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Yorkshire Bobby by Martyn Johnson Johnson was a ‘beat bobby’ with the Sheffield City Police Force for seven years before he was seconded to CID and here he looks back at the very early 1960s, the colourful streets and the camaraderie which was second to none at the time. Whether he was pursuing unlikely coal thieves, tracking down peacocks gone AWOL or investigating mysterious flying saucers over Sheffield, Sergeant Johnson faced every new challenge with a smile. Told with self deprecating northern humour, wit and some colourful local language. 248pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £3


70018 FAREWELL, BABYLON: Coming of Age in


Jewish Baghdad by Naim Kattan


We are taken into the heart of Baghdad’s then-teeming Jewish community in a city which is hot and quarrelsome, beset on equal parts by fear and desire. It is a magical city in which Iraq’s Kurds, Bedouins, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in a rough


sort of harmony. The Iraqi Jewish community dates back 2500 years to Biblical Babylon, but by the author’s childhood in the 1940s, anti-Semitism was on the rise, and Nazi sympathisers were threatening his community. Here the politics are frantic and street life a mystery. Kattan evokes a colonial, Muslim-dominated society of his childhood and portrays the city’s exoticism and the political forces that shape it today. Told in spare, elegiac tones. 220pp with photos. Paperback. £10 NOW £3.75


70021 BEARLY BELIEVABLE: My Part in the


Paddington Bear Story by Shirley Clarkson


Whoever would have thought that Jeremy Clarkson’s mother would not only design and make a stuffed bear called Paddington, based on the characterful illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, but that she would also write an endearing book about it? For Christmas each year, she used to make a soft toy to sit on top of the children’s stockings and, in 1971, it happened to be this particular bear. Shirley tells with warmth, modesty and a blunt Yorkshire wit, her tale of building an international business, being invited to meet the Queen and then watching the whole thing collapse. A story of triumph and adversity with a touchingly happy ending. 210 pages illus in colour and b/w. £16.99 NOW £4.50


70146 THE COOK’S TALE: Life Below Stairs as it Really Was by Nancy Jackman and Tom Quinn


A century ago, country families with a position to keep up were judged on the quality of the food prepared for dinner parties and guests. So for the leisured classes a good cook was amongst the most highly prized and best paid of all the servants, but to be a cook it was necessary to


endure a gruelling apprenticeship And if being a cook brought some status it did not bring wealth or freedom, as Nancy Jackman explains in this account of her extraordinary life. But she was expected to do a lot more than cooking - to kill the chickens, oversee the pig- sticker, deal with the tradesmen and shout at the kitchen maids. Born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village, Nancy’s family lived in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. Her earliest memories were of a green, sunny countryside still unspoilt by the motorcar. Nancy left school at the age of 12 to work for a local farmer who forced her to stand in the rain when she made a mistake, physically abused her and eventually tried to rape her. Nancy continued to work as a cook until the 1950s. 248pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


70147 SECRET LIVES OF SOMERSET


MAUGHAM by Selina Hastings For much of his long life (he lived to be over 90) Somerset Maugham was the most famous writer in the world, acclaimed everywhere for his superb short stories and for his novels, the best known ‘Of Human Bondage’, becoming one of the most widely read works of fiction of the 20th century. For nearly 40 years he lived in his luxurious villa in the South of France and was filmed and photographed and written about until there seemed little the public did not know about this legendary figure. Yet there were secret facets to the man that he had no intention of revealing. He was a homosexual when homosexual practice was against the law. In both World Wars he worked for British Intelligence, sometimes at considerable risk to his personal safety. As a child he had a stammer. As an adult he formed the habit of having by his side an interpreter, a sociable and outgoing chap, usually also his lover who would act as an intermediary. Yet despite all he remained intensely vulnerable. Although married with a child, Maugham (1874-1965) led a dramatic double life as exciting as any of his brilliant novels. 614pp in paperback with caricature on the title page plus 16 pages of b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £6


70205 TALES FROM THE COUNTRY


MATCHMAKER by Patricia Warren Patricia is a born matchmaker whose warmth, patience and humour has literally changed the lives of thousands of people. Here she brings to life the stories of love and romance that she has helped to create. Since she founded the Farmers’ and Country Bureau from her farmhouse in the Peak District more than 20 years ago, Patricia has been helping love to blossom and been the instigator of hundreds of marriages and numerous babies, including one set of quads. 248pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


