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Regal Years by Brian Hoey The Diamond Jubilee edition, published to coincide with the celebrations this year of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th year on the throne. Affectionate anecdote is combined with impartial analysis - we look at Lilibet and the early days, Elizabeth and Philip, Buckingham Palace, the inner circle, family ties, the impact of Diana, the


Camilla factor, mother and daughter, a woman of faith, hostess to the world, with her ministers home and abroad, royal money, the sport of queens, the case against the monarchy, royal protection, the public image, royal style and the world traveller among this far ranging collection of vignettes and opinions. 357pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £4.50 71720 DIAMOND QUEEN:


Elizabeth II and Her People by Andrew Marr


In an impressively thick volume, arranged thematically, Andrew Marr dissects the Queen’s political relationships, crucially those with her prime ministers, and investigates why she spends three hours every day reading the contents of the red boxes sent over from Downing Street. He examines her role as the


Head of the Commonwealth, and looks at what she actually does, from walkabouts to meetings with visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. He also looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 and analyses how the monarchy, and its monarch, have had to change and adapt as a result. 418 pages, many photos in colour and b/w. Scuffed jacket. £25 NOW £7.50


72052 LAURA ASHLEY by Martin Wood


Drawn from first-hand accounts of Laura Ashley’s family, friends and colleagues, this is not only the story of a remarkable woman, but also of an extraordinary partnership and the creation of a highly successful and influential brand. Against the background of Laura’s life - from her birth in South Wales in 1925 to her sudden and untimely death in 1985 - the author chronicles the designs, products and intrinsic style which are the essence of this iconic print and fashion house. He describes how she and her husband, Bernard worked together as a team, combining his drive, business acumen and appreciation of colour and design with her taste, eye for fashion and unerring ability to spot a trend. This is the compelling history of how, when they began designing and selling dresses and other clothes, and launched a range of household textiles and furnishing, the ‘Laura Ashley Style’ quickly became a phenomenon. Many of their designs were bought by hotels, universities and cruise ships and the business flourished. 192 pages 24cm x 29.5cm, 200 photos in colour and b/w, many never previously published. £35 NOW £13


72545 TED AND I: A Brother’s Memoir by Gerald Hughes


Gerald Hughes was nine years old when baby Ted was born on 17th August 1930. From the moment Ted could toddle, they were inseparable, with Ted following his older brother everywhere, roaming the Yorkshire countryside, camping, making fires, pitching tents, hunting rabbits, rats, woodpigeons and stoats, flying kites, building model planes and fishing. All of these adventures were to fuel the future Poet Laureate’s fascination with wildlife and the countryside, life and death and the cycle of nature and many of his finest poems have roots in these early experiences. Those carefree, magical days are beautifully recalled in these pages along with delightful portraits of the close-knit Hughes family - Mam, Dad, grandparents and a host of colourful aunts and uncles. Gerald was privy to the vicissitudes of his brother’s life and reveals some hitherto unpublished letters about Sylvia and on recollections of their sister Olwyn and Ted’s widow Carol. Frieda Hughes provides the foreword. Author’s sketches. 218pp.


£16.99 NOW £5.75


72870 RIFLING THROUGH MY DRAWERS


by Clarissa Dickson Wright Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright, to give the inestimable Fat Lady her full name - even if the sobriquet can be overused sometimes - is a celebrated cook and champion of the countryside and rural pursuits. Also the youngest woman ever to be


called to the Bar, she is more famed perhaps for her 12- year fight with alcoholism in the 70s and 80s. Whether she is meeting the President of the Sandringham WI (an equally redoubtable lady also known as Queen Elizabeth II) or being crudely propositioned by a burly greyhound courser, eating raw pike or boiled gannet and battling the forces of Health and Safety, she brings to the table a hugely enjoyable feast of opinion, anecdote and good old-fashioned common sense. Recipes. Colour photos, 289pp.


