73662 PEOPLEQUAKE: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce Pearce here confronts our demographic demons, taking a long, hard and controversial look at what is the most pressing of man’s global problems - population. The number of people on the planet is the underlying factor that drives the most toxic, apparently insoluble


issues on the world’s political agenda - China’s billions undermine all the West’s efforts to halt climate change, terrorists hide easily in refugee camps in the Middle East, AIDS is seeping from African townships and economic migrants are swamping Europe and her public services, but ironically it is their labour which keeps these same services going. These are the facts - aren’t they? No, says Pearce. The “population bomb” is being defused he opines, as half the world’s women are having two children or fewer, so within a generation we should expect the world’s population to start to fall - and get much older. Ground-breaking stuff, Pearce shows how we got to this state and where we are heading. Can the wrinklies of the world’s nations, led by elders who understand the bigger picture, create a happier, healthier future? A superbly postulated argument. 324pp paperback.


£12.99 NOW £5 72761 ELEVENTH DAY: The


Ultimate Account of 9/11 by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan


The 11th of September 2001 is a day that will be recalled for centuries. This book is the most detailed and painstaking account of 9/11 yet published. With access to thousands of recently released documents, new interviews with survivors and government officials


and a decade of research and sober reflection it asks and answers the most intractable questions, such as: Why did the US military not intercept or bring down the hijacked airliners? How many of the “9/11 Truth” movement’s contentions are credible? How did US intelligence fail to pick up the build-up to the attack when - as it is now clear - there were plenty of warnings? Were the terrorists backed by powerful figures from other nations? Colour photos, 604pp. £20 NOW £6.50


71212 STATE SECRETS by Chris Pomery The National Archive reveals state secrets behind the scenes which show the Britain that is warmly familiar yet intriguingly bizarre. In the event of a Third World War, officials contemplated unleashing a strike force of homing pigeons armed with ampoules of anthrax against enemy targets, including the Kremlin. Did you hear about the prison camp at Ascot, rationing at the Olympics, the spies guide to London and the ‘Yes Minister’ diaries? Find 50 strange stories that expose our national eccentricities. 128pp. £7.99 NOW £1.50


71391 GHOSTS OF EUROPE: Central Europe’s


Past and Uncertain Future by Anna Porter Some 20 years after the collapse of Communism in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, a refugee and award-winning writer, now living in Canada, returned to try to discover whether and how democracy had taken root in these former Iron Curtain countries. She found disturbing signs that old attitudes had returned, bringing into question Central Europe’s ability to reform its elites and effectively control public demonstrations of hatred, the rise of racial tensions, and the emergence of fascist parties. She met with revolutionary leaders such as Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik, as well as custodians of the new regimes, among them Radek Sikorski, Michael Kocab and Ferenc Gyuresany. 310 pages, map. $25.99 NOW £4


71904 LUCK AND THE IRISH by R. F. Foster Subtitled ‘The Brief History of Change, 1970-2000’ here is a brilliantly written overview. From 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. The Celtic Tiger had woken and the rule for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being entirely rewritten. Foster looks at how characters as wide ranging as Charles Haughey, Bob Geldof and Mary Robinson have contributed to Ireland’s altered psyche and uncovers some of the talent, scandal and political masterminds that have transformed Ireland, and its luck. 228pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3


71919 SUPER FREAKONOMICS: Illustrated Edition


by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics was one of the most eye-opening, humorous and downright enjoyable studies of global economics. Its unifying theme was that the old capitalist saying “people respond to incentives” is true. It went on to show how this applies equally to estate agents, bankers, crack dealers, prostitutes, a sumo wrestler and the grand high wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and marvellous stuff it was. We have here the bigger, better, more controversial, less politically correct, super- deluxe, super-illustrated second edition, which expands on many of the original points. How many more organs were donated by states without a helmet law for motorcyclists? Which diseases respond most economically to treatment and what effect does a doctors’ strike have on patient mortality? 282pp, 8½” × 10¼”. Slightly damaged pages hence price. £20 NOW £7


72382 REAL MAD MEN by Andrew Cracknell Of all the ways people make money, advertising is one of the most exotic. As so glamorously and stylishly portrayed in the TV series Mad Men, it was in 1950s and ’60s New York, specifically Madison Avenue, that advertising enjoyed its golden age. In a booming US marketplace a bold, brash new workforce of young,


multi-ethnic writers and art directors made hay while the sun shone. Andrew Cracknell, longstanding adman himself, spent two years finding out how it happened. He interviewed the surviving protagonists of the Creative Revolution to produce this remarkable story of creativity, ingenuity and sheer brass neck. Colour and b/w photos. 224pp softback. £14.99 NOW £3.50