70159 HONS AND REBELS by Jessica Mitford Jessica Mitford was the fifth of the six Mitford daughters and always the rebel among her sisters - Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity and Debo. At the age of 19 she eloped to the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, and the two of them moved to the USA in 1939. A one-time member of the American Communist Party, Jessica was a passionate supporter of civil rights and wrote a number of books. Here is her classic memoir of one of last century’s most extraordinary families and it is an extremely amusing autobiography which evokes a


whole generation. The Mitford family was made notorious by Nancy’s novels, Diana’s marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity’s infatuation with Hitler, Debo’s marriage to a Duke and Jessica’s passionate commitment to Communism. The book is a deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling. 259pp in paperback, photos. £7.99 NOW £4


70367 HITCH 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens


Christopher Hitchens is without doubt one of the most noticed and debated public intellectuals of our time. English-born, yet American by adoption, staunchly atheist, yet partly Jewish, stalwartly bohemian yet rigorously intellectual, even his famously unbending principles beg questions - such as his opposition to the Vietnam War, but support for Western intervention in Iraq. He investigates here what has made him what he is, finding the roots of his ironic, witty and no-nonsense style in the years spent as foreign correspondent in the world’s most dangerous places, as well as lecturer, teacher and esteemed literary critic. Here, too, are the people with whom has enjoyed friendship and/or crossed swords - Martin Amis, Noam Chomsky, Ted Hughes, Margaret Thatcher, Jorge Borges and many more. He recounts his formative years as a hard-line socialist activist, the authors who shaped his formidable intellect (Waugh, Wodehouse, Marx) and the complex, warm relationship he enjoyed with his mother Yvonne. Photos, 435pp. $26.99 NOW £6


70589 IN THE GARDEN OF


MEMORY: A Family Memoir by Joanna Olczak-Ronikier From the synagogues of 19th century Vienna to Britain in the war years, the story of the Horowitz family follows the lives of four generations of Polish Jews who lived through and mostly survived the turbulent 20th century. the book follows the family members as they are dispersed around the


world, to European spas, tsarist prisons, soviet war camps and the British RAF. One became an undercover agent, another a zoologist in France, another a leading Freudian psychiatrist. Amazingly only two members were victims of the Holocaust, although WW2 left lasting psychological after-effects on all the survivors. An ultimately uplifting story. 354pp, photos. Paperback. £8.99 NOW £4


70458 CLARISSA EDEN: A MEMOIR: From


Churchill to Eden edited by Cate Haste Although born in 1920 into the aristocracy, Clarissa Churchill never readily identified with the class. Daughter of Gwendoline and John (“Jack”) Spencer-Churchill, the younger brother of Winston, at the age of 32 she married Antony Eden, then three years later in 1955 entered Number 10 Downing Street as the wife of the new Prime Minister. A renowned beauty, she was equally at home with her mother’s Liberal intellectual circle. In her youth she mixed with pillars of the Oxford academic community and her close circle of friends included some of the most influential cultural figures of the 20th century. The Suez Crisis and Eden’s ensuing poor health cut short their political life together. 48 pages of b/w photos, 288 page paperback. £12.99 NOW £5


70641 MY LIFE: A Coach Trip Adventure by Brendan Sheerin


Best known as the loveable, smiling bald bespectacled tour guide on Channel 4’s teatime travel programme Coach Trip, Brendan has been described as ‘high grade entertainment’. Born in Yorkshire to a host of Irish relatives, Brendan is one of life’s charmers. Written in his own words, his autobiography is packed with laugh-out- loud tales from scenes on the TV series as well as his personal life. His was a childhood when families were large and boisterous and thick as thieves, and his hobbies included playing netball with nuns. It is also part travelogue, detailing the glamorous locations from his 30 year career in the travel industry and tons of backstage gossip from the series. 256pp, photos. £14.99 NOW £5


BUSINESS AND COMPUTERS


70841 HOW TO DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA


by Caroline Boucher A godsend from Reader’s Digest, starting from how to best set up your PC, screen, keyboard and


mouse at your desk, it then explains what an operating system is, and gives a quick tour of the Vista desktop and Start menu, as you would see when you switch your PC on for the first time. The next chapter, Basics, includes Control Panel, moving around a window, Windows Explorer, how to organise your desktop, copy, move, find and delete files and hot keys. Next comes customising your PC, creating user accounts, setting security levels, shortcuts etc, followed by how to use the built-in programs which come with all Windows PCs - WordPad, Notepad, Contacts, Movie Maker, DVD Maker, Media Player, Media Centre, Paint and Games. Good Housekeeping shows how to back up files, maximise disk space, uninstall old programs and keep virus-free. Colour screenshots and hundreds of hints and tips boxes. Spiral bound, 110pp 8¾” square. £9.99 NOW £4


