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73325 THE POWER HOUSE by John Buchan


Here is the very first adventure of the classic Buchan hero, the prosperous Scottish lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen, whose measured daily routine of ‘flat, chambers, flat, club’ is enlivened by the sudden disappearance of Charles Pitt-Heron, one of his Oxford contemporaries. Meanwhile fellow politician Tommy Deloraine heads to


Moscow to track down the missing man. Leithen finds himself pitted against green-spectacled villain Andrew Lumley and a terrifying international anarchist network called ‘The Power-House’. 108pp in paperback with an introduction by Stella Rimington. £6.99 NOW £3.50


73299 A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS by John Buchan


Young and dissolute, Francis Birkenshaw carouses around Edinburgh, caring nothing for the Jacobite Rebellion. An encounter with the beautiful Margaret Murray, wife of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s secretary John Murray of Broughton, and a lust for riches and adventure draw him inexorably into a dangerous involvement, duplicity and betrayal. Buchan reveals a dark a compelling side in this portrayal of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s ill-fated campaign. 210pp in paperback with an introduction by James Robertson. £7.99 NOW £4


73302 THE BLANKET OF THE DARK by John Buchan


An anonymous young man’s life is about to be changed as could the course of history. It is 1536 and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who should be on the throne of England. Can they persuade him to risk everything in a treasonable rebellion against the throne? In the hands of the master thriller writer John Buchan, the dark dangerous days of Tudor England come alive as never before. 268pp in paperback with an introduction by Robert Hutchinson. £7.99 NOW £3.50


73305 THE FREE FISHERS by John Buchan When Anthony Lammas, Kirk minister and Professor of Logic at St. Andrew’s University sets off for business in London, little does he realise that he will soon be entangled in a web of conspiracy, but Anthony is no ordinary professor. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, The Free Fishers is classic Buchan, a fast-paced tale of treason and espionage. 270pp in paperback with an introduction by Douglas Hurd. £7.99 NOW £3.50


73310 JOHN BURNET OF BARNES by John Buchan


The turbulent ‘Killing Times’ of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals. John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from abroad to find himself denounced as an agent of the Covenanters. Outlawed and deprived of his inheritance by his ruthless cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, John must now fight to survive. Buchan’s first full-length work of fiction is a tale of adventure in the tradition of R. L. Stevenson. With an introduction by Sir Tam Dalyell, 322pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


73491 DARWIN: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel


Using multiple viewpoints from Darwin himself to his beloved wife Emma, and even at one point the orang- utan at London Zoo, Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin’s thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father. She superbly creates poetry giving a voice to her famous ancestor and in the margins explains a period of his life described. A clever marrying of the thoughts and words of a great giant of a man. 141pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £2


73500 KIND REGARDS: The Lost Art of


Letter-Writing by Liz Williams This book investigates the whole subject of letter- writing: the materials that have been used, the history of writing letters and of the post, the curious and inventive forms of the letter that have emerged over the years. It also features sections on how to write letters, as well as countless examples taken from Greek philosophers to Jane Austen. 192 pages, line drawings. £9.99 NOW £2.75


73648 A GARDEN OF LATIN VERSE: Poems of


Ancient Rome by Frances Lincoln Here is Catullus, the passionate love poet from Verona, and Virgil, whose Aeneid stands as one of the classic epics of all time, as well as Horace, the son of a slave who rose to become Rome’s cool-voiced satirist and finally Ovid, sophisticated author of the magical Metamorphoses. Each poem is illustrated with a detail taken from a Roman fresco or mosaic. Brief biographies of each poet, and a note on the art of Pompeii and Herculaneum. 77 pocket-sized pages, mosaics in subtle colour.


