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FIGHTS by Ned Buntline Edward Zane Carroll Judson, better known to millions of late 19th century readers as Ned Buntline, was a sailor, soldier, duellist, showman, gambler, bigamist and all- round rabble-rouser. This unabridged, handsome rough-cut collection contains his four signature Old West novels: 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 with 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 was haunted by a premonition of his death. 438pp.


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23862 DRACULA by Bram Stoker ‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.’ Intro and Notes by Dr David Rogers. 352pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


73062 TRAVELLER’S DAYBOOK: A Tour of the


World in 366 Quotations by Fergus Fleming


366 journeys that are by turn lyrical, witty, tragic and bizarre. From Christopher Columbus’ apparent discovery of the West Indies in 1492 to Anton Chekhov’s journey through Siberia in the 19th century and on to Wilfred Thesiger’s wanderings in Arabia’s empty quarter in the 1940s,


each quoted extract is accompanied by a brief commentary that introduces the writer and establishes the context of the excerpt. Ranging from the astonishment of the 17th century diarist John Evelyn on beholding the size of women’s shoes in Venice to the stoic courage of Captain Scott facing death at 40 degrees below, the exasperation of Dylan Thomas at finding himself in a ‘stiff- lipped, liverish, British Guest House in puking Abadan’ and the philosophical introspection of Fridtjof Nansen as he drifts in an interminable and rigid world of Arctic ice. 478 pages, illus. £25 NOW £6.50


23789 GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens


Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, ‘Great Expectations’ traces the growth of the books narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens’ most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip’s good-hearted room mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own ‘great expectations’ in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself. 400pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


62725 A TO Z OF ENGLISH


LITERATURE by David Rothwell David Rothwell’s book is an idiosyncratic and light-hearted review of all that is great (and not so great) about the major figures of English Literature, and provides lucid and entertaining explanations of every literary form and technique. Free of pointless biographical detail,


it concentrates on providing examples of prose and poetry that help to understand the essence of the work. With their total lack of any pretence of neutrality, you may not always agree with David Rothwell’s views, but you can hardly fail to be informed and entertained by them. 384pp in Wordsworth paperback. ONLY £4


68846 THE COMPLETE FOUR JUST MEN by Edgar Wallace


The complete adventures of Edgar Wallace’s daring and ingenious vigilantes. This fascinating bumper collection contains all six volumes of the Just Men saga: The Four Just Men, The Council of Justice, The Just Men of Cordova, The Law of The Four Just Men, The Three Just Men and Again the Three. In these thrilling yarns of daring do, mystery and international intrigue, the Just Men tackle wrongdoers of all kinds from criminal masterminds and desperate anarchists to cunning murderers and obsessive madmen. Where Scotland Yard fails - they succeed. Blends suspense, humour and action. 936 page paperback. ONLY £3


71917 SOURLAND: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates


Pumpkin-Head, The Story of the Stabbing, Babysitter, Bitch, Amputee, The Beating, Bounty Hunter, Probate, Donor Organs, Death Certificate and Lost Daddy are among the 16 short stories, previously uncollected, that explore the power of violence, loss and grief to shake the psyche as well as the soul. Some unusual grammar and experimentation. 373pp in paperback. £14.99 NOW £2


71926 THE RIVERED EARTH by Vikram Seth This beautifully presented book contains four libretti written by the gifted Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth, together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. Entitled ‘Songs in Time of War’, ‘Shared Ground’, ‘The Traveller’ and ‘Seven Elements’, they take us all over the world, from Chinese and Indian poetry to the beauty and quietness of the Salisbury house where the poet George Herbert lived and died. Four pieces of calligraphy by the author. 104pp.


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70547 LE MORTE D’ARTHUR: Collector’s Library Edition by Sir Thomas Malory with


illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley This magnificent and evocative edition is based on that of 1893, which was decorated and illustrated by the then notorious young artist, Aubrey Beardsley. Combined with Malory’s majestic rendition of the Arthurian legends these drawings create an atmosphere of enchantment. All the familiar stories are here: the wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone, how Merlin counselled King Arthur, how Sir Lancelot was espied in the Queen’s chamber and what happened to both of them, how Mordred was slain and Arthur was hurt to the death. But there are also thrilling tales of people in and around Arthur’s court with whom readers who have read expurgated versions of this volume may not be so familiar, not least how Sir Tristram lay with the lady and how her husband fought with Sir Tristram. 23 x 30cm x 4.1cm, a vast 561 pages with gold-encrusted edges and silk bookmark, illustrated in b/w with glossary and the re-printed preface of William Caxton for the first edition of 1485.


