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71134 HOW TO CARVE A TURKEY by Chris Peterson Subtitled ‘And 99 Other Skills Every Man Should Know’, here is the best advice from Popular Mechanic Magazine started over 100 years ago in the US. Learn how to use a portable defibrillator, how to perform CPR on a heart attack victim, how to treat a bad burn, deal with an
allergic reaction to a sting, a snake bite, escape a burning building, replace a pane of glass, manoeuvre a car out of a skid, safeguard your computer and attack viruses, encrypt e-mail, navigate with compass and map, catch and gut a fish, back up a computer, hang a flat screen TV, grill a flawless steak and so much more. There is something deeply satisfying about competently rising to the challenge of self sufficiently and impressing friends and family along the way. Spiral bound and with colour drawings and photos. £9.99 NOW £4
71242 UNFORGETTABLE SINGERS UNFORGETTABLE
SONGS Three CDs by Reader’s Digest
Top ten hits from Nat King Cole, Tom Jones, Lulu, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Dusty
Springfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, Sandie Shaw, Gene Pitney, Matt Monro, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Connie Francis, Roy Orbison, Cliff Richard, Rosemary Clooney and others. 22 tracks, 26 tracks and 25 tracks respectively on three CDs of unforgettable songs and magic moments. A lovely musical memory. ONLY £4.50
70888 CRAZY SH*T OLD PEOPLE SAY by Geoff Tibballs
Under the guise of passing on the benefits of their experience, old people exercise their right to swear, cuss and insult as they please. These feisty philosophers take no prisoners as they use their scalpel-like tongue to dissect modern life and the younger generations. Here are the thoughts of Famous Wrinklies, Old Wives’ Tales, Wanna Hear About My Operation?, Bloody Kids!, Don’t Give Me Any of This Technology Shit, I May be Old But I’ve Still Got Lead in my Pencil and much more astonishing but mostly extremely funny straight talking. Line after line of stuff you had completely forgotten about and much more you wish you hadn’t read! Hugely entertaining, 264pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
71144 RAFFLES by E. W. Hornung
Raffles is a public-school cad and master burglar, with an aptitude for cricket and a passion for crime, a loveable rogue who steals from the rich not to give to the poor, but rather to subsidise his own splendid lifestyle. He has an unimpeachable address at Albany in St James. Along with his sidekick, his former schoolmate and fellow gambler
Harry ‘Bunny’ Masters, Raffles embarks on a series of thefts. Will they get away with it? First published in 1899, this novel was an immediate success with Raffles, the scoundrel-in-an-evening-suit becoming an irresistible alternative to Sherlock Holmes. 165pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
70872 NAUGHTY NIGHTS CD by Douglas Byng
Sex-Appeal Sarah, Louisa from Pisa, Miss Otis Regrets, Thank You So Much Missus Lowsborough-Goodby, Boadicea, I’m A Bird, The Cabaret Boys, The Sunday School Has Done A Lot for Me and Hot Handed
Hetty (The Vamp of the Jetty) are among these naughty, saucy and hilarious tracks. Bawdy but British - that was Douglas Byng’s billing. Coming from concert party, he shot to fame in West End revue and cabaret in the 1930s. It was his female impersonations that particularly tickled the public’s fancy. Although masquerading as a madam, Douglas certainly could not be accused of skirting his subject and you did not need to dig deep to lay bare Byng’s half-hidden meanings. Spouting sexual innuendo and delicious double entendres, he thrilled London’s late night revellers. With piano and orchestra playing time over 78 minutes on CD. ONLY £4
71243 WE LOVE PIRATE RADIO: Sixties Favourites Five CDs
by Reader’s Digest
Dusty opens the collection with You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. Respect (Aretha Franklin), I Put A
Spell on You, When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge), Sunshine Superman (Donovan), Maria (PJ Proby) and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (Jimmy Ruffin) are just four of the 21 tracks on the first CD. Here are great groups from a golden era, the British beat boom as they rocked the boat and when pop went pirate on the high seas. Big names like Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the Walker Brothers, Peter and Gordon, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Wilson Pickett, Georgie Fame, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds, Booker T and the MGs and dozens of other favourites. Each CD has 21 tracks or 20 in the case of CD number three. Great value, this would make a fantastic gift or soundtrack over the holiday period. ONLY £4.50
