75083 MADE AT HOME - EGGS AND POULTRY by Dick and James Strawbridge


Includes buying, breeding, and finally preparing the bird for cooking, followed by separate sections on looking after each variety of bird. Killing, plucking and drawing of both large and small birds are covered for those who want control over the whole process. Norfolk Black turkeys are tasty while the Narragansett are known for having a calm disposition and making good mothers. Goose Livers with Cider, Duck Confit, Goose Salad with Gooseberries and Potted Turkey are some of the mouthwatering recipes. 176pp, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £3


75084 MADE AT HOME - VEGETABLES by Dick and James Strawbridge Organised by the seasons, this unusual recipe book is based on dishes created by the authors using the produce grown on their Cornwall smallholding. Includes planting, watering, composting and improving your soil with Greens (high in Nitrogen and rather mysteriously including teabags), and Browns (high in carbon and including leaves, loo rolls and egg cartons). Recipes for Spring feature Tempura Asparagus with Lemon Sole or Broccoli Stir-Fry. Comforting dishes for Winter are Curried Parsnip Soup, Potted Crab with Leeks, and Scallops with Rocket Pesto. Then digging, composting and preparing structures. 176pp, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £3


76007 MADE AT HOME: Set of Two by Dick and James Strawbridge Buy both and save even more. £25.98 NOW £5


74098 HUGH JOHNSON’S WINE JOURNAL by Hugh Johnson


Published in 1985 this has been reissued several times. He surveys the main varieties of wine in a relaxed, knowledgeable style, never being bossy and cutting through pretentious jargon where necessary. The main part of the book is Johnson’s own wine diary organised by different types, for example under Red Wines there are sections on ‘fresh grapey’, ‘standard low-price’, ‘medium to full-bodied’ and finally ‘the darkest, turbo- powered reds’. Ends with vintage charts, a winespeak glossary and an ‘if you like this, try that ...’. 192pp, colour illus.


£14.99 NOW £3


74151 ELGENTO 100W ELECTRIC KNIFE by Elgento.com


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Ready to go with electric plug and two sharp stainless steel serrated blades, this white elegant Elgento product is low noise and low vibration, has ventilation holes to keep the heat down, an ergonomic design which makes it easy for older hands, safety switch and blade release button. Make carving meat a treat! ONLY £14


74454 ESSENTIAL CAKE DECORATING GUIDE edited by Jane Price


In this beautiful book are around 80 stunning designs. An Almond and Apple Gateau introduces the cook to sugar modelling in the form of tiny marzipan apples as decoration. Children’s cakes include a cat, several teddy bears, a spotty snake, a Gothic castle, a piano, a baggy- trousered clown and a Noah’s ark. There are also cake designs for Christmas, weddings and other celebrations. Covers basic techniques and equipment, including working with royal icing, pressure piping, 12 different types of icing and 10 basic cake recipes. 304pp, colour photos, templates. ONLY £4


75056 KITCHEN KNIFE SKILLS: Techniques


for Carving, Boning by Marianne Lumb Slicing, chopping, dicing, mincing, filleting. The author of this useful book lists the different types of knife and blade with photo illustrations. Swede, celeriac and turnip can be tough to cut, and as with most root vegetables, the secret is to create a flat surface as quickly as possible to give stability to the piece as you chop away. Fish- cutting covers squid, lobster and oysters, and meat techniques include boning a lamb shoulder and carving cooked meat and poultry. Cutting bread and pastries is the final section. 176pp, colour step-by-step photos. $24.95 NOW £3.75


75241 THE CORNUCOPIA: Being A Kitchen Entertainment and Cookbook by Judith


Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman Drawing on more than 150 sources, beginning with The Forme of Cury 1390, and including some of the most beautiful examples of culinary Victoriana, this curious volume rambles through a virtual treasury of food lore, commentary and opinion, customs and attitudes, and more than 300 delectable, tested recipes. From a 1598 recipe for ‘four and twenty blackbirds baked into a pie’ via an exquisite 1653 Izaak Walton receipt for stuffed pike, to an 1898 formula for a drink improbably named the ‘Bosom Caresser’, this one-of-a-kind book is all that the food lover could ask for. 297 pages with glossary, hints and equivalents and weights and measures, illus. £21.95 NOW £6.50


