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59984 EDGAR ALLEN POE: The Collected Works by Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe received scant recognition for his efforts, until the publication of ‘The Raven’ in 1845. The poem’s popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles. This title presents a collection of his tales and poems including ‘The Murders in Rue Morgue’, ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Masque of the Red Death’. Deluxe hardback binding in black cloth with gold tooling and tipped-in inset colour portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Horst Janssen on the front cover. 800 pages.


ONLY £12 64452 KING SOLOMON’S MINES and ALLAN


QUATERMAIN by H. Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines tells of the search by Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and the narrator, Allan Quatermain, for Sir Henry’s younger brother George. He has been lost in the interior of Africa for two years in the quest for King Solomon’s Mines, the legendary source of the biblical King’s enormous riches. The three companions encounter fearful hardships, fierce warriors, mortal danger and the sinister and deadly witch Gagool. Quatermain, with touches of humour and great excitement, tells the tale of their struggle through unmapped Africa in pursuit of unimaginable wealth. Paperback, 496pp. ONLY £2


67064 BOOKSELLER OF KABUL by Asne Seierstad


For more than 20 years Sultan Khan defied authorities, be they Communist or Taliban, to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the Communists, and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock, almost 10,000 books, in attics all over Kabul. But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and his hatred of censorship, he also has strict views of family life and the role of women. As an outsider, visiting journalist Asne Seierstad spent four months from the spring of 2002 living with the bookseller and his family. We learn of proposals and marriages, crime and punishment, hope and fear. 288pp, paperback. $12.95 NOW £1.25


69529 STET by Diana Athill


A stet is usually an instruction written on a proof sheet, after the Latin for ‘let it stand’. For 50 years, the author influenced many volumes of modern literature. She edited for André Deutsch, working with the writers V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys and Brian Moore among others. Widely regarded as one of the finest editors in London, Athill herself wrote Instead of a Letter and After a Funeral. This is an honest book about the process of making books, and the people involved. 250 page paperback.


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John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th


century. His works include Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.


71107 TRAVELS WITH


CHARLEY: Seven CDs by John Steinbeck


In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land and get back in touch with the sights, sounds and essence of its people.


Accompanied only by his French poodle Charley, he travelled across the US in a pick-up truck. They drove through almost 40 states and Steinbeck saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. He saw a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for serious judgements. His vision of how the world was changing speaks to us warningly and prophetically through the decades. A pungent pot pourri and a pure delight, unabridged on seven CDs and read by actor Peter Marinker. £16.99 NOW £5


71079 CANNERY ROW: Five


CDs by John Steinbeck In the din and stink that is Cannary Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute


owner of the well-stocked grocery store is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured ‘boys’ call home. Dora runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc is the fount of all wisdom. Packed with invention and joie de vivre, this is Steinbeck’s high- spirited tribute to his native California. Uninhibited and bawdy, compassionate and inquisitive, the novel is read over five CDs, unabridged, by the actor Trevor White.


£17.99 NOW £5 71096 THE PEARL: Three


CDs by John Steinbeck A classic novella about the fallacy of the American dream, here is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, finds a magnificent pearl, the Pearl of the


World, he believes that all his dreams can come true. He will marry his wife in the church wearing fine new clothes, their infant son will never want for anything, least of all the medicine so recently denied to him, and the boy might one day go to school, and learn to read and write. But Kino’s vision of a bright future blinds him to the greed and fear the pearl arouses in his neighbours and in himself, and his shining dream begins to blacken and twist. Unabridged, on three CDs and read by British actor Pepe Balderrama. £16.99 NOW £5


71286 JOHN STEINBECK: Set of Three by John Steinbeck


Buy all three and make further savings. £51.97 NOW £12


69458 CORIOLANUS: Oxford


School Shakespeare edited by Roma Gill An Oxford University Press large paperback which provides the complete and unabridged text of William Shakespeare’s great play together with detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot and summaries


of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. The action of Coriolanus takes place around 500BC. The last of the kings who have ruled over Rome has been expelled and Rome is now a republic with power in the hands of noble families. 170pp, line art. £4.99 NOW £1.75


