12 Biography / Autobiography


70662 HER MAJESTY edited by Reuel Golden and Christopher Warwick


A stupendous brand new Taschen publication has just been published. In honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 2013, 60 years on the throne, Bibliophile celebrates the extraordinary private and public life of Her Majesty. Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, for over six decades she has steadfastly and loyally carried out her duty on behalf of her country. The hundreds of spectacular photos have it all - history, politics, glamour, fashion, culture, travel, and, of course, hats. As the Queen, she has endlessly travelled the globe, been introduced to every leading icon of the 20th century, including the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and JFK, attended thousands of receptions and state functions; while concurrently being a mother to four children and under the constant glare of public scrutiny. These photographs cover the early years, coming of age during World War II, becoming a wife, Queen and mother, the Royal Tours, the palaces, the crowds, the weddings, the Royal Family, the Silver Jubilee in 1977 and the later years. God save her indeed! Photographers include Cecil Beaton, Studio Lisa, Dorothy Wilding, Karsh, Lord Snowdon, Patrick Lichfield, as well as more contemporary work from the likes of Wolfgang Tillmans, Rankin, Annie


Leibovitz, and many others. With two gatefold colour posters included of the family tree and the Coronation Commonwealth Tour. Text in


English, French and German. A huge 11.4 x 15.6 in., 366 pages in special mailing box.


ONLY £100


73135 MARTIN LUTHER KING by Godfrey Hodgson


A rounded portrait of a Christian prophet and the most brilliant orator of his age. Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th century American history through his leadership of the non-violent Civil Rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The biography traces his life and career from his birth in Atlanta in 1929, the campaigns that made possible the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to his assassination in Memphis in 1968. 249pp in paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


73157 WHEN I DIE by Philip Gould Labour guru Philip Gould was widely admired by people across the political spectrum, and his death from oesophageal cancer in 2011 made headlines. He vividly describes the physical symptoms and the way he coped with them, as well as the mental strategies for turning grief, fear and loss into the sense of an opportunity. When the condition becomes terminal Gould movingly expresses how a terminal diagnosis gives value to every minute of every day and transforms human relationships. Gould takes his own story almost to the end, typing even when he is very weak, and his wife and daughters complete the story with their own perspectives. 228pp. £14.99 NOW £4.50


74071 MARGARET THATCHER: The Autobiography


Commemorative Edition edited by Robin Harris The present edition is an abridged version of the original two volumes of Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs. The Downing Street Years, describing the author’s time as Prime Minister, was the first to appear, in 1993. The Path to


Power, an account of her youth and early political career, was published two years later. This single, abridged volume sets them right. She writes candidly about the formation of her character and values, and the experiences that propelled her to the very top in a man’s world when, after rising through the ranks to Education Secretary and then Leader of the Opposition, she led the Conservative Party to a historic victory in the 1979 general election, becoming Britain’s first woman prime minister. Here are the triumphs and the critical moments of the Falklands War, the miners’ strike, the Brighton bomb and the Westland Affair. She is lavish with praise where it is due, devastating with criticism when it is not. 788 pages with chronology, illus. £30 NOW £6


73919 GANDHI: The Man, His People and the Empire by Rajmohan Gandhi


Mohandas Gandhi rebelled against his parents’ teaching at an early age. Married at 12 to a wayward young girl, Kastur, he decided to study law in London, taking a vow of abstinence from wine, women and meat. Life was difficult but Gandhi enrolled at the Inner Temple and returned home three years later a qualified lawyer. On his return to India he found it difficult to make his way as liberal thinker, and when his law firm in Rajkot needed help with a court case in South Africa, Gandhi went. Gandhi did not return until 1915. In South Africa he read the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit and concluded that he could not follow God without giving up all he had. Working with the sick and impoverished, he was drawn into politics, founding the Natal Indian Congress and trying to move them in the direction of Satyagraha, or peaceful action. The scene was set for his return to India and the long fight for independence. Emphasis is on the personal and spiritual forces that moulded his actions and philosophy. 738pp, photos. £25 NOW £6


ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 74076 NEW ELIZABETHANS: Sixty Portraits


of Our Age by James Naughtie When BBC Radio 4 listeners were asked to nominate New Elizabethans - people from public life: the arts, science, music, sports, entertainment, literature, politics and so on 62 were selected to be broadcast by James Naughtie. Here are cook Elizabeth David, film-maker Alfred Hitchcock, composer Benjamin Britten, comedian Tony Hancock, poet Philip Larkin, painter Francis Bacon, two Beatles, National Theatre director Peter Hall, dress designer Vivienne Westwood, politician Tony Blair and architect Norman Foster, as well as many other luminaries of our era. 353 pages. £25 NOW £5


74186 JOSEPH ROTH: A Life in Letters translated and edited by Michael Hofmann A new biography of the master novelist and legendary European journalist, told through his letters. Joseph Roth wrote barely a dozen letters before 1925 when he was 30, a married professional, a published novelist, an experienced vagrant already on his third country and maybe his fourth newspaper when he got his big break as a journalist in Paris. There is little in the way of chat, description, narrative, confessional scandal. This is a man with books to write and columns to fill. His newspaper bosses quite deliberately despatched their acutest, most highly strung war correspondent to 11 different places. He wrote his masterpiece The Radetzky March between 1930 and 1932. Born in the Ukraine in 1894 he died tragically in Paris in 1939. The letters capture Roth’s calamitous life, marked with his father’s madness and his wife’s schizophrenia and by war, poverty and alcoholism and the life of the writer as an outsider in Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt and Paris. 554pp, photos. £25 NOW £6.50


74199 PEELING THE ONION by Gunter Grass


Gunter Grass peels back the layers of his vibrant, uncompromising and picaresque life in his searingly honest account. We begin with his modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a portrait of a young boy and young man alive in Germany through its most devastating decades and it will stand as a factual masterpiece, beautifully gruff, and no-nonsense in its direct and conversational spirit. 425pp in softback. £9.99 NOW £3.50


74137 ONLY WAY WAS ESSEX by Spike Mays


Born in 1907, the author died in 2003 at the age of 95 and won the Best First Work award for this, his first book. It is a bittersweet memoir in which he recreates his village in a remote corner of rural Essex, its travelling parson, local poacher and even the resident drunkard. In the bustling backstairs


world of the squire’s house where Spike served his apprenticeship, we see a more privileged side to life. Spike lived with his family in a two-up two-down cottage with no electricity and shared a privy in the backyard. A warm and nostalgic portrait of a very different Essex to today’s. 298pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


74140 THE BARONESS: The Search for Nica,


the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild Striking, spirited Pannonica, known as Nica, was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege, her family had in only five generations risen from Jews Lane in Frankfurt to great wealth across Europe. She seemed to have it all - children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard Thelonious Monk playing ‘Round Midnight’ and the music overtook her. She abandoned her marriage to follow him to New York. Finding friendship among the musicians, her real love was reserved for Monk, whom she cared for until his death. Nica had the chance to hear Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington among others while living with her new husband Baron Jules de Koenigswarter in Paris. 307pp, paperback. Photos. £8.99 NOW £4


72786 SEMI INVISIBLE MAN: The Life of Norman Lewis by Julian Evans


Norman Lewis (1908-2003) from the 1950s to the ’90s, wrote books which have stood the test of time better than all but a handful of contemporaneously published novels. Son of a pharmacist and born in Enfield, his accounts of pre-Vietnam War southeast Asia, pre-mass tourism Spain and wartime Naples remain required reading, true masterpieces of travel writing. A British spy for over 20 years, he also raced for Bugatti before the war and was a crack shot. Living in Ibiza after the war, he was a flamboyant host, a businessman with mafia connections and lived a life of rock-star hedonism. 813pp, photos. £25 NOW £4.50


