73407 MICHAEL FOREMAN’S THE WONDERFUL WIZARD


OF OZ by L. Frank Baum In his preface, penned in 1900, Baum wrote: ‘…the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome


moral to each tale’. He was obviously right because, for the past 113 years, children and adults alike have delighted in his enchanted and enchanting story of a Kansas farm girl called Dorothy who - with her little dog Toto - is swept away by a cyclone to the magical world of Oz. On the way, she is joined by a fantastical cast of characters - the cowardly Lion, the silly Scarecrow, the kindly Tin Woodman and, of course, the devious Wicked Witch of the West. Baum wrote a musical version, which was a stage hit in 1902 and, in 1939, MGM’s classic film immortalized his name. In this latest version, Michael Foreman’s whimsical watercolours capture the magical essence of Baum’ s much loved story. A visual treat. 160 pages 30.5cm x 14cm with lovely watercolours. £14.99 NOW £7.50


73216 500 ESSENTIAL CULT BOOKS: The Ultimate Guide


by Gina McKinnon with Steve Holland The main aim of this book is for you to discover new books, or rediscover old ones - in short, to get you reading more. It would be invaluable for book groups as well as for readers who have reached that horrid stage where they just do not know what to read next. Divided into ten categories by genre or theme, such as Cult Classics, Incredible Worlds, Rebellious Voices, Walk on the Wild Side, and so on, each section has an introduction, followed by a ‘top ten’ selection of the best titles in that category, and then the ‘best of the rest’ in that genre. Each entry has a brief plot summary (for fiction) or synopsis (non-fiction) followed by a review with a star rating out of five. There is a useful recommended readership age range and also a list of books that are available by the same author. All the titles are in print or at least available online, your local library will stock most of them and, of course, Bibliophile itself has an enormous collection, with many on YouTube. Whatever your favourites, be they memoirs, thrillers, science fiction, self-help, fantasy… you name it, this guide offers you fun, a great reference source and provocation! You and your friends will never stop arguing. 384 paperback pages very lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w. $17.95 NOW £6


73658 MY CENTURY by Günter Grass


A collection of 100 interlinked short stories celebrating the 20th century by Germany’s most eminent contemporary writer, Günter Grass. As the sequence of stories unfolds, a lively and rich picture emerges, an historical portrait of our century. Grass creates time elapsing passages, 100 years in under 300 pages with delightfully horrific characters in a funny, disquieting


odyssey backwards in time ranging from 1900 to 1999. 280pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


73281 GREAT AGE OF THE ENGLISH ESSAY: An Anthology


edited by Denise Gigante By the mid-18th century, the essay had emerged as a premier literary form, challenging the borders between fiction and non-fiction prose, and helping to forge the tastes and values of the rising middle classes. Authors, whether


aspiring or published, could contribute to the central debates of their age. This authoritative collection offers a vibrant gallery of personae speaking in a multiplicity of voices, from the confessional to the critical, the familiar to the parodic, the picturesque to the grotesque. Richard Steele’s Tatler gossips about current events and scandal, Joseph Addison’s Spectator observes real-life rogues and politicians, Samuel Johnson’s Rambler perambulates London, storing up thought for mental meanderings, and the romantic recluse Thomas de Quincey’s Opium Eater haunts the dark underworld of psychological obsession and physical addiction. From the oddities of virtuosos to the private lives of parrots and the fantastic horrors of opium dreams. 427 paperback pages with map of 18th century London, note on the text, chapter notes, chronology, glossary of terms and glossary of places. £18 NOW £6


