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72689 SQUARE SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL RING by Art de France


A companion to code 72688 Earrings, why not complete the look with this stunningly beautiful 1" x three quarters of an inch dress ring, which very cleverly has a multi- sizing, expandable band to fit most ladies’ fingers. Use the special cleaning cloth to keep the rhodium plating and genuine Swarovski crystals buffed up for every special occasion. It is an Art Deco style design with two flowers in pretty filigree scrollwork, a large central crystal and smaller and medium sized crystals on the flattish surface. Designed by Art de France and with a Certificate of Warranty and Authenticity. In presentation box. ONLY £14


72192 JEWELLERY BOX IN DARK


RED PIG LEATHER by Pier Carlo D’Alessio


A splendid almost hat sized jewellery box in dark red leather pigskin, a semi circular shape standing 9" tall by 11½” across and 7" wide at the base, tapering slightly to the lid at 5½” width. With a carrying handle, pop open the popper to find a beautifully lined display case with slots for rings, spaces for brooches and necklaces, compartments for earrings, a mirror inset in the heavy domed lid, one deep drawer at 2½” with leather handle and one at 1" deep slotted above. The lining is a very soft pale grey suede. Ideal for travelling. Another item of Reader’s Digest liquidated stock. ONLY £15


72686 FELICITY SHINE SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL NECKLACE


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Expandable from 17" to 19", this silver coloured rope chain has a safety catch, designer logo and a small Swarovski crystal on the end of the chain. The pendant itself is a heavy crystal encrusted barrel looped through the chain which sparkles beautifully. There must be approximately 40 genuine Swarovski crystals inset into the pendant. Comes boxed with travel pouch and padded satin lined box and the chain is rhodium plated and anti-allergenic. ONLY £10


70236 VENEZIA / FLORENCE STATIONERY BOX SET


by Red Clover


No Venice design here but rather a lovely pale blue and brown and cream attractive floral Red Clover leaf design. Measuring 7½” square, open the magnetic lid to find neatly presented beneath plastic an 80 sheet lined notepad, 16 notecards


with envelopes, 16 decorative envelope seals and 100 sheets of stickable notes. Perhaps best of all is the nearly 4" long silver coloured biro enclosed in this elegant box set. Apologies if there is a sticker on reverse of box which is removable. Bargain price. ONLY £6


71485 GOLD CANISTER PILLBOX by Wellspring Gift


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Great for keeping your pills clean and dry, this waterproof aluminium canister can also stow matches, rolled up banknotes or any other thumb-sized item you want to keep dry and handy. The gold canister’s cap is sealed with a single O-ring and opens easily with a twist, while the miniature carabiner-style spring clip can be attached to a key chain, belt loop or zip. Height 7cm excluding carabiner, width 1.8cm. ONLY £3.50


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


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


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


72333 BEYOND REALITY: A Book of Postcards by M. C. Escher


30 hugely popular drawings and engravings that flout gravity and perspective by Maurits Cornelius Escher (1898-1972). Here is the famous Belvedere from 1958 with one of his curious staircases, reptiles entering and disappearing from his desk, Man with Cuboids which is a bizarre engraving, Whirlpools which is a colourful spiralling fish design and Balcony from 1945 with its fish eye lens effect among the black and white and colour images. 30 detachable postcards in softback. £6.95 NOW £3.50


48245 FULL-PAGE A4 MAGNIFIER SHEET An A4 flexi sheet measuring 8½” x 11", it weighs nothing and is ideal for laying over your needlecrafts and handiwork, scrapbooking, newspapers, home computer, map reading, books - indeed anything you need to bring a little closer to avoid eye strain. Would also make a thoughtful gift for those who are a little short-sighted. Bibliophile has bought stocks from a medical specialist, recognising a need in our readers. Wipe clean and non- breakable. ONLY £6


72877 MOUSE MAT AND COASTER SET: Winners Never


Quit by Heart Warmers A Winners trophy, a popped champagne bottle and glass with the label ‘The Best Champers’, a happy smile on a computer screen with a


tilted crown, this mouse mat design is one to cheer you every day as you sit down by your computer with your favourite mug. The coaster has the smiley computer design and the mouse mat is a flexible foam material, pale green in colour with the big slogan ‘Winners Never Quit…Quitters Never Win.’ 9" x 10" approximately. ONLY £2.75