70970 LOCAL HEROES by David Erdal


Subtitled ‘How Loch Fyne Oysters Embraced Employee Ownership and Business Success’, this is a stylish and engaging business book. In 2003 with Loch Fyne Oysters vulnerable to corporate takeover, its 112 employees bid for the company and won. Six years later with the company growing robustly, like John Lewis it offers an inspiring example of how sustainability can


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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.


- Dale Evans 70884 MY AMAZING TREASURY OF 110


FIVE-MINUTE BEDTIME STORIES by Nicola Baxter


Nicola Baxter presents here 110 five-minute tales, each illus. in vibrant colour by the prolific children’s illustrator Jenny Press. They are divided into four sections. In Teddy Bear Tales we meet the extremely active ursine inhabitants of Bearborough, and in Farmyard Tales there is always something going on at Farmer Barnes’ Windytop Farm. In Kitten Tales we follow the adventures of five kittens and their long-suffering mother, and there is something for everyone in the final section of Bedtime Tales - sensible mice, silly rabbits, blue elephants and noisy elves, just for starters. One to read over and over again. 256pp softback, 8½” × 11", colour.


ONLY £6.50 70678 ENCHANTED WORLD


OF WINNIE-THE-POOH by A. A. Milne and Anna Bowles


“You are cordyally invited to elevenses with Winnie the Pooh and the 100 Aker Wood.” Welcome to the forest where we will find Kanga’s House and Eeyore’s Gloomy Place, where all the adventures take place except the


Poohsticks which is played on a bridge to the north. Pooh’s world is actually based on the Ashdown forest in Sussex where oak trees are excellent for climbing - and falling out of! We can walk along Pooh’s nature trail, enjoy the trees, gorse, heather, dandelions, thistles, haycorns and bees he would have seen with his real life friend Christopher Robin who was used as a model for E. H. Shepard’s enchanting drawings. Many of the characters are here on these very large colourful pages with lift-the-flap real postcards stuck down, the blue check fabric from Christopher Robin’s shirt inserted in the page, as are his red tunic and rubbery wellington boots. See him pop up from the pages, discover what colour piglet is, about wincing and blinching, and stroke the real fabric and cotton Eeyore tail stuck on to the pages of this very exciting interactive experience. The rules and tactics of Poohsticks are actually reproduced in a booklet. With padded cover, giant size, suit ages five and up. $19.99 NOW £7


70446 BE A LITTLE BRIDE by Sue Barraclough and Sue Reeves


Make all your wedding dreams come true with this gorgeous pack. Comes complete with a ‘big diamond’ engagement ring, a pink love heart box, and hundreds of rainbow coloured heart shaped sequins to make your invitations sparkle. Make a beautiful bouquet


of flowers, design a divine dress, play the best wedding party games and make all your wedding day dreams come true. Big softback book and lots of extras to suit romantic little girls aged 5 and up. With CE safety mark. £5.99 NOW £2


10813 POLLYANNA by Eleanor H. Porter When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour- tempered aunt after her father’s death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna’s sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world’s most popular children’s books since its first publication in 1913. 256pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


recounts the colourful birth and journey to employee- ownership and Erdal illustrates the economics, social and environmental benefits of the model for small and large businesses alike. ‘On the shore of Scotland’s longest sea loch, deep among the glorious western mountains, is a business that provides a wealth of healthy seafood, local produce, sustainable and pure. It is a place of pilgrimage, almost.’ The story begins in the 1970s. Read on. 246pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


69041 IMAGINARY FUTURES: From Thinking


Machines to the Global Village by Richard Barbrook Barbrook traces the emergence of the computer era in the Cold War context of two desperately competing ideologies, economies and empires, and how it served the ideological needs of both élites. The West’s invention of the Western utopia was a vital factor in the struggle for global power, and the


Internet was essential for getting that message across. However, the Soviet East arguably had a more accurate vision of the future, which is beginning to look more and more likely. Barbrook shows us how we can reclaim the revolutionary purpose of the web to change information technologies to suit us, the general public. 334pp, paperback.