73648 A GARDEN OF LATIN VERSE: Poems of Ancient


Rome by Frances Lincoln What a super way in which to enjoy - in English translation, of course! - the power and grace of four of Rome’s greatest writers, who have influenced many of our own masters of verse. Here is Catullus, the passionate love poet from Verona, and Virgil, whose Aeneid stands as one of the classic epics of all time, as


well as Horace, the son of a slave who rose to become Rome’s cool-voiced satirist and finally Ovid, sophisticated author of the magical Metamorphoses. Each poem is illustrated with a detail taken from a Roman fresco or mosaic, evoking the spirit of the age in which this enchanting poetry was written. Brief biographies of each poet, and a note on the art of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Roger Ling, a professor of classical art and archaeology, provide historical background. 77 pocket-sized pages illustrated with delightful Roman paintings and mosaics in subtle colour. £9.99 NOW £5


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COLERIDGE: Poems selected by James Fenton The reader of this selection of Coleridge’s poems may be surprised that the first items presented should be fragments and drafts rather than finished poems and that there are two versions of Kubla Khan, the verse letter to his lover Sara Hutchinson and the ‘Dejection’ ode created as a public version of the


private epistle. There are also two versions of The Ancient Mariner. The Pains of Sleep looks finished, but it is said by Coleridge to be a fragment. Born in Ottery- St-Mary, Devon, in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge first met William Wordsworth in 1797 and a close association developed between them, issuing in their groundbreaking Lyrical Ballads in 1799. As poet, philosopher and critic, Coleridge stands as one of the seminal figures of his time and the Romantic Movement. 28 poems in elegant Faber hardback, 83pp. £8 NOW £3.25


73288 NAÏVE AND THE


SENTIMENTAL NOVELIST by Orhan Pamuk


The Nobel Prize winning novelist subtitled his study ‘Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels’. So this is one for all of us bibliophiles for sure! What happens within us when we read a novel? How does it create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film or a poem? In this thoughtful and deeply personal


book, based on his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. He draws on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between ‘naïve’ poets who write spontaneously, serenely and unselfconsciously, with ‘sentimental’ poets - those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the novels of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust, he explores the oscillation between the naïve and the reflective and the search for equilibrium that lie at the centre of the novelist’s craft. Here he ponders the novel’s visual and sensual power, its ability to conjure landscapes, and considers the elements of character, plot, time and setting that compose the ‘sweet illusion’ of the fictional world. A hugely perceptive book. 200pp in paperback.


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73282 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS: And Alexander Pope’s Verses


on Gulliver by Jonathan Swift Here we have not only the entire unabridged text of Gulliver’s Travels, but also verses on Gulliver’s Travels by Alexander Pope. Swift’s world-famous satire was an instant bestseller - his vision is dark, often verging on the obscene. In the course of his extraordinary travels, Gulliver is


captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of a religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow men. The author’s tough, filthy and incisive satire has much to say about the state of the world today. Voyage back to Lilliput and Brobdingnag again and replace your battered or lost copy with this 334 page paperback. £5.99 NOW £3


73139 PARK LANE by Frances Osborne It is 1914 in London - an intriguing period of British life when what were considered to be the normal boundaries of society were overturned, and the social hierarchy could no longer be taken for granted. Two young women, one from above stairs and one from below stairs, dream of breaking free from tradition and obligation. Threats of war loom large, but Lady Masters,


head of a dying industrial dynasty, is still insisting that life is about service and duty. Little does she know that her youngest daughter, Beatrice, fatigued by the boredom of the social season, and enjoying a silent rebellion against convention, is drawn to Mrs Pankhurst’s underground world of militant suffragettes. Soon, Bea is playing a dangerous game that will throw her into the path of a man her mother would not even let through the front door. Below stairs, neither Grace’s parents nor her adored brother know that her strong northern accent has prevented her from obtaining a post as a secretary and reduced her to serving as third housemaid in the Masters family, where she waits on Miss Beatrice and earns too little to send the required amount of money home to her family. The secrets of Bea and Grace are on a collision course, and their lives are about to be changed for ever. 336pp by the author of The Bolter. £14.99 NOW £5