69572 LARGE BLACK AND WHITE JOURNAL Eye-catching A5 blank book of approximately 100 blank white pages with a rather snazzy magnetic ‘clamshell’ strip to fasten it and black satin bookmark, the design on the hardboard cover is a rather Op-Art, M. C. Escher style 3D optical illusion. Suit ladies or gentlemen for jottings, doodles etc. ONLY £3.75
70967 CHRONICLES OF HERNIA by Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer is one of the most succesful and admired writers of the past 40 years. He has worked alongside the greatest names in showbusiness - Tommy Cooper, Humphrey Lyttleton, Morecambe and Wise, Willie Rushden, Peter Cook, Kenny Everett and Rory Bremner to name but a few. This book, previously published as ‘You Won’t Believe This But...’, is a veritable who’s who of comedy and collection of hilarious stories and eye- popping anecdotes. From humble beginnings at the Windmill Theatre and Expresso Bongo to The Frost Report, Call My Bluff and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Barry recalls the good, the bad and the downright ugly in his own inimitable style. He is basically one big chat show. 244pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
71245 THE GREATEST LOVE
SONGS: Three CDs by Reader’s Digest As Time Goes By by Engelbert Humperdinck, They Say It’s Wonderful by Judy Collins, Dream A Little Dream Of Me, Someone to
Watch Over Me, The More I See You, How Deep is Your Love?, You Are So Beautiful (Kenny Rodgers), We’ve Only Just Begun, Fly Me to the Moon, The Twelfth of Never and Three Times A Lady are just some of the 20 tracks on the first CD alone. Petula Clarke with It’s Magic, Shirley Bassey with Still, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, When A Man Loves A Woman and Love Me Tender are among the 20 tracks on the second CD. Big names we remember include Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck and Sandie Shaw. Great value three CDs. This would make a lovely gift. ONLY £4.50
70977 COMMON GARDEN BIRD CALLS: Book
and CD by Hannu Jannes and Owen Roberts The world would be relatively silent without the musical backdrop of our feathered friends in our gardens, parks and woods. Often we hear their calls but cannot see the birds making them. This CD and book will open up a new way of recognising birds and understanding their behaviour. It gives a species list in the index with page number and track number on the accompanying CD to follow. For each bird there is a regional map, description, feeding habits, where they can be found plus a description of their unique call with low cackling or chakk notes repeated several times in succession etc. A fabulous bargain 40 page softback. £6.99 NOW £4
70984 THE TEA DECK by Sara Perry
A handsomely designed box of 50 recipe cards which offers essential knowledge on tea varieties from across the globe, tasting notes and tips on selection and preparation, irresistible recipes for snacks and desserts and even one for Eye Love Tea Pillows to reduce eye fatigue and puffiness. Whether it is savouring a rich Buttermilk Scone
with a cup of Earl Grey, trying a White Peony White Tea, a Rooibos Herbal Tea, a Dragonwell Green Tea, a Black or an Oolong with Snappy Peanut Butter Cookies, Buckingham Palace Shortbread or Crunchy-Topped Blueberry Muffins this is a yummy little collection. Would make a beautiful gift, and each large card has a full colour photo on the reverse. £10.99 NOW £4
71049 JULIUS! - JOURNAL by Paul Frank
A leather-look blue stitched 6" square wallet with a rather cute Giraffe design in yellow and brown stitched on to the front designed by Paul Frank. On the back of the wallet is a zipper pocket for your receipts, travel cards, shopping vouchers or if to give to children,
their school dinner money etc. Inside is a blank notebook with the giraffe design in the top corner, the left hand page a feint grid and the right page plain for your own jottings, doodles etc. A lovely gift idea. £8.99 NOW £3
71051 KITTENS OF BOXVILLE
