14 Crime Fiction 70552 PUGWASH AND THE


GHOST SHIP by John Ryan The famous Black Pig, home to Captain Pugwash and his crew, is in desperate need of a spring clean. But what begins as a simple exercise in painting and decorating soon leads to a plot so dastardly that it looks as thought the Captain’s days are finally up.


Luckily young Tom the cabin boy has a brainwave and so Pugwash, the most famous pirate of all, survives again to sail the Seven Seas. Based on the 1962 original with colour witty cartoon illus and large quality pages.


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PACIFIC by John Ryan The Admiral is under strict orders from the Prime Minister to search the Seven Seas, capture Captain Pugwash and bring him back alive. Fortunately, far away on a sunny island in the middle of the Pacific, Captain Pugwash has no idea of the fearful fate which awaits him. The


sky is blue, the sea is warm and the Captain and his crew are having a lovely time, but will they be able to evade the law for much longer? Based on the 1973 original, here is 2009 lavish, glossy paged hardback. Witty colour cartoons. £11.99 NOW £2.50


72892 ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN


WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll Following the White Rabbit down into his burrow, Alice meets a caterpillar with a hookah, finds herself reciting radical new versions of familiar rhymes, encounters the short-tempered Duchess with her baby pig and is directed by the Cheshire Cat to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, where time stands still and the hapless Dormouse is constantly asleep. Next comes croquet with the Queen of Hearts who shouts “Off with his head” whenever anything displeases her, causing problems for the Executioner when the Cheshire Cat enters the scene, since he is a head with no body. The Mock Turtle’s Story, the Lobster Quadrille and the pressing question of Who Stole the Tarts follow in quick succession before Alice wakes up. An introduction by Philip Pullman points out that Alice is a resourceful heroine. Coloured versions of Tenniel’s classic drawings. 196pp, large print.


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73984 PLAYSKOOL 24 MR POTATO HEAD CRAYONS


by Leap Year Publishing Super value box set of colourful non-toxic children’s crayons. Mr Potato Head design on the front. Great value. ONLY £2.25


73985 PLAYSKOOL 8 WASHABLE JUMBO MARKERS by Leap Year Publishing


Washable in soap and hot water from skin and most clothing, play away with your non-toxic colourful markers in black, red, bright green, orange, blue, purple, brown and yellow. Great value. ONLY £4.50


72994 LOATHSOME LETTER-WRITING PACK by Horrible Histories, illustrated by Martin Brown


There is no place like Rome and now you will have no excuse to write to grandma once you have in your hands this brilliant writing paper with three designs, envelopes to match, with seals and stickers to decorate your letters with First Class, Urgent, and the three designs writing paper with Execution, Queen Victoria vomiting down a loo and Caesar stabbed in the back crying ‘I get the point’. Resealable wallet. £4.99 NOW £2


72995 HOW TO KEEP A PET SQUIRREL by Axel Scheffler


While dipping into a children’s encyclopedia from 1910, Axel Scheffler came across a small guide to procuring and caring for a pet squirrel. His imagination set to work and he created a series of beautifully finished illustrations alongside his wise advice. It is a parody of the 1910 original chosen by Bibliophile from the major publisher, Faber, who made the decision to recreate the book with the famous illustrator Axel Scheffler of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. It is certainly not intended to be a real guidebook. Ages 8+.


£9.99 NOW £2 73518 CHESTNUT HILL: Playing for Keeps:


Book and Necklace by Lauren Brooke Welcome to Chestnut Hill, an American boarding school where riding is every girl’s favourite subject, and loving horses puts you top of the class. All the time that Lani spends riding means her marks are suffering and her parents told her she has to change schools. She is devastated at the thought of leaving Chestnut Hill so how can she convince her parents to let her stay? Friendship, riding and rivalry. 185 page paperback with free necklace of a pink pony in metal suspended from a two-tone pink beaded necklace. Suit ages 6+.


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73843 MINNIE MOUSE LETTER WRITING SET by Disney


A real branded DISNEY Mad 4 Minnie product aimed at ages 3+ to help you keep in touch with your friends in the old fashioned way. The big plastic wrapped set includes writing paper, envelopes, stickers and a gel pen all in a big bold colourful Disney design, and the stickers can be used on project books etc. £5.99 NOW £2.50


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73574 REFORMED VAMPIRE SUPPORT GROUP by Catherine Jinks


Jinks supplies a cast of brilliantly conceived friends and adversaries in this highly acclaimed teenage novel. Fanged at 15 and still living with her mother, Nina Harrison hadn’t aged since 1973 and the highlight of her life is her Tuesday night group meeting which she spends with a


miserable bunch of fellow vampires, none of them sexy, romantic or powerful. But when one of the group is mysteriously turned to ashes, suddenly they are all under threat. Along with her friend Dave, a former punk rocker, Nina travels way out of her comfort zone to track down the killer. 362pp. $17 NOW £3.50


73786 MASTER ENGINEER: Robots by Paul Beck


This outsize tome is sure to thrill eight-year-olds and over. This big, bright and eye-catching book shows some of the most advanced androids around today, how they work, what they can do and how they may be developed - one day they could be our helpers, rescuers, helpers, even our friends. And what more could any inquisitive child want? How about a 3’2" robot of their own! At the back are full instructions and 19 heavyweight card pieces that build into a rather fetching blue and silver robot, which is a scale model of an actual robot, the 4’10" Mahru from South Korea. 40 pages, 12"×11¼”.


