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businessmen who are in the know, from Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Terry Leahy, to Adam Crozier at ITV and Stephen Hester at RBS. This line-up of top executives outline their approaches to breaking down often highly complex problems into achievable solutions. In the past few years, says Leighton, the world collectively made a series of appalling large-scale decisions. He fervently hopes that, if we all pay attention to the way in which we make tough calls in the future, this will not happen again, and that is what his book is all about. 268 pages with Who’s Who. £18.99 NOW £6


73198 FROM GUTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG: What You Really Need to Know about


the Internet by John Naughton The internet is one of the world’s civilisation-changing inventions and we are only just at the beginning. Naughton identifies nine areas of misunderstanding and clarifies them for the intelligent layperson. In the 15th century, print revolutionised both religion and science and created


a new relationship between writer and reader. The lesson of Gutenberg is that new communications technology will not only reshape society but also affect the way people think. The advent of cloud computing means that users of the network are not bound by the restrictions of hardware, and cookies are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to personalisation. Issues of intellectual copyright have been transformed by the fact that the internet resists policing, and there are positive implications in the Wikileaks brouhaha, though politicians have reacted defensively. The author stresses that the net is not the same as the web, and while the web has negative aspects the revolution in communication has far wider implications. Naughton concludes by asking whether the future is written by Huxley or Orwell (both products of Eton): Brave New World or 1984? 373pp, paperback.


£10.99 NOW £4 71940 COMMON SENSE RULES: What You


Really Need to Know About Business by Deborah Meaden


Deborah Meaden is known to millions for her no- nonsense and plain-speaking approach on BBC2’s Dragon’s Den. She honestly dissects her first enterprise, which started brilliantly but then turned sour, and tells how turning down an extremely generous offer for her chain of holiday parks was the best decision she ever made. How do you turn a great idea into a viable business? How do you ensure that the inevitable setbacks do not become disasters? Guaranteed both to inform and inspire. 276pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


71577 WORD MADE EASY: Fully Revised and Updated by Ewan Arthur


A beginner’s guide including how-to skills and projects, this large format very clear layout is on a spiral binder. Save to the cloud, set your zoom settings, font sizes 1 to 72, add colour to your newsletters and flyers, control printing, plan parties,


thank you letters, copying style sheets with the Format Painter, using the Spellchecker, clipping an image from another screen, adding a picture to a website, background options, creating a cover page for your personal profile and projects and exercises. 112 large pages.


£7.99 NOW £3 71964 CONSULT YOURSELF: The NLP Guide to


Being a Management Consultant by Carol Harris, illustrated by Roy Elmore The ‘workshop manual’ on how to live the consulting life as a journey of inquiry, learning and self-development, as a joint venture with the client. Using strategies developed from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), this book will help everyone to assess the benefits and risks of a career in consulting. It provides techniques that will enable the practitioner to manage his/her time, evaluate, present info, collaborate, interview and coach. 376 paperback pages, line drawings, tables, diagrams. £16.99 NOW £4


72030 START YOUR OWN HOME-BASED BUSINESS by Nick Daws


Written in clear, jargon-free style it takes you through every aspect of running a home business, from assessing your suitability to choosing the right business, and from raising finance to marketing and credit control. With hundreds of different possible avenues, from accounting and baby-sitting through DIY odd-jobbing and toy- making to personal fitness training and gardening, and with over 50 home-based business profiles for added inspiration. 240 paperback pages. £12.99 NOW £4


72282 5 GIANTS OF ADVERTISING by Philippe Lorin


Albert Davis Lasker joined Lord’s advertising agency in Chicago. Advertising was a new concept and Lasker ended up staying 44 years, establishing the principles of successful promotion which are followed to this day. The campaign that made his name was Palmolive, with Lasker making a virtue of its unusual green colour and promising that it would preserve a schoolgirl complexion. No-one in America drank orange juice until Lasker’s Sunkist campaign convinced them that it was an essential accompaniment to every meal. Leo Burnett, also born in the 19th century, further revolutionised advertising with hard analysis, strategies and concepts, and gave the world Marlboro Man in the process. Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet was a French advertising genius who expounded his theories in several classic books, and the British David Ogilvy handled classic advertising for Shell, American Express, IBM and other multi-nationals. Finally Bill Bernbach’s quirky style gave rise to numerous memorable slogans. 144pp, large softback, numerous colour images. Assouline first edition, 2001.