73564 MALCOLM


MUGGERIDGE: A Biography by Gregory Wolfe


Malcolm Muggeridge was one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century. Many of his insights achieved a prophetic wisdom that continues to resonate now, from terrorism and the rise of radical Islam to cloning, and to the influence of the media. As a young man, he looked


to Communism for salvation - only to be one of the first to uncover the genocidal policies of the Soviet Union. He was also an old hand at deconstructing the rhetoric of party politics. On the subject of sex, he wrote from personal experience as a notorious womaniser, and was funny, poignant and compelling. He was the godfather of the British comedy revolution of the 1960s. A keenly observed biography. 462 pages. £13.50 NOW £4


73180 DIAL 999 by Les Pringle


The heart warming true life adventures of an ambulance driver in 1970s Britain taking us back to a time when learning to drive the ambulance meant going out for one test drive and managing not to hit a pedestrian. At the age of 23, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and become an ambulance driver. Every day brought another glimpse


into other people’s lives. Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and ‘flying’ ladies, this is a wonderfully written book which was previously published as ‘Blue Lights and Long Nights’. 396 page paperback edition. £6.99 NOW £4


73575 SELECTED LETTERS OF REBECCA


WEST edited by Bonnie Kime Scott During her long life, Rebecca West wrote an estimated 10,000 letters - deliberately fashioning her own biography, challenging rival accounts of her groundbreaking professional career as author, critic and feminist journalist. It includes correspondence with her famous lover H. G. Wells, with George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Emma Goldman, Noël Coward and many others. Here are fearless pronouncements on such contemporary authors as Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer and Arthur Schlesinger Jr as well as new insights into West’s battles against misogyny, Fascism and Communism. 497 pages with photos, Family Tree, biographical sketches and chronology. £25 NOW £7


73598 MUGABE: Teacher, Revolutionary, Tyrant by Andrew Norman


Education is not all the Mugabe has destroyed during almost three decades in office; but why? Despite the millions of words written about him in the press, describing him as ‘evil’, a ‘monster’ and so forth, no satisfactory explanation for his bizarre, cruel, destructive and irrational behaviour has been forthcoming. This book attempts to put Mugabe under the microscope, to explain just why this former teacher became a tyrant.’ The situation in Zimbabwe is far worse today than it was in 2000 - her people brutalised, disenfranchised and starved. 192pp in paperback, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


73718 THE KENNEDYS: Portrait of a Family by Richard Avedon and Shannon Thomas Perich


Photographer Richard Avedon chronicled the latter half of the 20th century with powerful portraits. Just three weeks before his presidential inauguration, John F. Kennedy and his young family were to be found sitting for formal black-and-white portraits, all of which Avedon donated to the Smithsonian. Now, curator Shannon Thomas Perich has culled more than 75 images from that collection. In addition, a foreword by the distinguished historian Robert Dallek gives authoritative insight into one of the most fascinating presidents in American history - not to mention his extraordinary wife and photogenic children. Revealing quotations. 127 pages, 30cm x 26cm.


$29.95 NOW £5


73911 CHAMBERLAIN LITANY: Letters Within a Governing Family from Empire to


Appeasement by Peter T. Marsh Joseph Chamberlain was the pivotal British statesman of his day. After his stroke, his two sons, Austen and Neville, took up central positions in public life. Although they were never to match Joseph’s power, the Chamberlains had thus produced three leading statesmen within two generations, an achievement unrivalled in British history. Three of Joseph’s four daughters also devoted themselves to the public in education, voluntary services and government, and sustained the correspondence that kept them all together. These letters amount to an autobiography of the family, and reading them is almost like eavesdropping. Neville Chamberlain’s achievement at Munich in apparently appeasing the Fuehrer was discredited by the outbreak of the war he had struggled to avert. He was driven from power, and replaced by Churchill with resounding success. 395 pages, photos, family tree and chronology. £25 NOW £6


74052 BILLY BROWN, I’LL TELL YOUR MOTHER by Bill Brown


Rationing is still a part of everyday life, and for ten-year-old Billy, a mischievous lad full of ambition and imagination, this means opportunity. With both his parents at work, after school and weekends are spent scouring the bomb sites and markets, working in a scrapyard and selling everything from bricks to horse muck, machetes to baby


chicks. Packed full of wonderful characters, from the barrow boys to the first West Indian immigrants, the girls at Woolies to the rag and bone men. 326pp paperback, photos.


