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74272 THE IRREPRESSIBLE CHURCHILL: Winston’s World,
Wars and Wit by Kay Halle Covering Childhood, Correspondent- Soldier, Conservative then Liberal Politician, World War One, the Prophet of Evils (1930-39), World War Two, Enjoying Chartwell and Prime Minister Again, the collection takes us right up to 1965 and along the way covers speeches at
Conservative party conferences, the Lord Mayor’s banquet, in the House of Commons and dozens of quotes by ear-witnesses. Charismatic, eloquent, humorous and perceptive here is his remarkable military and political career, mainly in his own words through his thoughts, opinions, wit, wisdom, jokes and reposts. 338pp, illus.
£9.99 NOW £5.50 71954 THE POWER OF METAPHOR: Story
Telling and Guided Journeys by Michael Berman and David Brown When a metaphor is embedded in a story, the grabbing of the listener’s attention by the dynamics activates the subconscious, allowing the metaphor and its message to be absorbed. This collection traces techniques of storytelling back to their original roots, promoting a deeper understanding of metaphor’s use, then presenting a series of enjoyable and thought-provoking tales. Illus, 206pp softback.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
72326 TOASTS FOR EVERY OCCASION by Town and Country and Pamela Fiori Here are quotations that will convey the sentiment behind every milestone, be it a birthday, a graduation, a wedding, an anniversary or the birth of a child. Other toasts will help you to express the love or pride you feel for someone special. Still others are humorous or celebratory in nature. Let the party begin. 223 pocket- sized paperback pages. £5.99 NOW £2.50
72533 LOST WORDS: A Feast of Forgotten
Words Their Origin and Their Meanings by Philip Howard
For wordsmiths, avid readers, purists, pedants, logophiles and all onomatomanes, here is an A-Z of words. English is reputed to have a vocabulary of a million words, taking in regional variations, slang, dialects, eponyms, homonyms, acronyms and polysyllabic medical compound words, but can these million words actually be counted? Our favourite piece of ‘charientism’ - from Pride and Prejudice - must be: ‘You have delighted us long enough with your piano- playing, Mary’. 211 pages, line drawings and quiz. £14.99 NOW £5
72747 WISE AND WITTY WORDS ON LOVE,
FAMILY, FRIENDS by Reader’s Digest
Over 500 quotes from the clever, funny and famous, from Homer to Groucho Marx, Ian Hislop: ‘All American films boil down to ‘I love you, Dad...’ and WC Fields:, ‘I love children...if they are properly cooked.’ A treasure- chest of a collection on the topic of relationships - romantic love, friendship and the joys (or otherwise) of family life. 176pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50
72813 CROSSWORD PUZZLES: MENSA by Carlton Books
224 page paperback with one puzzle per page from those devious minds at MENSA, the High IQ Society. Once you become a crossword addict you leave behind all normality and become a part of a strange world of anagrams, homophones, arcane references and weird vocabulary. The true cryptic crossword is very largely an Anglo-Saxon artefact. Join the club and enjoy stretching your word abilities and general knowledge to the limit. Please note contents same as 72812. £5.99 NOW £2.50
73237 PLEASURES OF LOVE edited by Jennifer Taylor
Disraeli wisely opined “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end” whereas Jerome K. Jerome quipped “Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.” Love, as we all know, makes the world go around, inspiring as it does the entire range of human emotions, from complete euphoria to utter despair and unquestioning devotion to outright hatred. This collection of over 500 quotations from diaries, letters, works of fiction and the mouths of the eloquent charts the course of love from the first idyll and dizzy heights of happiness to lasting devotion, or dramatic break-up and the depths of misery, taking in on the way love’s ever-present sidekicks, sex and marriage. Woodcut illus. 192pp. £9.99 NOW £2.50
34620 WORDSWORTH CROSSWORD COMPANION
by Stephen Curtis and Martin Manser This crossword book is the ideal friend at your elbow to help in solving crosswords. Clear guidance on how to recognize and work out anagrams and on how to decipher cryptic clues. Thousands of synonym entries arranged in order of the number of letters in every word, e.g. fault n (3) bug; (4) flaw, lack, sport; (5) blame, error, taint; (6) defect; (7) absence, blemish, failing, frailty, mistake; (8) weakness; (10) deficiency, inadequacy; (11) shortcoming; (14) responsiblity; over 30,000 synonyms. Helpful introduction on the art of solving crosswords. ONLY £4
72819 WIT AND WISDOM OF LITERARY GREATS
by Carlton Books
From writer’s block to the joys and perils of free flowing verse, here are gifted writers’ lives captured for eternity in this hearty batch of quotations from some of history’s greatest wordsmiths. More than 800 amusing and downright cutting quotations with useful index, 280pp in square softback. £9.99 NOW £3
The election isn’t very far off when a candidate can recognise you across the street.