$29.95 NOW £5


72546 THE BANK: Inside the Bank of England by Dan Conaghan


The Bank of England started as a private bank, was nationalised after World War II, given operational independence in 1997 and is now changing radically again with the new legislation of 2013. This book covers the Bank’s fortunes since independence, in particular following the career of governor Mervyn King who presided over one of the most turbulent periods of its history. King’s time as governor saw a crisis enveloping Northern Rock, the Lehman Brothers and finally the whole banking system in the western world. Controversies over quantitative easing and the build-up of leverage are covered, together with King’s leadership style. In recent years there has been a tripartite structure between the Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority, and the reorganisation of these functions may dispel some of the Bank’s mystique. 324pp. £18.99 NOW £7


CHILDREN’S


Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.


- Oliver Wendell Holmes


73238 PRINCESS POPPY POCKETMONEY BOOK AND


CD by Janey Louise Jones ‘Pocket Money Princess’ is this brilliant Princess Poppy story with music and sound effects running time one hour 17 minutes and read by Theresa Gallagher on the accompanying CD at the back of this very pretty book. With silver star spangles on the front cover, the pages are in pale blue and the large


text in darker blue together with pretty line art and a double page map of Honeypot Hill. There you will find Poppy’s house, Honeysuckle Cottage, Grandpa’s house and office, Cornsilk Castle, Sage’s Vet Surgery, Beehive Beauty Salon, Bumblebees Teashop, Riverside Stables and all the other places familiar from the story. Poppy desperately wants to be as cool and independent as her teenage cousin Daisy. She decides that the only way to achieve this is to have money of her own. Will her money-making ideas be successful? 120pp in paperback. Suit readers aged 7+. £6.99 NOW £3.50


73240 THE SILVER DONKEY by Sonya Hartnett


We are thrilled to be able to offer this handsome first US edition from 2006 of a book which has fast established itself as a classic of children’s literature. During WWI, two French girls, Marcelle and Coco, discover an English deserter hiding in the countryside, shell-shocked and psychologically blind. The girls help him to plan his journey home back


to his brother, John. They bring him food and he in turn tells them a series of moralistic stories, all made up except for one, the story of his brother finding a silver donkey when digging in the garden, a keepsake that he gave to his brother when he went to war and which his brother now keeps with him at all times for luck, hope and inspiration. Finally, just before leaving, he gives Coco the silver donkey, and its luck and inspiration continue. Linen-bound and illustrated with atmospheric pencil/charcoal b/w drawings by Don Powers, this is a testament to bravery, loyalty and sacrifice, the horror of war and the redeeming power of innocence. 266pp. $15.99 NOW £3.50


73417 NODDY GETS INTO


TROUBLE by Enid Blyton First published in 1954, this beautiful paperback edition by Harper Collins published in 2012 is faithful to the original with all the gorgeous full page and spot illustrations coloured in for today’s modern audience in big clear large print, for young readers or for reading aloud. Poor Noddy has landed himself in serious trouble. A mysterious bell wearer


has been breaking into Miss Fluffy Cat’s house and stealing her tarts and pies. Now all of Toyland think Noddy, the most famous bell jangler in town, is the culprit! Helped by his new friend Tessie Bear, join Noddy as he sets out to uncover the real Toy Town burglar. Suit ages 5+. 62 page paperback. £3.99 NOW £2.50


72560 ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND


by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Willy Pogány


Generations of children have fallen down the rabbit hole with little Alice in her pinafore to return again and again to Wonderland. This captivating fantasy has enchanted all ages of readers around the world and this new edition offers a fresh


look featuring exuberant illustrations in the elegant style of Art Nouveau. Willy Pogány, a prolific Hungarian-born artist, created these striking drawings in 1929. His intricate black and white images retain the story’s playful spirit while injecting a zesty modern air to depictions of the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and a rather elegant looking 20s Alice with tartan short skirt, long white socks and a sleek blonde bob haircut. This restoration of Pogány’s long out-of-print illustrations is for all collectors of book illustration, whatever age. Original typography also restored in this superb facsimile paperback reprint, 192pp and with coloured illustration on the inside back cover. Special import. £7.99 NOW £3.50