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70783 BEST OF JOHN BUCHAN by John Buchan


Three rip-roaring Richard Hannay thrillers The 39-Steps, Greenmantle and Mr Standfast here in a bumper large size well bound softback with satin bookmark. The most famous fictional creation of author, politician and statesman John Buchan, Richard Hannay averted disaster for king and country on many occasions bringing evil international superspies to justice. Omnibus softback, 624pp with satin bookmark. £14.99 NOW £2


71338 UNDER THE SUN: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare


Bruce Chatwin was a cult writer of beautiful prose. Abandoning an art-historical career at Sotheby’s he switched to travel writing and set off for Afghanistan with Peter Levi, sending an advance taster of the book he was to write in a fascinating eight-page letter to his publisher Tom Maschler. He died from AIDS at the age of 48. In Patagonia was followed by The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill and The Songlines. Literary figures who appear in this correspondence are James Lees-Milne and Gerald Brenan. 554pp, photos. £25 NOW £3.50


71579 THE BHAGAVADGITA translated by Professor Vrinda Navar and Professor Shanta Tumkur


The Gita consists of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend Lord Krishna, on the eve of the climactic battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga, disciplined action performed in the right spirit, as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable ‘existential’ anguish at having to join battle against his gurus and kinsmen. The Gita, although almost 2,500 years old, contains profound truths of great relevance to contemporary society. 80 page paperback. ONLY £2


71899 CUPID AND PSYCHE by Apuleius translated by E. J. Kenney A beautiful princess has a husband she can never see. He visits her only in the dead of night. When curiosity overcomes her, she discovers who he really is, only to be cruelly abandoned. Now Psyche must begin an impossible task, to find her husband, even descending to the depths of Hell in her search. But she has earned the wrath of Venus by rivalling her in beauty, and the vengeful goddess will stop at nothing to destroy her. 92pp in paperback. £4.99 NOW £1.75


71913 READ THIS NEXT


by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark Subtitled ‘...And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books’. Divided into parts we begin with Love with Camille and Madame Bovary, Memoir including food books and travel books like Norman Lewis’ Naples ’44 and Out of Africa, A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich, some sci-fi, drug books, politics, humour, mental illness, murder mysteries, great novels, Hollywood books, sports books, religion and 500 other suggestions. 432pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £2


71936 SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama


Professor Simon Schama CBE is an Edward Gibbon for our times. Schama presents Churchill as subscribing to the idea of a global conflict between good and evil and finally concludes that his convictions were not false. Another political analysis is Schama’s programme article for the Almeida production of Richard II in 2002. His article on Ruskin’s hatred of Dutch painting is a superb aesthetic meditation, and Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Rampling, Isaiah Berlin all get the Schama treatment. Food is another passion. 428 page paperback, colour illus.


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72384 LADY SUSAN AND OTHER WORKS by Jane Austen


This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Lady Susan is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for her daughter and herself. The Watsons


The Writers Summer School in Swanwick, Derbyshire has played host to many writers. Past speakers have included; Iain Banks, Ruth Rendell, PD James, Norman Wisdom, Terry Pratchett, Colin Dexter and Deric Longden. Deric was from Derby and met his second wife, author Aileen Armitage at the annual writing event. He had been sent to interview her for Radio Derby and became a regular speaker himself and together with Aileen, helped guide many


budding writers.


Now the Swanwick Writers’ School together with the ME Association and Bibliophile Books are creating the Deric Longden Memorial Prize. The 500 word short story completion will be awarded to the writer/carer who, like Deric, has a witty way with words and is fulfilling the role of carer to a friend or family member for love rather than financial reward.


