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74279 ALIX AND NICKY: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina


by Virginia Rounding There can be few characters in history who have divided opinion quite like Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra. To some, they were the innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins, venerated as saints and martyrs. To others, they


were the decadent harbingers of revolution and imperial collapse. 24 years later, they were found together, with their family, butchered in a blood-spattered cellar in Ekaterinburg. Their adored only son was a haemophiliac, destined to be an invalid, and they were terrified that he would have an accident and bleed to death. Then there was the difficult relationship with the Siberian peasant Grigory Rasputin ‘the Wonder-Worker’ who not only was entrusted with the ‘cure’ of their son, but who also influenced many of their decisions. 368 pages, archive photos, Romanov family tree. £20 NOW £6


74712 LOVE AND CAPITAL: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel


Jenny Marx was descended from Prussian and Scottish nobility and like her husband Karl was a highly educated intellectual, able to hold her own in the passionate political debates of the day. The Marxes were prolific letter-writers. It was during her studies that Jenny met Karl Marx, the son of the town’s first Jewish lawyer. When they married in 1843 Karl was already a known political revolutionary, and by 1851 they were exiled in a two-room attic in London’s Dean Street. The love between Karl and Jenny survived poverty, social ostracism, the deaths of several children and even Marx’s fathering another woman’s child with Helene Demuth. The book delves deep into the story of modern capitalism and reveals that the savage battles Marx’s daughters fought on behalf of working people made his own struggles look relatively tame. The family ate, slept and breathed economic, social and political revolution. The author finds Marx’s predictions about the weaknesses of the capitalist system to be unexpectedly accurate in many ways. 706pp, photos. $35 NOW £7


73988 QUEEN OF THE WITS: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington


by Norma Clarke


Poet, fallen woman and wit, admired by Jonathan Swift in the 1730s but later dismissed by him as ‘the most profligate whore in either kingdom’, this colourful biography tells of a woman determined to be known as a writer on equal terms with men. Divorced by her husband after she was uncovered as an adulteress, Laetitia Pilkington led a life of precarious self-sufficiency. Through humour, intelligence and her skilful use of scandal, most notably in her Memoirs, she survived on the very fringes of respectability. 364 pages in paperback with colour and b/w plates. £10.99 NOW £3.50


74056 FRED DIBNAH’S VICTORIAN HEROES by David Hall


Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the magnificent age of British engineering, the 19th century, and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of that period. This is a book that tells the life stories of some of those men, including George and Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth. What were their backgrounds and where did their drive and vision come from? Most like Fred were colourful, larger-than-life characters for who no challenge was too great. Here too are William Fairbairn, the Iron Man, Joseph Locke the great railway engineer, Daniel Gooch, and his battle of the gauges, and James Nasmyth with his machine tools and steam hammers. Colour and mono photos, 496pp, paperback.


£7.99 NOW £4


74705 FROM SPLENDOUR TO REVOLUTION by Julia Gelardi


Four women with Romanov connections lived through the Russian Revolution and were profoundly affected by its tragic events. Maria Feodorovna, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, married Tsar Alexander III of Russia and became the mother of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered at Ekaterinburg with his family. Maria’s distress at the abdication of her son in 1917 is vividly described, as is her enmity with her son’s wife the Tsarina, whose dependence on the sinister Rasputin led to the desperate situation in which Rasputin was finally murdered. Maria’s sister-in-law Olga Constantinovna was already a member of the Romanov dynasty when she became the wife of King George I of Greece, Maria’s brother, at the age of 16. Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, sister of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II, became Queen Victoria’s daughter-in-law when she married Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Finally Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna married into the Romanov dynasty and was close to the royal family at the time of the murder of Rasputin, for which her brother Dmitri was exiled by the Tsar as a conspirator. The exile saved his life, and Maria Pavlovna also fled the country. 482pp, paperback, genealogies.