72962 ARTEMIS FOWL by Eoin Colfer


If Internet rumours are to be believed, 12 year old Artemis Fowl is responsible for every major crime of the new century. In this, the story of his first encounter with the Fairy People, you will find out how the criminal mastermind hatched a plot to restore his family’s fortune, and how he discovered a world


below ground of armed and dangerous fairies, and mind- blowing technology. And you will learn how, by kidnapping Captain Holly Short of the Lower Element Police, Artemis Fowl almost triggered a cross-species war. A funny page-turner now in Puffin Modern Classic paperback. 280pp. £6.99 NOW £3


73487 WILFRED TO THE


RESCUE by Alan MacDonald Brambly Hedge is on the other side of the stream, across the field, half- hidden under tangled roots and tall grasses. This is the world of the little mice, Wilfred and Primrose and their family. Always ready to share adventures, like the time


when the stream at Brambly Hedge burst its banks... Illustrated by Lizzie Sanders in attractive full page watercolours, with very large print, children aged 3 and up will love hearing about these little mice and their escapades or playing indoors with the Vole children. But then, young Cissy vole goes missing... Is Wilfred brave enough to take charge of a daring secret rescue? 32 very large pages in softback recreating Jill Barklem’s enchanting world of classic books of the 1980s for a new generation.


£5.99 NOW £3


72838 3-D CHILLERS: Zombies: Includes 3-D


Glasses by Deborah Kespert Get ready for an eye-popping encounter with the walking dead with this frightening field guide packed with freaky facts and spooky stories. Here are tales of re-animated corpses, zombie-like creatures, Icelandic Draugrs and Arabian ghouls, voodoo terror and


what to collect in your zombie survival kit which might mean the difference between life and death! Pop on the 3-D glasses to make these colour pictures come into focus, come to life, and scare you to bits! Suit ages 6-9. Large softback.


£3.99 NOW £2.50 3D FUN!


72837 3-D CHILLERS: Vampires: Includes 3-D


Glasses by Deborah Kespert Slip on the 3-D glasses with bat and castle colour design and learn about the Manananggal, female vampires from the Philippines, blood-sucking creatures from ancient mythology like the Hindu goddess Kali, the frightening Asambosam from the forests of Africa, Dracula, Lord of


Darkness, useful tools to keep in your vampire hunter kit like a mirror, garlic, a crucifix and flaming torch and chilling facts about the vampire bat. Slip on your own 3- D glasses and stare into the hypnotic eyes of the vampire - if you dare! For all Twilight fans ages 6 to adult. Large softback. £3.99 NOW £2.50


72927 SPOT’S STORY BOOK by Eric Hill


With dedication page this is a beautifully produced big hardback with colour illustrations and clear text for children who can read alone aged 4+ and ideal for reading aloud to even younger children. Join Spot and his friends on a picnic when even tidying up turns into an adventure. Spot the loveable dog introduces young readers to new words like toys in the toy box, the snow, smells, even x-ray machines in these 12 stories ending with Spot plays hide-and-seek. £9.99 NOW £4.50


73416 DANGER ISLAND: A Perilous Pop-Up World by Nick Denchfield and Graham Howells


Your plane has crashed on a remote island and you are lost and alone. But don’t despair! You will find everything you need to help in


these pages by reading the story and following the instructions to help you survive Danger Island. This gift box set contains a survival pack and six important missions - help the dinosaur find her missing eggs; make a catapult for the tree creatures; rig up a zip-line for the trolls; construct a raft for the aliens; search for the explorer’s poisonous beasties and find the pirates’ treasure. Then make your getaway vehicle and escape! The enormous pop-up scene on the inside back cover is the entire Danger Island in 3-D complete with pterodactyl type creatures, pirates, your aircraft crashed headfirst on the beach at an angle strewn with the contents of your suitcase, an octopus out at sea merrily eating another pirate and things inside flaps to discover in the tree canopy. All the little pieces, nuts and bolts needed, string and markers are all tucked safely into the special box inserted in the book; press out the pieces from the card pages and fold to make your own trolls, fruit bat, escape raft, catapult etc. Suit ages 6-9.


