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described the poems as ‘ranging from bleak observations to thumbnail nightmares’. The period detail masks a lyrical intensity and philosophical seriousness. 36 poems including October in Bloomsbury, The Pale Panther, Tree Party, Budgie and Goodbye to London among them. 48 page Faber softback collection of one of the giants of modern poetry. £8.99 NOW £3


70655 FRANK BELLAMY’S KING ARTHUR The origin of the King Arthur legend is hotly disputed by boffins, but we can be sure that many of the stories we know today were shaped if not invented by the 12th century French writer Chretien de Troyes, followed by Malory’s Renaissance version and Tennyson’s Victorian epic. Frank Bellamy’s cartoon strip for Swift comic in 1955 confirmed his pre-eminence among graphic storytellers with their fast action, vivid cameos and striking visual angles. The prose narration beneath each frame was created by Clifford Makins and is a perfect complement to Bellamy’s dynamic style. Focusing on the estrangement between Arthur and Lancelot, the strip presents Lancelot as the victim of a plot by the evil Mordred. The scene shifts to France where a series of cliffhanging episodes leaves the reader wondering whether Arthur and Lancelot will finally confront each other in combat and what the outcome will be. Innovative storytelling and graphics. Historical introduction, b/w cartoon strips including both King Arthur and Bellamy’s earlier Swiss Family Robinson. 116pp, softback.


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70653 FRANK BELLAMY’S ROBIN HOOD Robin Hood became a worldwide folk hero following the success of the Errol Flynn film in 1936, and Frank Bellamy’s graphic version for the 1956 Swift comic is now regarded as a classic. Bellamy’s version places Robin in the 13th century, a victim of Prince John’s war on the Barons while Richard the Lionheart is away on Crusade. When Robin’s father the Earl of Huntingdon is killed, Robin flees to Sherwood Forest where he meets traditional characters such as Friar Tuck, Guy of Gisborne and the Sheriff of Nottingham. In keeping with the strait-laced Fifties, Maid Marian shares a tent with her friend Gwen. The lively frames and compressed narration are superb examples of storytelling before the advent of computerised graphics. Historical introduction, full-page b/w cartoon strips. Apologies - pages 82-88 have repetition. 144pp, softback. £14.99 NOW £6


70052 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Poetry selected by Ted Hughes


Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and his response as one writer to the work of another is doubly illuminating. From his original 1991 introduction he says, ‘It has never been easy to settle Shakespeare into the succession of Poets in English. The reason for the reluctance of anthologists to break into the sacred precincts of his drama and start looting portable chunks from the holy structures would make a curious chapter in the history of England’s attitudes to its national hero. ‘To-morrow and to-morrow, and to-morrow’ is spoken by Macbeth as he faces the leafy army that will put an end to his spellbound, murderous career, it actually limits the use of the passage of a reader. The speech on its own is something else, read in less than a minute, learned in less than five, still wonderful, and a pure bonus hundreds of years later.’ 165 page paperback. £4.99 NOW £2.50


70414 THE HOUSE OF HARPER: The Making


of a Modern Publisher by Eugene Exman In 1817, four young brothers opened a printing shop in downtown Manhattan. Two centuries later, their small enterprise has grown into one of the world’s largest and most successful publishing houses, now known as HarperCollins. The Harper brothers and their sons and successors created a grand cultural institution that has become a cornerstone of literary heritage. Eugene Exman’s classic history, originally published in 1967, is the fascinating account of the birth and growth of a magnificent literary empire. Lavishly detailed, and filled with portraits of dynamic publishers and editors, with remarkable anecdotes about the legendary artists and authors. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Winslow Homer, Henry James, Edna St Vincent Millay, Thomas Wolfe and Aldous Huxley are all featured here, yet this prestigious list is far from exhausted. 326 pages, elegantly designed softback, nostalgic b/w images. £15.99 NOW £5.50


70467 FAULKS ON FICTION by Sebastian Faulks


The publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary literary form - the novel. British writers were prominent in shaping the new type of storytelling, one which reflected the experiences of ordinary people, with characters in whom readers could not only find an escape, but a deeper understanding of their own lives. By focussing not on writers, but on the people they gave us, Faulks not only celebrates the recently neglected act of novelistic creation but shows us how the most enduring fictional characters have helped to map the British psyche over the centuries. Chapters are divided into four categories covering lovers from Mr Darcy to the lascivious Lady Chatterley, heroes such as Sherlock Holmes and Tom Jones, villains from Fagin to Barbara Covett, alongside the snobbery of Emma Woodhouse and the austere Jeeves. Softback, 376pp. £12.99 NOW £4


70717 THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS


VOLUME TWO edited by Philip Gourevitch ‘The Paris Review’ interviews have always provided the best look into the minds and work ethics of great writers. When read together they constitute the closest thing to an intimate dinner with each writer in your own home. Here is the very best way to steal a look into the minds of the best writers and interviewers in the world. Graham Greene, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Robert Lowell, James Baldwin, Stephen King, Philip Larkin and Toni Morrison are among the writers of finely-crafted literature whose vivid self portraits are represented in this colossal literary event. 512pp in heavyweight softback.


