpongeBob dressed up as a policeman...and a hula girl, a punk rocker and then a football player, a movie star and then a baseball player. Carry handle cutaway board book all in colour. £5.99 NOW £2


70374 JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS


NURSE AND WAS EATEN BY A LION by Hilaire Belloc


Warning! Contains a dangerous beast and a miserable end. Dark humour from the brilliant Edwardian humorist Hilaire Belloc brought alive by Mini Grey’s sly illustrations, clever type design, amazing lift-the-flaps and a roaring lion pop-up. See the zoo map with hilarious Rules and Byelaws and feel sick when the lion lets a dainty morsel drop which turns out to be the miserable boy’s head! He was dead! Really gruesome, grizzly fun for children aged six to adult. 26 pages 22½ x 28½cm. $19.99 NOW £4.50


68720 MORE ABOUT BOY: Roald Dahl’s Tales from Childhood by Roald Dahl


Here are some funny, some painful and some unpleasant episodes from the last 50 or 60 years of the author’s life which have remained seared on his memory. Following Kindergarten 1922-3 is Llandass Cathedral School (ages seven to nine), the Bicycle in the Sweet Shop, the Great Mouse Plot, Going to Norway and A Visit to the Doctor, St. Peter’s ages nine to 13 with Writing Home, The Matron, Home Sickness and the Meccano Chariot among other escapades, Repton and Shell ages 13 to 20 with Painful Punishments, Chocolates, Ten Horrid Little Boys and Girls, Faggin’ and That Awful Cold Bath, in the PS there is a Dahl-tastic quiz. Includes school reports and never-before-seen materials. Line art by Quentin Blake. 228pp in large softback. Suit ages 8-12. £10 NOW £2.50


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Jaunty, salty seafaring


adventures from Captain Pugwash and his crew meeting cutthroat pirates in dastardly plots. These Frances


Lincoln children’s books are of the highest quality, glossy large pages reprinted in 2008 and 2009 in the 1958-1976 original bold, witty familiar illustrations. We have five titles in this Pirate series to collect.


70551 PUGWASH ALOFT by John Ryan


Welcome aboard the Black Pig for another exciting adventure with Captain Pugwash and his loyal crew. As they strike up the music for singing practice, Cut-Throat Jake and his band of rebels lurk dangerously nearby. Disaster strikes! Jake and his men board the ship and capture the crew


which sends Captain Pugwash scuttling up the nearest mast for safety. How will he ever get out of this one? Fortunately Tom the cabin boy has a clever plan and the crew can finish their singing practice after all - with a rousing victory song. See the pirates dancing on the deck with Pugwash at the wheel and conducting at the same time. More plucky adventure in this reprint of the 1958 original with big bold colour cartoons. Quality large hardback.


£11.99 NOW £4.50


70552 PUGWASH AND THE GHOST SHIP by John Ryan


The famous Black Pig, home to Captain Pugwash and his crew, is in desperate need of a spring clean. But what begins as a simple exercise in painting and decorating soon leads to a plot so dastardly that it looks as thought the Captain’s days are finally up. Luckily young Tom the cabin boy has a brainwave and so Pugwash, the most famous pirate of all, survives again to sail the Seven Seas. Based on the 1962 original with colour witty cartoon illus and large quality pages.


£11.99 NOW £4.50 70553 PUGWASH AND THE


SEA MONSTER by John Ryan Cut-Throat Jake and his ugly crew are busy celebrating on Cactus Island, surrounded by their stolen treasure. So they are caught off guard when Captain Pugwash and his men arrive disguised as a sea monster. But more surprises follow for all the


pirates when the real sea monster turns up to investigate. Luckily Tom the quick-thinking cabin boy is on hand once again to save the day. Based on the 1976 original cartoon illustrations, big bold and funny in this new quality hardback reprint. £11.99 NOW £4.50


70554 PUGWASH IN THE PACIFIC by John Ryan


The Admiral is under strict orders from the Prime Minister to search the Seven Seas, capture Captain Pugwash and bring him back alive. Fortunately, far away on a sunny island in the middle of the Pacific, Captain Pugwash has no idea of the fearful fate which awaits him. The sky is blue, the sea is warm and the Captain and his crew are having a lovely time, but will they be able to evade the law for much longer? Based on the 1973 original, here is 2009 lavish, glossy paged hardback with all with all the witty colour cartoon illus. £11.99 NOW £4.50


70555 PUGWASH THE


SMUGGLER by John Ryan Captain Pugwash is delighted at the prospect of earning 500 golden crowns for smuggling barrels of brandy across the English Channel. But little does he suspect what is really inside the barrels. Luckily Tom the quick-witted cabin boy uncovers Cut-Throat Jake’s dastardly plot,


but will he be able to convince the Excise Men that Pugwash is innocent? Quality large hardback, quirky witty colour illus. £11.99 NOW £4.50


70911 CAPTAIN PUGWASH: Set of Five by John Ryan


Buy all five quality hardbacks and save more. £59.95 NOW £20


70381 CURIOUS LITTLE MONKEY: Book and


T-Shirt by Margaret and H. A. Rey My First Words at the Zoo is the adorable colourful board book featuring Curious George when he was just a baby monkey. He meets the rhinoceros, the giraffe, the kangaroo and his joey and other animals at the petting zoo. But best of all in this lovely box set is a super-soft baby t-shirt for ages up to 12 months. White, very well made with safety mark and Curious Little Monkey design on front. The book alone sells at £10.99. $14.99 NOW £5.50


69551 BOOM! by Mark Haddon


Mark Haddon is well known as the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, one of most surprising bestsellers of recent years. Jimbo and his best friend Charlie are normal, mischievous schoolboys. One day, for a prank, they attach a walkie-talkie under their teacher’s desk in order to hear what they say about the kids behind their backs. What they do hear is something much worse than a few snidey comments - they speak an alien language, and further investigation reveals that they are, indeed, aliens. It is up to Jimbo and Charlie to save the Earth from going BOOM! For the 10-15 age group. 195pp. $15.99 NOW £3.50


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