£14.99 NOW £7.50


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73406 MICHAEL FOREMAN’S TREASURE ISLAND


by Robert Louis Stevenson


Stevenson’s Treasure Island is without doubt the classic high seas adventure, one which has gripped the imaginations of generations of readers with its mysterious maps, peg-legged pirates, buried treasure, groaning wooden ships, parrots, tropical islands, blood and thunder since its first publication in 1883. This is a book to treasure, perfect for the young reader who has yet to experience Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Blind Pew et al, or for those of us whose copy has long since disappeared. In his foreword Michael Morpurgo, arguably our greatest children’s author and the third child laureate, imagines a scenario where Stevenson’s ghost comes to visit illustrator and watercolourist par excellence Michael Foreman at his studio in St Ives, Cornwall. Having got over the shock, the two discuss the illustrations that Foreman has just completed for this luxury edition of Treasure Island. The story is here related in full and is embellished with over 50 of Foreman’s marvellous watercolours, many in full- and double-page spread. From the spectral Blind Pew feeling his way through the fog outside the Admiral Benbow to Jim


Hawkins cast adrift in a coracle on


mountainous seas or gunning down an climbing attacker from atop the mast with two flintlocks while the screaming gulls wheel around him, this is illustration of high seas adventure of the highest order. Beautifully bound 226pp, 9½”×12". £14.99 NOW £7.50


66936 THE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM


by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Matthew


Price (Contributor), Noel Daniel (Editor) A compendium of the Brothers Grimm’s most beloved fairy tales, newly translated and accompanied by an array of vintage illustrations. It brings together 27 of the most beloved of the famous Grimms’ fairy tales, including Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. The illustrations include golden age legend Kay Nielsen, Walter Crane and Arthur Rackham, and giants of nineteenth century German illustration Gustav Sus, Heinrich Leutemann, and Viktor Paul Mohn, as well as many new discoveries. It also includes beautiful silhouettes culled from original publications from the 1870s and 1920s that run throughout the entire layout. Brief introductory texts for each tale, and extended artists’ biographies. The following fairy tales are featured in the book: The Frog Prince; The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats; Little Brother and Little Sister; Rapunzel; Hansel and Gretel; The Fisherman and His Wife; The Brave Little Tailor; Cinderella; Mother Holle; Little Red Riding Hood; The Bremen Town Musicians; The Devil with Three Golden Hairs; The Shoemaker and the Elves; Tom Thumb’s Travels; Sleeping Beauty; Snow White; Rumpelstiltskin; The Three Feathers; The Golden Goose; Jorinde and Joringel; The Goose Girl; The Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Star Coins; Snow White and Red Nose; The Hare and the Hedgehog; Puss n’ Boots and The Golden Key. Taschen, 304pp, 8x10", two coloured satin ribbon bookmarks. ONLY £25


72374 YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES: Black Ice by Andrew Lane


A locked room, a dead body, a man wielding a knife. When Sherlock’s brother is discovered holding a knife and leaning over a corpse, it seems a clear-cut case of murder, but Sherlock isn’t so sure. In a mystery that will take him from London to Moscow in a thrilling search for clues, can he deduce the truth and discover the real culprit, or will Mycroft hang? For ages 10+. 286pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £2.50


70690 GIRLS’ DRESS-UP AND GIRLS’ PRESS-OUT DOLLS: 2 in 1


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A Two-in-One giant softback with over 350 press out costumes so little girls aged 5+ can become a dress designer. A short story with colour illustrations begins the book entitled Pretty Princesses who are all dressing up to go to the Grand Ball tonight. Beautiful ballerinas with their tutus and accessories all to fold by tabs onto the press-out dolls included in the book. Then flip the book around and enjoy another set of dress-up dolls and design your own fairy outfits by colouring in the cut-out shapes provided. Puzzles, games and activities too. Large softback.


£9.99 NOW £4.50


72907 DENNIS THE MENACE: The Ultimate Menace by Rachel Elliot


Instantly recognisable with his red and black horizontal striped shirt, the master of mischief stars in three amazing stories - Dennis the Ventriloquist, The Menace Identity and Cruise Control. Written by and illustrated by Barrie Appleby and published by Beano Books, this is the real McCoy. Cartoon illus and big text to suit ages 6 and up. Paperback. £3.99 NOW £2


72902 BEANO ANNUAL 2013 by DC Thomson


The best Beano book ever celebrating 75 years of laughter, 1938-2013, with dedication page. Enjoy Dennis and Gnasher, Ball Boy who is football crazy, Meebo and Zuky, The Bash Street Kids, The Numskulls, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger in colourfully drawn cartoon strips, a full length story Vile Times with Evil Edgar by Philip Minion, escape Tutankhamun’s pyramid game, plus killer conundrums and more. Very large colourful hardback.


£7.99 NOW £4


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