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73174 THE TREASURES OF QUEEN ELIZABETH by Tim Ewart


With luxury padded cover and 10½” square slipcase featuring the 1953 Coronation image of the Queen with her ermine cape, sceptre and


orb and in full Coronation regalia, the book contains rare removable documents of historic importance. Among the 15 items reproduced in facsimile in the document wallets inserted in the book are a design for the Queen’s dresses by Sir Hardy Amies, an invitation to one of the garden parties held at Buckingham Palace, a menu for a White House dinner, extracts from programmes, the White House Oath of Allegiance she signed on 2nd June 1953, and throughout the text pictures such as the Queen with members of her Privy counsel, the crowning of the Prince of Wales in 1969, intimate home life, presidential balls and other royal duties, meeting sports people, travelling to the Commonwealth, out riding, public perceptions, the good years and bad and the Golden Years since the turn of the Millennium. £30 NOW £12


73126 COUNTRY GIRL: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien


The publication of Edna O’Brien’s memoir last year was a major literary event. The doyenne of Irish literature, she was born the youngest child of a strictly religious family in Co. Clare and had what she described as a “suffocating” childhood. At the age of 20 she was awarded a pharmacist licence, and it was around this time she began reading in earnest. Her brilliant first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960 and was banned in Ireland, denounced from the pulpit and even burned for its frank portrayal of the sex lives of its women characters. 1970 saw A Pagan Place, which railed against her repressive childhood. Here is her childhood with her alcoholic father, the dreaded tinker families and mad Mabel, the Sisters of Mercy convent, the pharmacy and the flowering of her love of books and on through her astonishing literary career. Along the way there are many encounters with the giants of music and Hollywood as well as literature. 339pp, photos. £20 NOW £6.50


72758 COUNTING ONE’S BLESSINGS: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother edited and with an introduction by


William Shawcross Brimming with wit, acute


observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the letters of the Queen Mother constitute a vivid chronicle both of her long life and of the 20th


century as a whole. The Queen Mother was, from her childhood a prolific correspondent. They reveal, in her own words the much-loved little girl writing teasing letters to her many siblings and friends, the young woman who, after a long courtship and two refusals, accepted the Duke of York’s proposal of marriage. We can experience her delight in her beloved daughters and her real anguish when she and her husband realized that he would become King because his brother, Edward VIII was determined to abdicate. We can admire her work during the Second World War and her horror at the suffering caused by the Blitz, her joy in the marriage of her elder daughter Elizabeth, her grief at the tragically early death of her husband, the King, and her determination to find a new role for herself during the long years of widowhood. Touching and very moving revelations. An immense 666 pages with photos in colour and b/w, notes and family trees. £25 NOW £10


73178 BRIEF LIVES by Paul Johnson Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights and even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher who ran the legendary Colony Club. Harking back to the scandalously anecdotal 17th century book by John Aubrey on the celebrities of his time, Johnson draws on more personal experience formed over 60 years of friendships in his high-class and occasionally salacious human comedy show. Arranged A-Z and includes The Beatles, Lord Beaverbrook (a generous man with a magnificent cellar) and Brendan Behan who became a member of the IRA aged 14. Johnson is a really good gossip. 250 individuals covered. 296pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4


BUSINESS AND COMPUTERS


73515 THE ART OF WAR:


The New Illustrated Edition by Sun Tzu


It is widely believed that no book in history better describes how to be a winner in any situation of conflict, or any competitive environment, whether in the office or workplace, in a relationship, or in everyday disagreements and tensions. This volume was, in fact, the first known military treatise, written in China


more than two and a half millennia ago by the sage Sun Tzu. Since the 18th century it has caught the imagination of political and military leaders and proved to be highly influential in shaping strategy. Its author recognised that human beings live in a world of conflict, which cannot be ignored or denied but has to be understood and mastered. His aphorisms, unique in their range and perceptiveness, cover not only battlefield manoeuvres but also vital elements of the military background, such as economics, politics and psychology. Today, his precepts have been taken to heart for the lessons they offer on competitiveness, compromise and goal-setting and are studied in business schools - especially in America - while the author has also found a devoted readership among sportsmen and women. Not a bad track record for a 2,500-year-old book! 272 softback pages illustrated in colour and b/w, with beautiful calligraphy, foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart, a biography of the author and two appendices: Wu Ch’I’s Art of War and Brief Biographies of the Commentators. Translated by Samuel B. Griffith. £14.99 NOW £8