£12.99 NOW £3


70723 WORKING THE ROOM: Essays by Geoff Dyer


Alive with insight, delight and Dyer’s characteristic reverence, the book offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the world of literature, art, photography and music. His writing is acute and bad


tempered in the great British tradition. Across ten years’ work of essays, the volume spans the photography of Martin Parr and the paintings of Turner, the writing of Scott Fitzgerald and the criticism of Susan Sontag and includes extensive personal pieces - ‘On Being an Only Child’, ‘Fact’ and ‘Readers Block’ among them. The book features D. H. Lawrence, sex and hotels, Rodin, the Olympics, John Cheever, memory, and much of the human condition. A witty and concise observer. 400 pages, colour photos. £20 NOW £5.50


MISCELLANY


71039 BIRTHDAYS by Anna Branning


You will always have a handy card nearby now. Open the clamshell attractive flowered outer cover to find a 52 page softback book with space for dates to remember for each calendar month, each page decorated with colourful flower drawings. In a sturdy storage pocket on the other side tied up with


string are 12 lovingly designed birthday cards by the San Francisco company Dutch Door Press. Would suit ladies and gentlemen in big bold colourful designs and great value for money. £10 NOW £3.50


70278 INK ERASER


by D&M Packaging Supplies Ltd A gum based eraser with added silica grit. This eraser gently crumbles as you use it and gently removes the outer surface of paper, taking inscriptions and library stamps with it. Also effective on light foxing, finger prints and general marks depending on the paper surface. Not to be used on coloured paper. Just gently rub at the effected area, sweeping away excess residue until the ink has been removed. It is always good to practice on an unimportant book first and always approach particularly thin or delicate paper with caution. ONLY £5


! 70311 ROLL BUDDY


by Disher Design and Development Handy pack of six brightly coloured plastic near circles designed to stop rolls from unrolling. Great for gift wrap, ribbon, drawings and paintings, even rolls of lino or scraps of carpet perhaps, anything that unravels in your cupboard. Think of how many times you have had to discard Christmas wrapping paper because it has become so tangled up. Here is the answer in a nifty device. ONLY £3


69874 2013 CALENDAR: CHICKENS by Hermes House


12" square wall calendar featuring 12 astonishingly beautiful birds like the white plumed red-saddled Yokohama bantam male, the rust coloured single-comb Nankin male, the wonderfully fluffy prop-partridge Welsummer hen, the black and white speckled Millefleur Serama hen and his other feathered friends. Use the small squares to note down your dates and includes all Bank Holidays and overseas holidays, Mother’s Day, a year-at-a- glance calendar, key dates and 2014 key dates. Lovely glossy colour photos. £10 NOW £4.50


70312 CAR DUSTER


One end is a fluffy bright red soft cotton duster and the other a horse hair style 1" brush, perfect for poking into crevices and around the rims of dashboards, your computer keyboard and other nooks and crannies in the home or car. The brush has a wooden stick and is washable. A jolly handy item, buy two while stocks last.


ONLY £3


70313 MEDIUM RESISTANCE BAND by National Health and Wellness Club A safe and effective way to keep the upper body fit. What is effectively a long green rubber tube is squeezed in the middle to create two loops on which are already threaded black rubber grip handles. Take one in each hand and stretch in any direction, overhead, underarm, to help flex those muscles around the torso and chest to improve breathing and posture and maintain muscle tone and flexibility. Great for when you are a little stiff from reading or sitting at the computer. ONLY £3


65062 BIBLIOPHILE PENCIL: Rubber Tipped ‘Bibliophile Best Bargain Books’ with our website address and memorable telephone number 0207 474 2474, this quality Stabilo pencil is a nice soft HB with rubber tip. Should last a very long time. In Bibliophile royal blue. ONLY 20p


61516 BIBLIOPHILE SQUIGGLE PEN by A. Squigley


In Bibliophile blue, this is the latest in our own collectable company designs with a quick reminder for our book hotline printed on. It has a super squeezy black rubber grip, ideal for older hands, and an attractive metal ‘squiggle’ clip. Black ink. ONLY £1


