73131 KINGFISHERS CATCH


FIRE by Rumer Godden Sophie, an English ingénue with two children, arrives in Himalayan Kashmir to set up home in a tumbledown cottage surrounded by fields of flowers and herbs. Settling down to live quietly, frugally and peacefully with her new neighbours, she is unaware of the turmoil her arrival provokes as the villagers compete fiercely for her patronage.


Sophie’s cook makes a drastic bid to secure his position, and the unwanted consequences are catastrophic. Each strand of the taut narrative is woven with precision and each character given his due. 302pp, paperback.


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73151 TIME KEEPER: A Novel by Mitch Albom Dor, the inventor of the first clock and the first man to count the hours, is punished for measuring time. Made immortal, “Father Time” is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the pleas of those who come begging for a few more years of life. Finally, his soul all but broken, he is released, but on one condition: he must teach two mortals the true meaning of time. He commences a journey overseeing the lives of Sarah, an overweight, lovelorn teenage girl who wants to die, and Victor, a wealthy, critically ill old man who wants to live forever. To redeem himself he must save them both. 226pp, first UK edition of 2012.


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74570 A WEEKEND WITH CLAUDE by Beryl Bainbridge


Told through the fractured narratives of Claude, Lily, Shebah and Norman, this is Beryl Bainbridge’s first novel about a darkly comic weekend of friendship and failure. A snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine on a weekend in the country at the invitation of Claude and his wife Julia. The girl at the centre is dreamy Lily whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend as her friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic, hell bent on seducing his milk-white hostess. Behind them is old, persecuted Shebah and, slightly apart, the young man on whom all hopes are pinned, pleasant, unassuming Edward. 148pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


74555 HARRIET SAID... by Beryl Bainbridge A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her friend Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams along the shoreline and through woods still pitted with wartime trenches and encounters ‘the Tsar’, almost old, unhappily married, both dangerously fascinating and repulsive. Pretty, malevolent Harriet arrives, and over the course of the long holidays draws her friend into a scheme to beguile then humiliate the Tsar, with disastrous, shocking consequences. A gripping portrayal of adolescent transgression. 174 page paperback.


£8.99 NOW £3.50 73314 NOVGOROD THE GREAT: A Novel


by Andrew Drummond It is August 1833. In the ancient City of a Thousand Saints, in an inn kept by a man whose antipathy to all his guests is matched only by his violent loathing of poets, a young widow and a prosperous merchant encounter each other by chance. During a night spent in each other’s company, filled with dawning hope, revelation, and pickled eggs, several remarkable stories unfold. One is that of a pedestrian-traveller extraordinaire, deceased husband of Ksenia, and his infamous father, who spent his life defrauding governments and upsetting Napoleon. Another tells of the merchant Horatio, who reflects on love, slavery and arithmetic. 381 paperback pages.


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73192 THIEF OF TIME by John Boyne Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he’s lived several lives well because Zela’s life is characterised by one amazing fact - his body stopped ageing before the end of the 18th century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother’s brutal murder. His only companions are his younger brother Tomas and one true love, Dominique Sauvet. The story of his life takes us from the French Revolution to 1920s Hollywood, from the Great Exhibition to the Wall Street Crash to the end of the 20th century. 523pp in paperback.


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73471 STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE by Iain Banks


After years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his family’s Highland estate, Garbadale. The Wopuld clan are closing ranks. They have built their fortune on the board game Empire! which has now become a hugely successful computer game, but now the Americans want to buy them out. As the family gathers for their Extraordinary General Meeting, old grudges, forbidden passions and dark secrets emerge. What drove Alban’s mother to take her own life? And is he over Sophie, his bewitching cousin and teenage love? 390pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50


74284 BOOKS BURN BADLY by Manuel Rivas On the eve of the Spanish Civil War, some Fascists start to burn books in a Galician town square. People ask themselves what to add or rescue, half enjoying it as well as trying to recall old titles from the travelling library that used to visit the Galician coast. Curtis the boxer, also known as Hercules, remembers the books he has helped to transport for the library. Olinda, the match girl, sees visions in the water of the river while washing clothes, and when her partner, the bagpiper Polka, is deported, Olinda in desperation becomes a political activist. In a dreamlike atmosphere the novel moves back and forward in time, referencing the work of the 19th century missionary George Borrow whose bibles have a longevity that symbolises what the Fascists are attempting to destroy. 545pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £2.75


