www.bibliophilebooks.com 73886 WRITTEN IN STONE: England’s


Literary Heritage by Jill Sharp For centuries, England’s historic and prehistoric monuments have inspired writers and poets. The journey begins at Stonehenge and follows a broad sweep clockwise around England. Here are John Cowper Powys’ Maiden Castle, Hound Tor Medieval Village - home to the Hound of the Baskervilles - the romantic Tintagel where King Uther Pendragon fell in love with Ygerna or Igraine. Here is the Royal Garrison Church in which the Family Price worshipped in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. There are just too many delights to enumerate. 150 paperback pages, colour, maps and list of 81 authors with the places that attracted them. £9.99 NOW £4


74035 BIRMINGHAM SPORTS &


RECREATION: From Old Photographs by Eric Armstrong and Rosemary Stafford Edgbaston had become the home of Warwickshire CCC and was a Test venue by 1902, and other ball games such as rugby, hockey, netball and tennis flourished. Many swimming pools and gymnasiums were also built around the turn of the century and swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting and boxing became very popular as a result. Cinemas, music halls and theatres popped up all over the city and suburbs, attracting impressive numbers of patrons, and the rivers and lakes soon filled up with boats in the summer and skaters in the winter. All of these sports and entertainments were popular subject matter for local photographers and postcard makers, and here are over 200 b/w images. 128pp softback. £12.99 NOW £4


74082 CHELTENHAM by Stephen Morris


In the 18th century, when society had a passion for ‘taking the waters’, Cheltenham’s chalybeate springs were endowed with almost magical curative qualities by speculators anxious to emulate Bath’s legendary success. In what was still an obscure agricultural community below the Cotswold Hills a cabal of entrepreneurs raised fancy pump rooms in which the great and the good might dance, flirt and be cured of mostly imaginary diseases. With George III’s visit, Cheltenham became the most fashionable resort in England, where wealthy arrivals were greeted by a band in the street, and deposed European royalty took refuge. Today, Cheltenham remains England’s most complete Regency town, where the literature and music festivals, the racecourse and colleges continue to draw visitors. 112 pages 27cm x 25.5cm in gorgeous colour. £16.99 NOW £5


74224 EMPIRE HALTS HERE: Viewing the


Heart of Hadrian’s Wall by Stan Beckensall The Roman army had conquered most of Britain by the time it moved to what is now Cumbria and Northumberland. The Wall was massively tall, still surviving to three metres at its greatest height, with two turrets equally spaced between mile castles - all with garrisons and connections with each other by road, track and signals. Here is a replica wall at Vindolanda, which gives a sense of overpowering scale. Here is the great Whin Sill outcrop - a series of basalt pillars in clusters that were once volcanic lava oozing along the fault lines in sandstones and limestones, cooling quickly so that the rock rapidly crystallised and became very tough. This produced rock that was used in places to make a core for the Wall. 159 paperback pages lavishly illus in colour. £16.99 NOW £3.50


74232 SMALL HEATH AND SPARKBROOK:


Through Time by Ted Rudge and Keith Clenton This nostalgic selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the ways in which two adjacent inner city districts of Birmingham changed and developed over the last century. By the turn of the 20th century, Small Heath and Sparkbrook had been transformed from a rural environment to an urban one. Two vibrant shopping areas had evolved, surrounded by Victorian properties of working class back-to-backs and middle class terrace housing. Birmingham City FC dominates the city end of Small Heath while, at the other end, Small Heath Park continues to attract visitors to the only major green space in the area. The most historical and oldest building, The Farm, can still be found in Sparkbrook. In the 1950s and 60s, many Irish and West Indian families settled locally. 96 paperback pages, colour and sepia/white illus. £14.99 NOW £3.75


74320 CLARISSA’S ENGLAND: A Gamely Gallop


Through the English Counties by Clarissa Dickson Wright From Cornwall to Cumbria, Norfolk to Northumbria, she brings her extraordinary local knowledge, huge interest in food, forthright opinions and inimitable wit to the distinctive history and regional character of every corner of England. Here is a cornucopia of cookery lore and


history, revealing such strange info as the fact that Boudicca was the original Essex girl, that Lincolnshire has a coriander crop second only in size to India’s, and disclosing just why a Cornish pasty should never contain carrots. 422 pages with map, line drawings and colour and b/w plates. £20 NOW £6.50


74474 CANTERBURY BOOK OF DAYS by Paul Crampton


For each day of the year this glorious book of days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history. The Pedigree factory closed in the 1980s. Roller skating at the Agricultural Hall, Mound used as a gun platform, the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury Hubert Walter in 1220 where we learn that the heads carved into the tomb is thought to depict the Muslim, his friend Saladin. Fascinating details about Canterbury Cathedral, town lamps, fires and much more. 368 prettily decorated pages.


