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Ghostly Beasts | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Joan Aiken; Illus. Amanda Harvey | ||||
| Jonathan Cape 2002 142 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0224064630 250x188mm | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Introduced by Joan Aiken herself, this collection of stories and poems are all about animals, but with a ghostly element: the ghost of a devoted dog saves a young girl's life; a snowhorse rescues a boy from an evil master; and in two haunting stories, The Winter Sleepwalker and The Dancers, bears play a mysterious part in the fate of humans. For two of the stories and the poems, this is the first UK publication. With illustrations by Amanda Harvey. | ||||
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Fat, Bald and Worthless | |||
| The Curious Stories behind Noble Nicknames | Miscellaneous | |||
| Revd Robert Easton | ||||
| Penguin 2006 291 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0140515402 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Robert Easton "rejoices in a world where monarchs do not have numerals after names but appellations such as 'Bald' or 'Worthless', and where nobles are prominent not for their military genius or diplomatic success but for their moral fibre or the size of their nose". His book describes some 400 aristocratic individuals, arranged alphabetically by nickname, from Charles the Affable to Zeus-Ammon (Alexander the Great), and considers whether they deserve their nicknames. No jacket. | ||||
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2-4-6-8 | |||
| American Cheerleaders and Football Players | Miscellaneous | |||
| Brian Finke; Kathy Ryan | ||||
| Umbrage 2003 128 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1884167349 260mmx250mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| This vivid collection of photographs is a seriocomic guided tour into the world of pyramids and liberties, pompoms and backbends, tackles and touchdowns. Brian Finke's energetic documentation explores the interconnected lives of American cheerleaders and football players. | ||||
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The Clumsiest People in Europe | |||
| or, Mrs Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World | Miscellaneous | |||
| Todd Pruzan; Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer (Deceased) | ||||
| Bloomsbury 2005 198 pages | ||||
| Hardback 158234504X | ||||
| Published Price $19.95 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| The Spanish, Greeks, Persians, Japanese, Greenlanders - in fact most of the peoples of the world were judged and found wanting by the author of this hypercritical travel guide. First published in 1855 as an instructional book for children, it exemplifies Victorian xenophobia at its vitriolic zenith. Dirty, lazy, cruel and dishonest are just some of the terms the author uses to describe various 'foreigners' in an unintentionally humorous, highly eccentric antidote to political correctness. | ||||
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The Tigers of the Kumgang Mountains | |||
| A Korean Folktale | Miscellaneous | |||
| Kim So-un | ||||
| Tuttle 2005 33 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0804836531 280x220mm | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| No man could conquer the tiger-infested Kumgang Mountains - not even the most famous hunter in all Korea. In this exciting adventure a young man seeks to avenge his father's death and embarks on a hazardous journey to confront the man-eating tiger. Written by the eminent Korean story-teller Kim So-un, the tale is illustrated by Jeong Kyoung-Sim. Age 8-10 | ||||
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The Great Shakespeare Fraud | |||
| The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland | Miscellaneous | |||
| Patricia Pierce | ||||
| Sutton 2004 274 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750933933 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| At the age of 19, William-Henry Ireland (1777-1835) perpetrated the greatest Shakespeare forgery ever attempted. He started with a deed 'signed' by Shakespeare and followed this with a rapid succession of poems, letters and an entirely new play, Vortigern. Patricia Pierce tells the ultimately tragic story of a crime that began as a young man's attempt to win his father's love and approval, but grew to involve famous names from Sheridan and Boswell to the Prince of Wales. | ||||
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Lions Down Under 1950 | |||
| Tour to New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon | Miscellaneous | |||
| Alan Evans | ||||
| Stadia 2006 192 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752440217 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| This account of the six-month tour in 1950 by the British and Irish Lions to the great rugby strongholds of the Southern hemisphere, New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon, draws on the survivors’ reminiscences, players’ diaries and a collection of action photographs and memorabilia of the first post-war Lions. | ||||
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Injustice | |||
| State Trials from Socrates to Nuremberg | Miscellaneous | |||
| Brian Harris | ||||
| Sutton 2006 242 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750940212 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| A survey of state trials from Socrates and Joan of Arc to Nuremberg and Sacco and Vanzetti, exploring the human stories behind the trials and the issues they have raised, such as how far society should go in tolerating dissent and whether terrorism can be justified by a strong enough belief in social justice. | ||||
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Will Write and Direct for Food | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Alan Parker | ||||
| Southbank 2005 224 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1904915124 250x185mm | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Nineteen British Academy Awards, ten Golden Globes and an equal number of Oscars underline Alan Parker's talent as a director, writer and producer; not so well known is his gift as a cartoonist. Attacked with acerbic wit, his targets are the film industry, actors, writers, directors, audiences and financiers: 'the cartoons assembled here' he explains 'are my chopped off horse's head'. | ||||
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How They Met: Fateful Encounters of Famous Lovers, Rivals, | |||
| Partners in Crime, and Other Strange Bedfellows | Miscellaneous | |||
| Joey Green | ||||
| Black Dog & Leventhal 2003 320 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1579123279 | ||||
| Published Price £9.95 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| The stories of 150 celebrity couples and double acts from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, with a picture of each pair, a short passage detailing what brought them together and a few pieces of trivia about their personal histories. | ||||
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Tickets to Ride | |||
| An Alphabetic Amusement | Miscellaneous | |||
| Mark Rogalski | ||||
| Running Press 2006 64 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0762427825 255x252mm | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you've ever seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular - and always breathtaking to look at. | ||||
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Donnie Brasco | |||
| Unfinished Business | Miscellaneous | |||
| Joseph D Pistone; Charles Brandt | ||||
| Running Press 2007 336 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0762427078 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| FBI agent Joe Pistone's account of his six-year operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family under the guise of jewel thief Donnie Brasco, with full accounts of the brutality carried out by the family and a timeline of the convictions that crippled the Mafia from the top down. | ||||
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The Scotland Yard Files | |||
| Milestones in Crime Detection | Miscellaneous | |||
| Alan Moss; Keith Skinner | ||||
| National Archives 2006 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1903365880 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| The 12 cases discussed in this book (often drawing on previously unpublished archives) show how, during the past 150 years, Scotland Yard has earned its world-wide reputation by using the latest scientific techniques, managing the media and learning from criticism and mistakes. As well as famous cases, such as Dr Crippen and Jack the Ripper, these stories record the deeds of less familiar heroes and villains who played their various parts in developing the modus operandi of today's Metropolitan Police. | ||||
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Murderers' Row | |||
| An International Murderers' Who's Who | Miscellaneous | |||
| Robin Odell; Wilfred Gregg | ||||
| Sutton 2006 506 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750944048 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| This A-Z of murderers, unsolved murders and serial killings presents a brief account of over 500 cases, from Burton Abbott, gassed at San Quentin in 1957 after a stay of execution was phoned through too late, to the unsolved Zodiac Murders of 1969 - up to 40 killings forming a huge 'Z' when plotted on the map of California. | ||||
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Crime Scenes | |||
| A Collection of Modern Mystery Stories | Miscellaneous | |||
| David Stuart Davies (Edited by) | ||||
| Wordsworth 2008 354 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1840220937 | ||||
| Published Price | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| This collection of 29 short stories from both well-established crime writers and new British authors includes all varieties of crime fiction - from whodunnits and history mysteries to noir thrillers. | ||||
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