£9.99 NOW £4 71894 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMILING


WOMAN: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble


In this collection of perceptive and finely crafted stories, spanning nearly four decades, Drabble reveals her brilliance in the art of the short story. In The Gifts of War peace-protesting students clash with a mother buying a toy for her son, with tragic consequences. In Hassan’s Tower an Englishman on honeymoon has an epiphany, finding a shared humanity with a Moroccan crowd. In A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman a successful TV presenter hides a painful secret. In A Voyage to Cythera, the fascination Helen feels for the harmonious, perfect family picture, that she glimpses through the window, corresponds with the Denham household that Clara experiences in Jerusalem the Golden. 223 pages. £20 NOW £5.50


73658 MY CENTURY by Günter Grass A collection of 100 interlinked short stories celebrating the 20th century by Germany’s most eminent contemporary writer, Günter Grass. As the sequence of stories unfolds, a lively and rich picture emerges, an historical portrait of our century. Grass creates time elapsing passages, 100 years in under 300 pages with delightfully horrific characters in a funny, disquieting odyssey backwards in time ranging from 1900 to 1999. 280pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3.75


100415 MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collins The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been broguht to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her 18th birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, an Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved. 448pp. ONLY £2


53189 THE HAUNTED HOTEL AND OTHER STORIES by Wilkie Collins


The star attraction is the novella ‘The Haunted Hotel’, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale. The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil’s spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness. 317 page paperback. ONLY £3


23783 COMPLETE FATHER BROWN by G.K. Chesterton


Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton’s kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner. The Complete compenduim is 800pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


59995 TOM SAWYER ABROAD AND TOM


SAWYER DETECTIVE by Mark Twain With a new introduction and notes by Stuart Hutchinson, those clever chaps at Wordsworth have thought of putting the two classic books together in one 188 page paperback with all original delicate woodcuts. Following on from ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ (1876) and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ (1884-5), ‘Tom Sawyer Abroad’ (1894) became one of Mark Twain’s most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters, Tom Sawyer, ‘Nigger Jim’, and Huck Finn, together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions and Bedouins in the Sahara and retrace something of Twain’s own expedition to the Holy Land in his bestselling ‘The Innocents Abroad’ (1869). In ‘Tom Sawyer Detective’ (1896), Twain returns us the banks of the Mississippi and a murder mystery involving identical twins and stolen diamonds. ONLY £2


71177 DESCENT OF MAN: And Selection in


Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities. He attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. This book presents a full explanation of Darwin’s ideas about sexual selection, including his belief that many important characteristics of human beings and animals have emerged in response to competition for mates. This was a controversial work. Yet Darwin tried hard to avoid being branded as a radical revolutionary. The Descent of Man played a major role in the emergence of social Darwinism. This complete version of the first edition gives the modern reader an unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with Darwin’s proposals, launched in the midst of continuing controversy over On the Origin of Species. Paperback, 674pp, illus. ONLY £4


72332 DICKENS ON FRANCE edited by John Edmondson


Dickens is viewed as an essentially English author but he lived in both Boulogne and Paris for several months on six occasions between 1846 and 1862. France featured in several of his novels - A Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son, Nicholas Nickleby and Our Mutual Friend. John Edmondson has chosen extracts from these books plus Pictures from Italy, The Uncommercial Traveller and contributions to the weekly magazine Household Words, blending them into an informed survey infused with energy, perception and open-mindedness. 18 illus. 426 pages, paperback. $20 NOW £3


23805 LES MISERABLES VOL.1 by Victor Hugo


One of the great Classics of Western Literature, ‘Les Miserables’ is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. 528pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23806 LES MISERABLES VOL.2


by Victor Hugo Volume two. 512pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


72250 A JURY OF HER PEERS: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to


Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter In a monumental, intelligent and at times controversial work, the author introduces us to more than 250 American women writers. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison and Jodi Picoult, playwright Susan Glaspell. In 1900, when she was a fledgling newspaper reporter in Des Moines, she had covered a sensational case in which a farm woman was accused of murdering her husband and she was so haunted by the trial that she later turned it into both a play and a short story. 679 paperback pages organised chronologically.


£14.99 NOW £2.50 72331 ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN Paperback.