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


71646 12 COLOURING PENCILS by Robert Frederick Ltd


Red and yellow and pink and green... you know the rest. The full spectrum, 12 colours in these lovely long elegant pencils which can be sharpened and re-used for months and months and months. The tin is decorated with a mother and baby giraffe design and these artist’s pencils are high quality to allow for rich, long lasting colour with a professional finish. Apologies if tin is dented and a little stained. ONLY £3


72675 POP-UP NOTE CARDS: Clicker by David A. Carter


In bright primary colours, all with a passion for experimenting with paper will love these flicker-clicker pop-up cards, one pop-up design in four different colours. The little serrated edges actually rotate as the square shape pops emerges from the centre of the card. There is still plenty of space to write your greetings, but be sure to keep one for your own collection. The envelopes are in matching bold colours, influenced by modern art and architecture and they give a really satisfying sound when opened! $18.95 NOW £6


72676 POP-UP NOTE CARDS: Wave by David A. Carter


A companion to Pop-Up Clicker Cards, in bright yellow, red, blue and white, these inventive modern masterpieces provide plenty of space for a thoughtful message. The pop-up element of the note card is a super piece of paper engineering where the inserted leaf has been neatly cut lengthways to form a beautiful wave shape. Eight note cards and matching brightly coloured envelopes, one pop-up design in four different colours. $18.95 NOW £6


of what is a remarkable Movement. It was founded in 1915, not by worthy ladies in tweeds, but by some of the feistiest women in the country, including suffragettes, academics and social crusaders. They discovered the heady power of ‘sisterhood’ and, in the process changed women’s lives and their world. Its members may have boiled jam, but they also made history. Over 200,000 women in the UK belong to the WI and its membership is growing. It crosses class and religion and includes all ages, from students and metropolitan young professionals to rural centenarians, with passions that have ranged from the support of the 1920s Bastardy Bill to the current SOS for the Honey Bees Campaign. 294 pages revealing for the first time how the WI are, and always were, a force to be reckoned with. Archive b/w photos. £20 NOW £6


72761 ELEVENTH DAY: The


Ultimate Account of 9/11 by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan


The 11th of September 2001 is a day that will be recalled for centuries, a day of such infamy and horror that it has come to define the ultimate in terrorism, for both victims and perpetrators. Nearly 12 years on, and the shockwaves still reverberate strongly - Osama bin Laden is finally dead and


economically and politically disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been fought as a direct consequence of the attack and more and more evidence keeps emerging which contradicts the official version of events leading up to and after the attack. What exactly happened on that day? Could it have been prevented? How and why has so much acrimony and misinformation risen from the dust of the World Trade Center? What remains unresolved? This book is the most detailed and painstaking account of 9/11 yet published. With access to thousands of recently released documents, new interviews with survivors and government officials and a decade of research and sober reflection it asks and answers the most intractable questions, such as: Why did the US military not intercept or bring down the hijacked airliners? How many of the “9/11 Truth” movement’s contentions are credible? How did US intelligence fail to pick up the build-up to the attack when - as it is now clear - there were plenty of warnings? It also addresses what is perhaps the most important question of all, and the one which the 9/11 Commission conspicuously failed to answer: Were the terrorists backed by powerful figures from other nations? Colour photos, 604pp. £20 NOW £6.50


72958 100 HEADLINES


THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by James Maloney


MODERN HISTORY


A country without a memory is a country of madmen.


