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72959 101 DALMATIANS by Disney Enterprises 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. 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? Disney illustrations on every page. 68pp with dedication page this is a beautiful storybook to read aloud.


£9.99 NOW £3


72989 GUESS WITH JESS: Wipe Clean Activity Book by Egmont


Jess the black and white cat and her lovable animal friends will be very well known to youngsters aged 3-5. Join Jess and his friends in this wipe-clean activity book and use the wipe clean pen to play games on the shiny pages like funny faces, dot-to-dot, spot-the-difference, mazes, messy painting, object matching, drawing balloons and much more. Large softback. £3.99 NOW £2


72103 ULTIMATE FIRST BOOK GUIDE edited by Leonie Flynn et al


Michael Rosen, Tony Ross, Nick Sharratt and dozens more guide us through 500 board books, bath books, novelty books, pop-up books, picture books, fiction and non-fiction. Here is Room on the Broom by Julia 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 £2.75


72995 HOW TO KEEP A PET


SQUIRREL by Axel Scheffler 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! Colour illus. Suit ages eight and up. £9.99 NOW £3.75


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 £4


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


71816 PETER PAN AND WENDY by J. M. Barrie


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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 £6.50


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 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. Poohsticks rules are reproduced in a booklet. Padded cover, giant size, ages 5+.


$19.99 NOW £6.50


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 practising her ballet.


£5.99 NOW £1.50


69313 COMPLETE STORIES OF OZ by L. Frank Baum


When Uncle Henry and Aunt Em’s grey, grim Kansas farmhouse was picked up by the great summer cyclone, a wondrous adventure had begun. After what seemed an age to Dorothy the house landed with a great crash and upon opening the door she and Toto were amazed to see a beautiful brilliant green land full of sunshine and flowers. It is not long before she and Toto meet the motley crew - Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Woodman - who are to become her travelling companions along the Yellow Brick Road which leads to the Emerald City and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Paperback, 1486 pages. ONLY £5


24417 GIFT BOX OF BOOKS


A specially commissioned boxed set of one large dot-to- dot book, one thick colouring book, large size, one small puzzle fun, suitable for car journeys, one junior word search and one fun pad where the aim is to join the top half with the bottom half of the opposite page. Five colouring pens in red, yellow, green, blue and black. With British standards quality mark. ONLY £2.50


LITERATURE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16


four complete stories include Buffalo Bill: The King of Border Men, the book which made Buntline’s name and made the book’s hero, one William F. Cody, a household name. The book is also notable for the first literary appearance of Bill’s companion, and hero in his own right, Wild Bill Hickok. The second book, Hazel-Eye, the Girl Trapper introduces us to Buntline’s alter-ego, the fanciful mountain-man Cale Durg, and the third, The Miner Detective, set in the goldfields of Northern California. Finally, in Wild Bill’s Last Trail, Hickok, haunted by a premonition of his death. 438pp. £17.99 NOW £5


73331 A GARDEN OF GREEK VERSE


by Yvonne Whiteman and Christopher Walker The poets of Ancient Greece from Homer, Sappho and Pindar to Sophocles and Euripides left behind them a wealth of lyrical verse which has endured for well over 2,000 years and continues to be imitated and studied. Love, heroes, gods and monsters, have inspired


celebrated writers and poets like Pope, Byron, Shelley, Wilde and Yeats. Each verse extract is illustrated with a detail from one of the frescoes or vase paintings excavated from the sites including Acroteri, Knossos, Lipari, Paestum and Tarquinia. The subtle colours and haunting quality of the paintings evoke the spirit of the time at the dawn of Western civilisation. Brief biographical information about each of the Greek poets plus a note on the art by Thomas H. Carpenter, Professor of Classics at Ohio University round off the book. Beautifully presented slim edition, 77pp, all in colour.