£9.99 NOW £3 COUNTRY LIFE Historic Homes and Gardens


75610 TOTTERING LIFE: Tottering-By-Gently by Annie Tempest


Sir Roy Strong, sometime Director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum, wrote of the author: ‘Annie Tempest is a bit of England - she articulates the things which set us apart and which form our identity’. She is certainly one of Britain’s best-loved cartoonists. For more than 20 years, she has been charting the life of Daffy and Dicky Tottering in Tottering-by-Gently, the phenomenally successful weekly strip carton in Country Life magazine. This book is the latest in the series. The pair live in the fading grandeur of Tottering Hall, their stately home in the fictional county of North Pimmshire, with their extended family: daughter Serena and grandchildren Freddy and Daisy plus ‘the daily’ Mrs Shagpile, and the love of Dicky’s life - Slobber, his black Labrador. Daffy is a woman of a certain age who has been taken into the hearts of people all over the world. She reflects the problems facing women in their everyday life, and is completely at one with herself, while making observations on inter-generational tensions and the differing perspectives of men and women, as well as dieting, ageing, gardening, fashion, food, field sports, convention and more. With a preface by Mark Hedges, Editor of Country Life. 112 pages 28cm x 22cm, with pen and watercolour illustrations. ONLY £7


75560 ALNWICK CASTLE by James MacDonald


The home of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle is at the heart of Northumberland, England’s most northerly county, a land filled with ancient market towns, golden beaches, moorland and the remains of Hadrian’s Wall. This imposing medieval castle sits


by the River Aln on the edge of Alnwick Town overlooking a landscape by Capability Brown. It has belonged to the Percy family for over seven centuries and is one of the largest inhabited castles in Britain, visited by hundreds of thousands every summer. Some are intrigued by the State Room, some because the castle was used as ‘Hogwarts’ in the first two Harry Potter films and very few until now have seen the private rooms. With unique access to both the castle and the Percy family archive, the staff, builders, the Duke and Duchess and interior designers have helped the author behind the scenes to show how the castle functions as a home for a modern family. He visits the extraordinary garden and the surrounding Hulne Park. 200 new photos and archive pictures plus all about the magnificent recent restoration. Big glossy photos and plan of the castle, a fine first edition from Frances Lincoln. 240pp. £30 NOW £11


75566 CLASSIC ENTERTAINING by Henrietta


Spencer-Churchill Like no other designer, Lady Henrietta offers classic elegance for entertaining as she shares personal tips for setting the mood, giving each guest a pleasant view, choosing the patterns and glassware and finally arranging the table with settings, flowers, place cards and all


the small touches that make guests feel welcome. Two dozen dinner parties, brunches, outdoor picnics and


74523 WALKING WITH WORDSWORTH IN


THE LAKE DISTRICT by Norman and June Buckley


A three mile walk in Grasmere village, along Ambleside, Loughrigg Tarn, Hawkshead, Keswick, Derwent Water, Martindale and Ullswater, each of the 20 hikes range from 1½ to 7¼ miles. Here are 20 walks connected to Williams Wordsworth, set out with maps and clear directions, advice on car parking, refreshments, mostly circular and how to return to the starting point by bus or boat if linear. See one of the finest waterfalls in the country and enjoy green meadows, rocks and woods. 160pp, index, colour photos and maps. Paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


74526 YORK BOOK OF DAYS by Robert Woodhouse


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A day by day potted history of quirky, eccentric, amusing and important facts about the City of York. 1816, the first steam packet that ever came to York appeared in our river and in 1662 on April 26th King Charles II issued the Royal Charter of Incorporation of the Company of Merchant Tailors of the City of York who were licensed to export wool. Newspaper reports from the Yorkshire Herald and Yorkshire Evening Post, much about trains, MPs, businesses and museums, gardens and education, county cricket, suffragettes, Dick Turpin executed at Tyburn in 1739 and more. 368 pages. £9.99 NOW £4