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69912 CD PACKAGING KIT by Kirsten Ulve and Alethea Morrison A really fun and novel kit to turn your music or photo CDs into instant gifts. First you burn your music or photos on to a writeable CD, choose a label and write a title on the label before applying it to the disc. Choose one of the fun designs - a red and pink background gingerbread man or an icy blue sausage dog and satellite dish - both fun and modern. Use the stickers provided to include a note on the sleeve and to seal it shut. Contains 25 CD sleeves. £9.99 NOW £3


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70461 DAYDREAM JOURNAL by Jacqueline Wilson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt The dedication page has space to put a passport size photograph of you, name and address, phone number, birth date and e-mail address before going on to encourage you to write your favourite hopes and dreams and learn about what Jacqueline Wilson loved reading and writing as a child


- stories. Here you are encouraged, along with Tracey Beaker, to learn how Nick Sharratt doodles his drawings to create expressions on Tracey’s face and on characters in stories, animals and items you may wish to incorporate in your doodles in your new diary. Can be an any year diary. Daydream bubbles to illustrate, large blank unlined book, cartoons. £5.99 NOW £2.75


70487 ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll


A much-loved and much-told family favourite is vividly brought to life in this lavishly illustrated edition from Parragon books. We follow Alice down the rabbit hole on her voyage of discovery in the mysterious world of Wonderland. The realm of bizarre tea parties, strange croquet games and talking playing cards is wonderfully constructed by Carroll, and accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations. The complete unabridged text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is here presented in conjunction with the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both in clear, large print for both younger and older readers alike. To replace your own well-thumbed copy, this edition is not one to be missed. 287 pages with exquisite full colour illus. ONLY £5


69589 WHEN CATS WERE GREEN by David McNeil and Tina Mercie


‘A long, long time ago when wondrous things could be seen, the Earth was a vast and peaceful place and every cat was green. From spring’s beginnings through winter’s end, all cats took special pride in sharing a colour and living nine lives side by side by side.’ For all collectors of children’s literature, this is a US first edition 1998 we have imported because Harlin Quist Books are stunning, original, exquisitely printed and sometimes controversial.


The best of book craftsmanship and unerring good taste make this a must for all book collectors and in particular cat book collectors. Huge full page illus. £9.99 NOW £3


70676 TALE OF PETER RABBIT AND


BENJAMIN BUNNY: A Pop Up Adventure by Beatrix Potter


Youngsters of all ages love to collect pop ups and here is the story that was originally published as The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. The little rabbit sat on a bank, pricked up his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony. A gig was coming along the road; it was driven by Mr Macgregor, and beside him sat Mrs Macgregor in her best bonnet. Watch Benjamin Bunny hop, skip and jump down the road and visit his aunt and cousins Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-Tail and Peter. They too jump up from the pages and you can pull tabs to read the narrative, and watch the rabbits start across the pages. Open the magical tab and help the cat get up and stretch herself. Traditional original Frederick Warne illus, paper engineering by Geoff Rayner. £14.99 NOW £6.50


70038 MARY KATE STORYBOOK by Helen Morgan


Beautifully illustrated in pen and ink drawings by Shirley Hughes, this collected edition includes all the classic stories featuring the best loved character, Mary Kate. New Shoes, A Birthday Kitten, Being A Bridesmaid, Going to Hospital and Starting School - each of these stories focuses on a new experience for Mary Kate showing how day-to-day events in a young child’s life can be exciting adventures. Ideal for reading aloud. 232pp in large print for ages five and up. £4.99 NOW £2.50


23987 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES & ANNE OF


AVONLEA by L. M. Montgomery When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature delight the fictional community of Prince Edward Island, Canada and ensure that Anne of Green Gables continues to be a firm favourite with readers worldwide. Anne of Avonlea continues Anne’s story. Now half-past 16 but as strong- headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. 527pp, paperback. ONLY £2


24417 GIFT BOX OF BOOKS A specially commissioned boxed set of one large dot-to-dot book, one thick colouring book, large size, one small puzzle fun, suitable for car journeys, one junior word search and one fun pad where the aim is to join the top half with the bottom half of the opposite page. Five colouring pens in red, yellow, green, blue and black. With British standards quality mark. ONLY £2.50


52546 LITTLE WOMEN & GOOD WIVES by Louisa May Alcott


Describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at 15 is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of 13 with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of 12. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. ‘Good Wives’ takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness. 464pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


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