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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. - Thomas Carlyle


75101 NUMERATI: How They’ll Get My Number and


Yours by Stephen Baker In the 21st century the accumulation of numerical data has spiralled beyond the mind’s power to grasp. Most of us have experienced the cookie warnings that mean your internet browsing habits are being used for predictive purposes: what pop-up ads you are likely to respond to, and what trends can be identified


in the population generally. Data analysis is also used to predict habits and trends outside consumerism, for instance in politics, and for many people this is a threat. American political analysts have divided voters into types, with such labels as Hearth Keepers, Barn Raisers and Inner Compass, and when he hears about this the author ventures into a coffee shop to see if he can spot any tell-tale signs. Getting back to his tame data analyst, he finds himself labelled as a Still Waters type, 87% of whom identify with the Democrats. Right Clicks, on the other hand, are people who know the tricky stuff you can do by clicking the right side of a mouse, and tend to vote Republican. Sex, health and terrorism all get the same treatment. In this racy and fascinating book the author aims to demythologise the process of data collection, explaining exactly what the number-crunchers can do and more importantly what they can not do. Human life and behaviour is still too complicated for many analytical strategies. So you can sleep at nights. For now. 244pp, paperback.


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74773 DIGITAL DIET: The 4-Step Plan


by Daniel Sieberg A four step plan to break your technology addictions and regain balance in your life. If you are bogged under by Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Gmail, Blackberry, iPad, laptop or X-box, if your heart flutters when you see a flashing red light, your phone beep and your e- mail ping, perhaps technology is increasingly taking over your life.


With so much available to us, it is easy to surrender control to it. Our digital lifestyles are more of a weight on our shoulders than we know and many of us can no longer focus on a single task or face-to-face conversation without wanting to reach out or retreat to the virtual world every few minutes. It’s time for a digital detox. This 28 day four step plan will get you started - rethink, reboot, reconnect and revitalise, learning to live with technology. 254pp in paperback.


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73515 THE ART OF WAR: The New Illustrated Edition


by Sun Tzu


Here is the first known military treatise, written in China more than two and a half millennia ago by the sage Sun Tzu. Since the 18th century it has caught the imagination of political and military leaders and proved to be highly influential in shaping strategy. His aphorisms, unique in their range and perceptiveness, cover not only battlefield manoeuvres but also vital elements of the military background, such as economics, politics and psychology. Today, his precepts have been taken to heart for the lessons they offer on competitiveness, compromise and goal-setting. 272 softback pages illustrated in colour and b/w, with beautiful calligraphy. Plus a biography of the author and two appendices: Wu Ch’I’s Art of War and Brief Biographies of the Commentators. £14.99 NOW £6


74582 OPENING NIGHT CRIME FICTION


Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.


- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


75015 THE PURSUED by C. S. Forester


A lost crime thriller by the master storyteller, this is a wonderful, almost miraculous discovery by the unsung godfather of English noir. Marjorie had never seen a dead person until she got home one tranquil summer evening and found her sister’s body. She looked peaceful, as if she was asleep. Their mother suspects however that Dot’s


death was far from natural. What’s more, she’s convinced she knows who the killer is and slowly she plots her revenge. After all, who would suspect a neatly dressed, grey-haired widow of anything? A dark, twisted psychological thriller. The typescript was lost and has been discovered seven decades later, published here for the first time. 220pp. £14.99 NOW £6


75007 GREATEST RUSSIAN STORIES OF CRIME AND SUSPENSE


edited by Otto Penzler 19 short stories by the greatest writers including Akunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin and Tolstoy. Crime and mystery fiction was a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era if it did not glorify the state but


instead gave individual characters the significance that the USSR despised. Criminals in Mother Russia tended to be caught or punished by their own consciences or by ghosts, and the notion of a criminal trial as we know it is utterly alien. Nonetheless, the enormous talent and passion of Russian authors have long been justly acclaimed and the rare forays they made into this loosely defined genre rank among the world’s classics. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction. 354pp in paperback. $15.95 NOW £5


74668 FANTOMAS by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain


This legendary crime novel has been translated from the original French and was first published in 1915 and is here in unabridged reprint. A noblewoman is hacked to death in her chateau, a Russian princess is boldly robbed at a posh hotel, and a lord’s lifeless body is found stuffed into a trunk. Everyone recognises the deeds of Fantômas, a master of


disguise, and his daring and diabolical crimes paralyse Parisians with terror. One man is sworn to bring the phantom killer to justice - Inspector Juve who ventures from dark alleys to brilliant salons in his relentless pursuit of the evil genius. This was the very first volume in a series of wildly popular French thrillers and was a sensation in pre-WWI Europe. The original pulp fiction, it appealed to generations of artists and writers and is enduringly stylish. 300 page paperback.


