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  1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
  

  by Andrew Bridgeford

  ISBN 184115041X (1-84115-041-X)
  Softcover, Fourth Estate

  
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  A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure. The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it's not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless, incomparable -- nothing of it's delicacy and texture, let alone wit, survives from the period. As a pictorial story it is delightful: the first feature-length cartoon. As history it is essential: it represents the moment of Britain's last conquest by a foreign army and celebrates the Norman victory over the blinded Saxon Harold. Or does it?In this brilliant and dogged piece of detective interpretation, Andrew Bridgeford looks at the narrative contained within the tapestry and has discovered a wealth of new information. Who commissioned it? Who made it? Who is the singular dwarf named as Turold? Why, in a work that celebrates a Norman conquest is the defeated Harold treated so nobly? Is Harold indeed the victim of the arrow from the sky? And who is the figure depicted in the tapestry who, at the moment of crisis for the Normans rallies the army just at the point when it mistakenly believes William is dead and it will be defeated?Using the tapestry, the book retells with vivid characterisation the story of the remaking of England in and after 1066. It is a compelling story, as is the tale of the extraordinary survival of the tapestry itself: history has rarely been writ so large, with such fine detail and yet been so veiled in mystery. [via]

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  • 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry: ISBN 1841150401 (1-84115-040-1)
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  • 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry: ISBN 184115041X (1-84115-041-X)
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  The American Revolution: The Story of the United States Marine Corps
  

  by George Otto Trevelyan

  ISBN 1601050224 (1-60105-022-4)
  Softcover, Scholars Book Shelf

  
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  Anglo-Saxon Thegn: Ad 449-1066
  

  by Mark Harrison, Gerry Embleton

  ISBN 1841762792 (1-84176-279-2)
  Softcover, Motorbooks Intl

  
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  Mark Harrison gives an insight into the typical Anglo-Saxon warrior, the thegn. He explores the period around the collapse of Roman rule in Britain when Germanic warriors, known to history as the Anglo-Saxons, took control of the the Eastern lowlands until their defeat at Hastings in 1066. [via]

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  Appetite
  

  by Nigel Slater

  ISBN 1841152889 (1-84115-288-9)
  Hardcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  The Armada Campaign 1588: The Great Enterprise Against England
  

  by Angus Konstam, Howard Gerrard

  ISBN 1841761923 (1-84176-192-3)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Arms and the Man
  

  by George Bernard Shaw

  ISBN 1599869209 (1-59986-920-9)
  Softcover, Fq Classics

  
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  Bad Blood
  

  by Lorna Sage

  ISBN 1841150428 (1-84115-042-8)
  Hardcover, Fourth Estate

  
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  The Battle of Bosworth
  

  by Christopher Gravett

  ISBN 1841760773 (1-84176-077-3)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare
  

  by Richard Townshend Bickers

  ISBN 1840650818 (1-84065-081-8)
  Softcover, Salamander Books

  
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  Battle of the Boyne 1690: The Irish Campaign for the English Crown
  

  by Michael McNally, Graham Turner

  ISBN 184176891X (1-84176-891-X)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Battlecruisers
  

  by John Roberts

  ISBN 1840675306 (1-84067-530-6)
  Hardcover, Caxton Editions

  
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  A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I
  

  by Ralph Barker

  ISBN 1841194700 (1-84119-470-0)
  Hardcover, Robinson

  
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  This accessible text tells the story of the most star-studded of fighter squadrons, the RFC, and its part in all the major battles of World War I, from Bloody April 1917, when the squadrons suffered enormous casualties, through Third Ypres and Passchendaele to the chaotic retreat from Ludendorff's offensive. Drawing extensively from letters and diaries of the men who took part, Ralph Barker creates a bird's eye view of the battleground from the menacing skies above France and brings fresh off the page the exhiliration of combat, the debility of the "shakes", the grit of observers and gunners, the strain of low-level flying, the bonding of pilot and ground mechanic, and the awareness of tragedy as brave men gave their lives. [via]