- George Santayana


73005 MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence


Service 1909-49 by Keith Jeffery


In a uniquely important analysis of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world, here, for the first time, based on unprecedented full and unrestricted access to the closed archives of the Service, is the history of the SIS, with its triumphs and failures all laid


bare. MI6 is the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. This history, concluding - as it must - in 1949 for reasons of continuing national security, traces its rise from modest beginnings before the First World War to the emergence of a recognisably professional agency at the start of the Cold War. Balancing a revealing account of the Service’s organisation and development with the stories of individual officers and agents, the book, like the SIS itself, ranges across the world, wherever British national interests require support. From the early days countering German challenges in Europe, to the global menace of Soviet Communism after 1917, and Axis threats in Europe, the Middle East and Asia before and during the Second World War, it explores liaison between the British foreign intelligence service and other foreign intelligence agencies which have influenced SIS’s work in both peace and war. Among a host of vivid accounts are TR/16 gathering vital and timely German naval intelligence during 1914-18, Paul Dukes and the ‘Ace of Spies’ Sidney Reilly working undercover in post- revolutionary Russia, and brave ship-watchers working along the Norwegian coast during the Second World War. Here too is Oluf Reed Olsen recalling a hazardous parachute drop into occupied Norway, when he landed in the middle of a blueberry bush! There were of course disasters as well as successes, including the Venlo incident in 1939 when two SIS officers were captured by German intelligence, and early Cold War operations which grimly demonstrated the sometimes fatal cost of failure. A detailed, authoritative and compelling account covering 810 pages, with archive b/w photos, maps, list of abbreviations and notes. £30 NOW £13


73129 A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: A History


of the Women’s Institute by Jane Robinson


Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: they spent the war making jam, the sensational Calendar Girls were members of the WI, and Tony Blair was slow- handclapped by them. These will give you a totally false impression


Penny Postage Pictures, The War Begun, Audible Speech by Telegraph, Edison Electric Light, Jesse James the Bandit Killed, The Whitechapel Horrors, The Woman’s Suffrage Bill Assented To, Oscar Wilde in Jail, The Conquest of the South Pole, Titanic Sunk, Ghandi Seized by British, Edward VIII


Abdicates, First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan, Birth Control Pill Approved by Commission, King Elvis is Dead, Pope Shot, up until Steve Jobs Is Dead are some of the 100 headlines chosen to cause disagreement, incredulity and possibly some anger among readers who may disagree that these events changed the world. Here are wonderful inventions and political disasters, heroic feats and murders and what is very clear is that old newspapers’ front pages are very different from today’s. Stretching back over the last 170 years here are plenty of surprises and reminders in this very browseworthy 309 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


71212 STATE SECRETS by Chris Pomery The National Archive reveals state secrets behind the scenes which show the Britain that is warmly familiar yet intriguingly bizarre. In the event of a Third World War, officials contemplated unleashing a strike force of homing pigeons armed with ampoules of anthrax against enemy targets, including the Kremlin. Did you hear about the prison camp at Ascot, rationing at the Olympics, the spies guide to London and the ‘Yes Minister’ diaries? Find 50 strange stories that expose our national eccentricities. 128pp. £7.99 NOW £1.95


71391 GHOSTS OF EUROPE: Central Europe’s


Past and Uncertain Future by Anna Porter Some 20 years after the collapse of Communism in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, a refugee and award-winning writer, now living in Canada, returned to try to discover whether and how democracy had taken root in these former Iron Curtain countries. She found disturbing signs that old attitudes had returned, bringing into question Central Europe’s ability to reform its elites and effectively control public demonstrations of hatred, the rise of racial tensions, and the emergence of fascist parties. Walking Wenceslas Square with those who suffered the violence of the state police and helped to organize the 1989 revolution, she met with revolutionary leaders such as Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik, as well as custodians of the new regimes, among them Radek Sikorski, Michael Kocab and Ferenc Gyuresany, and visited Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance and Budapest’s House of Terror Museum. During her interviews with the wealthiest man in Hungary and the general who ordered martial law in Poland, as well as her visit to a Gypsy village. 310 pages, map.