DENISOVICH by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One of those must-read classics. The ‘Gulag archipelago’ of Russian labour camps, established by Stalin as the lifelong prisons of political dissidents, is well established as a horrific symbol of totalitarian repression. This is the book that in 1962 brought life in the prison camps to the world’s attention and made an overnight hero of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In one prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhob, and one single day of his long sentence, we find a universal Everyman, struggling to make sense of the hand that Fate has dealt him, and determined to survive. Low jacket price. 136pp. ONLY £2.50


72492 THE ALOE by Katherine Mansfield Linda Burnell dreams, listless and distant, while downstairs her mother sets the house in order. Her husband Stanley, exhaustingly energetic, is at the office, but will return with eager and admiring eyes. Her children prepare lunch on a concrete step, her sister sings love songs to an imaginary young man. This is The Aloe, which Katherine Mansfield wrote to capture the recollection of her childhood in 1890s New Zealand. 88 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £2


72517 LOST JOURNAL OF BRAM STOKER edited by Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker Discovered in the attic of one of Stoker’s descendants, the notebook kept by the author of Dracula consists of 310 entries during the period between 1871 and 1882. Stoker left Dublin for London in 1878, becoming the actor Henry Irving’s manager, but most of these journals are from his formative years observing life in Dublin’s pubs and streets, his civil service colleagues in Dublin Castle and days as a student at Trinity College. Early journals include many items on religious and moral subjects: several poems and numerous anecdotes about “fallen women”. Many of his short story synopses are in Gothic vein, and in 1872 he attends a reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s spooky poem “The Raven”. 337pp, photos. £18.99 NOW £3


MISCELLANY Quality stationery and gift ideas 74377 ANGELS: Exclusive


Giftwrapping Paper by Ullmann Publishing Ten sheets of quality gift wrap folded into a large softback book, the sheets measure 27 x 19" or 50 x 70cm each. The angel motifs are beautifully coloured and decorative and there is original packing suggestions depending on the shape of the gift - a beautiful gift bag, ice


cream cone, open book, locomotive or heart shape packaging or to cover boxes etc.. Softback. ONLY £5


74378 WILLIAM MORRIS


GIFT WRAP: Ten Sheets by Ullmann Publishing Best known for his contribution in revitalising the crafts and decorative arts, with Art Nouveau, William Morris (1834-1896) was a designer and craftsman. His designs for paper, fabrics, carpets and tapestries, ten of which are included in this book, have won him lasting


renown. In beautiful subtle shades of blue, green, mustard and yellow, each sheet of gift wrapping paper has been folded into four and measures when opened 50 x 70cm or 27½ x 19½”. Good quality and easily detached from the softback book which begins with a 12 page introduction to Morris in three languages. ONLY £5


74379 FAUVE BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS


GIFT WRAP: Ten Sheets by Ullmann Publishing The Fauves were the sensation of Paris, a group of artists surrounding Matisse renowned for their use of intense, arbitrary colour. Diaghilev and Bakst were among those who set off a fashion rage that was to last from 1909 through to the 1920s.


These brilliant textile designs, created mostly in Paris, capture the spirit of adventure. The 10 distinct designs feature superbly coloured butterflies in blues, yellows, greens, pinks and white, parrots in a flowering tree, jungle birds, hyacinths and colourful flower borders, and an arboretum of dark greens and purples with trees at sunset executed in gouache on paper. 12 page introduction then ten sheets eachmeasures 50 x 70cm, 27½ x 19½” easily detached from the softback book. ONLY £5


73835 WEDDING GIFT BAG by Simon Elvin Beautifully hand crafted gift bag with hearts, roses, bells and flowers and taffeta ribbons actually stuck on to the


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outside of these 8" wide x 10½” tall x 4" depth gift bags. Will either have the title For Your Wedding or On Your Wedding Day With Love and each have a taffeta carry handle and matching gift tag - no choice available. Makers wrapping presents a doddle. Bargain price. ONLY £2


73836 GIFT BAG: Gardens by Simon Elvin Hand decorated with either a watering can or a flower design, these pink gift bags are flower pot shaped, bright and cheerful, sparkly and colourful and measure 8½” high x 8½” at the top and 6" at the bottom and open out another 3½”. With pink transparent taffeta carry handle and matching gift tag attached. Super value and all purpose making gift wrapping a doddle. ONLY £2


73837 FUR BABY GIFT BAG by Simon Elvin The cutest tabby kitten with bright blue eyes looks up to a butterfly in the top left corner of this all purpose gift bag with white rope handles and gift tag. Measures 8½” x 10½” x 4" width, ideal for bottles and presents. ONLY £1.50


