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27398 COMPLETE GHOST STORIES by Charles Dickens


Dickens always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the 12 stories presented here, which include his celebrated ‘A Christmas Carol’, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions. 329pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


59997 THE MONK by Matthew Lewis Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence. Remarkably modern in style, it tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than-thou monk who was seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey and heads for the utter corruption of the soul. Meanwhile, two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden and skeleton-crowded vaults. Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis’s daring, while Coleridge warned parents against the suitability of the novel for their sons and daughters, describing it as ‘poison for youth’. 324pp in paperback with a new introduction. ONLY £3


53193 BELL IN THE FOG AND OTHER


STORIES by Gertrude Atherton Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of 19, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, 'The Dead and the Countess', 'Death and the Woman' and 'The Striding Place', which have an overtly supernatural element. Elsewhere, 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number', 'The Tragedy of a Snob' and 'A Monarch of a Small Survey' the psychological takes precedence over the supernatural. And in 'The Bell in the Fog' (reminiscent of 'The Turn of the Screw', and dedicated to Henry James) the supernatural and psychological combine to brilliant effect: an angelic child bears a striking resemblance to an old portrait. 173 page paperback. ONLY £3


73194 APOCALYPSE: A History of the End of Time by John Michael Greer


Human beings seem to be obsessed with predicting that their time will soon be up. The ancient Egyptians called it the Sixth Day of Pachon. The Mayans named it 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. For the Jehovah’s Witnesses, it has constantly to be recalculated. This fascinating volume covers each and every one of our possible dooms, religious and secular, past and present, whether they are asteroids, the Antichrist, solar flares, the Singularity, Zoroastrians, Zapotecs, or merely global warming. 229 paperback pages. £7.99 NOW £2.50


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73199 THE HIGHLAND FURIES: The Black Watch 1739-1899


by Victoria Schofield The striking Black Watch Tartan is one of Scotland’s most successful exports, and most people are also aware of the proud reputation of the 42nd Highlanders, later the 73rd, who are entitled to wear it. This huge official history, of which this is the first volume, starts in 1739,


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when the threat of a Jacobite uprising prompted King George II to establish a Scottish regiment loyal to the Hanoverians to police the Highlands. With the rise of Napoleon the Highlanders played a leading role in the Peninsular Wars and at Waterloo, where the 42nd repeatedly formed a square in a vain attempt to resist the French cavalry. On their return from the Crimea they were personally reviewed by Queen Victoria who was wearing a scarlet tunic. Each war and engagement is fully described, with quotations from letters and diaries. 726pp, colour photos. £35 NOW £11


74333 BORDER LINE by Eric Robson


Subtitled ‘The Story of the Anglo- Scottish Border’, Eric Robson the broadcaster’s journey starts at the mouth of the River Sark, a thin streak in the mud where the mud sucks. These were the first steps of a 105 mile walk, the plan of which to walk the length of the Border between England and Scotland and from the Solway Firth to the North


Sea coast. Finding unremembered spots where tribal leaders would gather, he recalls the raiding parties of the Johnstons, Bells, Irvines and Armstrongs, driving their herds of stolen cattle and later where poachers turned gamekeepers. 256pp in paperback. Illus. £8.99 NOW £3.50


73308 INSIDE EDINBURGH: Discovering the


Classic Interiors of Edinburgh by David Torrance and Steven Richmond In terms of British architectural heritage, Edinburgh is second only to London, boasting an incredible array of public buildings, churches, graveyards, shops, hotels, pubs, banks, schools, domestic interiors and other architectural gems. Here we are taken on a visit to 75 of the city’s most noteworthy interiors. This beautifully presented softback is arranged in 9½” square format and for each entry we a treated to a superbly photographed interior, full- or double-page in colour, accompanied by a potted history and description of the interior. Edinburgh’s pubs are well represented, including Ian Rankin’s DI Rebus’s favoured water hole, the Oxford Bar. The Café Royal and the Graeco-Roman splendour of the Dome Grill Room are quite breathtaking, and the High Gothic of the Thistle Chapel in St. Giles Cathedral is surely the most impressive example of the style in the world. 224pp.