It is fitting that Deric is being remembered in this way having started writing by entering a short story competition himself. Through wining the competition, not once but twice, he becoming part of the BBC Radio Derby broadcasting and journalist team. He then went on to become a bestselling author, speaker, screenplay writer and win an International Emmy for his screen adaptation of his book ‘Lost For Words’ and Dame Thora Hird a Bafta for her portrayal of Deric’s Mum. It is also fitting that the ME Association are sponsoring the award in recognition for the profile Deric’s first book ‘Diana’s Story’ had in raising the awareness of ME. Diana’s Story’ was about Deric’s first wife’s severe ME and the story was turned into the BAFTA nominated TV drama ‘Wide-Eyed and Legless’. Deric’s reading of it was voted by Radio Four’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ listeners as the most popular serial in 50 years. All of his books are available in digital form at www.bibliophilebooks.com


COMPETITION RULES


Your entry can be on any theme you choose. Just bring a humorous slant to it, as Deric did on


explores themes of family relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to rank, which became the hallmarks of her major novels. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. Plus works like Catharine, Love and Freindship [sic], and The History of England. Paperback, 359pp. ONLY £2


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 with elegant typography and silhouetted endpapers, 12 colour plates and the addition of myriad decorative elements - ornamental heads, initials, silhouettes, partial borders and more. 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. 150 un-numbered pages bound in a soft turquoise suede-effect material. $30 NOW £8


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. 344 pages with list of books reviewed. £25 NOW £5


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. 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,


Literatur 3 e The Deric Longden Swanwick Memorial Prize


life in general. He once broadcast a radio obituary to a long-serving role of clingfilm called ‘Eric’ when it finally delivered its final sheet!ic: Good luck.


Age and caring relationship: Entrants must be aged 18 or over and fulfilling the role of an unpaid carer for a friend or family member. Please be sure to tell us who you are caring for and your relationship to that person.


Entry fee: £5 (cheque payable to ‘The Writers’ Summer School’ or by online payment direct to the school’s bank account). We can give you those bank details on application.


Closing date and where to send your


entry: Post your entry to ME Essential, 60 Broadgate, Weston, Spalding, Lincolnshire PE12 6HY to arrive by midday on Friday 2 May 2014. Typed entries only please, in double spacing, with a front cover sheet including your name, address and email. All initial inquiries to Tony Britton, email: tony@meassociation. org.uk


Judging: Entries will be judged by a small panel set up by the Writers’ Summer School in association with Deric’s family.


Prize: A fully inclusive week worth about £500 at the 2014 Writers’ Summer School in Swanwick, Derbyshire, from August 9-15, including all meals, en-suite accommodation and access to the renowned programme of courses, speakers and evening entertainment during the week.


Watch their website for further details: www.swanwickwritersschool.co.uk


Aileen Armitage will be guest speaker on Monday August 11 and will be joined by her daughter Annie Quigley and son-in-law Martyn. They are looking forward to awarding the prizewinner with a commemorative certificate.


42192 THE FUNNY THING IS... CD by Deric Longden Bestselling author and winner of the Emmy for Lost For Words starring Dame Thora Hird (who won the Best Actress BAFTA), here is a chance to hear a collection of Deric's funny stories


all voiced by Deric. Includes 'The Nativity', 'Slugs', 'Thermal' and many other amusing and memorable tales. Publishing News said, 'Deric Longden gives some great comic musings on love, life and living - he is one of the select brand of writers who can read their own work well, drawing out the warmth and humour.' He is also of course the author of Diana's Story and Wide Eyed and Legless, and was our very own Annie's stepfather. ONLY £9


CD which Bibliophile is producing on eBook in 2014 in memory of Deric.


Mickey Mouse, Liberty in England, Life in India, Marco Polo, the Emperor Babur, Egypt and the Orient. 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. Plus The Abinger Pageant and England’s Pleasant Land. 464 pages.


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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. 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 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 £5.50


72493 DARK FLOWER by John Galsworthy In 1932 Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature and this classic, The Dark Flower, was first published in 1913. It opens in 1880 with its hero Mark Lennan an 18 year old undergraduate studying art at Oxford unaware that his tutor’s Austrian wife Anna, twice his age, has fallen in love with him. When she suggests that Mark join them on a holiday in the Alps, the scene is set for the first of the passionate involvements that will characterise the young man’s life. 269pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50


73020 A RAGE TO LIVE by John O’Hara When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something, she goes after it. Her extramarital affair scandalises Pennsylvania’s élite, and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, it is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness. 713pp in Vintage Classic Paperback.


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72496 MAURICE GUEST by Henry Handel Richardson


Set in the musical world of Leipzig in the 1890s, heroine Louise is an Australian student at the academy, of compelling appeal. Her affair with her fellow student


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