www.bibliophilebooks.com 75158 MICHELANGELO,


COMPLETE WORKS by Frank Zöllner


Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475- 1564) had already sculpted David and Pietà, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique. This


comprehensive book explores Michelangelo’s life and work with a richly illustrated biographical essay, and a complete four-part inventory of his paintings, sculptures, buildings and drawings. Full-page reproductions and enlarged details allow readers to appreciate fine details in the artist’s vast repertoire, while the book’s biographical insights consider a previously unseen extent to Michelangelo’s more personal traits and circumstances, such as his solitary nature, his thirst for money and commissions, his immense wealth and his skill as a property investor. In addition, the book tackles the controversial issue of the attribution of Michelangelo drawings, an area in which decisions continue to be steered by the interests of the art market and the major collections. Its slipcase neatly converting into a book stand. 9.6" x 14.6", 736 pages. ONLY £45


73952 THE FAMILY OF TOUCANS: The Complete Plates


by John Gould Simply gorgeous. Presented as 51


unbound, fine art prints in an enormous red linen clamshell case, this portfolio


contains what is generally thought to be the most dramatic illustrations of John Gould (1804-1881), the only ornithological artist of the 19th century to rival John James Audubon in ambition and quality. The range of vivid colour in The Family of Toucans - shiny black, vibrant red, yellow, and orange - creates an unprecedented sense of animation; the birds seem to emerge from the page more like living creatures than two-dimensional representations. Each beautiful bird is anatomically correct and exquisitely rendered in colour, in a natural setting on a branch or under foliage, often in pairs. The plumage is dazzling and appealing and all nature lovers can appreciate the rarity of this collection. Taken from the revised and expanded edition published in London in 1854, the facsimile plates are individual prints ready for framing, 13" x 19", plus 31 page introduction. Slipcased. ONLY £50


BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.


- Albert Einstein 76485 SPECIAL


RELATIONSHIPS: People and


Places by Asa Briggs One of our most respected British historians describes how he got his unusual name, a question often put to him, and considers whether having been born in Bradford, an industrial town surrounded by moors, has shaped his writing and his ideas of history. A great traveller with a strong sense of the


visual, he visits Leeds, Birmingham, Chicago and Melbourne among places that figure in his own ‘map of learning’, a term that he was the first to use. He also speculates on time travel, the history of wine and sport. His career has been as unconventional as this book and outside academic life he focuses on his wide range of friends including John Reith, Dennis Foreman, Harold MacMillan, Jim Callaghan, Denis and Edna Healey, Richard Crossman, Penelope Lively, P. D. James and John Sainsbury among them. The last chapter deals with his birthday year and the 50th anniversary of the University of Sussex and the 40th anniversary of the enrolment of the first students in the Open University. A book which intertwines great thoughts with many of the people who have provoked them. 242pp, colour photos and other illus. £19.99 NOW £8.50


76580 MAGGIE: The First


Lady by Brenda Maddox Revised and updated paperback edition described by the Sunday Times as ‘A racily paced tale of the private side of a public career.’ Award winning biographer Brenda Maddox gained unprecedented access to people who had known Margaret Thatcher through her life and interviewed many who had never spoken before. Curiosity is the author’s response to the enigma


of Margaret Roberts Thatcher and the great changes wrought since 1979 in Britain. How did she become Britain’s first woman Prime Minister when her contemporaries picked Shirley Williams or Barbara Castle as far more likely? Did she deploy the so-called feminine wiles when called upon to do a man’s job, such as sending men to war? Did she really end socialism and the Cold War? From the introduction, the view of Denis Thatcher is that he recognised the force of his wife’s personality ‘Freeing her from drudgery, giving her his name, introducing her to a sophisticated and less reproving world, and providing steadfast love, loyalty


and finance throughout their decades together.’ Here are plenty of new insights, a vivid picture of the very different world of a provincial town in the 1930s, and an account of Thatcher’s first attempt to enter Parliament at the 1950 General Election while she was just plain Margaret, the daughter of Alderman Roberts. Good too on her Oxford career in this most rounded profile of a unique woman. 275pp in paperback with 16 pages of photos.