74560 ROLLING THROUGH THE ISLES A Journey Back Down the Old Roads that Led to Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon Takes readers on an unforgettable trip by motor bike with a celebrated adventurer and writer. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain. It is also a witty and affectionate journey back to the past, when Ted would hitchhike across the country visiting friends, and girlfriends. En route, he returns to the site of his old school with its astonishing wartime history and visits familiar haunts where he did his National Service and got his first job in newspapers. He also visits less


holiday parties are beautifully planned in full colour photographs showing every detail of each room. Lady Henrietta brings her impeccable taste to lunch in a loft, a Valentine’s dinner, a farmhouse brunch, a Victorian tea, pre-dinner drinks and entertaining in some of England’s most glorious estates. Text features explain the often mysterious details of table top tradition - finger bowls, salt cellars, meat carving and the habits of using utensils and dozens of tips on the use of candles, napkins, centrepieces and sideboards. She makes a picnic in Normandy very romantic, a New Year’s Eve buffet and an Easter brunch packed with custom and a sense of occasion and the section on glassware has close up photographs of some very fine goblets and wine glasses. Plus table linen, china and most spectacular of all, a Christmas lunch. The book is worth this price alone for the large colour photographs of interiors of fine country houses. 160 page Rizzoli outsize publication. $30 NOW £6.50


75579 CHARLES LATHAM’S GARDENS OF ITALY by Helena Attlee


From the archives of Country Life magazine, founded in 1897, here is an archive that forms a unique repository of architectural and garden history. In the spring of 1903, the magazine’s first star photographer Charles Latham set off from Victoria station with several


boxes of fragile glass negatives and a large-format camera bound for Rome and Florence. He spent months photographing some of Italy’s finest historic gardens including the Medici Gardens at Castello and Boboli, the Villa Farnese and Villa Lante in Lazio, the Vatican Gardens in Rome, the Villa D’Este in Tivoli and the Villa Gamberaia in Florence. His powerfully evocative monochrome images were published in two volumes in 1905 under the title ‘The Gardens of Italy’ with a text by the well known contemporary garden writer Evelyn March Phillipps. The photographs have been much acclaimed for their technical brilliance, exceptional clarity and beautifully balanced composition and form an irreplaceable account of Italy’s greatest gardens pre political turmoil where many fell into picturesque decrepitude. Even though some of the aristocratic owners and their gardeners might have gone, the elaborate architecture, statuary and ingenious waterworks which Renaissance and Baroque designers so admired remained largely intact and were brilliantly captured by Latham’s camera. Unpublished for a century, Helena Attlee has selected over 150 and accompanied them with a lively and authoritative commentary on 21 of these historic gardens. She describes their original owners and designers, the princes, popes and cardinals who created them. 192 very large pages, glossy mono photographs throughout. £40 NOW £8


74307 SMYTHSON CIRCLE: The Story of Six Great English Houses by David Durant


Robert Smythson was the first English mason to be called an ‘architect’, or in the language of the 17th century, ‘architector’. Arriving at Longleat in 1568 with a royal recommendation, the 33-year-old took a key role in redesigning the house after a fire the previous year. In the 1580s he moved to Wollaton Hall near Nottingham, where he created a masterpiece of startling originality for Sir Francis Willoughby. Its innovative turrets were copied by the 19th century builders of Highclere, better known nowadays as Downton Abbey. After Wollaton he attracted the patronage of Bess of Hardwick. Bess had already supervised extensive building works at Chatsworth, but on her marriage Bess forfeited ownership of Hardwick to Shrewsbury. Bess lived in the renovated Old Hall and work began on the New Hall in the 1590s, with Smythson providing plans featuring large windows, on Bess’s insistence. From 1612 Smythson was architect of Bolsover Castle. 271pp, paperback, colour illus. £14.99 NOW £5.50


familiar places. Some, like Winchester Cathedral, inspire him. Others, such as a tax office in Nottingham, defeat him. 249 pages, colour. £20 NOW £4.50


74568 WAINWRIGHT FAMILY WALKS VOLUME


ONE: The Southern Fells by A. Wainwright and Tom Holman


20 walks ranging from one to seven miles in length on the Southern Fells. The routes are adapted to provide up-to-date and manageable walks, mostly circular with options from a gentle evening stroll to an easy day’s walking at a leisurely


pace. It is a selection of 20 wonderful fell walks with sketches and notes reproduced from Alfred Wainwright’s timeless ‘Pictorial Guides’. Alongside his handwritten text are Tom Holman’s practical information on public transport, where to park, facilities, directions and a little history. 240pp in pocket sized softback. £9.99 NOW £4


74890 EXPLORING THE ISLANDS OF ENGLAND AND WALES: Including the Channel


Islands and the Isle of Man by Julian Holland In the first ever complete guide to the inhabited islands around the coastline of England and Wales, the author’s detailed text includes geology, history, flora and fauna, directions for access, tourist info, places to stay, walks, locations to visit, relevant websites and contacts. From the deserted white, sandy beaches and clear blue seas of the Isles of Scilly, to the funfairs and beach huts of Hayling Island, the rugged remoteness of Lundy, the art Deco experience of Burgh Island, the teeming bird life of the Farne Islands and Skomer, or just the pleasure of having a pint with the landlord of the George and Dragon pub on windswept Foulness, there is so much to discover. We know that you will enjoy it. 160 pages,


Great Britain 17 HANDICRAFTS


To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.