£14.99 NOW £6


74722 ROYAL STUARTS: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain by Allan Massie


The complete story of the Stuarts, exploring their lineage from the first king to the last and following them from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The family acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration and more. The book brings to vivid life such characters as Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I and Bonnie Prince Charlie, exposing their strong affections and fierce rivalries. The true story of backstabbing, betrayal and ambition gone awry. 370 pages. $26.99 NOW £6.50


HOBBIES


Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson 75558 AA WALKING IN


ENGLAND by AA Publishing 20 superb walks selected around scenes and characters that define the beautiful landscape of England. Each is carefully written and compiled by expert


local authors and has clear, easy-to-follow route descriptions, a map and a gradient and difficulty rating. We begin on the route of the Cleveland Way along the coast at Robin Hood’s Bay through fields and obscurely named villages, to a medieval walk from Fountain’s Abbey to the medieval manor of Markenfield Hall with its wonderful cloisters, out on the tiles looking at village mosaics and distant views on a quiet section at Boltby and Thirlby Bank, to Ullswater, magnificent views from Kinder Scout Downfall and the South Downs at Devil’s Dyke among them. 112 glossy pages, colour photos and maps and a beautifully presented way to discover the coast, national parks and inspirational views in our green and pleasant land. £14.99 NOW £6


75540 MEGA LARGE PRINT


WORD SEARCH by W. F. Graham


194 puzzles, the idea is to find in the large grid of block capital letters words from the list at the top of each page under themes like Time After Time, Court Order, Sugar and Spice, Cake Maker etc. Hours of fun, recycled paper, large format softback at an incredible price. If this series proves popular, we may


stock all of Books One to Four. ONLY £2


75534 DOODLE COLOURING PATTERNS: 66 Patterns for


All Ages by W. F. Graham Three other titles will be available in this series if this first book sells well. We were enchanted by these geometric patterns, jigsaw, grid, line, optical illusion, spirals, in outline


for adults or children to colour in in your own style and time. In a simple softback binding, each could be detachable to give away or mount or simply leave in the book as you progress and add your own colours, metallic styles, stickers or whatever takes your fancy. Use watercolours, crayons, pencils, felt tip pens to create your own masterworks. 66 patterns in all. Great value. ONLY £2.75


Use watercolours, crayons, pencils, felt tip pens to create your own masterworks. With the outline and perspective all ready in this ingenious series incorporating transport, famous castles and houses, coastal scenes and landscapes. Each has 24 ready-to-colour artworks. Measuring approx. 8" x 11½”.


75535 TRADITIONAL DOODLES COASTAL


SCENES by W. F. Graham Includes rocks and swimmers, tranquil bays with docks at harbour, sunset, coves, the White Cliffs of Dover, a harbour


scene, lighthouses and other waterscapes to test the artist’s palette with his blues, hues, greens, clouds and natural seascapes. 24 black and white outline designs on each right hand page of this very large softback, ready for colouring. ONLY £2


75536 TRADITIONAL DOODLES FAMOUS CASTLES AND HOUSES


by W. F. Graham With their formal gardens, topiary hedges, crenelated walls, huge trees, here are castles on


hill tops, with fountains, in the Tudor style, as seen across lakes and moats in the 24 designs to be coloured in and brought to life in this new collection. Softback. ONLY £2


75537 TRADITIONAL DOODLES LANDSCAPES by W. F. Graham


Farm yard, country house, foal in a field, dragonfly in


countryside, brewer’s barrels on a horse-drawn carriage,


windmill, a mushroom field and other country scenes are among the 24 black and white outline designs on each right hand page of this very large softback, ready for colouring. ONLY £2


75538 TRADITIONAL DOODLES TRANSPORT by W. F. Graham


A VW camper van, a Beetle, hot air balloons, sailing ship, pick-up truck, train, sail boat, tractor, vintage car, airplanes, are


among the 24 black and white outline designs on each right hand page of this very large softback, ready for colouring. ONLY £2


Learn to paint and draw step-by- step with accomplished painters in this famous series.