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  British Colours & Standards 1747-1881 (1)
  

  by Ian Sumner, Richard Hook

  ISBN 1841762008 (1-84176-200-8)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  British Colours & Standards 1747-1881 (2): Infantry
  

  by Ian Sumner, Richard Hook

  ISBN 1841762016 (1-84176-201-6)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  British Fortifications in Zululand 1879
  

  by Ian Knight, Adam Hook

  ISBN 1841768294 (1-84176-829-4)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Buddha Da
  

  by Anne Donovan

  ISBN 1841953385 (1-84195-338-5)
  Softcover, Canongate

  
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  Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945
  

  by John Terraine

  ISBN 1840222018 (1-84022-201-8)
  Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

  
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  Carry Me Down
  

  by M. J. Hyland

  ISBN 1841957402 (1-84195-740-2)
  Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd

  
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  The Children of the New Forest
  

  by Frederick Marryat

  ISBN 1599150506 (1-59915-050-6)
  Softcover, Yesterdays Classics

  
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  An engaging adventure story set in England during the time of the Civil War when King Charles was deposed and the Roundheads were vying with the Cavaliers. The central characters are the four children of staunch Royalist Colonel Beverley killed in battle while fighting for King Charles. Through the efforts of aged forester Jacob Armitage, the children escape the burning of their ancestral home and take up residence with him in his cottage in the New Forest. As his "grandchildren" they take eagerly to the peasant life and learn to provide for themselves by using their wits. The pitfall they build to trap cattle catches more than they bargain for, leading to one adventure after another. Against all odds they deftly maneuver through the treacherous landscape of the times, eventually recovering their family estate. [via]

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  The Courage Consort
  

  by Michel Faber

  ISBN 1841952265 (1-84195-226-5)
  Softcover, Canongate Crime

  
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  Culloden Moor 1746: The Death Of The Jacobite Cause
  

  by Stuart Reid, Gerry Embleton

  ISBN 1841764124 (1-84176-412-4)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Debris
  

  by Dennis Kelly

  ISBN 184002433X (1-84002-433-X)
  Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd

  
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  "Dennis Kelly's often hilarious, bizarre two-hander proves he's a name to watch."--Time Out

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  Elizabethan Sea Dogs
  

  by Angus Konstam

  ISBN 1841762709 (1-84176-270-9)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560-1605
  

  by Angus McBride, Angus Konstam

  ISBN 1841760153 (1-84176-015-3)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  The Ends Of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories
  

  by Alasdair Gray

  ISBN 1841956260 (1-84195-626-0)
  Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

  
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  The Ends of their Tethers is vintage Gray - experimental, mischievous, wide-ranging but also subtly connected. And as always the work is hall-marked with his highly engaging prose style, dry wit and fecund imagination. These thirteen tales challenge prejudice, question social imbalances and explore human foibles. In No Bluebeard a socially reclusive man, veteran of three marriages, meets a disturbed and eccentric woman desperate to remain hidden from her family. In Job's Skin Game a father develops a skin condition in response to the emotional shock of losing his two sons in the September 11th attacks and his fortune in the dot com crisis. The exquisite pleasure he takes from scratching and peeling his dead epidermis becomes his sole preoccupation and a metaphor for what is ultimately a wholly sane response to tragedy. Wellbeing offers a politically charged dystopian vision of a future Britain as seen through the eyes of a once-revered writer, now homeless yet stubbornly refusing to move to a more hospitable country as, "There are better ways of living than being happy but they require strength and sanity." Beautifully produced and illustrated throughout with Gray's distinctive drawings, this is an important and highly accessible collection. [via]

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  • The Ends Of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories: ISBN 1841955477 (1-84195-547-7)
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  For Two Nights Only: Contains Overtime and Grailblazers
  

  by Tom Holt

  ISBN 1841492671 (1-84149-267-1)
  Softcover, Orbit Books

  
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  Front Cover: Great Book Jackets and Cover Design
  

  by Alan Powers

  ISBN 1840004215 (1-84000-421-5)
  Hardcover, Miller/Mitchell Beazley

  
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  Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design is a comprehensive survey of the very best of cover and jacket design from the 20th century. The most important and innovative designs are explored, including the distinctive yellow dust-jackets of the Gollancz novels of the 1930s, the colour-coded series design of Penguin paperbacks in the 1960s and the award-winning paperback designs by Canongate in the 1990s. Chapters are devoted to separate themes - the development of the modern book jacket in the 1920s and 1930s, the diverse styles that evolved in the post-war era, the paperback explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, and the recent revival in jacket design in the hands of design companies such as Pentagram. Revealing double-page features appear in each chapter on such tropics as the Cold War novel, classic novels of the period, and individual authors such as Len Deighton and Ian Fleming. With 300 jackets in full-colour, including rare first editions, innovative designs by leading designers such as E. McKnight Kauffer and Paul Rand, and newly discovered gems, together with an insightful text by leading design expert Alan Powers, this fascinating book will delight anyone with a passion for books. [via]