73476 THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL by Philippa Gregory


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Mary Boleyn catches the eye of Henry VIII when she is a girl of just 14, but her joy is cut short when she discovers that she is a pawn in her family’s plot. When the capricious King’s interest wanes, Mary is ordered to pass on her knowledge of how to please him to her sister Anne, her friend and rival. Anne soon becomes irresistible to Henry, and Mary must resign herself to being the other Boleyn girl, but beyond the court is a man who dares to challenge the power of her family and to offer Mary a life of freedom and passion. 625pp, paperback.


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73544 BULLFIGHTING by Roddy Doyle Doyle has an expert ear for capturing the voices and hearts of his characters. Moving from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings, these dazzling tales feature an array of men taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of their power, virility, health and ability to love. A bittersweet series of takes on men in middle age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today. 214pp, paperback. $15 NOW £3


73965 IT ENDS WITH REVELATIONS by Dodie Smith


During a summer festival in an English spa town, Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife Jill become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton and his young daughters Robin and Kit. All of these attractive, intelligent and busy people initially seem untroubled, but the surface of their lives conceals problems which come to light after the Quentins return to their London theatre world and the Thorntons to their Westminster home. This sets the scene for an unconventional love story in which loyalty may prove more important than love. 280pp in paperback reprint of the 1967 original. £7.99 NOW £3.50


74165 THE FAMILY by Kay Brellend Tilly and the rest of the Keiver clan are knuckling down to life in one of the most villainous streets in London, but their world is rocked to its core when someone they thought was dead, Jimmy Wild, small-time crook and big-time bully, turns up like the proverbial bad penny. Jimmy brings his beautiful stepdaughter Faye, and his downtrodden wife Edie to live on the street, and while they do their best to scratch out a living, Jimmy barely lifts a finger to help. For his sons, Robert and Steven, it was hard enough coming to terms with the death of their mother, and now their good-for-nothing father has come crawling back. Set in 1927. 370pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £2.25


74167 FEVER HILL by Michelle Paver Set in Jamaica 1903 this stand-alone novel is part of the Eden trilogy. Sophie Munroe, clever, passionate and incapable of fitting in, returns to her childhood home of Eden, the hauntingly beautiful plantation where she grew up and which is nearly bankrupt. Her own inheritance, the old house at Fever Hill, is slipping into ruin. Her sister Madeleine is hiding something, but what? What could be so wrong that she cannot tell Sophie? Even her childhood hero Ben Kelly is avoiding her, for Ben has troubles of his own as he struggles to forget an appalling childhood in the London slums. 445pp, paperback.


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73655 LAST THING HE WANTED by Joan Didion


It is 1984 and rumblings of the Iran-Contra Affair are just beginning to stir. Large quantities of lethal weaponry are reaching the Nicaraguan Contras without the official sanction of the US government, but with its complicit knowledge. Meanwhile, out-of-work journalist Elena McMahon watches as her evasive, gruff father’s life slowly ebbs away. Rudderless, she feels compelled to understand him and resolves to do his bidding, to follow the action to Central America by escorting a shipment of anti-personnel mines to a remote jungle. 227pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £1.50


73663 PLAY IT AS IT LAYS by Joan Didion Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, has-been actress Maria Wyeth’s life is going off the rails, but her permanent catatonic state leaves her a mere bystander to her own downward spiral. The book is a blistering, brutally refreshing dissection of 1960s American culture, a classic work of fiction, startling and poignant in its exploration of the battle between the self and society, and the pain of living versus the ease of merely existing. A brilliant chronicle of America’s cultural and political life. 213pp in paperback reprint of the 1970 original. £8.99 NOW £2


73394 VENETIA KELLY’S TRAVELING SHOW:


A Novel by Frank Delaney It is January 1932. While Ireland teems in the run-up to the most important national election in the Republic’s short history, Ben MacCarthy and his father, Harry, watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish country-side. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, Shakespearean recitations, juggling and tumbling, Harry - mesmerised by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic leading lady - makes the fateful decision to abandon his family and set off on the road with her. Ben’s mother exhorts him to find Harry and bring him back. 427 pages. £16.99 NOW £2


