2 Literature 73922 1001 BOOKS FOR


EVERY MOOD by Hallie Ephron


Here are suggestions of books for a good laugh, a good cry, to misbehave, go over the edge, celebrate friends, remember mum, indulge your inner child, satisfy your curiosity, trip down memory lane, set sail, tale a trip in the fast lane, for hope, or for heartburn! For 1001 moods, here is a literary feast to


satisfy your emotional appetite based on literary merit, provocative, influential, inspirational, humorous, brainy, easy reading, page turning, challenging, bathroom book, family friendly or movie ratings. With little icons alongside each entry, there are also memorable lines from time to time in this eclectic mix of fiction with non- fiction, books for adults with books designed for younger readers, organised thematically by mood. US biased, the books have been recommended by readers, librarians, booksellers and reviewers and best of all urges us to try something new or find a book that has an interesting combination worth reading. This is why Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scoop’ is on the same page as ‘Naked’, David Sedaris’s autobiographical essays where the hapless narrator will have you in stitches. The opening line is: ‘When the teacher asked if she might visit my mother, I touched my nose eight times to the surface of my desk.’ Nicely laid out and designed 392 page large paperback.


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73885 THE PYRAMID by William Golding Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is Golding’s funniest and most light-hearted novel. It probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, the tragedy and farce of life in a small community and the consoling power of music. Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small


English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. With some superb comic episodes, this was written when the author was at the height of his powers and a story that returns to the mind again and again. 217pp in paperback reprint of the 1967 original. £7.99 NOW £5


73886 WRITTEN IN STONE:


England’s Literary Heritage by Jill Sharp


For centuries, England’s historic and prehistoric monuments have inspired writers and poets. This charming and beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a journey through some of their most eloquent works. In so doing, it covers a remarkable


diversity of genres - not only novels, drama and poetry, but also memoirs, diaries, travelogues, letters, gossip, science and politics, history, religion and philosophy. The journey begins at Stonehenge and follows a broad sweep clockwise around England. En route will be met not only the great names and titles of English literature, but also many lesser-known writers and works that still have the power to surprise. From The Venerable Bede in the 7th century, through Chaucer and the Romantics and the Victorians to the first poet laureate of the 21st century, these wonderful monuments are celebrated. Here are John Cowper Powys’ Maiden Castle, Hound Tor Medieval Village - home to the Hound of the Baskervilles - the romantic Tintagel where King Uther Pendragon fell in love with Ygerna or Igraine. Here is the Royal Garrison Church in which the Family Price worshipped in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. There are just too many delights to enumerate. 150 paperback pages very lavishly illustrated in colour, with maps and list of no less than 81 authors with the awe-inspiring places that attracted them. £9.99 NOW £6


73946 DOLL: The Lost Short


Stories by Daphne du Maurier East Wind, The Doll, And Now to God the Father, A Difference in Temperament, Frustration, Piccadilly, Tame Cat, Mazie, Nothing Hurts for Long, Week-End, The Happy Valley, And His Letters Grow Colder and The Limpet - these are the Lost Stories of Daphne du Maurier. Before she wrote ‘Rebecca’, the young Daphne du


Maurier penned short fiction in which she explored the images, themes and concerns. Originally published in periodicals during the early 1930s, many of these stories never found their way into print again until now. Tales of human frailty and obsession, of romance gone tragically awry, the 13 stories demonstrate a deep understanding of human nature. A water-logged notebook washes ashore revealing a dark story of jealousy and obsession. A vicar coaches a young couple divided by class issues, and an older man falls perilously in love with a much younger woman. 208pp. ONLY £5


73987 PULSE: Stories by Julian Barnes


By the author of Flaubert’s Parrot here are 14 short stories about longing and loss, love and friendship and their mysterious natures. From an imperial capital in the 18th century to Garibaldi’s adventures in the 19th, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in our time, Julian Barnes finds the ‘stages, transitions, arguments’ that define


us. A newly divorced estate agent can’t resist invading his reticent girlfriend’s privacy, but the information he finds reveals only his callously shallow curiosity. A


couple come together through an illicit cigarette and a song shared over the din of a Chinese restaurant. A widower revisiting the Scottish island he’d treasured with his wife learns how difficult it is to purge oneself of grief. Friends gather regularly at dinner parties and perfect the art of cerebral, sometimes bawdy banter about the world passing before them. Each story pulses with the resonance, spark, and poignant humour for which Barnes is justly heralded. US first edition with roughcut pages. 227pp.


