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75040 THE STIG: 30 Top Power Laps


by BBC Top Gear


Some say...he can smell corners. Some say...his teeth glow in the dark. He is The Stig and he can drive faster than anyone else. See him in the big yellow shouty car, the Ascari A10, which resulted in Jeremy having to invest in a hearing aid, the Maserati MC12 built by Ferrari which


didn’t win Jeremy’s heart. Light on frills but not short on thrills, the Porsche GT3 RS pulls up alongside the adrenalin pumping Pamplona-style Murciélago Roadster or perhaps you will go for the more sleek Aston Martin DBS or the TVR Sagaris or Tuscan? Probably designed for children, this handbook is great fun and includes 200 little coloured car stickers for handicraft projects etc. £4.99 NOW £1


75070 BOOK OF SPACE by Buster Books Blast off into space and discover stars, planets and rockets in a brilliant book bursting with intergalactic information. 3-2-1 lift off! If you are baffled by the Big Bang, have ever wondered if you will meet an alien, want to know the difference between Venus and Mars, all about UFOs, stargazing, life of the stars, snowballs in space, great big Jupiter, mysterious Mercury and why gravity matters, here is a fun way to learn. 128 page paperback with line art. Ages 7 up. £5.99 NOW £2.50


74014 PILOT: Little People Shape Book by Giovanni Caviezel


In his smart blue uniform, wearing his peaked pilot’s cap, our very smart pilot stands about one foot tall. See the controls in the cockpit, the army pilot with his pressurised flying suit, helmet and oxygen mask, the turbo jet, flying helicopters and famous pilots from the past. Suit ages 4-7.


£9.99 NOW £2


73925 A WALK IN LONDON by Salvatore Rubbino


Join a mother and daughter on a very exciting day trip from Big Ben through beautiful St. James’s Park to meet the pelicans who were given to King Charles II in 1664 by the Russian Ambassador, through Covent Garden Piazza to St. Paul’s Cathedral and up to the Whispering Gallery via 259 steps, visit the Bank of England, the Tower of London to see the crown jewels, and did you spot the royal family’s car tucked away in the artwork on many of these glorious scenes? Big fold out panorama. 40 very big colourful pages. Ages 8+. $16.99 NOW £4.25


73971 MARTHA SPEAKS ABOUT LEARNING: Boxed Set by Susan Meddaugh


Martha the dog learned to speak when she ate a bowl of alphabet soup. Since then she has gone on many adventures and has a hit US TV series. The Martha Blah Blah storybook features Martha’s adventures after the owner of the local soup factory decides to cut costs by leaving half the letters out of the alphabet soup. Play the three vocabulary building computer games with animation on the CD Rom enclosed. Turn over the cards of the Concentration Game and match the word with its definition. Gab Libs Fill-In Fun Book makes learning parts of speech a doddle. Kids will learn about parts of speech, idioms, synonyms, understanding stories and poetry, writing and more. More than 150 colour stickers, 15" x 15" colour poster. Ages 5-8. $16.99 NOW £3.50


73977 OUR ISLAND STORY: A


History of Britain by H. E. Marshall First published in 1905, the text used for this 2007 edition is based on a later edition here revised for a new generation. Alongside myths and legends such as King Arthur and Canute commanding the tide, here is Queen Boadicea’s stand against the Romans, the Princes in the Tower, the Great Fire of London, the Battle of Trafalgar, William the Conqueror, Henry IV and the Battle of Shrewsbury, Edward VII, the story of a boy king, the battles of Stamford Bridge, Hastings, the story of Lady Jane Grey, Anne and how the Union Jack was made, the stories of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora MacDonald, the Black Hole of Calcutta and more. 30 charming illus in colour. 474pp, softback. £12.99 NOW £5


75133 LEARN FRENCH WITH MAX ET MATHILDE: Les Jours


by Vivienne Creevey Learn les jour de la semaine as each day the children enjoy a different activity like football, cooking, tennis, swimming and playing piano. Repetition and singing along to the enclosed CD


will help careful pronunciation by repeating the phrases and reinforce to vocabulary. Max and Mathilde speak just as French children would speak to each other. Big bold colour illustrations, in Ladybird softback. £6.99 NOW £2.50


