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Donaldson illustrated by Axel Scheffler, Michael Morpurgo’s The Silver Swan illustrated by Christian Birmingham, cooking, gardening, animals, pirates and more. Arranged by 0-2 years, 2-5 years, 5-7 years and with book jackets and information boxes on these brightly coloured pages. 320pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £3


72843 MAGIC TIMES TABLES


by Arcturus Publishing Bibliophile suggested to Arcturus Publishing a couple of years ago that there has been no times table book available to buy for some time and here is the result. It is quite splendid and they have gone one step further by including a magic spyglass, with a little wallet to keep it safe at the front of the book. When you see a wibbly wobbly space, use your spyglass to reveal the hidden


answer. Follow the numbers of the two times table in the correct order and use your spyglass to check the right path. For your three times table check that the correct players have a number on their tops and shorts. Each flower has five petals but how many petals are there in the vase? Insects, hungry horses, carrots, apples, party balloons, meet Simon squirrel who eats 11 nuts a day through to tremendous 12, matching the bees with their honey pots. 25 clever big board pages, all in colour, the book uses hidden ‘red reveal’ answers to make the whole experience magical for youngsters. Suits the new school curriculum for under 5s. £7.99 NOW £4.50


72178 EXPLORE WITHIN AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY


by Lorraine Jean Hopping


Peel away layer after layer of the big board pages of this book to reveal a glittering high priest’s coffin with the most ornate artwork. Learn about the myth of Isis and Osiris, golden burial masks used to hide someone’s identity and how it was made, when souls meet (Ka meets Ba), amulets for an underworld journey, wrapping a mummy from head to toe, mummifying the body, the canopic jars like the Jackal guarding the stomach, and the baboon or Hapi which lords over the lungs and sacred organs. On each page a figure is literally suspended to give a 3D view of each element. Suit ages eight to adult. $21.95 NOW £5.50


72177 EQUESTRIAN: Little


People Shape Books by Giovanni Caviezel Dressed in scarlet blazer, riding boots, jodhpurs and black riding hat, the little girl equestrian stands about one foot high and open her out and she is a board book packed with fun information. We are introduced to different types of horse like the Bay, Black Horse, Sorrel, Dapple Grey, English purebred and pony. Learn all about feeding, cleaning and training, the horse brush and curry


comb, riding gear, and legends like the Wild West and Amazons before we take off to the riding school. Colour.


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71114 ANIMALS ON THE FARM by Lark Books


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At sunrise, the farmer opens the chicken coup and gives grain to the chickens and other birds. Then the cows are led from the cow shed to the meadow. The rabbits eat breakfast in their hutches. The sheep graze in the field. Best of all are five sheets of colourful stickers to decorate the rooster poster enclosed plus other stickers to add to the second poster I Say... alongside the various animals. Suit ages four and above. £7.99 NOW £2


71334 UNCOVER A CROCODILE by Paul Beck and Susan Hernday Is this a book or a model or both? It is a three- dimensional look inside a Nile crocodile. Flip the book over onto the back to see his skin and the final finished model. Start from the front to understand each layer of his body - skull and jaws, the skeletal system, the digestive system, his nervous system and see that his brain is divided into sections for different jobs, muscular systems with the bright red plastic model showing sections to better understand what works and how. Ages 8 to adult. $18.95 NOW £6


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Some of my best leading men have been horses and dogs.


- Elizabeth Taylor


73231 JUDY GARLAND: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a


Legend by Scott Schechter Written by the world’s foremost authority, this work is based on decades of unprecedented research, hundreds of interviews with family, friends, show-biz colleagues and other insiders as well as Judy’s own thoughts and insights. The first


day-by-day account of the legend’s life succeeds in its daunting task of tracking Judy’s professional pursuits, the personal crises over which she triumphed and her many accomplishments. Here are her performance dates, concert set lists, recording session schedules, the evolving critical reception to her work, the many celebrities with whom she came into contact - from the Beatles to Elvis and Sinatra - her filming itineraries and


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guest appearances, excerpts from rare interview and press conferences, and much more. One of the most loved and popular entertainers of all time, singer and actress Judy Garland appeared in 40 films, including the cinematic classics The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade and A Star is Born. Her parallel careers as concert performer, recording artist, radio personality and television star made her one of the most hard-working people in show business. Here is Judy as never seen before. Readers will encounter a survivor, parent, friend who overcame one obstacle after another in order to devote 45 of her 47 years to delighting her fans, from her debut performance as a Gumm Sister at age two. 438 pages 28.5 cm x 22cm illustrated with 80 rare photos in b/w, plus song title index. $26.95 NOW £6.50