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73286 LOVE SEX DEATH AND WORDS by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender In a sumptuous voyage through literature’s rich past here is a leap year of anecdotes from January 1st and the vexed history of the copyright of Peter Pan to December 31st publication of Richard Yates’s 1961 novel Revolutionary Road. Stop along the way to visit A. S. Byatt fighting for her local, Madame Bovary in the dock, The Pickwick Papers launching and almost sinking, Poe meets Dickens and Ravens Fly, the author of the nation’s anthems born in Covent Garden, why the British bestseller list belatedly arrived only in 1974, Roy Campbell punching Stephen Spender on the nose, Titanic poetry and more good clean harmless fun. 512pp, paperback. £10.99 NOW £4


73303 FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: J. M.


Barrie Omnibus by J. M. Barrie The pioneer of modern fantasy is here edited and introduced by Andrew Nash in this selection of work covering J. M. Barrie’s different genres - Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of ‘The Little White Bird’ contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme. In a one-act play, the satire ‘The 12- Pound Look’ exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from the point of view of an ex- wife unexpectedly turned as her (be)knighted husband’s typist. Written in diary form and telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, ‘Farewell Miss Julie Logan’ is a novella of longing and death. 330pp, paperback.


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73311 MAGNUS MERRIMAN by Eric Linklater Magnus Merriman is the would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter, moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat. Linklater’s memories of Orkney and student days informed his first novel in 1929 White Maa’s Sage and his hilarious satirical novel Juan in America (1931) was followed up in 1934 by this equally irreverent novel, based on his experiences as Nationalist candidate for a by-election in East Fife in 1933. The way is set for a satirical and irreverent portrait of Scottish life, literature and politics in the 1930s. Full of remarkable passages. 308pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3


73312 THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE and


WEIR OF HERMISTON by Robert Louis Stevenson


Two fast-paced classic novels of travel, romance and adventure with an introduction by John Burnside. Taking in piracy, political intrigue and buried treasure, the story begins in Scotland and moves across three continents to a harrowing climax in the American wilderness. The second novel is set in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars. RLS’s fascination with the divided nature of the self comes to the fore in this fierce conflict between the romantic Archie Weir and his formidable father Lord Hermiston. 338pp, glossary, paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


73330 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMILING


WOMAN by Margaret Drabble A beautifully turned collection of Margaret Drabble’s complete short stories, never before collected and have their own unique brilliance. They are perceptive, sharp and funny, exploring marriage, female friendships, the tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics. Glimmering with lyricism and moral vision, this complements her many novels which have entertained us over the last 50 years. 227pp in paperback. $13.95 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. Brief biographical information about each of the Greek poets, 77pp, colour. £9.99 NOW £4


73333 AGATHA RAISIN COMPANION introduced by M. C. Beaton A celebration of all things Agatha, here is a magnificently non-pc insight into village life. It includes an introduction by and an exclusive interview with the author M. C. Beaton, as well as Agatha’s previously unseen biography and her retirement to the Cotswolds and her ‘somewhat complicated’ love life. We take a look at the plot summaries of the last 20 titles in the series and Agatha’s Appetites, a collection of all the recipes featured in the series. Plus a quiz to test your knowledge. 138pp, line art. £12.99 NOW £6


73543 THE BRONTES WENT TO


WOOLWORTHS by Rachel Ferguson Meet the Carne sisters - Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil - growing up together in 1930s London. The eldest Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and Sheil is still with her governess. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories - from their talking nursery toys, Ironface the Doll and Dion Saffyn the pierrot, to the fulsomely imagined friendship with real high-court Judge Toddington, whom,


since Mrs Carne’s jury duty, they have affectionately called Toddy. But when Deirdre meets Toddy’s real life wife at a charity bazaar, the sisters are forced to confront the subject of their imaginings, and possibly the end of their childhood innocence. First published in 1931, 188 page paperback. $14 NOW £5


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. 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. With translator’s introduction, 118pp in paperback.