73421 APPLEWOOD by Claude Michelet Set in war-torn France, there seems to be no future at all for the Vialhes. Their son Jacques a prisoner in Germany, Paul with the Free French in England, indomitable Berthe condemned to the horror of Auschwitz. But stubborn as the land of Limousin north of the Dordogne, the family whether this storm too, to emerge in a world irrevocably altered. For if the war brings Paul the dream he was seeking, it leads him to tragedy in Algeria. If Jacques forges new love and a new career, he cannot forget what he has lost. Who will care for the unrewarding land owned by the family farm? 456pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £2


HANDICRAFTS


From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.


- Honore de Balzac


75047 ART OF KNITTED LACE: With Complete Lace How-To and Dozens of


Patterns by Potter Craft If you can knit, you can knit lace. Featuring projects and designs from the likes of Lisa Lloyd, Annie Modesitt, Phoenix Bess, Berta Karapetyan, Melissa Matthey and others, this timeless collection will


have you coming back again and again. The book is the perfect primer for everything you need to know about knitting lace. In her introduction the designer Kristin Omdahl leads you through knitted lace basics, including tool tips, chart reading guidelines, terminology and knitting instructions. With the more than 35 projects that follow, you will learn to make a wide variety of useful, beautiful garments. Why not put some romance back in your life with the Casablanca Silk Stockings? Or are you in more of a fashion-first mood? Then try the Lacy Cap-Sleeve Bolero, the Raspberry Rhapsody Scarf or the Little Shells Socks. 27 x 21cm, 176 pages illustrated with tasteful photographs, plus glossary, resources and Standard Yarn Weight System.


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75144 WOOD HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Guide


to 100 Decorative Real Woods and Their Uses by Nick Gibbs


The book comes into its own as a resource for woodworkers, crafters and interior designers who can learn more about the wood they use regularly and discover species which


they may not have previously considered, or were even aware of. The first section of the book discusses such aspects as sustainability (including a list of protected species), buying wood, how wood is processed from tree to board to veneers and how best to store timber. The second section, the directory, is divided into three sections. Principal woods are those prized for their adaptability or commercial availability and include the staple softwoods of the pine family as well as many hardwoods of great beauty that are not as rare or pricey as you may think. Secondary woods features less popular species, often due to their limited availability, gum pockets or difficulty in working but which are still useful to know. The Special Effects section showcases woods in which factors like disease, defects, grain figure (the shimmering bands that sometimes run perpendicular to the grain) or processing can create eyecatching visual effects. There is a quick reference “strengths vs. weaknesses” box, then a detailed description, which followed by a checklist of key characteristics; type, other names, similar species, sources, colour, texture, grain, hardness and density. A final quick reference box lists key uses, such as decorative, musical instruments, furniture, gunstocks and much more. Adjacent to the text is an actual size colour photo of the prepared wood, fine- sanded and oiled, to enable choice still further. 256 full colour pages, spiral bound. £12.99 NOW £6


74961 KLIMT: Sticker Art Shapes by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books


The Kiss, the Tree of Life, The Knight, Farm Garden with Sunflowers and Expectation are some of the well known paintings of Gustav Klimt from the Art Nouveau and Vienna Secession movement. With more than 60 reusable coloured stickers, gleaming in gold, with this


exciting book you can discover his work, read about his life and then explore these six paintings in great detail, reconstructing them from the 60 stickers. Large softback. Colour.