68908 THE FORGOTTEN MAN: A New History MODERN HISTORY


70983 SELLING YOUR FATHER’S BONES: One Tribe’s Flight Through the


Great American West by Brian Schofield


As wave upon wave of European settlers poured over the northwest frontier, armed and backed up by the US army, 700 warriors, elders, women and children were forced to flee their ancestral homeland and embark upon a 1,700 mile exodus,


crossing unfriendly terrain, fighting off the army as they went, all the way to the safety of the Canadian border. Schofield retraces the Nez Perce’s epic flight and uncovers the tribe’s story, travelling through the modern day timber towns and industrial wastelands of Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming. At the same time as piecing together the moving, gripping stories of the Nez Perce’s struggle and that of the land they left behind, he also confronts the destructive human and environmental legacy of the conquest of the American West. As the Sunday Times had it, “It takes a book such as this to bring it all together and let you begin to sense the scale of injustice as the Native Americans experienced it.” B/w photos, 414pp paperback. £9.99 NOW £5


68332 LAST DANCE: 1936, The Year Our


Lives Changed by Denys Blakeway Through the diaries of shopkeepers, socialites, bishops and volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and the memoirs of the unemployed, housewives and hostesses, as well as contemporary accounts of politicians, journalists and poets, the book is a compelling picture of a turning point in Britain’s story. At home, social and constitutional crisis threatened, and in Europe, the dictators were on the march. Contents include Orwell’s Sordid Imagination, A Meeting with Herr Hitler, The Berlin Olympics and the Jarrow March. 440pp in paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


68584 RIVER OF LOST FOOTSTEPS by Thant Myint-U


Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the site of the longest-running conflict in the world. Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma’s past informs its present, and how the world might transform the country’s future. Here is a heartfelt description of Burma’s afflictions and their causes. 386pp in paperback, photos.


£9.99 NOW £2.50


69509 WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS by David Landes


Subtitled ‘Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor?’ this hugely instructive and entertaining book brings economic history and the history of technology to life. With vigour and good humour this eminent Harvard professor asserts his right to go where others have been warned off. Here you will find wise reflections, fresh perspectives, enlightened comparisons and huge leaps of imaginative flair. The book takes Smith’s Wealth of Nations ‘as its text’ and unashamedly bangs the drum for the liberal ideals of freedom, hard work and open markets. 650pp in chunky paperback. £15.99 NOW £3.50


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of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes Challenging conventional history, the author offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part of the 20th century. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s, and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefits of New Deal programmes. From 1929 to 1940 federal intervention helped to cause the Depression by forgetting the men and women who sought to help themselves. They range from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W who founded Alcoholics Anonymous. 464 paperback pages, archive photos. £16.99 NOW £2.75


69033 COUNTRY FORMERLY KNOWN AS


GREAT BRITAIN: Writings 1989-2009 by Ian Jack


Ian Jack began his journalistic career in the 1960s and went on to co-found and edit the Independent on Sunday. The pieces each set out to deal with aspects contemporary Britain, for example national disasters, football matches, film and TV, obesity, thuggish behaviour and terrorism - but then Jack is drawn back in time, examining with specific examples how similar episodes and topics would have been addressed in the past. Includes a look at the life and career of Kathleen Ferrier, the popular singer who died in 1953, leads to a fascinating correspondence from the ’40s and ’50s between “Kaff” and her fans and friends. Full of the style, knowledge, intimacy and eye for a story. 327pp, illus.


£18.99 NOW £4.50


69051 PISTOLS AT DAWN: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt & Fox to


Blair & Brown by John Campbell The duellists and their battles considered here are Fox and Pitt, Castlereagh and Canning, Gladstone and Disraeli, Asquith and Lloyd George, Bevan and Gaitskell, Macmillan and Butler, Heath and Thatcher, and finally bringing things up to date with the still simmering Blair and Brown. For each, critically acclaimed political biographer John Campbell combines a vivid narrative with an authoritative assessment of its historical and political legacy. Photos and contemporary cartoons, including a beauty of Blair and Brown sitting “united” next to each other with their body language screaming exactly the opposite. 453pp. £25 NOW £4


69922 OPERATION EXODUS by Gordon Thomas


This gripping book tells the disturbing story of a ship taking German Jews to Palestine in 1947 which was attacked by the British Navy and returned to the country where its passengers had already suffered unspeakable horrors. Between the two world wars Palestine was governed by the British Mandate, and Winston Churchill, the Foreign Secretary, established a limit for Jewish immigration although Arabs and Christians could settle freely. Following the war it was widely expected that the country would open its doors to Holocaust survivors but in 1946 the Mandate decided to “prevent German Jews automatically immigrating to Palestine”. This fascinating book deals with the history of the Exodus, using interviews with survivors and political actors on all sides of the dispute. The stories of individuals are vividly told, from the Zionist Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, to courageous Jews such Jacob Kronenberg, a victim of SS storm troopers. 382pp, photos.