£8.99 NOW £4.50 76374 A GIRL ABOARD THE


TITANIC by Eva Hart The terror of the Titanic comes over with unique vividness in the only eyewitness account by a child, seven year old Eva Hart. Eva’s parents were emigrating to a new life in Canada and when their original passage was cancelled felt themselves lucky to be reassigned to the Titanic as second-class passengers. But Eva’s mother had a


premonition of disaster and each night they were on board she remained fully clothed, knitting or reading and ready for the alarm when it came. She was one of the passengers to feel the ship hit the iceberg and the family immediately got dressed and positioned themselves near the lifeboats. Eva recalls the musicians playing, though whether they really did has often been challenged, and she suggests that their music was very localised and would not be heard by many. She and her mother were on the overcrowded Lifeboat 14 and Eva remembers seeing her father for the last time as the boat was lowered. To a child the ship’s side was terrifyingly huge and the lifeboat itself precariously wobbly, but after trading passengers in the water with other vessels their boat became steady and moved away from the screaming and shouting that were to haunt Eva for the rest of her life. The most terrifying memory of the whole ordeal was being winched up into the rescue ship, the Carpathia, in a sack. In later life Eva became Chairman of her local Conservative Association and also a magistrate, but her life was shaped by what happened to her as a seven-year-old. Photos, 152 pp. £16.99 NOW £6.50


76597 TESTAMENT OF FRIENDSHIP: The Story of


Winifred Holtby by Vera Brittain


In her bestselling autobiography Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the loss of her lover, brother and her closest friends. In her second book, here she tells the story of the woman who helped her


survive the aftermath of the War, the writer and reformer Winifred Holtby. They met at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1919 and their friendship continued through Vera’s marriage and their respective writing careers until Winifred’s untimely death at the age of 37 in 1935, just before the publication of her greatest novel, South Riding. Here is a moving record of a friendship between two women of courage, determination and intelligence. With a new introduction and here in Virago Modern Classic paperback, 508pp. £12.99 NOW £5


70281 BOBBY AND JACKIE: A Love Story by C. David Heymann


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. Now featuring a bonus chapter with all-new insights. 230pp in paperback with photos including Marilyn Monroe in the ‘Happy Birthday’ dress and Jackie’s former lovers including Marlon Brando. £9.99 NOW £5


73962 HOUSE IN FRANCE: A Memoir by Gully Wells


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Her mother Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, was an adventurous TV commentator, earning a reputation for her outspoken style and progressive views. Her father A. J. Ayer, known as Freddie, was an icon in the world of 20th century philosophy and as prodigious a womaniser as he was a thinker! In London, the author’s mother and stepfather mixed with the likes of Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, Jonathan Miller, Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Kennedy and Claus von Buelow. In New York, they were friendly with Mayor John Lindsay, boxer Mike Tyson and lingerie king Fernando Sánchez. Wherever they went, they ‘caught the spirit of the sixties’ and the vivid memories of the author manages to capture them too. 307 roughcut pages, photos.


$26.95 NOW £3.50


76004 NANCY: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort


With no less than 20 illustrations from Nancy as a debutante to Nancy aged 80, an Astor and Langhorne family tree. A divorcée with a young son to look after, Nancy Astor seemed unlikely to become a famous hostess near the centre of the British Empire’s highest social spheres. Taking English politics by storm, she was elected as a member of Parliament for Plymouth and in December 1919 became the first woman to take her seat in the mother of Parliaments. With the influence created by her talents and her wealth, which enabled her personally to meet and challenge Stalin in his private den, just as her husband Waldorf was among the first British politicians to have an interview with Hitler, and deploying her masterly wit and sense of comedy, Nancy played hostess throughout the 1930s to Prime Ministers and members of the British government, to leading Americans and to Nazis. Churchill, Chamberlain, FDR, Charlie Chaplin, J. M. Barrie and Lawrence of Arabia were all part of her social circle. 378pp. £25 NOW £7.50


Biography / Autobiography


75853 PLEASE, MISS: The True Story of a Trainee


Teacher in 1960s Liverpool by Bernadette Robinson Set in the colourful and fascinating world of 1960s Liverpool, it opens a window on the life of young children in one of the city’s toughest slum areas. Here, Bernadette Robinson got her first job at the tender age of 21, teaching five to seven year olds in a much too large


class of 40 pupils. They would frequently turn up shoeless and starving but, gradually, the new teacher could see that she was making a real difference to their lives, and this changed her own life in ways she had not expected. She eventually ended up teaching for 32 years, in various schools across the city. 343 paperback pages.