76196 DESSERTS by James Martin


Gâteau Saint-Honoré with choux pastry, custard and cream and orange liquor, Butterfly Cakes, Baked Pear and Honey Tart, French Fruit Tart which is just simple puff pastry, fresh cream and fresh fruit all lined up to look beautiful, classic Lemon Tart, Raspberry


Marshmallows, Clotted Cream Summer Pudding, Baked Chocolate and Orange Cheesecake, Figs in Vanilla Syrup, Limoncello with Apricot and Nut Biscotti, Mincemeat and Apple Jalousie, Spicy Plum Crumble, Apple and Blueberry Pie plus all the sauces, dried fruits, meringues, pralines, Cinder Toffee Honeycomb, Shortbread, and pastry making - if you have a sweet tooth, buy this rather classy cook book. James Martin indulges his sweet tooth in providing an irresistible collection of more than 100 hot puddings, cold desserts, cakes, bakes, ice creams and sorbets. Colour photos, 192 large softback pages. £9.99 NOW £5


Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle


76559 FREYA STARK by Caroline Moorehead Born in 1893 in Paris, Freya Stark lived on the edge of Dartmoor, moved to Italy, read history at Bedford College London, served as a censor then a nurse in the First World War, travelled widely in Persia and the Near East in the early 1930s, published Baghdad Sketches, the Valleys of the Assassins and The Southern Gates of Arabia, a selection of essays


Perseus in the Wind and the first of four volumes of autobiography Traveller’s Prelude and was made Dame of the British Empire in 1972. She died in 1993 in Italy at the age of 100. Precocious and tough, Freya Stark spent her childhood wandering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. Renowned for her flamboyant and unorthodox behaviour, she was also self-disciplined, courageous and independent. As an explorer she was unconventional, always travelling alone, without money or support. Her expeditions in Persia and the Hadhramaut established her reputation as a great traveller and writer, but also as a geographer, historian and archaeologist. The brilliant biographer Caroline Moorehead captures this eventful life that was tempered by a constant struggle against ill health and loneliness. 204pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


76466 DOCTOR BARNARDO: Champion of Victorian


Children by Martin Levy Everyone has heard of Dr Thomas John Barnardo, but do we really know the details of who he was and what he accomplished? Here is information straight from the horse’s mouth by an author who grew up in the Barnardo Manor in the East End of London. Back then, there were still many grateful thousands who


had known the great man personally, and the author went to school with their grandchildren. He is eminently suited, then, to revealing the poverty-stricken, dirt- begrimed background that festered behind the world’s


www.bibliophilebooks.com 75568 CUPCAKES: With 9


Silicone Cupcake Molds Lift the lid on this tasty box set to find three pink, three bright blue and three yellow flexible, fluted standard size cupcake molds in ovenproof silicone. This book however has 39 recipes for rather more refined cupcakes: Saffron Spice, Chestnut, Madeira,


Baklava, Streusel (which looks like muesli muffins), Orange and Lemon Syrup, Individual Blueberry Cheesecakes, Fruit Tart Cupcakes, Apple and Raisin, White Chocolate Chip, Marble, Mini Pear and Walnut and more. Bargain cookware, 96 page large softback, full page colour photos. ONLY £5


75566 CLASSIC ENTERTAINING by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill


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. Two dozen dinner parties, brunches, outdoor picnics and holiday parties are beautifully planned in full colour photographs showing every detail of each room. There’s a Valentine’s dinner, a farmhouse brunch, a Victorian tea, pre-dinner drinks and entertaining in some of England’s most glorious estates. Plus table linen, china and most spectacular of all, a Christmas lunch. 160 pages, colour illus, Rizzoli outsize publication. $30 NOW £5.50


75587 JELLYMONGERS: Glow-in-the-Dark Jelly by Bompas and Parr


Culinary deviants Bompas and Parr are, like Heston Blumenthal, the Willie Wonkas of today’s crazy food design. They are Jellymongers who can fashion gold leaf and make such sweet delights as Elderflower and Raspberry, Blueberry, Cardamom and Honey Blancmange, Marbled Jelly, Cherry, Lemonade, Lavender, Absinthe, Champagne and Summer Fruit Wedding Jelly, and the most wonderful alcohol infusions like Campari and Orange, Pimms Cup and Mai Tai Jellies and all manner of marbling, stripes, a wonky pineapple. These creations have to be seen to be believed. With a brief history of gelatine. 160 fun, colourful pages.


