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73801 UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Emir Fethi Caner


Raised as Sunni Muslims by a leader in the mosque, brothers Ergun and Emir Caner have lived a Muslim life. Now Christians and highly respected theology professors, they are in a unique position to present an insider’s look at Islam. Islam is often obscured by a veil of unfamiliar beliefs, customs and practices and we


watch intriguing images of Islamic nations on TV and hear words like jihad defined in conflicting terms. What is Islam? The book is a sympathetic yet uncompromising presentation of Islam’s practices, ethics and beliefs including the primary differences between Christianity and Islam. It looks at lord Jesus Christ and the words of the Qur’an and also at the words of Allah encouraging Muslims to ‘Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s’. 251pp with useful comparisons of beliefs, freewill and fatalism and topical index to the Qur’an in the appendices, plus convert stories and fundamentals of each faith. Paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


73800 UNSEEN FACE OF ISLAM


by Bill Musk


Amazing insight into the world of folk Islam, few writers have been able to probe the everyday lives of Muslims as Bill Musk has done. Far too little is known concerning the many millions who abhor violence and simply wish to live in peace with their neighbours. Most ordinary Muslims live in a complex, mysterious world of which outsiders


know little. The world of jinn, the evil eye, the hand of Fatima, the covenant of Suleiman, shrines, saints and festivals, curses and powerful practitioners of the occult - it is a colourful, complex world full of human hopes and fears and far removed from the Islam of the Mullahs or newspaper headlines. Dr Musk penetrates the surface levels of ritual and legalism and demonstrates that most Muslims express deep needs in their daily living. This new edition is reworked to include insights into folk Islam and includes diagrams and photos. 288pp in paperback.


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HANNAY STORIES by John Buchan


Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy’s evil plan and solve the mystery of the ‘thirty-


nine steps’. In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast, set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay finally falls in love. In The Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife’s help. In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep, he is called upon to honour an old oath. 992 paperback pages. Great value. ONLY £2


70554 PUGWASH IN THE PACIFIC


by John Ryan


The Admiral is under strict orders from the Prime Minister to search the Seven Seas, capture Captain Pugwash and bring him back alive. Fortunately, far away on a sunny island in the middle of the Pacific, Captain Pugwash has no idea of the fearful fate which awaits him.


The sky is blue, the sea is warm and the Captain and his crew are having a lovely time, but will they be able to evade the law for much longer? Based on the 1973 original, here is 2009 lavish, glossy paged hardback with all with all the witty colour cartoon illus. £11.99 NOW £5


71265 HIGH STAKES: Britain’s Air Arms in Action


1945-1990 by Vic Flintham


An exhaustive account of the roles of the RAF, the Fleet Air Arm and the Army Air Corps during this (officially, anyway) time of peace. The nine chapters cover immediate post-war colonial, confrontational (ideological), confrontational


(territorial), humanitarian, conflict avoidance, nuclear deterrent, etc, and within each chapter the actions which were carried out are tackled chronologically and in much depth. From the Cold War to the Cod War, the Maldives to the Falklands, maintaining local stability in Greece, Netherlands, East Indies, Empire in Malaya, Kenya and defending Empire in Borneo, plus Suez, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Korea, the Berlin airlift and Albania, strategic nuclear bombing to terrorist bombing. 250 b/w and 40 pages of colour photos, such as a Tornado fully banked over, showing its fearsome array of firepower, and Jaguar XZ118/Y. 417 pages. £40 NOW £10


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71773 HALOGEN OVEN SECRET


by Norma Miller


Anyone with a halogen oven will know it is miraculous and have rapidly risen to popularity because it can grill, defrost, bake, steam and roast, cook, brown and cook everything fast, with this multi-


purpose, portable, table-top oven. Here are over 100 tried and tested tasty recipes from traditional Shepherd’s Pie, Toad in the Hole, Sweet and Sour Pork and Chicken Curry to Fish Kebabs with Mango Salsa, Mustard Sardines, Nutty Pork Meatballs in Chilli Tomato Sauce, Sticky Chicken Wings with Green Salsa to Roasted Pineapple Wedges, Crème Brûlée and even Viennese Whirls. 192pp in large softback, colour photos. £7.99 NOW £4


72388 CHOPIN PIANO WORKS: Six CDs


by Artur Rubinstein and Chopin


From the introduction by Hugo Sharley in the accompanying booklet, we learn that Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982) was born in


Poland and was perhaps most fêted for his highly idiomatic, uniquely poetic interpretations of the music of Chopin, very much Poland’s national composer. This collection brings together recordings from the important middle years of his career, the earliest, the Nocturnes, recorded for HMV in 1937. Includes also Ballades, Mazurkas, Preludes, Polonaises and Waltzes. 6 CD set. ONLY £12


72821 WRINKLIES’ GUIDE


TO HOME COMPUTING: New Pursuits for Old Hands by Guy Croton


With this useful book, you will quickly become a fully-fledged member of the computer world. There are tips about email and the internet, such as etiquette, attachments, online shopping (another benefit if you find getting to the shops difficult) and social networking. There is plenty of advice on backing up files,


recovering deleted files and dealing with viruses. Happy computing. 192 pages. £9.99 NOW £4