£6.99 NOW £3.50 74502 MY DEAR HUGH,


by Richard Cobb, edited by Tim Heald Richard Cobb and Hugh Trevor-Roper were among the leading historians of the second half of the 20th century, and Trevor-Roper’s methodical habits meant that Cobb’s half of their correspondence has survived. Here is a glorious picture of the witty, erudite and thoroughly back-stabbing milieu which the two professors inhabited. A letter of 1977 opens tantalisingly with the words “No, she has not been eaten by the Pope”. Cobb writes to Hugh: “I am glad you trounced the trendy bishops”. As chairman of the Booker prize committee he boasts that he managed to keep Martin Amis off the list in 1984. He confesses that in his 71st year he still observes female anatomy “with great interest”. A shrewd commentary on literary life. 239pp, cast of characters. £20 NOW £6


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. Born in Oxford on 8 January 1942 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. 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 was the first time that the Big Bang, black holes and other specialist cosmology had ever been explained to the non-specialist reader. Photos. 310pp, paperback. ONLY £6


74553 FIRST MAN: The Life of Neil Armstrong by James Hansen


Neil Armstrong was always the reluctant American hero, the Navy fighter pilot, test pilot and astronaut who found success back home in his native Ohio in business and academia and became a community leader. In July 1969, as a 38 year old astronaut, he became the first person ever to walk on the Moon. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was honoured and celebrated for his achievement. At the same time it is a penetrating exploration of our hero-worship of astronauts and a cipher for decoding the State Age and its cultural legacy. Paperback, 769pp, photos. £9.99 NOW £2.75


74569 WAINWRIGHT LETTERS edited by Hunter Davies


This selection from the letters of Alfred Wainwright presents a vivid picture. 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. 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. His personal life had been deeply unhappy until, late in life, he found unexpected love and happiness. Maps. £20 NOW £5


74683 JOHN BETJEMAN by Greg Morse


In the early 1960s, John Betjeman had gained recognition as a bestselling poet, writer and broadcaster with a cause. He did much to help us appreciate beauty in the landscape, architecture, churches and on the coast, and in particular on the railways. Lyrical, humorous, nostalgic and unsentimental and above all distinctively English, Betjeman is in the first rank of poets and became the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. A Shire paperback, 56pp, colour and other illus. £6.99 NOW £4


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. 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


75709 WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES by Peter Sissons


A terrific biography which includes many colour and b/w photos. A Liverpool boy from the same cohort as the Beatles, Sissons went on to university and ‘greater things’. He was caught on the wrong side of rebel lines during the Nigerian Civil War, and shot through both legs. His blossoming career as a war


reporter came abruptly to an end. But another door was about to open and Sissons went on to guide a generation through every momentous event of the last 45 years. One of Britain’s most distinguished newsreaders reveals what he really thinks of the state of the British media, global affairs, Climategate and the workings of the BBC in his funny, dramatic and poignant memoir. 337pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £4


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. 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. 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. Eventually, he gained his freedom. 636 pages.


$30 NOW £5.50 75671 IN SEARCH OF A


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. His 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. He submits to a course of psychoanalysis and delves into a past riven by confusing emotions and conflicting class allegiances. Facsimile reprint, 187pp. £20 NOW £2.75


75234 SIGMUND FREUD: Life and Work


1856-1939 by Barbara Sternthal Here is Sigmund Freud as we have never before seen him - up close. 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, 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. 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. 159 pages, 139 illus and chronology. ONLY £4.75


75455 KATE MOSS: The Making of an Icon by Christian Salmon


Spotted at the age of 14 in 1988 in JFK airport, her lightning ascent to the top of the supermodel world and choice luxury brand figurehead with its stratospheric rewards happened with no apparent effort on her part. Despite tabloid scandals involving sex, a lot of drugs, rock ‘n’ roll paramours and more than a few trips to rehab, she has had the ability not only to reinvent herself and reappear, butterfly-like, as a new creation each time and making the world fall in love with her again. 60 typically jaw-dropping and telling images, Christian Salmon’s insightful narrative probes the Moss phenomenon, a story of an icon, a muse, a legend and, perhaps more than anything, an enigma. 128pp. £14.99 NOW £4.75


75819 NAZI PRINCESS: Hitler, Lord Rothermere and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe by Jim Wilson


“Spy, agent, intriguer, manipulator, adventuress - the label differed whether you were in Berlin or London.” Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe was not born into the nobility but her marriage to a Hungarian prince secured her a position in European aristocratic circles and she proceeded to use her looks and intelligence to make a living out of it. In 1927 she targeted the fabulously wealthy British press baron Lord Rothermere, 23 years her senior, who was already an admirer of the Nazi doctrines being preached by Hitler. Five years later she negotiated a generous annuity plus expenses from Rothermere in return for providing entree into Nazi circles. She took as her lover Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler’s personal adjutant, reporting back to Rothermere, who used the material she relayed for propaganda. When Rothermere terminated her annuity she took him to court, gambling on the hope that he would back down to avoid his obsequious correspondence with Hitler being read out in court. But Rothermere was too rich to care and Stephanie was finally exiled to internment in the United States. 191pp, photos. £17.99 NOW £7


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