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74966 HOT TYPE: 20 Sheets of Typographic Fabric Decals


by MacFadden and Thorpe New and improved, here are iron on designs, 20 sheets of typographic fabric detail with phrases like Yes!, No!, Maybe So! and True Love Always, The End Is Near in a cursive text, Lovers Unite! In a more robotic squared text and tons and tons of letters to reuse in any number of craft projects. Customise


t-shirts, bags and other fabric accessories with these wearable messages. Simply cut put and use a hot iron to transfer onto any soft textile. With instructional text, bold words, phrase and alphabets. Softback. $14.95 NOW £3.50


75143 THINGS THAT GO BOOM OR FLY, FLOAT AND ZOOM!: 18 DIY Projects to Make


edited by Sophie Collins This book, while appealing to the frustrated engineer in all of us, takes things to another level, one that is easily attainable with the excellent


instructions and tips provided and which will have parents and grandparents beaming with pride as they and their young charges showcase these 18 flying, floating, walking and talking contrivances to their


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admiring audience. From a balloon-powered boat that will thrill a toddler to a light-seeking robot, there is something for all abilities and available timescales. Some are ideal for solo projects, such as the electronic didgeridoo, others are very definitely team efforts, like the soapbox kart and the full-size pedalo. Other projects include a six volt wind turbine, the Stomper dancing robot, a steam-powered model car, an elastic-powered aeroplane, a hot-air balloon and a footpump-powered cannon for firing lemons at high velocity over a distance of 100 yards! Fantastic! Colour photos and diagrams with full instructions and safety precautions. 160pp softback.


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PASTELS by Angela Gair The gritty, abrasive surface of fine glass paper allows you to overlay many colours and build up a rich, expressive surface to your pastel drawing. The other nine techniques explained in full are hatching and cross hatching, pointillist, making expressive marks, mixed media, using coloured backgrounds,


blending, feathering, overlaying colour and working on canvas. With practical guidance and easy-to-follow instructions. 96pp in large softback, colour illus.


£8.99 NOW £4.50 73804 WINDOW TREATMENT: Decorating


Ideas by Linda Hallam and Brian Kramer Here are hints on how to solve decorating dilemmas, advice about choosing the best materials, fabrics and looks for your needs, how to blend your choice of window decoration with the rest of the room, as well as suggestions for complete homes, decorated in dozens of styles and created for a variety of budgets. Dress windows to match the form and function of each room, adorn your windows with flowing fabrics or explore the latest innovations in shades and shutters, and add boundless style with exciting toppings. 160 paperback pages 27.5cm x 21cm, 250 colour photos. £12.99 NOW £2.50


Get Knitting! 74575 KNIT LONDON: Ten


Iconic London Projects by Emma King


This is no typo, this is a fabulous, fun, real knitting book - Tower Bridge, height 39cm, The London Eye height 94cm, Big Ben height 54cm, a red London telephone box height 23cm, Oxford


Street street sign 24cm, a black cab (higher difficulty) height 14cm, a red London bus, the Gherkin, Changing the Guard and the Union Jack, all shown how to be made with simple, easy-to-follow instructions with instructions to make a stand if required. Diagrams and colour photos, 96pp.


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74576 75 BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES AND LITTLE BEASTS: To Knit and Crochet


by Lesley Stanfield Often when we browse through the animal pictures in a knitting or crochet pattern book, we wonder why anybody would want to go to


all that trouble just to end up with creatures that could easily be mistaken for Hammer Horror monsters. Not so with the flora and fauna in this enchanting book. The gorgeous flowers, fruits, vegetables, birds, bees, butterflies and countless other denizens of nature are instantly recognisable and we are convinced that readers will love them. Even the spider and the fly are cute, while the blue-tit is absolutely adorable. Clear step-by-step instructions are provided and there are seven projects for you to try. A directory showcases the beautiful designs that are featured in the book. Just flick through the colourful visual guide, select the design you fancy, and then turn to the relevant page of instructions to create your chosen piece. All the basic info is provided, as well as notes on how to work the key stitches. 128 pages with bright colourful photos, list of resources, crochet symbols, abbreviations, terminology, details of aftercare and directory. 21 x 22cm.


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74253 KNIT AND PURL PETS: 20 Patterns for Little Pets with Big Personalities by Claire Garland


All the projects in the book are quick - some take less then a day. Most of them are worked using four double-pointed knitting needles, which is a fairly new approach to toy knitting. There is also advice on special design


techniques and those finishing touches which are so important. We are really looking forward to the expressions of delight on the faces of our young relatives and friends when they see Reggie Veggie the Stegosaurus or the gloriously striped Charlie the Chameleon. 127 softback pages 27.5cm x 21cm with bright colour photos, basic equipment, yarns, gauges of needles and list of suppliers.


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