£19.99 NOW £4.50


72142 AFTER A FUNERAL by Diana Athill When Diana Athill met the man she called Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to beckon. But Didi’s sweetness and intelligence soon revealed a darker side - he was a gambler, a drinker and a womaniser, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. With painful honesty, Diana explores the three years they spent together, a period that culminated in the talented writer’s suicide, in her flat. 158pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.75


72150 RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Augusten Burroughs


When Augusten Burroughs was 12, his mother, a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton, gave him away to a psychiatrist, a man who would have benefitted from a touch of therapy himself. Augusten’s father was an alcoholic professor at the University of Massachusetts and neither parent had any time for him. Here is the story of the bizarre years he spent in the doctor’s dilapidated Victorian mansion, getting to know the paedophile in-patient who lived in the garden shed, eating Valium tablets like other kids eat sweeties, and restoring the vintage electro shock therapy machine to liven up those quieter moments. 304pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £2.50


BUSINESS & COMPUTERS


My accountant told me to put my money into land so I buried it all in the back garden. - Ken Dodd


72719 HOW TO DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ON A COMPUTER by John Andrews and Jon Kirkwood


For those who feel that they are missing out on what their PC can do, this is a godsend. Published by


Reader’s Digest, it is aimed more at those who are more interested in creating a letterhead or organising, editing and touching up their photo library than becoming an expert in electronics and operating systems. You and Your Computer, is designed to get you started with the basics - setting up your PC and any peripherals, good housekeeping, the Windows environment and modems. Chapter two concerns the Internet, getting online, email, security, social networks, shopping, earning, buying and selling, learning, games and safety. Next comes the fun bit! Almost 200 pages dedicated to some 50 projects like how to design letterheads, menus, place cards, invitations, greetings cards, posters or a baby book, create an address book, calendar, family tree or fitness plan, do just about anything with your photos, create party CDs, digitise your records and tapes, organise your finances, plan your dream kitchen and your holidays, catalogue and value your home contents, keep an eye on your health - a great mixture of the fun and practical. The final chapter, Troubleshooting, addresses and solves hardware problems and upgrades, System Restore and reinstalling Windows and a multitude of common software problems. Colour photos and screenshots throughout, 383pp softback, 10"×8½”. Covers Windows operating systems up to Windows 7 and updated for PCs using Microsoft Office 2010. £12.99 NOW £6


71948 DIGITAL ART WONDERLAND: Creative Techniques for Inspirational Journaling and Beautiful Blogging by Angi Sullins and Silas Toball


Readers are taken on a personal tour through a digital art journaling world, which shows them how to make their own wondrous creations through instruction, design concepts and inspiration. There are eight tutorials, which


work well with any photo-editing software, with techniques, tips and tricks for the intermediate Adobe Photoshop CS5 user to enhance physical art, as well as create digital art from scratch. 144 paperback pages 25.5cm x 20.5cm with beautiful colour images plus technique guide.


£16.99 NOW £4.50 72851 YOUR MONEY AND


YOUR BRAIN by Jason Zweig Zweig explains why smart people can be stupid about their money and how they can do better. Combining the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, economics and animal behaviour, he gets down to the biological foundations of how we make decisions in a very entertaining manner. He explains how our minds estimate risk and anticipate


gain, why investors tend to be over confident and why the investing brain is a battlefield between reason and emotion. Includes an amazing colour photo of the red and yellow fireball at the centre of the brain. 340pp in paperback.