£10.49 NOW £5 74581 ACCORDION CRIMES:


A Novel by Annie Proulx By the award winning author of The Shipping News, here is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish- Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green


accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past - a voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make this an exhilarating, soulful, majestic and magical novel. 431pp in paperback. $16 NOW £5.50


74580 WHAT DARKNESS


BRINGS by C. S. Harris Set in Regency England in September 1812, after a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military comrade, heartsick Sebastian learns of a new calamity - Russell Yates, the dashing onetime privateer who married Kat a year ago, has been found standing over the corpse of Benjamin Eisler, a wealthy gem dealer. Yates insists


he is innocent, but surely he will hang unless Sebastian can unmask the real killer. Eisler’s clients include the Prince Regent and Napoleon, and he was a despicable man with many enemies and a number of dangerous, well-kept secrets, including a passion for arcane texts and black magic. Central to the case is a magnificent blue diamond that disappeared on the night of Eisler’s death. As the killer grows more desperate, Sebastian finds his marriage to Hero tested by the shadows of his first love. 353pp. Remainder mark. $24.95 NOW £7


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MURDER by Anne Rutherford At the dawn of the Restoration period, Suzanne Thornton hopes to find a second life in the theatre, but instead on opening night, she finds a dead body on stage. The triumphant return of King Charles II in 1660 is occasion for much celebration in London. The Merry Monarch’s unquenchable thirst for entertainment creates opportunities for everyone from tavern keepers


to brothel owners to actors. One of these is Suzanne. No longer a kept woman since her man fled, she sees an opportunity to re-open a theatre and stage the greats - Shakespeare, Marlowe and the like and now, thanks to Royal decree, women can openly tread the boards. Suzanne secures financing from an old lover, assembles a troupe and restores the venue, none other than the historic Globe Theatre. Suzanne undertakes her own investigation to find a killer who may try to close her down for good. 309pp in paperback. Remainder mark.


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74980 NIGHT WATCH: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett


For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city except perhaps a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last - the flags and barricades are rising and the question for a policeman, an officer


of the law, a defender of the peace is: Are you with them, or are you against them? With all the trademark metaphysical wit of Pratchett, this is an inventive Discworld novel. 475pp in paperback.


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74939 BEASTLY THINGS by Donna Leon


When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate. He is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere but with no identification except for the distinctive shoes, and no missing people reported, the case cannot progress. Brunetti asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers’ protest the


previous autumn. But what does the victim’s involvement with this protest have to do with his murder? The investigation takes Brunetti to a slaughterhouse on the mainland where they discover the origin of the crime and the world of blackmail that surrounds it. 296pp with map of Venice. £17.99 NOW £6


74929 A NAME IN BLOOD by Matt Rees


A highly acclaimed Oxford graduate best known for his Omar Yussef series. This novel is set in Italy, 1605. For the ruling Borghese family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio it is a place of rough bars, knife fights and grubby whores, until he is commissioned to paint the Pope. Soon he has gained entry into the


Borghese family’s inner circle and becomes the most celebrated artist in Rome. When he falls for Lena, a low- born fruit seller and paints her into his Madonna series as a simple peasant woman, Italian society is outraged. Discredited as an artist but unwilling to retract his vision of the woman he loves, Caravaggio is forced into a duel, and murders his adversary. Even his most powerful patrons cannot protect him from a death sentence, so Caravaggio flees to Malta and undergoes the rigorous training of the Knights of Malta. 288pp. £14.99 NOW £5


74845 PLAYING WITH FIRE by Peter Robinson


Made into a major ITV drama and starring DCI Banks, this is one of the best crime fiction series on the market. In the early hours of a cold January morning two narrowboats catch fire on the dead end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the scene, DCI Banks and DI Annie Cabbot are summoned. By the time they arrive, only the


smouldering wreckage is left, and human remains have been found on both boats. The evidence points towards a deliberate attack, but who was the intended victim? Was it Tina, the 16 year old who had been living a drug- fuelled existence with her boyfriend or was it Tom, the mysterious, lonely artist? It appears that a number of people are acting suspiciously and then the arsonist strikes again. 448pp in paperback.


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75026 UNRELIABLE LIFE OF HARRY THE VALET


by Duncan Hamilton An impossibly daring jewellery heist aboard a train at Paris’s Gare du Nord station captures the attention of the world in October 1893. Who would have dared pull off such a feat? The author reveals the true story of Harry the Valet, the notorious crook who was the scourge of Victorian London, who


conned and stole his way into high society, living a life www.bibliophilebooks.com


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