by Ryosuke Handa and Tracey Sunrize Johnson A very kitsch kitten book which was originally published in Japan following the story of a mischievous group of kittens as they scamper in and out of brightly coloured home made ‘cardboard houses’. Behind the blue shutters are Greta the grey tabby, Minnie the Maine Coon and
Boris the Russian Blue. They all sleep together in a soft, fluffy pile, but so would you if your room mates were kittens! Between napping and looking for birds to play with, looking for food at the restaurant owned by the ginger tom named Pauly Pancakes, ‘Bring unto us vast fishes and milk!’ and then the grey tabby rolls over onto his back in a series of action shots. Sometimes using a fisheye lens, they look utterly adorable in every shot by the Tokyo photographer Yoneo Morita. Big softback, 58pp, all in colour. £9.99 NOW £3
71139 MY LIFE LIST by Fritz Metsch Scarlet and brown clothbound gold tooled hardback fill-in journal, 160 ruled pages with inspiring quotes and a ribbon bookmark. It is a motivational, fill-in journey, the perfect place to record and keep track of the things you want to accomplish in your life, the places you want to go, and the person you want to become. It is a handy goal organiser and once completed will become a cherished keepsake volume. Will also make a thoughtful gift. Popular today with the under 60s is their Bucket List - things to do before you die! With short introduction to help you get going, handling setbacks and fine tuning your list and how to keep your eye on the prize. £13 NOW £3.50
27592 SCRAP BOOK
Shiny red laminate cover; 16 pages of recycled grey paper. 8½” x 12", great value. Ideal for photographs, cuttings, pressed flowers, artistic doodles etc. ONLY £1
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TEACAKES by John Betjeman This is a treasure trove of John Betjeman’s poetry, private letters and musings celebrating his England - a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, village teashops and eccentric dons. Edited by Stephen Games, Betjeman writes on topics like childhood, school, fags and fires, Oxford, girls, friends, aristocrats and foreigners, decedents and writers,
comedy, Englishness, travel and the outdoors, fun palaces, London, Sundays, optimism, war, churches and clergy and more. 451pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £2.50
69492 JOY OF GARDENING: An Inspirational
Anthology by Eileen Campbell Writings from famous gardeners past and present, selections from literature of all kinds, plays, poems, novels, letters and diaries; this lovely, seasonally arranged anthology includes the writings of philosophers, psychologists, mystics and spiritual teachers. A rich selection of quotations to dip into time and again whilst resting in the potting shed. 210pp in small paperback. £6.99 NOW £1.75
70320 KEEP CALM AND
DRINK TEA DELUXE MUG by Robert Frederick Ltd The entire Bibliophile Team is now drinking from this bright red, smooth-to-the-touch, curved big tea mug with a silhouette teapot design and the words printed ‘KEEP CALM AND DRINK TEA’. Individually
boxed for safe mailing, grab your mug now before we sell out! ONLY £4
69504 HOLY BIBLE: New International
Version: Slipcased Gift Bible by Hodder & Stoughton
A small white slipcased mini gift Bible with silver edged pages and tiny print, exquisitely designed and printed on 1262 pages. The New International Version is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible made by over 100 scholars working directly with the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek text. Here are tales of great courage, faith and daring matched by examples of extreme human stupidity and evil. The Bible gives guidelines for personal conduct and practical instructions about how to know and worship God. With ribbon marker. £12.99 NOW £4
70481 JANE AUSTEN ON
LOVE AND ROMANCE by Constance Moore Finding Your Squire, Dressing To Impress, Shall We Dance?, The Gentle Art Of Conversation, How To Act, Compatibility, Falling In Love, Declarations of Love, Men And Women In Love, Engagement And Marriage, Breaking Up, Unrequited Love and Happily Ever After are the chapter titles. [Emma
Woodhouse] ‘Emma’ said, ‘I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love’ indeed. For those wishing to live happily ever after like Elizabeth Bennett with a man who owns half of Derbyshire, arm yourself with this Austen-tatious guide to flirting and courtship. 128pp in paperback with line art and silhouettes.