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73558 A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS by Wolf Mankowitz


In the embattled working-class community of the 1950s East End London, there are plenty of people in need of good fortune. So when six year old Joe finds a unicorn, which most adults seem to think is a goat, at the market, he brings him home to grant some wishes. Mr Kandinsky, Joe’s downstairs neighbour, wants a steam press for his shop. His assistant Shmule, a wrestler, just needs to buy ring for his girl, and what Joe and his mother wish for more than anything is to join Joe’s father in Africa. Maybe Joe’s unicorn can sprinkle enough star dust and luck on all his friends for their humble dreams to come true. 128 page paperback reprint of the 1953 original. $14 NOW £5


73560 LETTERS OF SYLVIA BEACH edited by Keri Walsh


Founder of the Left Bank bookshop Shakespeare & Company and the first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters we witness her day to day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Friends and clients include Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, HD, Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and William Wright. The collection reveals Beach’s charm and resourcefulness, sharing her negotiations with Marianne Moore to place Joyce’s work in The Dial, her battle to curb the piracy of Ulysses in the US, her struggle to keep the bookshop afloat during the Depression and her complicated affair with the French bookshop owner Adrienne Monnier. These letters also recount her childhood in New Jersey, her work in Serbia with the American Red Cross, her internment in a German prison camp and her friendship with a new generation of expatriates in the 1950s and 1960s. 30 illus, 347pp. £19.95 NOW £6


73561 LOVE’S SHADOW by Ada Leverson Oscar Wilde called this author the ‘wittiest woman in the world’, and this is her first novel. It is the story of Edith and Bruce Ottley who live in a very new, very small, very white flat in Knightsbridge. On the surface they are like every other respectable couple in Edwardian England, and that is precisely why Edith is beginning to feel a little bored. Excitement comes in the form of the dazzling and glamorous Hyacinth Verney, who doesn’t understand why Edith is married to one of the greatest bores in society. But then Hyacinth doesn’t really understand any of the courtships, jealousies and love affairs of their coterie, why the dashing Cecil Reeve insists on being so elusive, why her loyal friend Anne is so stubbornly content with being a spinster, and why she just can’t seem to take her mind off love. A classic comedy of manners. First published in 1908 and here in 225 page paperback reprint. $14 NOW £5


73566 MISS HARGREAVES by Frank Baker When, on the spur of a moment, Norman Huntley and his friend Henry invent an 83 year old woman called Miss Hargreaves, they are inspired to post a letter to her new fictional friend. It was only meant to be a silly and harmless game, until she arrives on their doorstep! She is, to Norman’s utter disbelief, exactly as he had imagined her - eccentric and endlessly astounding. He had not imagined however how much havoc an imaginary octogenarian could wreak on his sleepy Buckinghamshire town. Reprint, 317pp in paperback, of the 1940 original publication. $14 NOW £5


73567 MRS AMES by E. F. Benson Reigning over a social merry-go-round of dinners and parties, Mrs Ames is the undisputed queen bee of Riseborough. That is until vivacious new villager Mrs Evans catches the eye of both Mrs Ames’s son and her husband. Not content with captivating the men in her life, that ‘wonderful creature’ Mrs Evans becomes not just a rival to Mrs Ames’s marriage, but a rival to her village throne. When the whole of Riseborough is invited to Mrs Evans’s masked costume party, action must be taken. E. F. Benson was the Archbishop of Canterbury and lived 1883-96 and is famous for his Mapp and Lucia series. 301pp in paperback facsimile of the 1912 original. $15 NOW £5


73580 WHATEVER IT IS, I DON’T LIKE IT by Howard Jacobson


From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law’s ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and the desolation of Wagner’s tragedies, Howard Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences accrete to create a uniquely human collection. Jacobson brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed columns from The Independent, with chapter headings like If It’s ‘Readable’ Don’t Read It, Friendly Banking, Darts and the Man and Corrugation Road which begins ‘Life is a perpetual margarita.’ 343pp, paperback. $18 NOW £5


73573 READING MATTERS: Five Centuries


of Discovering Books by Margaret Willes In a rich and evocative volume, full of biographical and historical digressions, the author examines how people acquired and read books from the 16th century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Space is devoted, too, to such eminent book smiths as Samuel Pepys and Sir John Soane, both of whom had extensive libraries, but there is also a section on three provincial libraries which were much frequented, and a chapter about books for working men and women which may surprise readers. The volume ends with a gripping summary of three 19th century pieces of legislation which had a profound effect upon the lives of generations of Britons, and on their relationship with books. 295 paperback pages illustrated in colour.


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100387 GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald


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


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


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