72851 YOUR MONEY AND YOUR BRAIN by Jason Zweig


Zweig explains why smart people can be stupid about their money and how they can do better. Combining the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, economics and animal behaviour, he explains how our minds estimate risk and anticipate gain, why investors tend to be over confident and why the investing brain is a battlefield between reason and emotion. Includes an amazing colour photo of the red and yellow fireball at the centre of the brain. 340pp in paperback. £14.99 NOW £3


71948 DIGITAL ART WONDERLAND: Creative Techniques for Inspirational Journaling and Beautiful Blogging by Angi Sullins and Silas Toball


Readers are taken on a personal tour through a digital art journaling world. There are eight tutorials, which work well with any photo-editing software, with techniques, tips and tricks for the intermediate Adobe Photoshop CS5 user to enhance physical art, as well as create digital art from scratch. 144 paperback pages 25.5cm x 20.5cm, beautiful colour images. £16.99 NOW £4


72742 START DAY TRADING NOW by Michael Sincere


A quick and easy introduction to making money while managing your risks including entry and exit strategies, daily trading checklists, start up costs and considerations, risks and benefits and market indicators. What computer equipment will you need? How much money is required? In this entry-level guide, a financial journalist shows you how to get started. Based on Wall Street but applies over here too. 214pp, diagrams. £10.99 NOW £5


COLLECTABLES


73105 WATCHES by Rick Sapp


This charming book not only provides a short history of how Man first told the time, and developed the industry of time keeping, but also includes 40 of the most famous watchmakers of all time - Rolex,


Gucci, Longines, Hermes, Seiko, Cartier and many more. The most élite of fashion statements and a clear sign that the wearer has achieved career success and wealth. This book tells you how to recognise them. 96 pocket sized pages filled with attractive close-up photos in colour and b/w. ONLY £4.50


71479 BRITISH FURNITURE 1600-2000 edited by Dr. Clive Edwards,


Treve Rosoman, Jonathan Meyer et al Each section focuses on seven or eight master creators who represent the taste, fashion and craftsmanship of the era. Austere 17th century Puritan style is contrasted with an elaborate marquetry writing desk of Gerrit Jensen from the Queen’s collection. William Kent represents the high Baroque, while the later 18th century saw the restrained elegance of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton. The Victorian Gothic revival led by Pugin and Burges was associated with the same respect for craftsmanship that inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement and the creations of Morris and Co. In the 20th century manufacturers such as Heal, Gillow, Ercolani and G-Plan sought to maintain the values of craftsmanship. Finally John Makepeace’s arresting designs have led a recent craft revival. 352pp, superbly illus in colour. £25 NOW £14


72159 DISCOVERING ANTIQUE PRINTS by Ronald Russell


Now that photography has taken over nearly all of their functions, prints have become collectors’ items. Woodcuts and engravings may still be bought quite cheaply in fine examples of lithographs and coloured aquatints can be found at reasonable prices. This superb Shire guide book helps you distinguish the various types of prints, artists and engravers and covers some confusing matters of impressions, methods and colour and technical terms. Colour illus. 128pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


72174 DELFTWARE TILES by Hans Van Lemmen


Italian potters bought the art of tin-glazed tiles to the Low Countries in the early 16th century. Huge quantities were produced during the 17th and 18th centuries and the best tiles came from Delft. Applied to walls and fireplaces, their primary purpose was functional but the scenes and decorations painted on them have made them a fascinating field of study, now eagerly collected or carefully preserved in situ. 48 page Shire softback, colour photos. £4.99 NOW £2.75