67076 JESUS: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra


Deepak Chopra has written a novel based on his own experience of Eastern spirituality and the Christian gospels, entering imaginatively into the world of Jesus as child and man. Judas is Jesus’s shadow throughout, at the centre of the struggle between good and evil. In a key scene Judas tries to perform a miracle and fails, and meanwhile his associates, the Zealots, are demanding military commitment both from him and from Jesus. In the final scene of confrontation Jesus calls Judas to salvation, but finds he has conjured up a dust devil who offers the traditional temptations. 273pp. £14.99 NOW £1.50


70400 THE BOX: Tales from


the Darkroom by Gunter Grass


In an audacious literary experiment, Gunter Grass writes using the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up and especially of their father, who was always at work on a new book. Their memories are at the same time loving and accusatory, happy and contradictory and, pieced together, they form an


intimate picture of this most public of men. Here too is Marie, a photographer and friend of many years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots - taken with an old-fashioned box camera, the box of the title - provide the author with ideas for his work. Was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? Translated from the German by Krishna Winston. 194 pages.


$23 NOW £4 67981 ANNOTATED HANS CHRISTIAN


ANDERSEN edited by Maria Tatar Celebrating Hans Christian Andersen’s enduring appeal, this volume includes 24 of his most cherished fairy tales. The editor has created a marvellously illustrated, admirably annotated anthology. Here, you can explore the beauty, sadness and philosophical depths of The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea and many more. There are hundreds of annotations drawing on original sources and the newest scholarship, to explore the literary, historical and psychological importance of the tales, and the volume includes critical essays by the editor on Andersen himself and on the early reactions to the tales. A Tales for Children section is followed by Tales for Adults - a collection of rarely seen stories. 449 large paperback pages illus with over 150 pictures and drawings by Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham. ONLY £5.50


68839 A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN & THE


VOYAGE OUT by Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artist’s struggle for a voice and the novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose ‘voyage out’ to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. Paperback, 463 pages. ONLY £2


68987 JOURNEYS: An Anthology edited by Robyn Davidson


An invitation to explore the backroads of the travel genre from Simone de Beauvoir to Martin Luther King, from Buddha to Van Gogh, Proust’s In Memory of a Massacre of Churches, V. S. Pritchett’s The Spanish Temper from the Spain section, and more from Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Slovakia, Russia, North America, Cuba, Brazil, Australia, North Africa, Israel and as far afield as India and Mongolia. 467pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £2


69347 JOHN KEATS: A Poet and His


Manuscripts by Stephen Hebron In his brief but exceptionally creative life, the English Romantic poet John Keats published just three volumes. Amongst the most revealing of literary documents his surviving manuscripts include original drafts of such celebrated poems as Ode To A Nightingale, Hyperion and The Eve of St Agnes as well as hundreds of marvellous letters in which Keats combined gossip and humour with profound literary and philosophical speculation. Mostly shown here in their entirety, many at actual size, Keats’ original manuscripts provide a unique visual record of his creative processes and rapid literary progress. The accompanying commentary by the author explores each manuscript in detail. 165 large pages, 90 colour images. £25 NOW £6


70062 LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I by T. S. Eliot


As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was the most influential figure of his age. As well as winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, he was the author of ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ which has been performed all over the world in the musical Cats for over 25 years. This selection was made by Eliot himself and includes many of his celebrated works including ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Wasteland’ and ‘The Hollow Men’, Ariel poems and choruses from ‘The Rock’. ‘You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned…’ 114 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


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69370 SPANISH BOW by Andromeda Romano-Lax


When Feliu Delargo is born, late 19th century Spain is a nation slipping from international power and struggling with its own fractured identity. Feliu’s troubled childhood and rise to fame, including a musical apprenticeship in anarchist Barcelona lead him into a thorny partnership with the piano prodigy Justo Al- Cerraz. The divergent artistic goals and political affiliations of the two musicians threaten to divide them as Spain plunges into Civil War. But, as Civil War turns to World War, their shared love for their trio colleague, an Italian violinist named Aviva, forces them into their final and most dangerous collaboration. 554 paperback pages. £12 NOW £1.50


69414 JOY OF READING: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World’s Best Authors and Their Works by Charles Van Doren


Dr. Van Doren explains what is wonderful in the classic and contemporary books you have missed. This engaging love letter to reading explores the work of the authors who transformed the world, from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Vonnegut in 20th century America, J. K. Rowling in 21st century Britain and Henning Mankell in Sweden. Each work is put in its historical context and brought to life by the author’s insightful comments. The volume delves into a wide range of genres - fiction, poetry, drama, children’s books, philosophy, history and science. 525 pages. Alphabetical list of authors and their works. £12.99 NOW £4