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  German Armies 1870 - 1871: Prussia
  

  by Michael Solka, Darko Pavlovic

  ISBN 1841767549 (1-84176-754-9)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  German Armies 1870-71 (2): Prussia's Allies
  

  by Michael Solka, Darko Pavlovic

  ISBN 1841767557 (1-84176-755-7)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Although the war of 187071 has gone down in history as the 'Franco-Prussian War', nearly half of the German troops sent to the frontier were from other German states  both the willing members of the North German Confederation and the southern states who were in some cases more hesitant about accepting Prussian domination. Some contingents had only one or two regiments  though these might be of high quality, like the 'Black Brunswickers'; others provided whole army corps, like Bavaria and Saxony. This book lists and illustrates the organization and varied uniforms of all these allied contingents, most of which fought well when it came to the test of battle. [via]

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  The Germany Army in World War I (3) : 1917-18
  

  by Nigel Thomas, Ramiro Bujeiro

  ISBN 1841765678 (1-84176-567-8)
  Softcover, Osprey Publishing, Limited

  
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  Gibraltar 1779 - 1783: The Great Siege
  

  by Rene Chartrand, Patrice Courcelle

  ISBN 1841769770 (1-84176-977-0)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development, 1906-1922
  

  by D. K. Brown

  ISBN 1840675314 (1-84067-531-4)
  Hardcover, Caxton Editions

  
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  Hand of the King's Evil
  

  by Chaz Brenchley

  ISBN 1841490350 (1-84149-035-0)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  Hastings 1066: The Fall of Saxon England
  

  by Christopher Gravett

  ISBN 1841761338 (1-84176-133-8)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Hide & Seek
  

  by Clare Sambrook

  ISBN 1841956538 (1-84195-653-8)
  Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd

  
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  Hide And Seek
  

  by Clare Sambrook

  ISBN 1841957933 (1-84195-793-3)
  Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

  
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  The House of Arden
  

  by E. Nesbit

  ISBN 1598189670 (1-59818-967-0)
  Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

  
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  House of Horror
  

  by Jack Hunter

  ISBN 1840680571 (1-84068-057-1)
  Softcover, Creation Books

  
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  The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps
  

  by Michel Faber

  ISBN 1841951994 (1-84195-199-4)
  Hardcover, Canongate

  
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  Hy Brasil
  

  ISBN 1841952478 (1-84195-247-8)
  Hardcover, Canongate

  
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  In Flanders Field: And Other Poems of the First World War
  

  by Brian Busby

  ISBN 1841933465 (1-84193-346-5)
  Hardcover, Book Sales

  
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  The Indian Army 1914-1947
  

  by Ian Sumner, Mike Chappell

  ISBN 1841761966 (1-84176-196-6)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  The Intellectual
  

  by Steve Fuller

  ISBN 1840467215 (1-84046-721-5)
  Softcover, Totem Books

  
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  Isandlwana 1879: The Great Zulu Victory
  

  by Ian Knight, Adam Hook

  ISBN 1841765112 (1-84176-511-2)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  James Martin's Great British Dinners
  

  by James Martin, Jean Cazals

  ISBN 1840007281 (1-84000-728-1)
  Hardcover, Mitchell Beazley

  
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  Jutland to Junkyard
  

  by S. C. George

  ISBN 1841580015 (1-84158-001-5)
  Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

  
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  The League of Gentlemen: A Local Book for Local People
  

  by Mark Gatiss

  ISBN 1841156973 (1-84115-697-3)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City
  

  by Dave Haslam

  ISBN 1841151459 (1-84115-145-9)
  Hardcover, Fourth Estate

  
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  The Mighty Hood
  

  by Ernle Bradford

  ISBN 1841450391 (1-84145-039-1)
  Softcover, Motorbooks Intl

  
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  The life and death of the Royal Navys proudest ship HMS Hood was commissioned in 1920 and was described as the greatest and most graceful ship of her time. She was the last of the ‘Leviathans – those mighty ships, whose movement upon the high seas had assured the supremacy of Britains Royal Navy and determined policy since the last quarter of the 19th Century.