72208 PORTABLE WRITING DESKS by David Harris


Early portables desks, Georgian, Victorian, desks in papier-mâché and other decorative materials are celebrated in this beautifully produced 40 page Shire booklet, complete with colour photos and much information on these small pieces of furniture which have largely been ignored as antiques. Illustrates the main types to be found. Paperback. £4.50 NOW £3


CRIME


73507 ONE BLOODY THING AFTER ANOTHER: The


World’s Gruesome History by Jacob F. Field


The most incompetent executioner ever was the 17th century Jack Ketch, though no-one was quite sure whether he was a botcher or an accomplished sadist, and several times he had to finish the job with an alternative implement. This


gruesome history starts with the atrocities of Caligula and Nero, but Britain had its own doughty warrior who fought back against the Romans: Boudicca, who after being flogged and raped by the Roman invaders, took her revenge with a ruthless massacre and torture. The medieval period saw the murder of Thomas a Becket, the struggles between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, the crusaders’ slaughter of the Cathars and the reign of terror established by Genghis Khan. The torture continued in the Renaissance with the Spanish Inquisition, the persecution of witches, the Chinese Death of 1,000 Cuts, the conquest of the Incas and the exploits of Ivan the Terrible. 192pp, line drawings. £9.99 NOW £4


73775 ESSENTIALS OF FORENSIC SCIENCE CRASHES


AND COLLAPSES by Thomas Bohan


Accident reconstruction, the causes of vehicle crashes and structural collapses, the Critical-Speed-Scuff- Mark technique, the interpretation of test data, Newton’s laws of motion, law and technology in the forensic field, physical evidence and the role of weather in accidents are all


brought into play in this extraordinary book. It looks at forensic cases and investigative methods from forensic engineering, a field that includes the physical sciences such as chemistry and physics, as well as other engineering fields which play an important role in criminal investigations. In addition to a history of forensic engineering science, there is a close look at specific crashes and collapses presenting facts and theories. More than 80 black and white photos and line illus, side bars on personnel and a variety of forensic issues and a detailed list of print and Web resources. 312pp in large paperback. Illus. £11.50 NOW £4.50


73467 SLEEPERS: A True Story


by Lorenzo Carcaterra Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy shared everything - the laughter and the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York’s violent West Side, until one of their pranks misfired and they were sent to a reformatory school. 12 months of systematic mental, physical and sexual abuse left the boys transformed forever. 11 years


later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer and the other two killers for the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand, and a court room climax as gripping as any John Grisham novel. An immensely powerful human story in which friendship runs deeper than blood. 373pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £3


73568 MURDER ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS


by Jonathan Goodman In a gripping selection, a prize- winning crime historian turns his magnifying-glass on to a variety of both British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. Each essay examines a grisly murder and subsequent trial. Here is the 1923 shooting at the Savoy Hotel in


72604 FERDINAND COLUMBUS: Renaissance Collector


by Mark McDonald


In cultural and intellectual summaries of this period, one fascinating figure has been largely overlooked - Ferdinand, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus - who not only travelled on the fourth and final voyage to the New World in 1502, compiled an account of that journey and wrote the first biography of his father. At the time of his death, his library contained over 15,000 volumes and more than 3,200 prints. Ferdinand’s own catalogue, with his extraordinary system for classifying the prints, survives in the Bibliotecca


Colombina in Seville. All the major Renaissance artists working in the medium are represented in this beautiful volume, including: Albrecht Duerer, Lucan van Leyden, Ugo da Carpi, Hans Burgkmair, Giovanni Battista Palumba and


Marcantonio Raimondi. 256 pages 24cm x 29.5cm, 20 colour and 178 b/w illus, maps. £25 NOW £12.50


London of Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at the hands of his wife, and here too is the Crime of the Century, the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby in 1932, which was complicated by the fact that although Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the crime, the evidence was suspect. If readers want to be really revolted, they can read about Michele de Marco Lupo, a gay man who coaxed other homosexuals to meet with him, then savagely bit them and strangled them. 358 paperback pages with line drawings in b/w, plus postscripts.