- George Kneller 75584 HEAVENLY


HANDMADE BAGS: Over 25 Designs to Stitch, Knit,


Embroider and Embellish by Sue Hawkins


Never again will you have to pay a fortune for a bag that does not quite match your existing wardrobe, or live up to your expectations. Here are beautiful bags for you to create to fit any criteria you


choose, in lovely colour combinations. This useful book provides step-by-step guidance on materials and equipment, stitching, making-up and embellishing the designs with fashionable beads, buttons, ribbons, feathers and tassels. Readers can try a wide range of techniques including cross stitch, patchwork, appliqué, canvas-work, knitting and ‘free’ embroidery and this volume also includes a comprehensive stitch library and technique section to ensure a truly professional finish. If you are short on ideas and would like to follow the instructions exactly, there are a wide range of designs to choose from, all of which look great. How about The Easiest Bag in the World? Or one of the Bags With Attitude? Or a pretty Bridesmaid’s Bangle Bag? Or a glamorous Harlequin Lily? 121 paperback pages 28cm x 22cm with colour photos, line drawings, charts, diagrams, templates and list of suppliers. £14.99 NOW £5


75593 LOVELY THINGS TO MAKE FOR GIRLS OF


SLENDER MEANS by Eithne Farry


‘Having champagne tastes and a lemonade budget does not mean embracing a life of dowdy drabness.’ If you have heard of


upcycling, life experimenting, improvising and pepping up either you own old clothes or those found on the high street or vintage or charity shop, here is a budget book packed with fantastic sewing and designing ideas for each season. Before you start there are chapters on sewing by hand and using a machine. We start in spring with flower headbands, a garden dress, origami earrings and gay abandon knickers! Into summer a billowy kaftan, beach bunting, a sunglasses case, a reversible beach bag before looking at splendid summer tops, summer dresses, in autumn a variety of bags, belts, necklaces, collars, hats and a simple silk dress and in winter Christmas decoration earrings, big and bigger bows, crazy patchwork, fake fur hats, ear muffs, a tunic shaped mini dress and a padded camera bag with side pockets. It is all very colourful, creative, with lots of sequins, big buttons, big top stitch, felt, patchwork ideas for wraps and all embellished beautifully. Nothing like any old sewing manual we have seen before, 224pp with hundreds of ideas. Get the-quick-unpick out now! Colour.


£12.99 NOW £3.50 75238 BEST OF


INTERWEAVE CROCHET by Marcy Smith


Whether you are picking up a crochet hook for the first time or are a long-time crocheter, you will love this all-star selection of designer patterns, popular techniques and expert tips. Here are the most


popular patterns and construction guides, brought together for the first time in one superb collection. From Kathy Merrick’s colour-rich Babette’s Blanket via Kristin Omdahl’s shapely Infinity Shawl to Lily Chin’s pretty and flattering Lace Dress, every hand-picked pattern is top quality, original and created by a leading crochet designer. Sweaters, cardigans, wraps, scarves, shawls, a Moorish Mosaic Afghan, hat to bunny and blanket. Crocheters will also find valuable in-depth instructions, tips and techniques on basic stitches, shaping, colour and more. With these, they will be able to create bold new crochet creations, using innovative variations on basic stitches, and try their hand at more complex stitch motifs, Tunisian crochet and lacework. Finished size, yarn, hook, gauge and notions clearly laid out with diagrams and figures. 159 paperback pages 23cm x 21cm in tasteful colour. £16.99 NOW £6.50


200 specially commissioned colour photos, and 36 Island and locator maps. £19.99 NOW £7


74886 THE BARNETS AND HADLEY


by the Barnet and District Local History Society We love stocking the ‘Britain in Old Photographs’ series from Sutton. Here are presented over 250 fully captioned historic photos which give an unforgettable impression of what Chipping, New and East Barnet, Hadley and Cockfosters was like in years gone by. Huge changes


have occurred over the past 100. Revisiting the development of familiar streets and districts, providing a lasting record of houses, public buildings, shops, businesses and pubs and recalling famous individuals who left their mark on the town, such as the Byngs (who built nearby Wrotham Park, among other things), the literary Trollopes and explorer David Livingstone, as well as policemen, firemen, postmen, footballers and others from the town’s past, this is local history at its best. 160pp softback. £9.99 NOW £5


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