71332 CHINESE BRUSH 2 by Helen Tse and Rebecca Yue


If you love Chinese brush painting and calligraphy you are invited in this easy-to-follow instruction book to create artworks to a high standard and quality. 2,000 years ago the Chinese began using stiff- hair paintbrushes soaked in a mixture of pine soot and water to


record events in their lives. Using sheets of silk, bamboo and other types of wood as painting surfaces, they created images that were representations of a subject - instead each stroke simply suggests a spirit and character. Develop your own skills by learning about tools and materials, basic techniques and warming up before looking at each step-by-step project from outline to finish with the calligraphy to sign yourself off for mountains and clouds, flowers and birds, goldfish, lotus and dragonflies, peach blossoms and fisherman, a pavilion landscape, and a variety of animals including the monkey, tiger and dragon. Huge size softback, colour. 32pp. £5.99 NOW £3


75591 LEARN TO: COLOURED PENCIL by Sandro Angelo


Learn how to approach a drawing by blocking in the basic shapes and following the outlines provided. Discover how to develop and refine the rendering, step- by-step, and follow along through the drawing process building the form with colour. Make use of coloured papers, layering and burnishing, creating special effects and choosing slides. In addition, the author demonstrates easy methods for developing texture and using a colourless blender. Start with a lotus flower, a cat drawn on black paper, teddy, giraffe, the technique of sgraffito, coloured pencil with graphite to draw a woodland or still life, the impressed line and finally combining techniques. Huge 32 page softback in colour. £5.99 NOW £3


75592 LEARN TO: DRAWING


2 by William S. Powell More than a dozen step-by-step demonstrations for rendering beautiful drawings in paintings of the panda and other animals, landscapes from your holiday photographs, the technique of foreshortening, depicting textures in still life, developing a portrait again using a photograph, drawing at the


zoo, introducing perspective, creating pleasing compositions and understanding value. The projects begin with the basic shape and simple flowers. There are clear demonstrations with every step building the forms and adding final details. From this excellent technical drawing series by Walter Foster Publishing. 32 page huge softback. £5.99 NOW £3


73428 CHAMBERS BOOK OF GAMES, QUIZZES


AND PUZZLES FOR ALL THE FAMILY by Una McGovern


Packed with original quizzes, card games originally published in ‘Chambers Pocket Card Games’ by Peter Arnold, and Sudoku puzzles from the master James Pitt, for ages six to 106, here are crosswords, card games, quizzes, the hurly burly party game of flapjack for children, poker, Newmarket, Klondike, cribbage, clocks and masses more fun. Paperback, 294pp. £9.99 NOW £1.75


73810 DISCOVERING BELLS AND BELL RINGING by John Camp


Calling all campanologists is the late John Camp, who first became interested in bell ringing in 1950s. Bell ringing usually takes place regularly in some 6,000 church towers and is regarded by non-ringers as something of a mystique. Here is much fascinating information on famous bells and towers, inscriptions, peal boards and ringers’ rules, ringers versus clergy and a glossary of ringing terms. Photos and line art. 56 page Shire paperback. £4.99 NOW £2.25


74169 A PARENT’S GUIDE TO THE IPAD by Nick Vandome


Apple’s iPad was become an iconic device, a must-have for adults, let alone children. But how do you keep an eye on what your little cherubs are using this exciting machine for - what are they viewing, who are the communicating with, what kinds of games are they playing, what music or films are they downloading? This fully illustrated, colour, easy to follow, plain English guide aims to put your mind at ease and keeps kids safe. It outlines all the key functions and how to implement content filters, security settings, which are the must-have apps and so much more. “Hot Tip”, “Remember” and “Beware” icons in the margins alert you immediately to any issues. Covers iOS 6 for 3rd and 4th generation iPad and iPad 2. 216pp softback. £10.99 NOW £3.25


74885 BACKYARD BEEKEEPING AND HONEY PRODUCTION by Phil Rant


Honey is delicious, nutritious and becoming more scarce as one third of Britain’s beehive populations dropped in the winter of 2012-13. Yet beekeeping is a relatively simple and very rewarding practice. Bees are an essential part of our natural world and their importance in pollinating our food crops cannot be overstated. Over a third of the world’s food is dependent on pollinators of which the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is possibly the most important. Topics in the book include setting up your first hive, how to handle bees correctly and with confidence, practical advice on the honey harvest, winter feeding and inspection, marketing your bee products, legal requirements, diseases and how to avoid them. 112pp in large softback with diagrams and colour photos. £10.99 NOW £4.50