72840 DORE’S LONDON: All 180 Images


from the Original London Series with Selected Writings by Gustave Doré


This luxury volume attempts to convey the immense power and emotional truth of Doré’s images by setting them in the context of the writings of the period - Dickens,


Henry Mayhew, Wilkie Collins, Thackeray, Gissing, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde and others. This involved liberating the 180 drawings and arranging them so as to form a simple but potent narrative. Gustave Doré’s wonderful images have been divided into four very simple but powerful sections - Riches, Rags, Work and Play. It ends most hopefully with London at its most united in the wild carnival of Derby Day. In the Riches section is ‘The Eustace Diamonds’, ‘The Woman In White’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, in Rags are ‘Sketches by Boz’, ‘The Mysteries of London’ by G. M. W. Reynolds and ‘Oliver Twist’; in Work there are excerpts from ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ and under Play, ‘Pendennis’ by Thackeray and ‘Twice Around the Clock’ by G. A. Sala. Exquisitely detailed woodcuts and engravings by Doré himself. 384 outsize pages, 7½” x 9½”. £14.99 NOW £8.50


72893 BOX OF BEANS: Book and Two CDs


by Clarissa Dickson-Wright The One Fat Lady reads her autobiography Spilling the Beans on two audio CDs. Determined and clever, Clarissa at the age of 21 was the youngest ever woman to be called to the Bar. Then her adored mother suddenly died and there followed a mind-numbing decade of wild drinking. Rich from


her inheritance, in the end Clarissa had drained her entire fortune and it was a long, hard road to recovery. Includes the bestselling paperback, 328pp with colour photos. Audio book on two CDs runs to two hours. £22.98 NOW £6


73063 CROSS COUNTRY: English Buildings and Landscape


from Countryside to Coast by Peter Ashley


You would hardly expect a book about the English countryside to begin with a photo of HP baked beans stacked on a shelf, or a puzzling notice stating simply:


‘BULLS EGGS’. By combining personal reminiscence with an ear for intriguing anecdote, Ashley takes readers on an enlightening jaunt - wittily and irreverently showing them just how richly varied the fabric of England is. Here are abandoned Cornish tin-mines above tide-washed caves, Norfolk boat sheds leaning crazily over salt marshes, Romney Marsh shepherds’ houses hidden behind roadside willows, a sheep-wash in the Cotswolds and a disused petrol pump in Herefordshire. Throughout, the wry commentary and superbly unusual pictures allow us to rediscover and delight in what we may have deemed to be familiar territory. 240 pages 25cm x 19.5cm with super colour photos and maps. £24.99 NOW £7.50


73101 POP-UP KAMA SUTRA


by Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot


Bibliophile has stocked many Kama Sutras over the years but none quite so clever or collectable or fun as this one, especially page 25, where the naked lady is slowly lowered


by pull tab, from a frame, to her very willing, ready and waiting Indian gentleman lover reclined beneath! ‘Anything may take place at any time, for love does not care for time or order.’ The yawning position, the rising position, congress of a cow, two women embracing against each other against a plush background of Persian style richly woven carpet, a royal couple deeply in love; the ten chapters cover the embrace, kissing, scratching with the nails, biting, various kinds of congress, striking and the sounds appropriate to that, women acting the part of the man, mouth congress and all manner of sexual union are celebrated together with six paper engineered variations including flaps and tabs to pull for more exquisite delight. Very large board pages, all in colour and 40 vintage colour plates and choice excerpts from the original text of this 2000 year old Indian treatise on the art of love. $24.95 NOW £12


73359 LAST NOCTURNE: A Mystery


by Marjorie Eccles


In an intriguingly complex mystery of passion and the devastating repercussions of a single action, Chief Inspector Lamb is faced with puzzling questions. What could induce a successful, happily married man to take a gun and shoot himself? What made a young artist on the brink of fame throw himself


to his death? Neither victim left a note behind to explain his motives, and it appears that nothing untoward occurred in the weeks preceding their deaths. Having briefly met both victims, Lamb struggles to connect the impression he himself gained of the men, and their inexplicable actions. His close attention pays off when a post mortem reveals some surprising results. With one case now looking like a suspicious death, Lamb looks for links between the two men. All the paths seem to lead to the enigmatic figure of Isobel Amberley and a mysterious event that took place one winter’s night in Vienna. Can the Chief Inspector and his assistant come up with the right answers? 409 pages. ONLY £5


73309 JAMES IV by Norman MacDougall James IV of Scotland (1473-1513), who ascended the Scottish throne in 1488, is the best-known of the medieval Scottish rulers. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, even the newly empowered Tudors, he combined the necessary qualities of a successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in arts and science. He was also acutely


aware of how important it was to enhance the prestige of the Stewart dynasty and married wisely, selecting as his bride Margaret Tudor, the daughter of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII, which kept relations with England cordial and confirmed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between the two nations in 1502. But for all his forward thinking and good governance, he became the architect of his own undoing. By also forming an alliance with the French, he was in a tricky situation when his brother-in- law, Henry VIII, declared war on them. Unfortunately for James, he backed the wrong horse, declaring war on England and, while Henry was occupied in France in September 1513, chose to invade England, the Scots meeting the English army at Flodden in Northumbria on the 9th and being annihilated in one of the greatest military disasters of Scottish history. James himself was killed, becoming the last British monarch to die in battle, and so were the greater part of the Scots nobility and army. However, James had the last laugh, on account of his wise marriage - when Elizabeth I died leaving no heir it was his great-grandson, James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England. Scottish royal history at its very best. 339pp with 18 b/w plates. £16.99 NOW £7