75134 LEARN FRENCH WITH MAX ET


MATHILDE: En Vacances by Vivienne Creevey Published by Ladybird and with an accompanying CD, listen and learn useful phrases to have fun speaking French and singing songs with Max and Mathilde. Eat yummy ice cream (la glace), go to the restaurant, (la plage) and let the beautiful big bold pictures guide the child. A translation appears at the back of the book rather than on the page itself to avoid word-for-word translation. All simple and fun. Large softback. £6.99 NOW £3


74784 THAT’S NOT MY COLOURING BOOK:


Holiday illustrated by Rachel Wells That’s not my... sun hat, ice cream, seagull, beach ball, boat, spade, kite - for each there is a big colourful picture on the left hand page and a black and white outline for you to colour in on the right. With 68 colourful stickers of birds, shells and everything you would see on holiday and by the beach. Ages 3+, large colourful softback. £4.99 NOW £3


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74467 ANHOLT’S ARTISTS ACTIVITY BOOK by Laurence Anholt


Make a funky junk sculpture with Picasso, paint a portrait with Van Gogh, make an action sculpture with Degas, a cool colourful cut-out with Matisse, work with wild, wet watercolours with Monet and design a mad marvellous machine with Leonardo. Seven fantastic projects taught by the great masters in a graphic storybook presentation and some extra chat about art. Large softback, 48pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50


74779 USBORNE


CHILDREN’S SONGBOOK by Anthony Marks and Stephen Cartwright


Froggy Went A-Courting, Cockles and Muscles, Donkey Riding, Michael Finnegan, Oh, Susannah!, I Had a Little Nut Tree, Over the Hills and Far Away, She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush are


among the 18 songs compiled and arranged with music setting by Andrew Jones. The musical scores are specially arranged for young children’s voices. With easy accompaniments for piano or keyboard and indications for simple guitar chords, older children can use the tunes on the recorder, flute or violin. Charmingly illus, the tunes are available to listen to on the Internet. Supersized softback. £4.99 NOW £2.50


74472 BOY, WERE WE WRONG ABOUT


DINOSAURS! by Kathleen Kudlinski Long, long ago, before people knew anything about dinosaurs, giant bones were found in China. This big picture book explores the many ideas about dinosaurs, sometimes right and sometimes wrong, from the clues they left behind. Did they drag their tails or did they use them for balance, were they more like birds, cold blooded or warm blooded? Full page expressionful artwork, dinosaur discovery timeline. Ages 8+. £11.99 NOW £3


Biography / Autobiography 75221 JOSEPH ANTON: A


Memoir by Salman Rushdie This compelling volume is the true story of what actually happened to the author on 14th February 1989 and during the terrifying years that followed. Out of the blue, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he was under a fatwa. In other words, he had been ‘sentenced to death’ by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The crime


he had committed was to have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, in which - it was alleged - he had criticised Islam, the Prophet and the Qur’an. From then on, his life must have been a living hell. He was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team, who asked him to choose an alias. Rushdie chose the first names of two writers he loved - Conrad and Chekhov - and became known as Joseph Anton. In this exceptionally frank book, Rushdie reveals how he and his family lived for more than nine years with the threat of murder, how he kept on working, how he fell in and out of love, how despair shaped his thoughts and actions and how he learnt to fight back. It was a crucial battle for freedom of speech, one that is happening somewhere in the world every day. Here are details of the grim, yet sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors. Here, too, he reveals his struggles for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists and fellow writers and of how, eventually, he gained his freedom. A huge, emotive and very moving 636 pages. $30 NOW £6.50


75671 IN SEARCH OF A


BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY


Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.


- Dr. Seuss


75178 STEPHEN HAWKING: An Unfettered Mind by Kitty Ferguson


Stephen Hawking is possibly the most recognisable person on the planet - a man almost totally physically helpless, speaking through a voice synthesiser from a wheelchair, whose mind soars brilliantly across the cosmos to unlock the secrets of space, time, matter and energy. Born in Oxford


on 8 January 1942 (exactly 300 years after Galileo died, as he likes to recall). He went up to University College, Oxford to study physics aged just 17, excelled at his subject and as a rower and cox, and in 1965 married Jane Wilde (who, in common with our very own Annie, was a languages graduate of Westfield College, London). By now his physical problems, noticed in 1962 and diagnosed as Motor Neurone Disease in 1963, were worsening, but in spite of this they produced three children as well as working at the height of academia. Hawking’s work in the field of theoretical physics is simply breathtaking. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time sold over 10 million copies in over 35 languages and was the first time that the Big Bang, black holes and other specialist cosmology had ever been explained to the non-specialist reader. It is hard understand what it must be like to be a massive intellect trapped in a non- functioning body, but here we see Hawking as a person, a family man, a father, his work and achievements. A brilliant biography of an iconic figure. Photos, many previously unpublished. 310pp paperback. ONLY £7.50