72781 READER’S DIGEST AND THE ROYALS foreword by Jennie Bond


Published by the Reader’s Digest Association here is a Jubilee celebration of the British Royal family from the magazine’s archives. There are thoughtful portraits of Prince Charles as he approached his 21st birthday (‘A decent, ordinary sort of chap’) and of the Queen Mother at 75 (‘Full of mischief and warmth’). There is a super article called Dressed for Diplomacy by Norman Hartnell, 1957, Who Goes to the Queen’s Garden Party by Philip Blake 1985, Windsor’s Royal Pleasure Park by Peter Brown 1986 and Elizabeth II Forty Years On by Tim Heald 1992 among them. Reproduced in facsimile over two columns exactly at the original size of Reader’s Digest publications and with original colour artwork, photos or commissioned portraits. 160pp. £9.99 NOW £3.75


72958 100 HEADLINES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by James Maloney


Penny Postage Pictures, The War Begun, Audible Speech by Telegraph, Edison Electric Light, Jesse James the Bandit Killed, The Whitechapel Horrors, The Woman’s Suffrage Bill Assented To, Oscar Wilde in Jail, The Conquest of the South Pole, Titanic Sunk, Ghandi Seized by British, Edward VIII


Abdicates, First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan, Birth Control Pill Approved by Commission, King Elvis is Dead, Pope Shot, up until Steve Jobs Is Dead are some of the 100 headlines chosen to cause disagreement, incredulity and possibly some anger among readers who may disagree that these events changed the world. What is very clear is that old newspapers’ front pages are very different from today’s. Stretching back over the last 170 years here are plenty of surprises and reminders. 309 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


73005 MI6: The History of the Secret


Intelligence Service 1909-49 by Keith Jeffery Here, for the first time, based on unprecedented full and unrestricted access to the closed archives of the Service, is the history of the SIS, with its triumphs and failures all laid bare. MI6 is the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. From the early days countering German challenges in Europe, to the global menace of Soviet Communism after 1917, and Axis threats in Europe, the Middle East and Asia before and during the Second World War, it explores liaison between the British foreign intelligence service and other foreign intelligence agencies which have influenced SIS’s work in both peace and war. Among a host of vivid accounts are TR/16 gathering vital and timely German naval intelligence during 1914-18, Paul Dukes and the ‘Ace of Spies’ Sidney Reilly working undercover in post- revolutionary Russia, and brave ship-watchers working along the Norwegian coast during the Second World War. Here too is Oluf Reed Olsen recalling a hazardous parachute drop into occupied Norway, when he landed in the middle of a blueberry bush! 810 pages, with archive b/w photos, maps, list of abbreviations. £30 NOW £11


73129 A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: A History


of the Women’s Institute by Jane Robinson


The Women’s Institute was founded in 1915, not by worthy ladies in tweeds, but by some of the feistiest women in the country, including suffragettes, academics and social crusaders. They discovered the heady power of ‘sisterhood’ and, in the process changed women’s lives


and their world. Its members may have boiled jam, but they also made history. Over 200,000 women in the UK belong to the WI and its membership is growing. It crosses class and religion and includes all ages with passions that have ranged from the support of the 1920s Bastardy Bill to the current SOS for the Honey Bees Campaign. 294 pages. Archive photos. £20 NOW £5


MYTHOLOGY


73541 ANIMAL FABLES FROM AESOP: 20th Anniversary Edition adapted and illustrated by Barbara McClintock


With entirely rescanned artwork and improved typography, these famous tales have been selected and adapted by the artist Barbara McClintock and illustrated in her inimitable, sophisticated


anthropomorphic style. The collection includes such time-honoured fables as The Fox and the Grapes, and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse as well as lesser-known stories like The Wolf and the Lamb and The Crow and the Peacocks. The wisdom, humour and lessons of Aesop’s timeless tales are fully exploited, and they are all revitalized by the author’s uncanny ability to capture, in the expressions of her exquisitely drawn creatures, humanity, with all its weaknesses and strengths. 46 pages 26cm x 18.5cm illustrated in delicate colours.