73131 KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE


by Rumer Godden


Sophie, an English ingénue with two children, arrives in Himalayan Kashmir to set up home in a tumbledown cottage surrounded by fields of flowers and herbs. Settling down to live quietly, frugally and peacefully with her new neighbours, she is unaware of the turmoil her arrival provokes as the villagers compete fiercely for her patronage.


Sophie’s cook makes a drastic bid to secure his position, and the unwanted consequences are catastrophic. Each strand of the taut narrative is woven with precision and each character given his due. A companion to code 73121 Black Narcissus by the same author. 302pp in paperback with an introduction by Rosie Thomas. £9.99 NOW £5


73340 CATHERINE HOWARD


by Lacey Baldwin Smith Adultery can add zest to a narrative and treason lends stature to a life, but in the case of Catherine Howard the records reveal neither grand passion nor high ideals. The wife of King Henry VIII, the Queen was accused of having been a woman of ‘abominable carnal desires’ who had craftily and traitorously misled her


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royal spouse and that she had followed ‘daily her frail and carnal lusts’. Her death is not simply a lesson in Tudor morality; it is an exercise in historical causation, palace politics and back stairs bickering. Her light- hearted idiocy was fatal when fostered and distorted by family greed, royal absolutism, social callousness and violence. A mere teenager, the vivacious and flirty Catherine was an unsuitable bride for the elderly and fat Henry. He was besotted and called her ‘his very jewel of womanhood’. His head already turned by the 19 year old, Henry never consummated his marriage to Anne, he divorced her and married for the fifth time on the 28th July 1540. Here is the story of the rise and fall of this tragic queen, the woman who dared to cuckold the King of England. 222pp in paperback with 16 pages of colour photos and illus. £9.99 NOW £6


73774 DUNKIRK: Retreat to Victory by Major General Julian Thompson


The standard treatment of the story of Dunkirk in May/June 1940 is a near-mythical tale of triumph defined mostly by the llth-hour arrival of the flotilla of civilian vessels that helped deliver the troops to safety, but in this inspiring true account of the brave stand of the British Expeditionary Force


against the German army, popular misconceptions are finally corrected. Drawing on previously unpublished and rare material, the author deftly recreates the action - from the misunderstandings between the British and French generals, to the experiences of the ordinary solder under heavy fire. For the first time, this account gives full weight to the fighting inland as the BEF found itself in mortal danger, thanks to the collapse of the Belgian army on one flank and the failure of the French on the other. The BEF, ill-equipped and under-trained, conducted a fighting withdrawal in the face of their formidable German foes. Overwhelmed, outgunned, and cornered, they were looking at the possible death knell of the Allied effort, with incalculable sacrifices of morale, equipment and men. Churchill himself feared an irrevocable disaster but, by June 4th, most of the force had been rescued and a seemingly certain defeat had become an enduring symbol of resilience. A heart- warming and timely re-telling of a retreat that turned into a resounding victory. 338 pages with b/w archive photos, maps, glossary. £16.99 NOW £7


73357 THE LADY QUEEN: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I Queen of Naples,


Jerusalem and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone With this meticulously researched work, readers will be swept back to the turbulent Middle Ages, to the riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial, and a triumphant reign of more than 30 years. Married for


political advantage at the age of seven, Joanna I of Sicily saw her brilliant, cultivated world shattered 12 years later by the brutal assassination of her husband. Accused of the murder by her powerful in-laws, she was forced to flee her kingdom and stand trial for her life before the papal court at Avignon. Incredibly, she triumphed, raised an army and took back her realm. She then weathered war, plague and treason to become one of the most powerful and influential leaders in Italy She reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, encouraged the licensing of women physicians and expertly navigated the dangerous complexity of papal politics. Her elegant court lured some of the most important writers and artists of the period, including Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarch. What an engrossing story! 365 pages with colour plates, genealogical charts and maps, a brief explanation of 14th century money, notes and a special section on Joanna’s trial.


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73353 FADEAWAY GIRL: A Novel by Martha Grimes


In a suspenseful, intriguing sequel to her best-selling novel Belle Ruin, the author re-introduces readers to the unflappable and irresistible Emma Graham, waitress in her mother’s decaying summer hotel, cub reporter for the local newspaper and still a sleuth. She is also stubbornly refusing to quit the trail of the truth behind several old, intertwined crimes - three murders, the attempted murder of herself, and the supposed kidnapping of the four-month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel 20 years previously. ‘Too many bad things happen around here’, she says to a visitor she never expected to see. And, in fact, with this visitor and the appearance of a


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