75307 RAYMOND CHANDLER A LIFE: A Mysterious Something in the Light


by Tom Williams In the most thorough and comprehensive biography ever written, which is based on intensive research, new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, a literary gumshoe casts


light on this most mysterious of writers. The Raymond Chandler unveiled by this book is a man who, from an early age, was troubled by desertion and loneliness. His childhood was overshadowed by the cruel collapse of his parents’ marriage and by his father’s alcohol-fuelled violence, which eventually forced the boy and his doting mother to flee to Ireland and, later, London. But class- bound England proved stifling and, in his early 20s, Chandler returned to the US, where he met his one great love, Cissy Pascal, a married woman 18 years his senior. It was only during middle age, after his own alcoholism had wrecked a lucrative career as an oil-man, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction. The death of Cissy left him suicidal and he never recaptured the verve of his earlier writing but, somehow, the lonely ambiguous world of Philip Marlowe endures, compelling generation after generation of crime writers to follow him ‘down those mean streets’. 386 moving pages with b/w archive photos. £20 NOW £7


PAST by Ronald Fraser First published in 1984, the leading oral historian of 20th century Spain Ronald Fraser turns his attention to his own origins. Here he gathers the recollections of the servants who worked at the manor house outside London where he grew up. It was the where his parents - one American the other Scottish - learned to embrace the lifestyle of the idle local gentry. Fraser


paints a picture of a vanished interwar world and the words capture his family’s former employees and the texture of English ‘country’ life as he weaves in a background of their personal lives, work and social antagonisms experienced. We also glimpse another unspoken narrative, that of his own childhood. He submits to a course of psychoanalysis and delves into a past riven by confusing emotions and conflicting class allegiances. A welcome facsimile reprint, 187pp.


£20 NOW £5 75234 SIGMUND FREUD: Life


and Work 1856-1939 by Barbara Sternthal Here is Sigmund Freud as we have never before seen him - up close. Based on a wealth of rarely published illustrations and textual materials, the book extends to cover the literary quality of his works, and the ebullient and sometimes self-


ironic tone of his letters, as well as focussing on his Jewish identity. It provides the reader with a tangible and clear understanding of his life and work, embedding his biography firmly in the social and cultural context of the metropolis of Vienna. The publication of his The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899 laid the foundations for a new theory of psychology which was to stretch beyond its boundaries and develop into a phenomenon defining an era of culture and the arts. As if in anticipation of the mark his work would leave on the century to come, Freud had the book dated forward to the watershed year of 1900. Four decades of development of the theories Freud had called ‘psychoanalysis’ now began. However, the new theories were to be met with incomprehension and criticism, both in university circles and by such prominent contemporaries as Karl Kraus. 159 pages with 139 illustrations in b/w, and chronology. ONLY £7.50


75227 PAIN, PARTIES, WORK: Sylvia Plath In New


York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder On 31st May 1953, 20 year old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at ‘the intellectual fashion magazine’ Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next 26 days the bright,


blonde New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium and danced at West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from ‘The New Yorker’ and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations, took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink, vodka no ice. Young, beautiful and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was having the time of her life. Elizabeth Winder reveals how these 26 days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships and her romantic relationships and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Plath took real pleasure in clothes, make up, magazines and food, volunteered, joined clubs, attended lectures, partied and went to dances. But she committed suicide with cooking gas at the age of 30, leaving two tiny children behind. Here she is in 1953, vulnerable and playful with blonde hair, a deep tan, one suitcase, several boyfriends, two black sheaths, a ticket to New York City and joining 19 other college girls to work on Madison Avenue. The book is a prose poem of the senses, and a true account of where the Bell Jar list began. Import, 264pp, illus. $25.99 NOW £7


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74874 TWELVE BABIES ON A BIKE: Diary of a Pupil