72530 JANE FONDA: The Private Life of a Public


Woman by Patricia Bosworth Who is the real Jane Fonda? Sixties sex kitten, revolutionary campaigner against the Vietnam War, world- renowned fitness guru, dedicated philanthropist and fund-raiser: Fonda the consummate actress keeps reinventing herself with each new decade. Biographer Patricia


Bosworth was at acting school with the star and finally got her permission to write a biography, though Fonda warned her that she was writing her own memoirs. But the nine existing biographies had all been written by men, and Fonda wanted some female intuition on her case. She also wanted someone trusted to help her to go through her own FBI files, which revealed covert surveillance and even a fictional plot to assassinate president Nixon. Fonda’s whole life has been dominated by her mother’s suicide and the challenge of living under the shadow of her father Henry Fonda, global star of films such as The Grapes of Wrath. Bosworth believes that Jane is her mother’s daughter in her obsession with her looks, money and sex, but the drive to achieve is the legacy of her complex relationship with Henry. The book covers Jane’s childhood, her work with Lee Strasberg at the Actors’ Studio, her controversial marriage to director Roger Vadim, the Oscar for Klute and Jane’s work with her award-winning father in On Golden Pond. A fascinating biography, sympathetic but not uncritical. 596pp, bibliography, photos. £20 NOW £7


71728 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Ian Fleming and James


Bond by Ben MacIntyre One morning in February in 1952, sitting at his desk at Goldeneye, his holiday hideaway on the north coast of Jamaica, journalist Ian Fleming said to himself “I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories”. A month later, Casino Royale was complete, and James Bond was


born. Here is an investigation into the intersection of the two lives, one factual, one fictional: a harsh boarding school with no father figure, a lifetime’s cast of extraordinary characters, a playboy lifestyle and enjoyment of the finer things in life, an obsession with plots and gadgets, working in naval intelligence and, crucially, an immersion in the politics of the Cold War, the background to all the Bond books. Sometimes we observe more subtle parallels in women, food and drink, pastimes, military prowess, villains, plots, gadgets, guns and other gizmos. 150 superb colour and b/w photos. 224pp.


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72121 HIGH SOCIETY: Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto


One of her lines in High Noon was ‘There’s got to be some better way for people to live.’ And there certainly was for this convent schoolgirl from Philadelphia who became the last star of Hollywood’s Golden Age and a European princess. In just seven years, 1950-1956, Grace Kelly made 11 feature films and established herself as one of the screen’s iconic beauties, a performer of rare intelligence and wit. She worked with Alfred Hitchcock on Dial M For Murder and Rear Window, Clark Gable in Mogambo, and as Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl, in To Catch a Thief and as Princess Alexandra in The Swan, 1955, before High Society in 1956. Then there is her life as Grace Kelly Grimaldi, HSH The Princess of Monaco. From a series of taped interviews with Kelly herself. 236pp, photos. £8.99 NOW £4


72126 ENTIRELY UP TO YOU, DARLING by Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins The elder brother of the eminent naturalist Sir David Attenborough and husband of actress Sheila Sim, Richard Attenborough was knighted in 1976. Famous for more than 60 film performances beginning in wartime with In Which We Serve and continuing with such classics as Brighton Rock, The Great Escape and Jurassic Park, Richard Attenborough has always fought tenaciously for the survival of British cinema. As a producer and director and he has also been the driving for behind Gandhi, Oh! What A Lovely War, A Bridge Too Far, Cry Freedom and Shadowlands. His charmed life was blighted by tragedy when he lost his daughter and granddaughter in the 2004 Tsunami. Here are nail biting moments including the desperate struggle to finance Gandhi and when he was duffed-up by some Afrikaaner thugs while visiting South Africa. Marvellously good stories. Colour and b/w photos. 318pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


72127 PIECES OF MY HEART by Robert Wagner and Scott Eyman The Sunday Times top ten bestselling autobiography this is a moving memoir in which Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, drama and humour of his incredible life. His first love was Barbara Stanwyck, an actress twice his age. As his career blossomed and after he separated from Stanwyck, he met the woman who would change his life forever, Natalie Wood. They fell instantly and deeply in love and stayed together until the stress of their careers drove them to divorce. Trying