- Kin Hubbard 73429 THE
CONSERVATIVES: A History by Robin Harris
Robin Harris had almost completed his magisterial account of the life of Margaret Thatcher when she died last April, necessitating rapid completion, editing and printing of the book. This, his previous book, required no such indecent haste. The Conservative Party has been at the heart of British politics for over 200
years, and Harris has been at the party’s heart since 1978, having been director of research, government political advisor and a member of Mrs Thatcher’s policy unit. When she was ousted from Number 10, he stayed with her, assisting her with her books and writing her speeches. Surprisingly, given the influence of the Conservative Party and its members, there has not yet been a single volume history as authoritative as this. In a lively style, Harris takes as his starting point the larger-than-life personalities who have led the party, analysing in forensic details the careers of Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Hague and Cameron and the political ideas that formed them. These superb pen portraits of some of the most powerful men - and one woman - in British history form the foundation stones of a vibrant, compelling narrative which shines a new light upon British history since the early 19th century. A landmark book. A door-stopping 632pp with 32 pages of colour and b/w plates, first edition of 2011. £30 NOW £8
74208 SPIES AND COMMISSARS: Bolshevik
Russia and the West by Robert Service Recounts the extraordinary story of the men and women who fought for Bolshevik Russia and those in the West who tried to subvert their plans. It is the untold story of how many of the Western powers were determined to prevent Lenin and Trotsky from spreading their Communist ideals around the world. Into this void stepped a bizarre miscellany of people. These included the British diplomat Robert Bruce Lockhart who, with Sidney Reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, engineered a plot to bring down Lenin. On the other hand, the American journalist, John Reed, and writer Arthur Ransome were both attracted to the new Communist regime. Meanwhile, in London and Berlin, Lenin’s commissars, Maxim Litvinov, Adolf Ioffe and Lev Kamenev, were aiming to influence foreign policy to the Bolsheviks’ advantage, as well as trying to secure the business deals that were vital for the regeneration of Russia’s collapsed economy. All these mavericks were soon joined by others: opportunistic businessmen seeking a quick profit, intellectuals hoping to create a new world order, reporters looking for good copy, and even society ladies seeking excitement. 440 pages with maps, postscript and rare b/w archive photos. £25 NOW £6
73496 I HAVE A DREAM: The Speeches that
Changed History by Ferdie Addis A truly brilliant speech is unfathomable. The lines resonate with amazing power. Sometimes the secret lies in the rhythm of the words. Sometimes the art comes from a powerful metaphor or image: ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king’. With examples taken from a selection of the world’s greatest orators - Jesus of Nazareth, Maximilien Robespierre, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst and many more. 192 inspiring pages. £9.99 NOW £3
73504 LITTLE BOOK OF CRYPTIC
CROSSWORDS by Gareth Moore 100 brand new cryptic crossword puzzles, all previously unpublished with full solutions at the back, arranged in a chronological flow rather than difficulty - let the battle commence! Ideal for crossword enthusiasts who love a challenge, the book is guaranteed to infuriate, confuse and entertain for hours on end. Small paperback. £3.99 NOW £2
73719 DOES A BEAR SH*T IN THE WOODS? Answers to
Rhetorical Questions by Caroline Taggart Where does time go? Can a leopard change his spots? What (sort of) time do you call this? Am I talking to myself? What are you, a man or a mouse? Who rattled your cage? Is that a fact? Is the Pope a Catholic? Am I made of money? Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? Here
are answers to rhetorical questions about the meaning of life, literature, history, politics, finance, geography, science, nature, health, the law, domestic life, food and drink, sex and romance. Wonderfully browseworthy, 160pp in paperback, cartoons. $13 NOW £3.50
27097 DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS by E.B. Ordway
Will enable readers to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but everyone who enjoys the richness and diversity of the English language will find a great deal to reward them within its covers. 256pp. Paperback. ONLY £4
MODERN HISTORY
73826 THE THIRTIES: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner
The Thirties was a decade of extremes, in politics encompassing the farcical furore of the Abdication crisis and the murderous racism of Hitler’s Kristallnacht, and in entertainment ranging from Gielgud’s tragic Hamlet to Noel Coward’s frothy Private Lives. Amy Johnson piloted her plane from London to Moscow in less than a day, greyhound racing became the nation’s favourite sport, leading artists refused to exhibit at the frumpy Royal Academy and the Ashington ‘Pitmen’ painters mounted several successful exhibitions. In 1931 the government was in stalemate over financial cuts needed to restore confidence in the currency, with the Conservatives promoting tax cuts and Labour opposing benefit cuts for the almost 3 million unemployed. Public awareness finally led to the social welfare reforms of the post-war period. By the end of the decade only a third of the population were owner-occupiers. The author covers fashion, entertainment, sport, consumerism, women at work and attitudes in the face of the inevitability of war. 957pp, photos. £30 NOW £7.50
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74147 1989: The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Subtitled ‘The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ the writer’s compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989 draws together vivid on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin. Here are leaders such as Vaclav Havel in Prague, Poland’s Lech Walesa, Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth in Budapest, and of course Mikhail Gorbachev. A brisk, first-person narrative. 254pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50
74185 ISRAEL: A History by Martin Gilbert 60th anniversary edition, fully revised, updated and enlarged by Sir Martin Gilbert, this is the most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published. Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of the world stage. During two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world, prayed for a return to Zion. Until the 19th century, that dream seemed a fantasy, but then a secular Zionist movement was born and soon the initial trickle of Jewish immigrants to Palestine turned into a flood as Jews fled persecution in Europe. From these beginnings the book traces the events and personalities that would lead to the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948. From that point on, Israel’s history has been dominated by conflict - Suez, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon and the Intifada. Two new chapters cover the last ten years. 786pp, maps and illus. £25 NOW £8
74214 TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER by Christopher Hitchens
In a polemical masterpiece, the author accuses the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor of the USA of being a war criminal. Despite the fact that, in the author’s opinion, Henry Kissinger’s every action demonstrates on the part of the former Secretary of State a callous indifference to human life and human rights, and a morally repulsive record. These include the deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina, deliberate collusion in mass murder in Bangladesh, the suborning and planning of murder of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation - Chile - with which the US was not at war, master-minding a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus, the incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor, and personal involvement in a scheme to kidnap and murder a journalist living in Washington DC. 247 pages.
£14.99 NOW £6.50
72366 THE EXPO FILES by Stieg Larsson
Along with the creation of Salander and the Millennium Trilogy, professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and Editor-in-Chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international level. The articles are on right-wing extremism, racism, violence against women and women’s rights, on homophobia and honour killings. Despite death threats and financial difficulties, Larsson never ceased to fight for his firmly held principles. 186pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £2
74170 1900s: Britain in Pictures by Paul Richardson
This important collection of hand-picked images from the Press Association’s unique archive illustrates a decade of life in Britain that saw, inter alia, the end of the Victorian era, the growth of the Labour and Women’s Suffrage movements, the first powered flight and the disastrous 1908 London Olympics. Here are families enjoying a rare outing to the cliffs in Folkestone, shiny-shoed, bowler-hatted men accompanying women with long sleeves and ankle-length skirts on Yarmouth sands, a jolly crowd revelling in the excitement of the Epsom Derby and ‘ladies’ hard at work on a farm. An irresistibly nostalgic 300 softback pages packed with archive b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £6
74171 1910s: Britain in Pictures edited by Paul Richardson
The decade represented by these images encompasses a time of profound change in British society. The Great War, not the ‘War To End All Wars’ as was thought, but an apocalyptic occurrence nonetheless, dominates those years. But, even before that, there had been conflict between ordinary Britons and their masters. A new industrial unrest was seen on a large scale in the strikes at the beginning of the decade. Women were prepared to die in their struggle to gain the vote. In Russia, the Royal Family - closely related to Britain’s own - were executed. Meanwhile, working people were stoically carrying on with their task of cleaning and packing seasonal fish catches, and miners were racing their pet whippets. 300 softback pages, photos. £14.99 NOW £5.50