£12.99 NOW £3.50 75599 POTATO SALAD: 65 Recipes from


Classic to Cool by Debbie Moose Creamy or chunky, mellow or tangy, a salad starring spuds brings out the best in other foods. In this one-of- a-kind cook book here are lots of home style recipes each with a tasty twist - Farmer’s Market Salad with peas, sweet onions and chives, Grilled Potato Salad with beer and caraway, Double Tater Salad with sweet potatoes, raisins and smoked paprika, German Warm Potato Salad with bacon and apple cider vinegar and Potato Salad Olé with chillies, cumin and lime juice. Here are elegant indoor meals too like Tarragon-Lemon Potato Salad, and even a recipe with caviar. 128 tall elegant pages, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £4.50


Historical Biography


biggest and richest empire, the deprived children who suffered in it and the one man who decided that something must be done about them. What was this workaholic Irishman up to? What was he up against and how well did he succeed? In this uplifting story of Barnado’s non-stop efforts in the cause of children’s welfare, which landed him in an early grave at the age of 60, it is clear that he changed Britain for ever and that much of modern child welfare started with him. 252 pages, archive photographs. £25 NOW £8


76460 COMPLETE WORLD OF JANE AUSTEN: An


Illustrated Guide by Lauren Nixon


For all devoted Janeites, here is a charming guide to Austen’s life, family and the society in which she moved - a journey through the events, fashions and people that shaped her, both as an individual and as a writer. She herself wrote


in a letter to her sister Cassandra in 1796: ‘I write only for fame, and without any view to pecuniary emolument’. How thrilled she would have been to find that for two centuries she has been one of the world’s most read and admired authors. Her novels are a global phenomenon and subject to countless stage and screen adaptations. Her characters are as endearing and engaging today as they were two hundred years ago. So what is it that makes her so popular and easy to relate to, even in our modern times? To provide clues, here are detailed backgrounds and synopses to each of her six novels. The book also includes many of the elegant illustrations of Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock, capturing the romance, classic styles and nuances of the Regency period and bringing Austen’s world vividly to life. 120 pages illustrated in colour on every page, with timeline, map and list of works. £9.99 NOW £5


76463 ANNE BOLEYN: The


Queen of Controversy A Biographical Essay by Lacey Baldwin Smith As the author, Professor Emeritus of History, and in particular the Tudor period explains, there is more to Anne Boleyn than meets the eye. Her life was ‘a double helix intertwining extraordinary human drama with profound historical crisis’. She was a young woman of


HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY


no particular importance or talents. She was neither a great beauty nor a captivating charmer. In what way, then, was she so important in the scheme of British history? She was, it appears, the crucial catalyst for three of the most important events of her time - the break with the Pope and the Catholic Church, which led to the English Reformation, the advent of the nation state and the birth of her daughter. That daughter went on to sit for 43 spectacularly successful years on the throne. Without Anne Boleyn, the Reformation as we know it today would not have taken place. Without Anne, Queen Elizabeth I would not have existed at all. Yet, after years of holding out against King Henry VIII’s desire to marry her, Anne unwisely succumbed and, a mere three years later, was publically executed for treason, accused on what was probably a trumped-up charge of quadruple adultery and incest. If that is not worth another look then we do not know what is! 256 pages with illustrations in colour and b/w. £20 NOW £7.50


76577 KING CHARLES II by Antonia Fraser


Readers know that any book by Lady Antonia is bound to be both gripping and informative and this one is no exception. In a rich feast of instruction, drama and


entertainment, this very extensively researched biography captures not only all the vitality of the man who was reported to be the most charming and approachable of English kings, but also the


background to his life both before and after the Restoration of the Monarchy. After the execution of his father King Charles I, the youth led a life of poverty and bitter exile, but this was to culminate in a magnificent escape from the troops of the self-styled Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and Charles’s eventual triumphant restoration to his throne in 1660. Charles was already 30 by that time, with one whole dramatic experience behind him. This detailed book spans both periods of his life and shows their relation to each other. He was, by blood, one-quarter Scots, one-quarter Danish, one- quarter French and one-quarter Italian. For the thin but vital trickle of English-Tudor blood which had ensured his family’s succession to the English throne, it was necessary to go back five generations. He had a very swarthy complexion and looked facially like an Italian. Nevertheless, in his tastes, he remained a very typical Englishman. The things he enjoyed, his charming personality and his impressive stature of well over 6ft endeared him to his subjects. A fascinating study of a king about whom, until now, very little has been written. A supersize 670 pages with many plates in b/w and family trees of the royal houses of Bourbon and Stuart.