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to forget the pain, he made movies and spent his time in Europe with the likes of Steve McQueen, Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers. He met and married the beautiful former model and actress Marion Marshall and together they made their way back to America where he found himself at the beginning of a new era in Hollywood - the blossoming of television. Wagner would go on to produce and star in some of the most successful programmes in TV history. Sadly his marriage to Marion fell apart and to the world’s surprise he and Natalie Wood fell in love all over again, but their life together was cut tragically short when Natalie Wood died after falling from their yacht. For the first time here he writes about that tremendously painful period, a serious bout of depression and finally resurfacing and eventually marrying Jill St John who helped keep his family and his fractured heart together. Reads like a Who’s Who of Hollywood - friendships with Bette Davis and others. Many photos, 326pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


72129 SOUND OF LAUGHTER by Peter Kay


Growing up in his beloved Bolton, Peter Kay spent his schooldays under the watchful eyes of the nuns who taught him as he amused all the children around him and dreamed of being a comedian. Working in a factory packing toilet rolls, as a garage attendant, in a bingo hall, as a cinema usher and mobile disc jockey all helped shape Peter’s vivid, funny and endearing


observations of everyday life with his unerring gift for finding the comedy in family life with all its tragic and hilarious elements. Elderly relatives, armed raids, pet cremations and Trevor Macdonald’s nose all find their way into this warmly nostalgic autobiography. 357pp, photos.


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72376 ROBERT REDFORD: The Biography


by Michael Feeney Callan Quite apart from his iconic roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and The Natural and his two Oscars and countless other awards and nominations for acting, directing and producing, Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival transformed the world of filmmaking and his political activism, friendships and


romances have made headlines around the world. Here is the scattered family background and restless, poor but loving childhood of Charles Robert Redford Jr, born 18 August 1936 in Santa Monica, his rocky start in acting, the tragic death of his two month old son Scott in 1959, his big, star-making break and relationship with Sydney Pollack, his successes and failures, the creation of Sundance, his eco-activism and championing of Native American rights, love life and much more. Filmography plus TV and theatre credits, b/w photos, 468pp. £20 NOW £6


72522 ERIC MORECAMBE LOST AND FOUND edited by Gary Morecambe


Revealing the private side of a public icon who, as one half of the comic duo Morecambe and Wise, occupied a special place in the nation’s affections, Eric Morecambe. 28 years after his death, the country still mourns and misses ‘the one with the glasses’. Here are intimate family portraits and with a wealth of heroes of humour from Tommy Cooper to Ronnie Barker. Packed with insider information from Eric’s son Gary, the snapshots are accompanied by previously unpublished material from Morecambe’s own notebooks, plus heartfelt memories from friends, families and colleagues. 230 pages lavishly illustrated mostly in b/w. £18.99 NOW £6.50


72647 THE FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA: The


Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry 6th Edition


by Ephraim Katz, revised by Ronald Dean Nolen Ephraim Katz was a writer, journalist and filmmaker who devoted his life to gathering the info


in this stupendous volume. It has been completely revised and updated and features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical and commercial aspects of movie-making. Here are directors, producers, actors, screenwriters and cinematographers. Styles, genres and schools of film-making are described. Not forgotten are motion picture studios and film centres and all the film- related organisations and events. The jargon and technical terms of the industry are clearly explained, and there is even news about inventions, inventors and movie equipment. The most all-encompassing single- volume encyclopaedia ever on movies and movie- making, and is - quite understandably - considered to be the undisputed bible of the film industry. A gigantic 1,567 paperback pages. £20 NOW £10


72525 GRETA GARBO: Divine Star by David Bret


In the male-orientated studio system, Greta Garbo wielded a power no other actress has ever possessed before or since. Be it producer, director, lover or journalist, she called the shots and left her public begging for an encore that never came when she withdrew from Hollywood completely. This is the first biography to investigate fully the two so-called missing periods in her life - the first during the late 1920s, forcing MGM to employ a lookalike to conceal what was almost certainly a pregnancy, and the second during World War Two when Garbo was employed by British Intelligence to track down Nazi sympathisers. It also analyses in detail the original, uncensored copies of her films, with the exception of The Divine Woman, of which no complete print survives, and offers substantial evidence that John Gilbert was not in fact the great love of her life. Rather


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her true affections lay with the gay, Sapphic and Scandinavian members of her very intimate inner circle. Photos.