£9.99 NOW £4 73554 THE GYPSIES AND


OTHER NARRATIVE POEMS by Alexander Pushkin 2013 US paperback edition beautifully illustrated with engravings by Simon Brett and translated by Antony Wood, this publication marks an important moment in the history of Pushkin in English. This choice of five of his finest verse and narratives displays


all the qualities of Russia’s greatest poet - his fluency, ironic poise, endless ability to surprise, and his creation of poetry out of everyday language. Besides the anti- Romantic Gypsies, the selection contains the ‘whodunit’ ballad The Bridegroom, the comic country-life tale of Count Nulin, the savagely politicised tale of the Golden Cockerel, and Pushkin’s touching version of the Snow White story entitled The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Champions. The translator’s introduction and notes offer fascinating glimpses into his world, and into the translator’s workshop. Beautifully presented and typeset, 118pp in paperback. $14.95 NOW £6


72559 ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL


LAMP IN RHYME by Arthur Ransome


Thomas Mackenzie was a talented etcher, engraver, painter and illustrator. In 1919, a fortuitous collaboration with Arthur Ransome, already renowned for his Swallows and Amazons series for children, produced one of the loveliest gift books of the 20th century. From the elegant typography and silhouetted endpapers to the 12 colour plates and the addition of myriad decorative elements - ornamental heads, initials, silhouettes, partial borders and more - the book is a unique presentation and a triumph of design. Here are the Slave of the Lamp, the Sultan’s daughter Bedrelbood, the ‘twelve tall Negroes, black as coals, and twelve tall slaves, Circassian, white’ the ‘crowd of pig-tailed Chinamen who bowed’ and the evil Magician, all bringing these much- loved ancient stories to life in a new medium. Circa 150 un-numbered pages bound in a soft turquoise suede- effect material with 12 turquoise, orange, black and cream illustrations plus hundreds more in silhouette and b/w.


$30 NOW £8.50


72644 THE CANTERBURY TALES: GEOFFREY CHAUCER: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd


The greatest poem in the English language presented in a prose vernacular that makes it totally accessible to readers while at the same time preserving the spirit of the original. The renowned critic, historian and biographer Peter Ackroyd with his contemporary prose emphasises the humanity of the characters, while at the same time explicitly rendering the very rude humour of Chaucer. Chaucer’s original book concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket in Canterbury, and agree to take part in a story-telling competition to pass the time. 436 pages, illus by Nick Bantock. $35 NOW £6


73090 LETTERS OF EVELYN WAUGH


edited by Mark Amory Born in 1903 in Hampstead, Evelyn Waugh was the second son of Arthur Waugh, renowned publisher and literary critic and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. Although he penned some of the finest novels of the 20th century including Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead


Revisited, and three acclaimed volumes of war memoirs serving in the Royal Marines and Royal Horse Guards, today he is remembered equally for his letters. Waugh was truly the last of the great letter-writers, and his sparkling, elegant correspondence with his wide circle of friends is intimate, revealing and compelling reading. In the 1920s he writes of his undergraduate escapades at Oxford, unfulfilling jobs, literary plans and the failure of his first marriage. During the war, served in the Middle East and Yugoslavia, we see the depth of his love for his second wife Laura, and he was also inspired by and corresponded with other worldly and fashionable women such as Ann Fleming, Diana Cooper and Nancy Mitford. Some of the funniest are those written to his son Auberon (“Bron”). Hefty 760pp paperback. £20 NOW £6.50


72798 ABINGER HARVEST: And England’s Pleasant Land


by E. M. Forster edited by Elizabeth Heine The aim of the Abinger Edition is to provide a new, properly edited compilation of the literary works of E. M. Forster, and one that will do full justice to his genius. The texts are chosen with scrupulous care - all known versions, whether published, typescript or manuscript, having being compared and collated. It comprises an immensely engaging selection of articles, essays, reviews and poems, demonstrating the enormous range of Forster’s interests. He was able to write divertingly and with equal ease about chess, Mickey Mouse, Liberty in England, Life in India, Marco Polo, the Emperor Babur, Egypt and the Orient. This volume also contains his frank and sometimes caustic reflections on other writers such as Proust, T. E. Lawrence, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad and T. S. Eliot. To round off the collection, there are the complete texts of The Abinger Pageant and England’s Pleasant Land. 464 pages.