£7.99 NOW £3.75


74054 CHURCHILL THE POWER OF WORDS: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through his


Writings and Speeches edited by Martin Gilbert The editor has chosen 200 extracts from Churchill’s books, articles and speeches that express the essence of his thoughts and reveal the main adventures of his life, the many crises of his career, his major parliamentarian interventions and initiatives and his philosophy of life and human existence. These extracts range from his memories of his childhood and schooldays, to his contributions - during more than 50 years - to debates on social policy and on war. They create a fascinating biographical narrative of the statesman’s life and how he made his mark on Britain and the world stage. 486 pages with b/w archive photos, illus and maps. £25 NOW £8


BUSINESS AND COMPUTERS


A filing cabinet is a place where you can lose things systematically.


- T. H. Thompson


74615 COMPUTING FOR THE OLDER AND WISER: Get Up and Running with Windows Vista or Windows XP


by Adrian Arnold


Do you feel that you are too old to tinker with technology or juggle with jargon? Are you fed up with


unexplained acronyms such as SCI, RAM or URL? You do not need any prior computing knowledge or facility in typing. Two fingers are quite enough! All you need is the ability to read simple, step-by-step instructions. There is no reason why you should not soon be using the keyboard and mouse, setting up files and folders, using email and the internet, customising your desktop, word processing, organising your digital photos, finding useful web sites, and much more. So why not take the computer by its not-very-frightening horns? 334 paperback pages illustrated in colour with glossary and list of useful websites. £12.99 NOW £6


72091 MICROSOFT WORD MADE EASY by Rob Hawkins


Covering Word from Office 97 to 2010, here is straight talking, step- by-step guide to headings and styles, Clipart, file types, troubleshooting, font advice, terminology, help with printing and useful links for beginners to


intermediate computer users. Produce an annual Christmas letter, write a 20,000 word dissertation with contents page and index, learn about mail merge and produce professional looking reports, posters and leaflets. Screen shots, 256 large paperback pages. £9.99 NOW £4


74097 HOW TO MAKE MONEY TRADING: Everything You Need to Know to Control Your Financial Future by Lex van Dam


This book dispels the myth that working in the City is complicated. Learn how to manage risk, make informed decisions based on past events and analyse company performance to develop your own investing style and ideas. Packed full of company histories, full explanations of all the jargon and trading strategies, famous traders’ stories and plenty of illustrative anecdotes. Revised and updated 2012 paperback edition, 190pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50


72546 THE BANK: Inside the Bank of England by Dan Conaghan


The Bank of England started as a private bank, was nationalised after World War II, given operational independence in 1997 and is now changing radically again with the new legislation of 2013. This book covers the Bank’s fortunes since independence, in particular following the career of governor Mervyn King. Controversies over quantitative easing and the build-up of leverage are covered, together with King’s leadership style. In recent years there has been a tripartite structure between the Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority. 324pp. £18.99 NOW £4.50


73822 SOMETHING WHOLESALE: My Life and Times in the


Rag Trade by Eric Newby


Any book by Eric Newby is an event. Author of the classic ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’, Eric is much loved and admired for his comic travel writing. Here is his hilarious tale of his chaotic life as an apprentice to the family garment firm of Lane and Newby. A story


of unfortunate escapades with wool allergies, tissue paper and matching buttons, it is also a warm and loving portrait of his eccentric father, who seemed to spend more time participating in disasters than preserving his business. 228pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4


73667 TOUGH CALLS: Making the Right Decisions in Challenging Times


by Allan Leighton with Teena Lyons


Allan Leighton began his career at Mars Confectionary, where he rose to become group marketing director before leaving to join ASDA. He talks to many other big


businessmen who are in the know, from Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Terry


Leahy, to Adam Crozier at ITV and Stephen Hester at RBS. This line-up of top executives outline their approaches to breaking down often highly complex problems into achievable solutions. 268 pages with Who’s Who.


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