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72441 HANDBOOK OF CLANS AND TARTANS OF SCOTLAND by Maria Costantino


The author examines in detail over 150 clans and their tartans. For each we learn the earliest known date, earliest recorded source, the type, the sett (the exact colour sequence of the repeated pattern) and the Clan crest, motto and badge, there is a half or full-page colour illus. of the tartan itself, the clan’s geographical and historical origins, and its relations with other clans. Colour, 256pp softback. £12.99 NOW £3.50


73319 SKYE


by Cailean Maclean and Angus Peter Campbell


From the little crofting townships of the Sleat peninsula to the bustling town of Portree, and from the bizarre rock formations


at Trotternish to the romantic Dunvegan Castle, these super pictures will capture your heart. The photographer demonstrates a profound understanding of and affection for a place with which his family has, for generations, had a strong and famous association. The Sleat blazing with autumn leaves, the multi-coloured rainbows that so frequently appear on Skye, or The Old Man of Storr shrouded in ghostly mist. 114 pages 25cm by 19cm in dazzling colour, maps and an introduction in English and Gaelic.


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74181 GREAT OUTDOOR ADVENTURES by Bear Grylls The ultimate guide to the best outdoor pursuits be it skiing and tobogganing, kite making and flying, tree climbing and tree houses, hiking, navigation, scrambling, foraging, camp building, fishing, caving, swimming and surfing, diving, rafts and rafting, rock and sea cliff climbing and mountain climbing. Here too is all about knots,


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500 Family Games by Evelyn August


Here in facsimile form is a 1939 book published to provide the average family with sufficient amusement and entertainment for one hundred and one Blitz black-out nights. You can’t black out the stars and it begins with a planetary look at Mars, Ursa Major before revealing thousands of facts not just about uniforms and rations,


sandbags and tea but also recollections, kiddies corner, poems, jewels of superstition, prayers of the greats like Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey and William Blake, as bald as a..., little stories, conjuring tricks - in all 500 games, puzzles, jokes and literary snippets. 216 well illus pages. £9.99 NOW £3


73860 ENIGMAS CELTIC by Maguy Ly,


Nicole Masson et al Puzzles, chain reactions, dice games, poems, double paradoxes, magic diamonds and squares, necklaces and embroidery, the Spend Thrift Druid, Helix Aspersa and the Four Daughters of Druid O’March are among the 100+ rather special puzzles for you to solve. Each page has a beautiful Celtic design or border in line art and there is gold decoration on the end papers and a padded cover to this enigmatic publication of magic squares, brain teasers, riddles and more to perk up and bend your grey matter. Foil the traps of these tricky games. With answers, 180pp. £5.99 NOW £2.75


72322 PLAY BETTER CHESS


by Rosalyn Katz and David Lawrence Katz If you are ready to go beyond the basics, open this book and consider the strengths and weaknesses of each piece. For the book to work best for you, you need to know how to move the pieces, check, mate and draw, and read and write your games. Have your chess board handy to follow the big diagrams. 96pp. £11.99 NOW £2


73503 LITTLE BOOK


OF PUZZLES by Gareth Moore There are 201 puzzles in total to amuse and infuriate you and test your word, number and logic skills. The answers are at the back. Word ladders, crosswords, word pyramids, dominoes, sutoshiki, code crackers, Calcudoku, Sudoku and many more. Paperback. £3.99 NOW £2


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23763 PERSUASION by Jane Austen Anne Elliot is one of Austen’s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society. 208pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23103 PAIR OF BLUE EYES by Thomas Hardy With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy’s novels, is lively and gripping. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy’s first wife. Elfride’s vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times. 336 page paperback. ONLY £2


35316 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky


From the beginning of this remarkable detective novel we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. Our brand new 485 page Wordsworth Classic edition is complete and unabridged and has selected excerpts from The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment. With new introduction and notes by Dr. Keith Carabine. 528pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23801 MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Thomas Hardy


None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than the Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy’s Wessex, the ‘partly real, partly dream country’ he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single ‘man of character’. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some ofthe author’s most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description. 270pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


59981 MOONFLEET by J. Meade Falkner When 15 year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of ‘Blackbeard’ Mohune’s lost treasure and Elzevir Block’s secret. This dashing tale of 18th century Dorset smugglers will be enjoyed by all who love stories of derring-do written in the tradition of Treasure Island. 236 page paperback. ONLY £2


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