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HOME ENTERTAINMENT Great Value CDs


55347 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THREE OTHER


STORIES CD by Broadsword Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio and The Wizard of Oz are the four delightful fairy tales on this spoken word audio CD with running time 36.45


mins which will be played over and over and over again. Will Alice catch up with the White Rabbit? How big are Grandma’s teeth and will Pinocchio ever listen to Jiminy Cricket? Bargain CD. ONLY £4


75657 GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS AUDIO


CD by Broadsword A spoken word CD with four stories in total, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, The Ugly Duckling and Snow White. Enduring and enchanting, these tales will amuse


children as much today as they have always done in the past. Are the three bears big and nasty and what will they do to Goldilocks? Will Sleeping Beauty ever awake and when will the Ugly Duckling find a friend? How will Snow White escape from the wicked queen? This one is sure to become a family favourite and can be played over and over again at bedtime. Playing time 33.39 minutes in total. ONLY £4


38895 GREATEST MILITARY MARCHES CD by


The British Grenadiers et al Normandy Veterans, Royal Fleet Auxiliary March, Royal Ceremony (the SSAFA March), Pathfinders March, Slow March from Aida, Radetsky March, Hands Across the


Sea, On the Quarterdeck, The Jaguar and Black Horse Troop are among the 20 efficiently performed, proud, rousing and patriotic military pieces of music selected. Running time 62.19 mins. ONLY £4


55348 THE FOUR SEASONS CD by Vivaldi


The Armenian Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Levon Abrahamian perform Spring - Concerto no. 1 in E major Op.8.1, Summer Concerto no. 2 in G minor Op.8.2, Autumn Concerto no. 3 in


F major Op.8.3 and Winter Concerto no. 4 in F minor, Op.8.4. Great value for money CD. ONLY £4


62143 RADIO DAYS: Volume One CD by Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Dean Martin et al


Blue Skies, Mona Lisa, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby, God


Bless the Child (Billie Holiday), Shine on Harvest Moon, Swinging On A Star, That Ole Devil Called Love, C’est Si Bon (Louis Armstrong) and Choo ‘n’ Gum are among the 20 tracks selected for this first volume of nostalgic radio wave classics. ONLY £4


62138 RADIO DAYS: Volume Two CD by Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra et al Dream A Little Dream of Me, Muskrat Ramble, Song of India, Orange Coloured Sky, Embraceable You (Charlie Parker Quintet), Blueberry Hill (Louis Armstrong), Stomp It Off, Mule Train, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, and Tenament Symphony both by Geraldo and his Orchestra, A Night in Tunisia and This Is the Beginning of the End with Frank Sinatra are among the 20 nostalgic tracks to enjoy time and again. Also features Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra and Charlie Parker. ONLY £4


75698 RADIO DAYS: Vols One and Two CDs Buy volumes one and two and save even more. ONLY £7


75653 BIG BAND GREATS: Volume One CD


A companion to 75654 here are 20 favourite big band sounds from the wonderful era of jazz. Tracks include Song of India, Perfidia, I’m Just Wild About Harry, At the Woodchopper’s Ball, Fools Rush In,


St. James’ Infirmary, In A Sentimental Mood, String of Pearls, Blue Moon, Stompin’ At the Savoy, Rhapsody in Blue and Chicago among them performed by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Harry Roy, Woody Herman, Louis Armstrong et al. Value price. ONLY £4


75654 BIG BAND GREATS: Volume Two CD


by Count Basie, Artie Shaw et al


Snug As A Bug In A Rug, Taboo, Let’s Walk, Woody Herman and his Orchestra with A String of Pearls and Blue Flame, Tommy Dorsey


and his Orchestra with Opus One, Hawaiian War Chant, Shine On Harvest Moon, Blue Champagne, Take the A Train, Route 66 (Ted Heath and his Orchestra) are among the 20 famous tracks by Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey et al. Super value CD. ONLY £4


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