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67757 HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Valeria Manferto De Fabianis Here are cakes and candles, birthday cards with words and thoughts of best wishes, birthdays caught under the spotlight and Happy Birthday cartoons. 144 pages lavishly illus, book with a card in a little blue envelope. £8.99 NOW £1


59852 BIBLIOPHILE BOOKMARK: Cat and


Mouse Design by Mike Taylor Our lovely customer Mike Taylor donated this very witty artwork in glowing colour, with lime green border with tiny flowers, a lovely tabby cat looking up at a stack of books to a cute grey mouse on top. In the background is an arched window, a church in a rural scene and the wood of the furniture is actually sparking as is the mug of tea with ‘I Love Bibliophile’ on it! The stack of books have some really hilarious and punny titles. 2" x approx. 9" quality laminate bookmark. ONLY 20p


67962 PAINTINGS BY FREDERIC, LORD


LEIGHTON: A Folio of Notecards by Ronni Madrid


Ten quality blank notecards, five each of two designs, the first is The Maid with the Golden Hair from 1895 and the second The Music Lesson, 1877, in which a mother helps her young daughter play guitar, their bare feet dangling and their beautiful robes draped across the bench. Victorian painter and sculptor Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) became the first English painter to receive the title of Baron in 1896. The honour was short-lived; he died the following day. Folding wallet, 10 blank notecards for Thank You etc. with ten white envelopes. ONLY £2.25


69346 JANE AUSTEN JOURNAL: The British


Library edited by Freydis Jane Welland In this elegant lined journal measuring 10" x 7" with silhouette drawings and quotations from the Jane Austen’s oeuvre plus satin bookmark, you can make your own private space. It is a place for jottings, memos, travel stories and experiences, inner journeys, reflections and observations. The silhouettes are by Jane’s nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. There is a storage pocket at the back of the book and a black elastic strap.


£12.99 NOW £3


69562 PAISLEY SILK BOUND BLANK NOTEBOOK


Very tactile, smooth and silky, this modernised paisley design has a black background and red, yellow, blue and pink swirls in a design suitable for ladies and gentlemen in this beautifully handmade 100 page blank book. Could be used for doodles, drawings, jottings, lists and more. With wide black satin bookmark. A5 size. ONLY £4


69503 THEM AND US: Changing Britain -


Why We Need a Fair Society by Will Hutton Challenging both the Right and the Left, the ex-editor-in- chief of the Observer does it again with a shrewd appraisal of the concept of ‘fairness’ advocated by the present coalition government. Can it be achieved and is the government approaching the issue in the right way? Questions about whether, in the light of the recession and the prospect of years of austerity, capitalism is really workable, are now being raised by the public. Hutton argues that reconstructing a fractured financial system cannot be done without totally revising the wider values on which it is based. Unfairness, he postulates, is economically inefficient. He warns that the new capitalism, at the same time as pursuing profit, must incorporate a conscience. We must earn our ongoing prosperity while receiving the due desert for our efforts. 434 pages. £20 NOW £5


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70039 MISSIONARY AND THE LIBERTINE by Ian Buruma


Subtitled ‘Love and War in East and West’, Buruma is a cultural omnivore. In his examination of the relationship between Asia and the West, Buruma evokes literary criticism, political commentary, meditations on the ephemera of popular culture and biographies of eccentric colonists to refute the notion that an absolute division between East and West exists. The exoticism of the East is one of the themes of his highly intelligent and entertaining collection of 25 essays on Asia. He is superb on his commentary and his racy and pithy prose exposes the reality of the most puzzling of nations. 308pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £1.50


69543 GRANDMA’S PUDDING AND OTHER


STORIES OF A RIPLEY MINER by Keith Staley From memories of childhood and a working life spent in the pits of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to vacations in the Paris of the 50s, here are more than 90 photos of faces familiar to those involved in the mining industry of the area - workers of the Ormonde colliery, the top pub the Jolly Colliers, the Bentinck Miner’s Welfare Club, wedding days, motorcycles, sidecar racing at Malory Park in the 1950s, green grass and memories and Rhyl Miner’s Holiday Camp. B/w photos. 96 page paperback.


£9.99 NOW £2


70468 FIFTIES IN PICTURES by James Lescott


This book brings to life the Cold War era that saw East and West clash in the hills and plains of Korea, the development of the Suez Crisis, and a brutal civil war in Algeria. Highlights include photographs capturing cherished moments between John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, the excitement generated by the Space Race, the flamboyant Liberace posing by his piano- shaped swimming pool, and haute couture trends from the catwalks of Europe. Here are the definitive moments that shaped the 1950s. 250 glorious monochrome images over 256 pages.


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