£25 NOW £5


72816 THE PRINCE’S TALE edited by P. N. Furbank


Spanning more than 50 years of E. M. Forster’s reviews and essays, and compiled and edited by his acclaimed biographer P. N. Furbank. This selection of Forster’s hitherto uncollected book reviews and essays is the latest volume in the distinguished Abinger Edition of his writings. The topics include authors as different as Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells and D. H. Lawrence, and subjects ranging from India to the arts, politics, royalty, Forster’s loss of his religious faith, and old age. The brilliant success of Howards End in 1910 left him feeling that he might have dried up as a novelist, and he diverted his talents towards literary journalism. 344 pages with list of books reviewed and annotated index. £25 NOW £6


100387 GREAT GATSBY


by F. Scott Fitzgerald Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring twenties”, and a devastating expose of the “Jazz Age”. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick’s cousin Daisy, her


brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. 144pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23783 COMPLETE FATHER BROWN


by G.K. Chesterton Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton’s kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the


favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner. The Complete compenduim is 800pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


A Traveller’s Life 73380 SMOKE IN THE


LANES by Dominic Reeve In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close around them. The author describes his life among


the Gypsies - the feuds and fairs, the joyful muddy squalor of an outdoor existence and evokes an unforgettable cast of fireside characters - bold children, fierce matriarchs and dandyish villains in snap-brimmed hats, and tells of sharp deals done and rings run round country policeman, of love affairs, dances and open-air feasting. It is a memorable and unsparing record of a disappeared world. 343pp in paperback reprint of the 1958 original text. £5.99 NOW £4.75


73606 CARAVANS AND WEDDING BANDS:


Memories of a Romany Life by Eva Petulengro


Vividly capturing a time when life was changing for ever for the Romanies, the author of this endearing and heart-warming book reveals how, despite the changes, the Romany spirit endured. She herself, although taking the enormous step of marrying outside her culture,


clung on tightly to her heritage, refusing to say goodbye to the only world she had ever known. She has had to get used to living with a gorger - or non- Romany - but at the same time records fascinating glimpses into the lives of her family, telling tales of their whirlwind romances and travelling adventures. She also describes becoming a famous clairvoyant, with celebrity clients lining up to have their palms read, and discloses the secrets of many of the colourful characters she met. But, despite her vow to remain true to her origins, when she was young it was the Swinging Sixties, and an innocent Romany girl could easily find herself in some strange situations. 373 fascinating paperback pages with photos in colour and b/w.


£6.99 NOW £3.50


73316 REEK ROON A CAMP FIRE


by Stanley Robertson Although many books have been written on the life of Gypsies and the Roma culture, very few have been written on Traveller culture. The Travelling people are indeed indigenous to Scotland and are probably remnants of a Pictish tribe who were metalworkers and who followed various battling factions making their weapons.


Skills like making pegs and scrubbers and perfumes were all crafted down in families along with the ancient art of storytelling, ballad singing and music. Diddling and languages have all been handed down with love through the oral tradition. Despised by outsiders and mistrusted because of their private way of living and strange languages, during the 1400s the King of Scotland put out a decree that all Gypsies should leave his kingdom or face death. In ballads like ‘Macpherson’s Rant’ the poor unfortunate man was hanged because he was a Traveller. Men like Hamish Henderson came in amongst the Travelling people and became one of their champions and the author’s aunt was a wonderful ancient-ballad singer. This book is a journey of exploration to introduce the storytelling frequently performed by Travellers around the fire. 195pp in paperback with glossary. £9.99 NOW £5


73323 LAST OF THE TINSMITHS


by Sheila Douglas Sub-titled ‘The Life of Willie MacPhee’, here is a fascinating look into traditional traveller culture, song and piping in Scotland. Friends with the travelling people for over 40 years, Sheila Douglas presents a wide range of Willie’s songs and stories, personal recollections from friends and family, vital in


preserving the ever-vanishing culture of the Luchd Siubhail. If you keep your eyes and ears open in the Scottish countryside even today, you can still catch a glimpse of this ancient Aboriginal people known in the 18th century Highlands by this term. 195pp in paperback with a musical score and 16 pages of photos.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


59990 THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS by Erskine Childers


One of the finest spy stories ever written, this novel introduced Edwardian readers to the idea of a ‘secret service’. We witness a duel among the islands and sandbanks of the North Sea as two amateur investigators and yachtsmen discover sinister preparations off the German coast. At great peril both from an implacable enemy and furious storms at sea, they stake their lives on the strength of their doughty boat, the ‘Dulcibella’. Will they fight their way back to England in time to sound a warning? 268pp, one of the Wordsworth Classic. Paperback. ONLY £3


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