69416 MODERN NOVEL WRITING: Or The


Elegant Enthusiast by William Beckford First published in 1796 under the pseudonym Lady Harriet Marlow, this volume is a satirical attack on what its author perceived as characteristically feminine novel- writing. However, it is also a political satire, attacking the Tory party and its leader, William Pitt the Younger, for the war with France, repressive legislation and neglect of the poor. This is the first scholarly edition to be published and it includes a comprehensive introduction and notes. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Gemmett. 192 paperback pages. £14.99 NOW £3


69541 DOGS IN POETRY by Tempus Publishing


Treacherous Towser, The Meddling Mastiff, The Turnspit Tort, The Mad Dog, The Miser’s Only Friend, A Dog’s Tragedy, The Battlefield Staghounds, Epitaph on a Spaniel, The Drowned Spaniel, On an Irish Retriever, Kaiser Dead and On the Elegies of a Lap-Dog are some of the ancient texts grouped together under the vague heading as referring to dogs. For wordsmiths who do not mind a few shocking sonnets, limericks and odes. 96pp, woodcuts. £9.99 NOW £2.25


69600 A GALLERY TO PLAY TO: The Story of


the Mersey Poets by Phil Bowen A warm, gossipy read which gives an unpretentious account of three good poets, by a poet writing about poets. In the summer of 1967, Penguin Books devoted one tenth of the highly prestigious Penguin Modern Poets series to three unknown and relatively unpublished young writers from Liverpool. The book featured Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten and would have its own generic title, The Mersey Sound. Within three months it had sold out and the rest, as they say, is history. This book is an intimate account of the lives and careers of the poets themselves and also a critical survey of an unashamed celebration. Packed with memories for locals and writers interested in the era. 198pp in paperback with photos. 198pp in paperback. £12.95 NOW £3


69607 LIVERPOOL ACCENTS: Seven Poets and a City by Peter Robinson


A rare opportunity for seven poets all with a biographical link to the city of Liverpool, of different ages and affiliations, to introduce their poetry. The poets are Elaine Feinstin, Adrian Henri, Grevel Lindop, Jamie McKendrick, Deryn Reese-Jones, Peter Robinson and Matt Simpson. Visitors from Dickens to Hopkins described Liverpool’s architectural magnificence and human miseries. 189pp in paperback. £9.95 NOW £1.50


70219 BOOK ADDICT’S TREASURY by Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy


A quirky and engaging catalogue of bookish behaviour. It encompasses not only buying, borrowing, lending and sharing books but also what to read and how. There are sections on reviewers and reviewing, enemies of books, bookish vices (the mind boggles!) and things to do with books, as well as the awful


prospect of losing a treasured book. This selection has been compiled by addicts for addicts and will especially appeal to obsessives who surreptitiously rearrange other people’s bookshelves, and book squirrels who own more volumes than it is humanly possible to read. Recognise yourself anybody? 236 pages with index of authors and subject index. £9.99 NOW £5


70087 A HISTORY OF LONGMANS AND THEIR BOOKS 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing by Asa Briggs


Written by a leading historian, both of the Victorian age and of communications, this comprehensive study of publishing deals with the history of the oldest commercial publisher in the United Kingdom, founded by Thomas Longman in London in 1724. Here is the inside story of the people who ran the firm, the principles they held to and their success as entrepreneurs. The story is told within the context not only of the book trade but also of national and international social, economic, intellectual and cultural history. Throughout its tenure as a publisher of important works, the firm has always been renowned for its educational publishing. Its lists have covered religion, law, medicine, science and sport and it has been a major publisher of dictionaries and reference books. From the start, its owners chose titles likely to have a long life. These included Roget’s Thesaurus, Gray’s Anatomy and Macaulay’s History of England. Early 19th century authors included Wordsworth, Southey, Scott and Tom Moore and, by the middle of the century, Longmans stood out as a publishing Leviathan whose late Victorian authors encompassed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,


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The master of the avuncular fireside chat