73087 THE CANDLEMASS ROAD


by George MacDonald Fraser


P. G. Wodehouse said of this novel, ‘Thanks to Fraser’s passion for history, his rare gift for rattling narrative and his infectious delight in robust, rollicking language, we can rejoice in a work of genius...’ Here is an exciting tale from the bestselling author of the beloved Flashman


novels. To the young Lady Margaret Dacre raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth’s court, the Scottish border was a land of blood and brutal violence, where raid and murder were commonplace, and her broad


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inheritance lay at the mercy of the outlaw riders and feuding tribes of England’s last frontier. Beyond the law’s protection, alone but for her house servants and an elderly priest, she could wait helpless in her lonely manor, or somehow find the means to fight the terror approaching from the northern night. A moving and beautifully told tale. With useful glossary, 180pp in paperback.


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73023 THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy ‘The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.’ - Andrew O’Hagan. A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape


save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food, blankets, a tarp, and each other. The language is as stark as the landscape with flashes of beauty in recollection of the world now gone. An apocalyptic, questioning picaresque novel. 307pp in paperback.


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70769 CAPITAL by Karl Marx


Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English


readers, simply Capital. Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867. This was the only volume published during Marx’s lifetime and the only to have come directly from his pen. Volume Two, published in 1884, was based on notes Marx left, but written by his friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Readers from the 19th century to the present have been captivated by the unmistakable power and urgency of this classic of world literature. Marx’s critique of the capitalist system is rife with big themes: his theory of ‘surplus value’, his discussion of the exploitation of the working class, and his forecast of class conflict on a grand scale. Marx wrote with purpose. As he famously put it, ‘Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world, our task is to change it.’ With an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada. This edition includes both Volumes One and Two. 1136 page paperback. New from Wordsworth. ONLY £4


73491 DARWIN: A Life in


Poems by Ruth Padel Using multiple viewpoints from Darwin himself to his beloved wife Emma, and even at one point the orang-utan at London Zoo, Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin’s thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father. She superbly creates


poetry giving a voice to her famous ancestor and in the margins explains a period of his life described. For example in ‘The Year my Mother Died’: ‘I remember her sewing-table, curiously constructed. Her black velvet gown. Nothing else except her death-bed...’ Darwin’s mother Susanna, daughter of the potter Josiah Wedgewood, had died young in July 1817 when Darwin was eight. A superbly clever publication, marrying the thoughts and words of a great giant of a man. 141pp in paperback.


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73500 KIND REGARDS: The Lost Art of Letter-Writing by Liz Williams


Since around the fourth millennium BC, from the early Greek philosophers to Jane Austen, human beings have been writing letters to one another. Now, email and telephone seem to have made letter-writing less essential, but the author passionately believes that this art form must not be lost. Letters provide a form of time travelling. They bridge the years in ink. They also give an insight into the everyday life, emotions, hopes, dreams, expectations, loves and disappointments of our forebears - showing that we have more in common with our distant ancestors than we might imagine. This book investigates the whole subject of letter-writing: the materials that have been used, the history of writing letters and of the post, the curious and inventive forms of the letter that have emerged over the years. It also features sections on how to write letters, as well as countless examples taken from history. 192 pages with line drawings. £9.99 NOW £4


71902 FOREVER RUMPOLE: The Best of the


Rumpole Stories by John Mortimer This lovely omnibus hardbound volume contains seven stories originally chosen by the author himself in 1993. Over a period of 30 years beginning in the late 1970s, John Mortimer wrote around 80 Rumpole stories as well as four novels. Committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of the good sense of a jury and scornful of the law’s pomposities, values he carried with him wherever he practiced, whether he was defending a murderer down at the Old Bailey or someone on a spot of assault at the Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court. When the day was over it was a quick nip into Pommeroy’s Wine Bar for a glass or two of Chateau Thames Embankment before the tube home to She Who Must Be Obeyed in Foxbury Mansions. New introduction, 503pp. £25 NOW £6.50


H. G. Wells


Introduced by D. J. Taylor and in uniform dust jackets to collect. Limited stocks!