$25.99 NOW £4.50 71747 JFK IN IRELAND: Four Days that


Changed a President by Ryan Tubridy The idolised, glamorous and handsome President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the first and only Irish-Catholic American to be elected President of the USA. Tubridy captures the affection which the President undoubtedly felt for his fellow Irishmen and heritage, and the


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astounding way in which the enchanted Irish nation reciprocated, taking him into their hearts and homes like no dignitary ever before. We learn all about his lunch with distant family at Dunganstown, the chaotic garden party at the Áras in Dublin, formal speeches at the Dáil and various cities. Colour. 302pp, softback. £12.99 NOW £4.75


72536 NOT IN FRONT


OF THE CORGIS by Brian Hoey


The real ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’, here is the secrets of life behind the royal curtains and all we ever wanted to know about the royal family. The Windsors are England’s most famous family but behind closed doors in every royal residence from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House there are two families - one upstairs and one


down. Here is the inside story explaining the hierarchy and the royal family’s old-fashioned attitude to its servants - patriarchal, benevolent and at times severe. The senior of the Queen’ domestic servants is the Palace Steward. His word is law and he is waited on hand, foot and finger by a retinue of junior staff. His morning tea is served in the finest bone china cup and saucer yet he started as a junior footman and for more than 20 years worked his way up to his current exalted position. Prince Charles employs 133 staff to look after him and Camilla - chefs, cooks, footmen, housemaids, gardeners, chauffeurs, cleaners and his three personal valets. Nothing Charles or Camilla wears is ever allowed near a washing machine. The Royal Household is a self- contained community described by the Queen herself as a tiny village with all the infighting, gossip, jealousies and backbiting. 213pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3


72781 READER’S DIGEST


AND THE ROYALS foreword by Jennie Bond Published by the Reader’s Digest Association here is a Jubilee celebration of the British Royal family from the magazine’s archives. It is an absorbing selection of articles about the Queen and her family over the past six decades which gives us a graphic illustration of just how much


things have changed. There are thoughtful portraits of Prince Charles as he approached his 21st birthday (‘A decent, ordinary sort of chap’) and of the Queen Mother at 75 (‘Full of mischief and warmth’). There is a super article called Dressed for Diplomacy by Norman Hartnell, 1957, Who Goes to the Queen’s Garden Party by Philip Blake 1985, Windsor’s Royal Pleasure Park by Peter Brown 1986 and Elizabeth II Forty Years On by Tim Heald 1992 among them. They are reproduced in facsimile over two columns exactly at the original size of Reader’s Digest publications and with original colour artwork, photos or commissioned portraits and archive b/ w photos throughout the text. 160pp. £9.99 NOW £4


71904 LUCK AND THE IRISH by R. F. Foster Subtitled ‘The Brief History of Change, 1970-2000’ here is a brilliantly written overview. From 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. The Celtic Tiger had woken and the rule for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being entirely rewritten. Foster looks at how characters as wide ranging as Charles Haughey, Bob Geldof and Mary Robinson have contributed to Ireland’s altered psyche and uncovers some of the talent, scandal and political masterminds that have transformed Ireland, and its luck. 228pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


72382 REAL MAD MEN by Andrew Cracknell Of all the ways people make money, advertising is one of the most exotic. As so glamorously and stylishly portrayed in the TV series Mad Men, it was in 1950s and ’60s New York, specifically Madison Avenue, that advertising enjoyed its golden age. In a booming US marketplace a bold, brash new workforce of young, multi-ethnic writers and art directors made hay while the sun shone. Andrew Cracknell, longstanding adman himself, spent two years finding out how it happened and, more pertinently, whether it actually did happen, or did everybody just get blinded by the glitz of it all. He interviewed the surviving protagonists of the Creative Revolution to produce this remarkable story of creativity, ingenuity and sheer brass neck. Colour and b/w photos. 224pp softback. £14.99 NOW £4


MUSIC AND DANCE


A highbrow is anyone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.


- Jack Perlis 73098 LEONARD COHEN: A


Remarkable Life by Anthony Reynolds Drawing on scores of new interviews conducted with Leonard Cohen’s band members past and present, his business associates, editors, friends, fans, producers, colleagues, enemies and peers, this compelling, detailed biography tells the full story of the life, loves and work of the poet songwriter and


singer. He once described himself as having been ‘born with the gift of a golden voice’ but, over the past 40 years, he has been strangely evasive about his own private and public life. Now, however, at the hands of


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