73838 LARGE GIFT BAG: Male Birthday by Simon Elvin


Silver foil stars, a white background, greens, reds and blues decorate this 12" tall by 11" wide by 5" breadth smart gift bag with white rope carry handles and a To and From tag. Would suit ladies or gents for birthday gifts, this is one to store in the bureau when there is no time to wrap with paper or it’s just to pop in a couple of bottles. Bargain value. ONLY £2


71483 FABRICA BOOK BAND: Set of Three by Elliott Burford


A very snazzy design, this is essentially a 2½” wide nylon loop incorporating a black nylon pencil case with a bold white zipper. Fill with stationery, notepads, ID, pens, mobile phone, camera, lipstick, make-up, keys, paper clips, coins, it is ready to wrap snugly around your iPad, notebooks, paperback, hardback, e-Book reader when you are on the go and need somewhere to store your bits and bobs. Sold as a pack of three at a bargain price.


ONLY £6.50


71646 12 COLOURING PENCILS by Robert Frederick Ltd


Red and yellow and pink and green... you know the rest. The full spectrum, 12 colours in these lovely long elegant pencils which can be sharpened and re-used for months and months and months. The tin is decorated with a mother and baby giraffe design and these artist’s pencils are high quality to allow for rich, long lasting colour with a professional finish. Apologies if tin is dented and a little stained. ONLY £3


72209 BUSY BEE PORTFOLIO by Jane Jenni and Pepper Pot


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Presented in a large plastic resealable case is a very bright yellow legal, (larger than A4 sized) document folder, a 50 page lined writing pad with the Busy Bee black and yellow logo in its red circle on each page, a business card holder and an accordion storage pocket on the left side. With a sturdy padded folder binding, red shiny leather stitched stud fastener and the Busy Bee logo in the centre. ONLY £4


72334 M. C. ESCHER UP AND DOWN: A Folio


of Notecards by M. C. Escher and Pomegranate In his youth, Maurits Cornelius Escher (Dutch, 1898- 1972) studied architecture for a time before devoting his career to drawing. Forsaking art’s familiar translations he takes us into the vertiginous realm of the surreal and infinite. Two hypnotic Escher works, Cycle from 1938 featuring one of his famous staircases with figures descending, and Up and Down 1947 with a mirror image palm tree and villa, there are five each of these two designs in blank notecards and ten bright white envelopes in this portfolio. ONLY £4


72336 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT GUEST BOOK by Pomegranate


Measuring 8" square with brown bonded leather padded cover embossed with an iconic Frank Lloyd Wright architectural design, the blank pages contain space for date, name, address and notes. 56 quality cream coloured pages, each divided into four and with bright white satin bookmark. Comes in a presentation case. ONLY £3.50


72341 MAN RAY PHOTOGRAPHS: 20 Blank Notecards


Le Violon D’Ingres from 1924 is one of the four gelatin silver prints chosen for this selection. Five blank sturdy notecards of each of the four designs with an iconic image of a female by the master photographer, painter and filmmaker Man Ray. Intriguing black and white photographs including two using the solarisation process. With 20 white envelopes 4½” x 6¾”. Presented in sturdy box. ONLY £3.50


72796 YOU AND ME: 12 Notecards and


Envelopes by Enormouschampion In the large card envelope is a colourful sticker sheet with the black silhouette designs of a cat, a dachshund, a squirrel and a dove plus 20 smaller stickers of flowers, leaves, four love hearts, one Hello and one Hiya!!! Tartan background for the dachshunds, woodland for the squirrels, blue woollen balls for the cats and leaves for the birds, each repeated on the beautiful coloured envelopes. Four designs. £8.99 NOW £2.50


72878 PEACOCK VINTAGE FLORAL LINED NOTEBOOK by Jessica Tyrrell


Gold embossed with purple spine, dark turquoise blue wallpaper background, the cameo golden circle features a stunning peacock in rich colours on the front cover of this lined notebook. Measures 5½” x 7½”, 64 lined pages with purple satin bookmark and purple elastic tie to keep all your jottings, promises, notes and secrets, clippings and inserts safe. ONLY £4


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