Midwife by Dot May Dunn In 1956, Dot, a pupil midwife, negotiates the streets on her trusty old bicycle, come rain or shine to help women in need. There’s Mrs Wardell, who lives in a seedy slum, the eighth Clarke baby, born in an unusual place, the superstitious Wests desperate for a boy, baby Murphy, who is received with laughter, and brothel-worker Mrs


Maloney. Amid lectures, text books and university dances, Dot must saddle up at any time of the day or night to attend deliveries. Then fate deals her an unexpected hand. 264pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


74882 A BOY’S OWN DALE by Terry Wilson Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1950s, the author spent his schooldays hunting down Just William books, cutting up apples to help with fractions, and staring out of the window dreaming up new schemes. ‘Tickling trout could only be done on summer days, standing knee deep in the pools...the odd trout was quickly slipped inside my shirt, but mostly I let them go...’ It was on the Dales themselves that Terry came into his own, whether he was out fishing with his homemade rod, grouse-beating the lady of the manor or growing his own prize caulis. His inventive mind was matched only by his love of nature. A charming tale of a long-lost world. 221pp in paperback with line art. £6.99 NOW £3


70281 BOBBY AND JACKIE: A Love Story


by C. David Heymann Shocking, yearningly romantic and lots of fun, this is the New York Times bestseller by the award- winning biographer. Heymann draws on more than two decades’ worth of personal interviews and previously unavailable reports from the Secret Service and the FBI to create a complete picture of the complex relationship between


Bobby and Jackie Kennedy. An open secret for decades among family insiders, their affair began as a result of their grief over John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and lasted until Bobby began his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. From late night trysts at Jackie’s Fifth Avenue apartment to fervent embraces at the Kennedy Estate in Palm Beach, the couple’s romantic liaisons and deep friendship grew out of shared tragedies and overflowing ambition. Now featuring a bonus chapter with all-new insights. 230pp in paperback with eight pages of photos including Marilyn Monroe in the ‘Happy Birthday’ dress and Jackie’s former lovers including Marlon Brando. £9.99 NOW £5


74904 RIVERS by Richard Slobodin Dr William Rivers, neurologist and psychiatrist is probably best known for his association with the First World War poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, dramatised in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. In 1917, at that time frontline infantry officers, they met Rivers at a war hospital where he was a psychiatrist. This biography tells of that meeting and of his earlier career in neurology, psychology and anthropology, and of the important role he played in the wartime treatment of combat trauma. His anthropological fieldwork in Melanesia and India and his theories on kinship and social organisation are of fundamental importance. After the war he renewed his acquaintance with George Bernard Shaw and came to know H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and a number of Labour political figures. He died suddenly in 1922 just before he stood for election. 86 page paperback, illus. £4.99 NOW £2.25


75069 BOBBY ON THE BEAT: Memoirs of a London


Policeman in the 1960s by Bob Dixon


Bob Dixon joined the Metropolitan Police in 1961 and served for 15 years in uniform, plain clothes and CID. For ten of those years his beat was London’s East End, a tough area at the best of times, but particularly tricky at that time with the docks still active and the rise of organised criminal gangs based in


the area. Bob’s first arrest, a lady of the night as well known for her drinking as her profession, provided him a rude awakening with a well-aimed knee to his unmentionables. Chinese waiters would chase non- paying customers through Limehouse with machetes, a 5am stop-and-search of Ronnie Kray and numerous shocking murders are all part of this candid and hugely enjoyable memoir. 255pp paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


74569 WAINWRIGHT LETTERS edited by Hunter Davies


This selection from the letters of Alfred Wainwright presents a vivid picture of one of the great but eccentric creative geniuses of the 20th century. He was a legendary fell walker, author of the unique Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, and latterly TV star, but above all he was a fluent, eloquent and diligent correspondent. The editor has estimated that AW must have written up to 10,000 in his life so, all you Wainwright fans, there is still hope that you may one day own one. They range from his early years in Blackburn to his established position as Borough Treasurer in Kendal, and cover all aspects of his professional and personal life, as well as the voluminous correspondence that was a consequence of his writing and publishing the Pictorial Guides. Many depict a dedicated public servant whose personal life had been deeply unhappy until, late in life, he found unexpected love and happiness. In fact, his letters to his second wife, Betty, display a much warmer, more sensitive and emotional character than his gruff popular image would suggest. Maps. £20 NOW £6


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