$17.95 NOW £7


Music and Dance 23 72387 SIR ADRIAN BOULT


MUSIC AND DANCE


72805 JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO AND ME: The Real


Beatles Story by Tony Barrow


Tony Barrow was The Beatles’ Press Officer between 1962 when they released ‘Love Me Do’ and 1968, when they set up their own management company, Apple Corps, in the wake of manager Brian Epstein’s death. Barrow coined The Beatles’ nickname of the


Fab Four. He wrote the sleeve notes for a number of their album covers, set up their huge international press conferences, selected their media interviews and fixed up their photo shoots during the touring years, and finally collaborated with Paul McCartney in 1967 to compile the cartoon strip story booklet that came with the ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ recordings. He is one of a tiny handful of surviving eyewitnesses able to write a first-hand account of life within The Beatles’ close-knit entourage, and the only remaining professional writer from that circle. 256pp with 24 pages of photos, mostly in colour. £16.99 NOW £5


73099 LOVE ME TENDER: The Stories Behind the World’s Best-Loved Songs by Max Cryer


An English composer’s ditty about a blackbird singing in a tree was sold to an American minstrel show and 95 years later the song became one of Elvis Presley’s biggest hits and the title of this book. Here is the remarkable story of many other songs, some of which came from


musical theatre, some from folk songs and others hit the mark because a particular recording appeared at just the right time. Sometimes, one word made all the difference. With a cast of characters from Art Garfunkel, Robert Burns and Paul McCartney, Judy Garland and Cole Porter to Marie Antoinette, and from T S Eliot to Big Mama Thornton. 192 pages with b/w archive photos.


£9.99 NOW £4


71673 BOWIE: A Biography by Marc Spitz A deep portrait of David Bowie the artist. Noted rock journalist Marc Spitz looks in depth at the culture of post- war England in which Bowie grew up, the modern hippie scenes of swinging London in the 60s, his alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, his rise to global stardom in the 80s and subsequent status as an elder statesman of alternative culture. Here is his tricky relationship with art and commerce, Buddhism and the occult, his complicated family life, his open romantic relationship, and a fresh evaluation of his recorded work, film, stage and video performances. Based on 100 original interviews. 429pp, photos.


$26.99 NOW £4


71684 SUSAN BOYLE: Dreams Can Come True by Alice Montgomery


When the tubby Scottish 48 year old spinster Susan Magdalane Boyle stepped out onto the stage of Britain’s Got Talent on 11th April 2009 there were jeers and sniggers. She had the voice of an angel and her story was to become a modern day fairytale. In this, the first book to explore her amazing rags to riches story, we follow her from her humble beginnings in a small Scottish town to topping the charts and performing for millions worldwide. We fall silent again as we hear her voice, this time in words. Colour photos, 246pp. $21.95 NOW £3


72352 LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO AND


KEYBOARD: A Step-by-Step Guide by Nick Freeth


The book begins with choosing your instrument and, once acquired, showing the way around the keyboard. Next follow the scales and chords, staff notation, hand coordination, major and minor chords, scales and harmonics and finally sustain, the pedals, dynamic control and different musical styles and their adaptations. Colour photos and diagrams on every page show how each note and chord should be fingered. Demystifies music reading and there are several well-known pieces to play as you begin your “journey of musical discovery”. Concludes with advice for learners. 96pp, 9"×11". ONLY £4


73341 CELTIC VISIONS: Seership, Omens and Dreams of the Otherworld by Caitlin Matthews


‘What’ asks the author, a writer and teacher, ‘if we were able to perceive both sides of reality - the visible and the invisible - and live in the light of that unified vision?’ In the ancient realm of the Celts, the ‘seer’ was a person who opened a


window to reveal a complete view of the cosmos, in which the ‘otherworld’ and the everyday world interconnect. This was the essence of true perception and wisdom, known by the vision-poets as the gléfiosa or ‘bright knowledge’. In an extraordinary book the author shows how such visionary wisdom can be harnessed to reveal universal truths all too readily overlooked in the modern world. Detailed coverage is given of the methods of communicating with the ‘otherworld’ through auguries, omens and fairy lore, and a range of prayers, chants and other practices is offered, all appropriate for modern-day seekers who aspire to be seers and ‘drink at the ancestral wells’. 242 pages with glossary.