£14.99 NOW £3.75


71356 DESIGNING A NEWSLETTER by Christian Darkin


The Really, Really, Really, Easy Step-By-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners of All Ages explains how to create written and visual content, plan a production schedule, design and format layouts using basic computer software to finally publishing your newsletter. It begins with choosing the right software from Seris PagePlus to Adobe InDesign. Learn time-saving ways appropriate to your audience and new media publishing options such as websites, e-mail distribution, social networking and blogging. 80pp in large softback, colour photos and screenshots. £6.99 NOW £2.50


71524 THE GOODNESS OF GUINNESS: A


Loving History of the Brewery by Tony Corcoran


The brewing business was founded in 1759 by Arthur Guinness with a £100 legacy. The company was launched on the stock market in 1886 by Edward Cecil Guinness, later Lord Iveagh, a philanthropist. In 1900 a major inspection of employees’ homes resulted in education in hygiene, cooking classes for women, recreational activities for both sexes and a purpose-built medical department, with the battle against tuberculosis a priority. During the 1940s and 50s a loan scheme was introduced while social activities included a drama group, choir and film society. 153pp, photos. £10.59 NOW £3.50


72742 START DAY TRADING NOW by Michael Sincere


If you are intimidated by day trading and think it is only a select few who can be savvy with stocks, then think again. A quick and easy introduction to making money while managing your risks including entry and exit strategies, daily trading checklists, start up costs and considerations, risks and benefits and market indicators. What computer equipment will you need? How much money is required? In this entry-level guide, a financial journalist shows you how to get started. Based on Wall Street but applies over here too. 214pp, diagrams. £10.99 NOW £5


72995 HOW TO KEEP A PET CHILDREN’S


If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.


- Leopold Fechtner


72959 101 DALMATIANS by Disney Enterprises ‘My story begins in London, where I lived with my pet, Roger Radcliff. Roger was a songwriter and we lived in a bachelor flat near Regent’s Park. My name is Pongo. I’m the one with spots, looking out of the window. As far as I could see, a bachelor’s life was downright dull. So when I saw the perfect dog walk by with a lovely woman, it


was a dream come true...’ Read the story of the owners Roger and Anita’s marriage and how Pongo took Perdita to be his bride. One day an old classmate of Anita’s, Cruella De Vil, stopped by. ‘Darling’, she asked Anita, ‘Where are the little brutes...er puppies?’ ‘They won’t be here for at least three weeks...’ 15 puppies arrived and Cruella wrote a cheque to buy them all but was refused. Remember Jasper and Horace, Nanny and the theft of the puppies? The adventure is told in this glamorous Parragon hardback with Disney illustrations on every page. 68pp with dedication page this is a beautiful storybook to read aloud. £9.99 NOW £3.50


72994 LOATHSOME LETTER-


WRITING PACK by Horrible Histories, illustrated by Martin Brown Break the seal from well known bestselling Horrible Histories series


about history with the nasty bits left in. There is no place like Rome and now you will have no excuse to write to grandma once you have in your hands this brilliant writing paper with three designs, envelopes to match, with seals and stickers to decorate your letters with First Class, Urgent, and the three designs writing paper with Execution, Queen Victoria vomiting down a loo and Caesar stabbed in the back saying ‘I get the point’. In resealable wallet. £4.99 NOW £2.50


SQUIRREL by Axel Scheffler Kind and gentle care will soon make a young squirrel very friendly and affectionate. Indeed, our editor Annie’s Mum tamed Cyril the squirrel! Squirrels are charming animals and never tire of performing tricks. In a large cage, a trapeze may be added. While dipping into a children’s encyclopedia from 1910, Axel Scheffler came across a small


guide to procuring and caring for a pet squirrel. His imagination set to work and he created a series of beautifully finished illustrations alongside his wise advice. Give plenty of nuts, but beware of the nasty nip of its teeth! He is the award winning illustrator of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. Beautiful colour illus on every page. Suit ages eight to adult who likes to collect beautifully illustrated children’s books. Faber hardback.