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72873 ELIZABETH TAYLOR: The Lady, The Lover, The


Legend 1932-2011 by David Bret


Elizabeth Taylor was arguably the very last of the Hollywood greats. In a frank, incisive appraisal of Taylor, in all her moods, the author strips away the veneer to reveal the star as she really was. She was exceptionally beautiful, yet hated to be seen by strangers


without full ‘war paint’. Witness her brave support of Rock Hudson in his last AIDS-related illness - and she campaigned tirelessly for charity. Her illnesses were multiple - including a brain tumour - and her personal life often an indescribable mayhem, yet through it all she showed that she was an unbowed survivor. She was fiercely loyal to her friends, especially the ones like Montgomery Clift and Roddy McDowell who were gay at a time when they had to hide their choice of partner. Her selection of husbands was debatable and must have caused her great suffering. Nicky Hilton was abusive and Michael Wilding weak. She claimed that Mike Todd taught her to appreciate rough sex and she obviously loved him dearly, but he died young. Eddie Fisher was a womaniser and Richard Burton was so exciting that she married him twice and never stopped mourning his death. What a woman and what a life! 304 pages, colour and b/w photos and list of films. £17.99 NOW £6


71414 DANNY BOYLE: In His Own Words by Amy Raphael


Lauded for his fantastic Olympic opening ceremony and his earlier films Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and Slum Dog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s journey to Oscar night began in a working class Catholic family in Lancashire in 1956. After a career in the theatre working for such esteemed companies as Joint Stock and The Royal Court, Boyle talked himself into a job at the BBC and there produced Alan Clarke’s ‘Elephant’. The twisted romcom of ‘A Life Less Ordinary’ was followed by the utopian nightmare of ‘The Beach’ and the apocalyptic horror flick ’28 Days Later’ by the gentle kids’ drama ‘Millions’. Frank and funny. 355pp, illus paperback. £14.99 NOW £3


71032 ROBERT MITCHUM: Baby, I Don’t Care by Lee Server


A huge and sleekly written showbiz biography about a bona fide tough guy with soulful eyes and a laconic style. Robert Mitchum was one of Hollywood’s best loved actors, starred in such moody classics as Out of the Past, Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear. But Mitchum was one of the few Hollywood icons whose real-life exploits were yet more compelling than his on- screen persona. A hobo in the Depression, he fell into movie acting after stints as a boxer, a beach bum and a song writer. Despite early success he was famously busted on a narcotics rap. But even prison could not tame his taste for living on the wild side, and he remained an unrepentant misbehaver until his end. Here is the definitive life of the man who redefined cinematic cool and you are never far from a steamy romance or a drinking binge. ‘His aura of brooding bemusement and simmering violence found a perfect home in the thriving - yet unnamed - genre of shadows and cynicism and ambiguity now called film noir.’ Faber paperback, 722pp with 16 pages of mono photos. £12.99 NOW £5


72874 LITTLE ERN! The Authorized Biography of Ernie Wise


by Robert Sellers and James Hogg


Based on interviews with his widow, Doreen, on discussions with fellow entertainers and on previously unpublished photos, this volume fully explores the important contribution that Ernie made to the act, including, of course, ‘the plays


what he wrote’. It takes readers from Ernie’s childhood in Leeds where he helped to support his family by dancing, singing and cracking jokes on stage, to being left in London to fend for himself at the tender age of 13. We read about his fateful meeting with the young comic Eric, and how their friendship grew when, as mere teenagers, they toured the theatres of war-torn Britain. Here is the touching story of how the Morecambe and Wise double act evolved, how they survived numerous setbacks on the road to TV stardom, and the impact fate had on their lives. 333 pages with b/w photos. £18.99 NOW £5.50


72879 PAUL AND ME: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures


with My Pal Paul Newman by A. E. Hotchner


Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955, when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in the writer’s first TV play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition,


and began a close and trusted relationship that lasted until Newman’s death from cancer in 2008. The pair travelled extensively, skippered a succession of bizarre boats, confounded the business world, scored triumphs on the stage, and sustained their friendship through good times and bad. They started the line of cooking sauces and dressings named Newman’s Own as a prank, and watched it morph into a major enterprise that, so far, has given all of its $300,000,000 in profits to charities. 234 pages, colour photos. £18.99 NOW £4.75


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