£10.99 NOW £4


CONDUCTS ELGAR: Five CDs by Regis Records


Adrian Boult was born in Chester in 1889 and became part of the music staff at Covent Garden in 1914 and in 1919 conducted the première of Holst’s The Planets at the


composer’s invitation. He was at the forefront of British musical life in the 1930s and 40s and with the BBC Philharmonic made a large number of important recordings in a variety of repertoires. He was at the helm for over 1500 broadcasts. The majority of the recordings on this box set date from the 1950s and the recording of Elgar’s First Symphony (1907-8) dates from the very start of his directorship of the LPO and was recorded for HMV in 1950. The set also includes many of Elgar’s important shorter orchestral works from the famous Pomp and Circumstance Marches to the charming Nursery Suite plus violin concerto (Campoli), cello concerto (Casals), Enigma Variations, Falstaff and Cockaigne. Elegantly packaged five CD box set exclusively discounted through Bibliophile. ONLY £12


72532 LONNIE DONEGAN by Patrick Humphries


The photo on the back cover says it all - Lonnie Donegan in the early 60s surrounded by three young Beatles who look thrilled to bits at being photographed with their hero. Donegan’s domination of the British pop scene was short, lasting from his first hit “Rock Island Line” in 1956 to his eclipse by the Beatles and Stones in the mid-60s. He showed the world that anyone could join a band and before long, “joining a skiffle group became an essential rite of passage between Meccano and marriage”. This study of the trail-blazing skiffle star is not only a supremely readable biography but also an analysis of the musical influences on his unique sound. A self-taught guitarist heavily influenced by jazz in his early years, Donegan’s first job was with the legendary jazzman Chris Barber who was interviewed for this book. His big break came in 1957 with the new pop television show The 6.5 Special, and for a few brief years the world was at his feet, with “My old man’s a dustman” rivalling Elvis’s “Jailhouse Rock” by entering the charts at No 1. 386pp, discography, photos. £25 NOW £7


72591 ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO CLASSICAL MUSIC edited by Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan and Allen Schrott


The definitive guide to classical music, this whopping great outsized softback contains 1608 pages and is an authoritative guide to 12,000 recommended recordings. Whether you are exploring the haunting melodies of Gregorian chant, the mighty symphonies of Beethoven, the dizzying soundscapes of today’s brightest young composers from John Adams to Ellen Taafe Zwilich, J. S. Bach, Debussy, Puccini, Schubert to Ralph Vaughan Williams and Richard Wagner, there are also many interesting essays on classical music for newcomers - music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque and Romantic period through to music from 1950-1975, ballet music, chamber and choral music, film music. 1500 biographies of composers and performers, 4000 descriptions of composers’ work, 1200 recordings recommended, 360 opera and ballet synopses. £19.95 NOW £7.50


72615 KLASSISCHE MEISTERWERKE VI 1685-1897: 12 CDs by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra


12 great composers are celebrated in this German box set which is presented in the size of an old vinyl album for easy storage. Each CD lasts approximately one hour and the 12 composers featured with some of their best known works include Handel, J. S. Bach, Die Söhne Bachs, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, von Weber, Berlioz, Offenbach, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. A bargain price for these wonderful classical recordings performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. ONLY £9


72850 THE BALLAD OF BOB DYLAN: A


Portrait by Daniel Mark Epstein The musician author combines the skills of an experienced historian with the flair of a novelist and quotes extensively from Bob Dylan’s songs and gives a fresh analysis of the lyrics. Beginning with Bob Dylan’s early concerts to touring with the Grateful Dead where Dylan revived his career (under the influence of Jerry Garcia) to the recording of Time Out of Mind in 1997 and his 2009 tour, through first hand accounts, reportage and a wealth of interviews this is a subtle and multi-layered appreciation of Dylan’s art. 496pp in paperback, photos. £15 NOW £4


71588 CHIVALRY: The Path of Love introduced by Jeremy Catto


This beautiful and illuminating introduction to the ancient code of behaviour which shaped relations between the sexes in medieval times is lavishly illustrated. It accounts for the evolution, history and practice of chivalry from its roots during the Crusades to its zenith in Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Court of Love, where romantic disputes were resolved. Exquisite colour illus. 61pp. $9.95 NOW £1


72584 THREE YOUNG RATS


AND OTHER RHYMES by Alexander Calder A Woman in Love with a Pig, Lucy Locket, London Bridge is Broken Down, I Went to Frankfort and Got Drunk, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, I’ll Sing You 12 O Green Grow the Rushes O, and Three Young Rats


with Black Felt Hats are among the adult rhymes based on the nursery rhymes of England and other popular tales and comic verse, but with a rather adult angle. Alexander Calder is well known for inventing the mobile, but here his 85 distinctive line drawings, originally published in 1944, are frank depictions of nudes adding a new depth and resonance to a host of familiar chants and verses. Large softback, 132pp with index of first lines. £14.49 NOW £4


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