£12.99 NOW £7.50


76633 WINTER KING: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor


England by Thomas Penn Henry VII, first of the Tudor kings of England, was the ancestor of King Charles II - whose remarkable life story also appears in this edition of Bibliophile code 76577. This definitive and accessible account of the reign of the tragic, magnetic, tubercular king will alter your view,


not just of Henry, but of the country he dominated and corrupted and of the dynasty he founded. It is 1501.


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cardboard case, with a ribbon to pull up the cards, this collection features the sassiest girls from Gil Elvgren, Vargas, Driben, Bolles, Moran, Mozert and more. And if you fall in love with one of these sweethearts, fear not! The collection features two copies of 50 different designs, one to send, one to keep all for yourself. 100 colour


postcards 4.2" x 5.9", 200 pages, Text in English,


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For decades, England has been ravaged by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry has clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s throne and, for many, a usurper. But Henry has a crucial asset - his queen and their children, who are the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Queen Elizabeth has been a member of the House of York. He is from the House of Lancaster. So, by marrying, they have united the warring parties that fought the bloody century-long Wars of the Roses. Their older son Arthur is about to marry a Spanish princess. On a cold November day the 16-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrives in London for a wedding that will mark a triumphal moment in Henry’s reign. Here is vividly recreated the story of the controlling, paranoid, avaricious monarch who is entering the most perilous years of his long reign. It is the fraught, dangerous birth of Tudor England. 448 rough cut pages with plates in colour and b/w, maps, genealogical table and notes. Multi award-winning history. US edition of a British book.


$30 NOW £7.50 76449 THOMAS WYATT:


The Heart’s Forest by Susan Brigden


Born in Allington, Kent, in 1503, Thomas Wyatt would grow into a handsome and physically strong young man, over six feet tall and first entered the service of Henry VIII aged just 12 years. Rising rapidly in favour, he accompanied Sir John Russell to Rome to petition Pope Clement VII to annul the


King’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon, leaving him free to marry Anne Boleyn. While in Rome he was captured by the army of Charles V, but managed to find favour with the Emperor, which was ended promptly when the Pope called for a crusade against Henry VIII and set the Inquisition against Wyatt. He managed to escape back to England, where survival at Henry’s court meant silence, but still tried to speak the truth to the increasingly despotic king. One of six accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn - and possibly the only one who actually did so - he was imprisoned in the Tower in 1536 and witnessed not only the execution of the Queen but his five co-accused. He escaped on account of his friendship with Henry’s chief legal adviser Thomas Cromwell. It was for his poetry however that Wyatt was respected, nay revered, at court. Considered the first modern voice in English poetry and credited with the introduction of the sonnet into English literature, his poetry held a mirror to the capricious world of court, alluding darkly to events that would have been death to describe. He died riding to Cornwall at the King’s behest in 1542. Brigden’s life of Wyatt is an unconventional one, being an evocation of its subject among his friends and enemies at courts in England, Italy, France and Spain, or alone in contemplative retreat. Aiming to show Wyatt in all his diversity, parrying faith, poetry and politics in early Reformation England and attuned to his dissonant voice and paradoxical inwardness, this biography is a remarkable analysis of the poet, diplomat and lover at the heart of Henry VIII’s court. With 16 pages of colour plates plus other b/w illus and extensive notes, 714pp. £30 NOW £9


71881 THE MISTRESSES OF


HENRY VIII by Kelly Hart In France, to be the King’s mistress was not a secret affair. But for Henry VIII, these relationships were private. His wives have appeared in many books as six very different women portrayed as feminist icons of the Tudor age. Bessie Blount, Mary Boleyn, Mary Shelton, Anne Stafford, Jane Popincourt and Elizabeth Amadas as well as his other mistresses,


deserve to have their amazing life stories told just as much as his wives have. Here they are rescued from obscurity and we see how some of Henry’s lovers were involved in influencing profound changes in religion and society. 229pp in paperback. Photos. £8.99 NOW £4


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