£4.99 NOW £1.95
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 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! 126 pages, softback, colour photos and conversion chart. £9.99 NOW £4
59854 BIBLIOPHILE BOOK OF QUOTES by Annie Quigley and Debbie Mak For many years Bibliophile has been asked to compile a book of our pithy and cheeky quotes which have all previously been published in our mail order catalogues. The quotes are a trademark of our literary style - upmarket, highbrow and discerning following our late mentor, Bill Smith’s, criteria. Our customers often tell us they clip out and collect them. Here is our choice of the very best from the past 30 years. 48 page softback. Colour illus and company history. WAS £3 NOW 35p
66180 COMPLETE RICHARD HANNAY STORIES by John Buchan
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy’s evil plan and solve the mystery of the ‘thirty- nine steps’. In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast, set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay, after a life lived ‘wholly among men’, finally falls in love; later, in The Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife’s help. In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep, he is called upon to honour an old oath. 992 paperback pages. Great value. ONLY £2
68681 BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS by Graeme Gibson
Myths, fables, poems, excerpts from travel and nature writing, journals, sacred texts and works of fiction by some of the world’s greatest writers. Here are the well known predators such as bears, big cats, wolves and sharks, set alongside the less celebrated but equally
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voracious, such as the water shrew, which is capable of killing fish and amphibians many times its weight. He also paints intriguing portraits of legendary beasts such as the Minotaur, Grendel and the biblical Leviathan. Wonderful art, both traditional and contemporary, as well as scientific, religious and mythological drawings, paintings and woodcuts, 180 illus, mostly in colour. 382pp, first US edition of 2009. $35 NOW £3
70488 LITTLE BOOK OF
FARTS by Steven Appleby ‘I stink, therefore I am.’ This is the thinking man’s book of farts, one cartoon per page by the very talented Mr Appleby who parps a great deal. The repertoire of domestic scenes, inside lifts, on trains, over dinner and après curry
farts, drawings of fart-collecting equipment for the hobbyist in a section called Farting for Fun and Profit, and even how to capture and build up your own collection to sell on eBay. £4.99 NOW £1.75
69011 MAPP& LUCIA: 3CDs by E. F. Benson Emmeline Lucas, or Lucia to her friends, is an arch-snob of the highest order. Despite being a newcomer to the village of Tilling, she is eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from the incumbent, Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards, and install herself as its benevolent dictator. However in Miss Mapp, Lucia meets her match. Using as their deadly weapons garden parties, bridge evenings and charming tea parties, the two combatants strive to out-charm each other and the whole of Tilling society as they vie for the position of doyenne of the town. Abridged on three CDs. £14.99 NOW £3
70041 ONE-MINUTE MYSTIC by Simon Parke Parke offers a collection of stimulating meditations, thought experiments and tiny tales to help us reconnect with our inner knowing. Each day we meet things dying and things new born - and pay our respects to both. The shape of the future is the shape of my heart. These aphorisms follow short musings with headings like A Revealing Interview, If God Were
A Burglar, The Angry Puppet and Out Shopping on a Windless Day. With Notes section. 206pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2
70309 PENIS POKEY by Christopher Behrens PEN IS included! Actually, you have to add your own for the full effect of this activity book. Or you could just pop through your fingers and wiggle - or your nose, or other protuberances (!) while a friend draws on the wipe clean pages and everybody rolls about laughing. With a dedication page you can use your pen to connect the dot-to-dot pictures, complete the maze, try out the puzzles and draw your own creations. It is a colourful board book to play with yourself again and again using the hole in the centre of the pages. Use the marker pen to finish various pictures. Great fun. £8.99 NOW £2.50
69321 BORN FREE: The Full Story by Joy
Adamson with preface by Lord William Percy 50 years ago, conservationist Joy Adamson introduced the world to Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphan cub and raised at her home. But, as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that the mature lion must be returned to the wild, despite the incredible bond they shared. Today, the Elsa Conservation Trust operates an education, training and wildlife retreat centre at the Adamsons’ former home of Elsamere on the shores of Lake Naivasha in the northern frontier province of Kenya. Here is the chance to discover all three stories, in one volume, in the words of the woman who walked with the lions. Rare b/w photos. 411 pages with maps. £20 NOW £4
70020 DICTIONARY OF FASHIONABLE NONSENSE: A
Guide for Edgy People by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Spangroom Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault even Alain de Botton are all here. It is an ironic user’s guide, a slim volume of cod pedantry with an array of ludicrous, exaggerated
definitions and popular jargon for trendy intellectuals. Popular science - yeah, right - oxymoron. Positional goods. Positivism. Post colonialism. Premature expostulation. Post structuralism. Primatology (study of high ranking bishops), Psephology (the study of why people will insist on voting the wrong way) and that’s just under the letter P. 122 entertaining pages. £9.99 NOW £3
69790 BALDERDASH AND PIFFLE: One
Sandwich Short of a Dog’s Dinner by Alex Games
Published by BBC Books to accompany the eponymous BBC2 show, Balderdash and Piffle is an etymologist’s delight, a riotous ride through the world of the English language and its lexicon, idioms and phrases. Games has sniffed out the remarkable stories behind some of our best-loved expressions and words. We were horrified to discover that a word we considered a gentle put-down - pillock - is in fact an extremely uncomplimentary comparison to the male member, and that insult for all occasions - a**hole - goes back over 1,000 years! As may be expected with us Brits, there are plenty of euphemisms and metaphors for bodily functions, body parts and the sexual act. 238pp, fully indexed. £9.99 NOW £4
69359 NEW CHINESE
ASTROLOGY by Suzanne White A bestselling author demystifies the ancient wisdom of Chinese astrology by applying it to modern life. She
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