71042 ESSENTIAL LETTERS FROM AMERICA:


The 1990s Four CDs by Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke’s finest radio reportage from 1991-1999. A radio legend, he entertained


millions of listeners over 50 years in his weekly Letter From America. It was the longest-running one-man series in radio history, and every show was a virtuoso performance. Wise and witty, informed yet informal, Cooke was the doyenne of foreign correspondents. This varied collection contains a broadcast on such landmark events as the Gulf War, the terrible race riots in LA, the O. J. Simpson trial, Bill Clinton’s election, Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinski, celebrating Joe DiMaggio and lamenting the threat to golf posed by commercialism and ungentlemanly behaviour. He muses on historic occasions such as the closure of the last American Woolworth store, the Commencement Ceremony and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles 80 years earlier. The letters are set in their historical context with a specially commissioned script by the BBC’s Matt Frei. Four CDs, running time five hours of exclusive radio archive material from BBC Audio Books.


£17.99 NOW £7 70979 THE MARVELLOUS MANIA: Alistair


Cooke on Golf by Alistair Cooke The master of the avuncular fireside chat Alistair Cooke took to golf late in his life as a mild form of exercise. He called it ‘A method of self-torture, disguised as a game’ and he was hooked, revelling in its companionship and loving every moment on a golf course. This book collects the best of his writings about the game. Here are the pleasures of a round of golf in the snow, how the ‘senior golfer’ secretly disguises their creaky swing, Arnold Palmer playing in 102 degree heat in San Antonio, dapper Gary Player winning the US Open at Creve Coeur Missouri or Jack Nicklaus playing and winning almost anywhere - not to mention a surprising but persistent tendresse for Racquel Welch. 191pp in paperback with 16 pages of b/w photos.


£8.99 NOW £4.50 71011 ALISTAIR COOKE


AT THE MOVIES edited by Geoff Brown Subtitled Films Reviewed and Hollywood Observed by the Master Broadcaster and Journalist. Slightly older readers will remember Alistair Cooke for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter From America, which reported on 58 years of U.S. life, was heard over five continents and totalled


2,869 broadcasts before Cooke’s retirement in 2004. It was, by a long chalk, the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. Listeners enjoyed Cooke’s intelligent, concise, witty and urbane style, his beautiful voice and, of course, his inside knowledge. He began film reviewing in the 1920s. Under his watchful gaze, Hollywood reached its Golden Age. He clocked every new technological development, from the arrival of talkies to the video cassette and also closely observed cinema’s personalities, writing tributes to, among many others, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, James Cagney, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford and Humphrey Bogart. He was a close friend of Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard and recorded their lives and films with affection. Most of Cooke’s lively, analytical film reviews have remained unpublished and unheard - until now, that is. 366 pages, photos. £20 NOW £8.50


Robert Louis Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard. More recently, Longmans has become increasingly international, with branches and subsidiary companies all over the world. A great history of a great publisher. A huge 587 pages lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w. £70.33 NOW £20


69907 CLASSICS: 62 Great Books From the Iliad to Midnight’s Children by Jane Gleeson-White


What qualities give some books a passionate new readership every generation? Here the author makes a literary excavation into our reading past and rediscovers the great masterpieces that move and inspire us. From the Iliad and The Odyssey, The Aeneid and Don Quixote, Tom Jones, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Bleak House, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, The Age of Innocence, Howard’s End, Kristin Lavransdatter, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Leopard, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, and Underworld, here are 62 favourite novels plus contributions from many distinguished authors. 403pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


70063 FURTHER REQUIREMENTS: Interviews,


Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews by Philip Larkin


‘Required Writing’ (a rag bag of fugitive scribbling as Larkin described it in a letter to a friend) was the last book to be published by Philip Larkin in his lifetime and was a collection of miscellaneous prose, 1955-1982. However a great deal of material was missing and this book attempts to make good and assemble later pieces - interviews, statements and book reviews. It carries Larkin’s first published review from the autumn of 1952 in Q, the literary magazine. Here are the commissioned tributes to MacNeice and to Auden immediately after their deaths, brief notes he contributed to anthologies and perhaps, most importantly, the autobiographical essay he wrote in 1959 for the arts magazine Umbrella. The collection can be dipped into time and again. 391pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £4.25


70064 BURNING PERCH by Louis MacNeice Published in 1963, this collection turned out to be Louis MacNeice’s last published volume. On receiving that year’s Autumn Poetry Book Society Choice, MacNeice


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