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72538 ORDER! ORDER! A Parliamentary Miscellany by Robert Rogers
Here are all the famous clashes, rivalries and great events of parliamentary history, such as the fire in 1834 that destroyed the medieval buildings, the dramatic attempts to blow up and bomb Parliament and the Prime Minister who was assassinated while he walked along its corridors. No, we did not know that one either! As entertaining as it is informative, and written with the intimate knowledge of an insider, this is altogether a fascinating collection. 243 pages, b/w illus. £14.99 NOW £2.50
72634 SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE: Writings on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
Professor Simon Schama CBE is an Edward Gibbon for our times. His review of Roy Jenkins’s biography of Churchill gives Schama the opportunity to look at the whole Churchill myth, both the adulation and the sly deflation. 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. Two articles on the significance of 9/11, a few days and a year afterwards, are both equally thought-provoking. Food is another passion, and memories of his mother’s Jewish kitchen are intensely evocative. 405pp, photos. £20 NOW £5
72776 PORTRAIT OF AN ERA: An Illustrated
History of Britain: 1900-1945 by Juliet Gardiner et al
A weighty publication from Reader’s Digest brimming over with some 650 b/w photos from the world famous Getty archive. We begin with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and a rather splendid formal portrait of the next queen, Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, with her compliment of six pageboys on the day of her husband’s coronation in 1902. The interwar period brought the Jazz Age when “flappers” Charlestoned the night away, and back in the real world we had the General Strike, the Depression, the abdication of Edward VIII and the rumblings of another war. The ensuing destruction of WWII and ultimate victory all came at a terrible cost, then the General Election of 1945 saw war- winning Churchill become an election loser, and the beginnings of the welfare state and NHS. Quality photos and expert analysis. 559pp, 9½” × 11½”. £25 NOW £9
73053 LONDON CALLING: A Countercultural
History of London Since 1945 by Barry Miles
Soho and Fitzrovia are still a magnet for writers and artists eager for altered states and social freedoms. This superbly entertaining account of London’s Bohemia in its postwar heyday, the people, pubs and parties, starts with the romantic figure of Tambimuttu, the editor of Poetry London who gave the name Fitzrovia to the area round Fitzroy Square. The author remembers Lucian Freud and Henry Moore as his regular illustrators. In the 50s the scene changed with the advent of the Angry Young Men and the Beat generation, and in the 60s the Beatles and their entourage adopted the short-lived Ad- Lib club. 468pp, paperback, notes, photos, some in colour.
£12.99 NOW £3 HEALTH
A cough is something that you yourself can’t help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
- Ogden Nash 74299 MIDDLE AGE: A
Natural History by David Bainbridge Why does time speed up as you get older? Do middle-aged people really become more conservative? Why are the anti-wrinkle creams failing to work? Is the male mid- life crisis just an excuse to buy a sports car? Have I come to the end of my productive life as a human being? By looking at the latest research from the fields of
anthropology, neuro-science, psychology and reproductive biology, he concludes that the answers are surprisingly encouraging. In clear prose, he explains the science behind the physical, mental and emotional changes men and women experience between the ages of forty and sixty, and reveals the evolutionary, and personal, benefits of middle age. 317 paperback pages. £14.99 NOW £4
72770 HOSPITAL BABYLON
by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous Subtitled ‘True Confessions from the Front Line of Accident and Emergency’, welcome to Hospital Babylon where patients get lost, the healthy get sick and spare kidneys get flown in from the Indian subcontinent. Meet the doctors who sleep with nurses, nurses who sleep with patients and patients who spit, scream, vomit and fight. There are doctors who pump up breasts, lips and steal Class A drugs from patients in cardiac arrest. Packed with shocking anonymous confessions. 318pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £2 72835 SWIM FOR LIFE: Optimise Technique,
Fitness, Enjoyment by Greg Whyte A leading physiologist breaks down the four major strokes into step-by-step instructions and pictures, enabling you to perfect your style and increase your speed. You will also discover how goal-setting, and designing a swimming programme can keep you motivated, and there is even advice on expanding your swimming horizons to include open water. 144 softback pages 23.5cm x 19cm illustrated by colour photos. £12.99 NOW £2
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