72997 KIPPS by H.G. Wells


When H.G. Wells was young, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science, South Kensington, studied under the famous T. H. Huxley and was awarded a first-class honours degree. He started a career in teaching but, after an unfortunate accident, he was forced to quit the profession, and began to write


textbooks on biology and pathophysiology instead. It was The Time Machine that launched his literary career and made him famous but, in this volume, readers will discover a different side to him. He tells the story of the rise and fall of a simple soul called Artie Kipps who, in the late 19th century, is catapulted out of his humble rank in life when he inherits a fortune, is plunged into high society and has to contend with playwrights, pretension, tipping etiquette and fish knives, in a world in which he can never truly feel at home - for there is a great deal more to being a gentleman that would at first appear! With an introduction by D. J. Taylor. 301 pages. £9.99 NOW £6


72993 HISTORY OF MR


POLLY by H.G. Wells H.G. Wells did not intend to have a career as a writer. He worked as a draper’s apprentice and then a pupil-teacher specialising in biology. But after suffering an injury, he was forced to retire. For some time he worked in poverty in London, experimenting in journalism and stories until the publication of The Time Machine


shot him to fame, and his books gained popularity. This particular novel has nothing to do with science fiction. It concerns a day-dreaming shop boy, Alfred Polly, who is in love with a girl called Christabel. Unfortunately, after his marriage, he finds himself plagued by a failing business and a nagging wife. Balding, overweight and barely solvent, he decides that desperate times call for desperate measures. Then, in a surprise turn of events, he is forced to escape his humdrum life and take to the road - as a bachelor. Will he find happiness? With an introduction by Giles Foden. 188 pages. £9.99 NOW £6


72961 ANN VERONICA by H.G. Wells


There are three books by H.G. Wells in this edition of Bibliophile and each one is different from the other. Quite a feat on the part of a would-be biology teacher, who did not intend to be an author at all! He first became known for his science-fiction novel The Time Machine but, here, he is in very different mode. 21-year-old Ann


Veronica lives in a commuter suburb of London - a place of tea parties, tennis lawns and unspeakable boredom. ‘Downtroddenness! When I think of it I feel all over boot marks... Men’s boots’, she cries, and decides to run away to the bright lights of Bloomsbury. There she encounters a beguiling world of bohemians and suffragettes, Fabians and free love. But nothing has prepared her for the charismatic Capes, and the choice she will have to make - between love and her new-found freedom. With an introduction by Flora Fraser. 256 pages. £9.99 NOW £6


73741 H. G. WELLS: Set of Three by H. G. Wells


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72216 SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


16 original iconic classics you can’t live without. Using his astounding methods of deduction, Sherlock Holmes outwits the most cunning of thieves and villainous of murderers in some of his best known cases including The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Musgrave Ritual, Silver Blaze, The Adventure of Six Napoleons, The Solitary Cyclist, Black Peter and the Engineer’s Thumb. Paperback, 559pp. £7.99 NOW £2


72250 A JURY OF HER PEERS: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to


Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter In a monumental, intelligent and at times controversial work, the author introduces us to more than 250 American women writers. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison and Jodi Picoult, playwright Susan Glaspell. In 1900, when she was a fledgling newspaper reporter in Des Moines, she had covered a sensational case in which a farm woman was accused of murdering her husband and she was so haunted by the trial that she later turned it into both a play and a short story. 679 paperback pages organised chronologically. £14.99 NOW £3.50


72494 GREAT HORROR STORIES: Tales by


Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others edited by John Grafton


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Its 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror include: Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce’s The Damned Thing, Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows and a chilling story of fright from an author who may be new to readers, Izumi Kyõka, as well as nine other blood- freezing stories. 228 paperback pages. Last sold at £4.50 NOW £2.50


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