£16.95 NOW £6


73579 THE SUPERNATURAL MURDERS: Classic Stories of True Crime


by Jonathan Goodman The collection begins with ‘A Slaying on St. Valentine’s Day’, briefly relating the killing of a farm labourer Charles Walton on Valentine’s Day 1945 in an area of Warwickshire famous for witchcraft. In 1924 and 1925, a serial poisoner Martha Wise devastated the ranks


of her family in Ohio and blamed her crimes on the devil. This anthology of 13 true crime stories also includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton found slashed and pierced to death, the murder of Eric Tombe whose body was located because of a recurring dream in which his mother saw Eric down a well, the terrorising of Hammersmith in the early 19th century by a ‘ghost’, the Salem witchcraft trials, the murder of Rasputin, a Scottish tale where the ghost of a victim was allowed at the murderer’s trial and the bizarre goings-on at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, where an entire family was murdered and the new occupants have witnessed all manner of sinister events, including the presence of poltergeist - or were they? 198pp in illustrated paperback.


£16.50 NOW £6


73612 DICTIONARY OF ESPIONAGE: Spyspeak into


English by Joseph C. Goulden If you have ever wondered what a black bag job is, where to find a dead letter drop or a honey trap, who invented the microdot and why they call Green Berets ‘snake- eaters’, here is all the info you could possibly need. More than just an alphabetical series of definitions, this volume offers a fascinating insight into the lingo and


the operations of the CIA, the FBI, M15, MI6, Mossad, the KGB and many other top-secret organisations. Here is a compelling overview of the world of espionage from World War II to the present, assembled by a former intelligence operative. Loaded with anecdotal incidents that provide entertainment as well as information, it offers page-turning excitement from the clandestine world of spies and spying. A new foreword by Peter Earnest, Executive Director, International Spy Museum, Washington DC, describes the author as knowing more about secret operations than many of the real spies he writes about. He is, apparently, ‘a stickler for accuracy and has one of the most sensitive, built-in BS-detectors in the nation’s capital’. With this volume, you can be confident, then, of enjoying a lively tour through the plain talk, double talk and euphemisms of Spyspeak as really rendered by its practitioners. 256 paperback pages,


$14.95 NOW £6 72541 SIX: The Real James


Bonds 1909-1939 by Michael Smith


The British Secret Intelligence Service, which would eventually become MI6, was first set up in 1909. Smith tells the complete story of the Service’s founding and early years, and the remarkable men that ran things and often did the actual spying. Spying on Germany up to, during and after the Great War was inevitably the


main preoccupation, but the SIS was instrumental in other major events, such as the murder of Rasputin, thought to be working with German operatives (and having the ear of the German-born Tsarina) to persuade the Tsar to make peace with Germany. Following the Romanov’s downfall the SIS also undertook some astonishingly daring missions inside Bolshevik Russia, and there were others to New York and the Middle East. In the 1930s the focus shifted back to Hitler’s Germany. 468pp paperback, b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £5


71537 TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies


edited by Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev This amazing volume is the first complete report on the Cambridge Five that gives the reader the opportunity to judge the extent of the damage that was done to the British intelligence agencies during World War II by the notorious spy ring that comprised: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Triplex was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5 entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt - little suspecting that he was already working for the NKVD, who answered direct to Stalin. Features the largest single collection of complete documents ever assembled from the archives of the Russian Intelligence Service. 363 pages.


! $45 NOW £6


71852 DEATH ON THE WATERWAYS by Allan Scott-Davies


Here is a chilling glimpse into the murky depths of the criminal underworld whose murderous inhabitants used the country’s rivers, pools, lakes, bridges and tunnels to conceal the evidence of their nefarious activities. Did you know, for instance, that the infamous Burke and


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