£9.99 NOW £4 73035 TOY STORY: Book


and CD by Disney, Pixar After the bedroom door is closed, your toys come to life! Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr Potato Head and Slinky Dog are legends in the toy world and if you want to share in their fantastical adventures, read and listen along to this classic tale of friendship and adventure again and


again. Dedication page, big colour illus. from the film in rather glamorous 48 page hardback. £4.99 NOW £3


71893 THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ & GLINDA OF OZ by L. Frank Baum


In the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. She meets the brainless Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. In a series of action-packed adventures they encounter a deadly poppy field, fierce animals, flying monkeys, a wicked witch, a good witch and the Mighty Oz himself. In Glinda of Oz, the last of the original ‘Oz’ books, Dorothy and Princess Ozma seek the help of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, when they find themselves in peril on the Magic Isle of the Skeezers. Paperback, illus, 301 pages. ONLY £2


Children’s 5 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. 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 and stroke the real fabric. Poohsticks rules are reproduced in a booklet. Padded cover, giant size, ages 5+.


$19.99 NOW £7.50 72880 BEATRIX POTTER


NOTEBOOK: PETER RABBIT by Beatrix Potter and Frederick Warne Spiral bound hardback lined notebook, 6" x 8½”. The front cover design features our favourite little bunny Peter Rabbit looking across a garden scene to a Robin perched on a spade in front of a garden and greenhouse where butterflies and bees fly by. 48


lined pages. ONLY £3.75


71326 PETER RABBIT WRITING SET by Beatrix Potter and Robert Frederick Each sheet measures just over 6" wide by 8" tall and is decorated with two Beatrix Potter bunnies running across a meadow full of flowers and butterflies. The paper itself is of good quality, ten sheets of writing paper with ten large white envelopes of the same size. Perfect for encouraging letter writing for youngsters or for nostalgic adults.


ONLY £4


71816 PETER PAN AND WENDY by J. M. Barrie


A beautifully produced large storybook with Walter Crane-style full page colour images by the talented illustrator Gwynedd M. Hudson together with pen and ink and silhouette drawings and hand-written captions decorating the text. We remember well the characters of Peter Pan, the boy who would never grow up, Eliza and Nana, Wendy, Captain Hook, the pillow fight, Tootles taking the ostrich for a stroll, Tink, Starkey and Smee, an oddly genial man. 118 large pages in this collectable Robert Frederick beautifully illustrated edition of this classic story. 8½” x 11". ONLY £7


72207 MY LITTLE HUGGY PUP - PLUSH DOG Our little puppy Lottie has already bagsied this little pup whose long floppy brown ears, button black eyes and squidgy, beany body is utterly irresistible. Yellow in colour and 8" long. Polyester, surface wash only. ONLY £3


72201 MISTER CROC TEDDY: Plush


Toy by Hodder Children’s Books 6" high plush bright green crocodile toy wearing blue and yellow polka dot pyjamas and jaggedy tale sticking out, his protruding eyes are embroidered and his scaly nose very tactile. With CE safety mark, 100% polyester, surface wash only. ONLY £2.50


72881 WOBBLY EYED PIG NOTEBOOK


by Robert Frederick Ltd Bold colourful design on the front page of this lined notebook features a big pink piggy whose eyes really wobble inside his head! 6" x 8½” on sturdy spiral binding, the reverse cover shows the piggy from behind with his wiggly tail! Suit all scribblers aged four to 94 who love a bit of piggy fun. 48 lined pages. ONLY £3


71985 CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG FLIES


AGAIN by Frank Cottrell Boyce A clapped-out camper van in need of a spare part. A quiet family in an ordinary street. Straightforward? Wrong, very wrong! For this is the magical engine of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and a special family with no control over their van in an adventure that you cannot begin to imagine. Buckle up for a drive round the bend, up the wall, into the skies and over the moon. Superbly illustrated by Joe Berger. Suit ages seven and up. 244pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £2.50


71605 THIS IS OLIVIA by Patrick Spaziante Now the famous Five TV character can be taken with the child who loves her everywhere - in a bag, on the buggy, and to open and enjoy in the bedroom time and again because this is a very special kind of book. Lift the first ‘page’ and what springs out is an origami-style four quarters making a sort of mini poster. Olivia loves telling stories, sharing secrets and of course practicing her ballet.


£5.99 NOW £1.75


23985 THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST by Captain Marryat


Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic


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