   

  During the twenties and thirties she had been the flag ship of a number of admirals and could be found ‘flying-the-flag for Britain in the far-flung regions of the world – from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, from South America and the West Indies to Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

   

  In early 1939 HMS Hood was refitted and rearmed prior to her joining the Home Fleet. As one of the British ships engaged in the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen, northwest of Iceland in May 1941, she was accompanied by HMS Suffolk and HMS Norfolk. During the ensuing battle HMS Hood received several hits from the Bismarck, the last a direct hit in the ammunition magazine. The ‘mighty Hood blew up and soon disappeared from view. A total of ninety-four officers and 1,321 ratings were lost within those brief moments, with only three survivors recovered from the sea.

   

  A generation of British seamen had been trained in her. To millions of people she had represented British power and imperial might. With her passed not only a ship, but a whole era of naval history.

   

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  Millennium Culture
  

  by Nell Leach

  ISBN 1841660256 (1-84166-025-6)
  Softcover, Ellipsis London, Limited

  
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  Opening with the pleasing contention (from Baudrillard) that the year 2000 will not happen, Millennium Culture focuses on the current importance of the visual and virtual experience, exemplified in the sublimely huge but ontologically vacant Millennium Dome. The book examines significant outpourings of contemporary culture - including religion, hypermarkets, the lottery, Teletubbies, technology, wallpaper culture, Jerry Springer, powder skiing and Saint Diana. Photographs by Katja Hock run throughout the book, conjuring up a series of preoccupations that represent a snapshot of contemporary culture. Leach expounds the full implication of The Millennium Dome Experience, and uses the 'circular temple to nothing in particular' as a central image to his discussion of the collapse of reality. But the book is not entirely negative, and seeks to redeem a positive role for the surface image as the site of identification in an increasingly meaningless world. [via]

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  Misadventures
  

  by Sylvia Smith

  ISBN 1841950955 (1-84195-095-5)
  Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

  
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  Sylvia Smith's first book is something of an enigma. Smith, born at the close of the Second World War in East London to working-class parents, is an unmarried, career secretary who has chosen to write her memoirs. Curiously nothing of note has happened to Smith to encourage the belief that her reminiscences might be of interest to the general reader but, fantastically, this only makes the book both more of a curiosity and more of a compelling read. In a series of short, deadpan, dated chapters Sylvia records a series of vignettes that each encapsulate the mostly lows and sometimes highs of the quotidian. Her life has not been without incident--it is just that not many of us would consider incidents such as being stood up on a second date, witnessing a non-fatal, non-serious car crash or the low-level embarrassment of being drunk worth recording. Smith's genius, or that of her publishers (it is difficult to know at what level of irony we are dealing here, on whom the joke actually is) is to understand that these moments are indeed worth recording because they are moments we all share. Most lives are ordinary lives, ordinary lives are the lives most of us live. And Smith's biography, which is hilarious in its mundanity, glorious in its saturating bathos, validates the day to day. All great stories are the embellishment of the ordinary, but here something special has been created precisely because of its seeming lack of affectation, its flat directness feeling like a wonderful antidote to the overwritten, stylised recording endemic to biography. A triumph and a real treat. --Mark Thwaite [via]

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  My Life As A Fake
  

  by Peter Carey

  ISBN 1740512464 (1-74051-246-4)
  Hardcover, Random House Australia

  
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  Nelson's Navy
  

  by Philip Haythornthwaite

  ISBN 1841762520 (1-84176-252-0)
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  Nothing but Blue Skies
  

  by Tom Holt

  ISBN 184149058X (1-84149-058-X)
  Softcover, Orbit Books

  
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  Organic Kitchen Garden
  

  by Juliet Roberts

  ISBN 1840913940 (1-84091-394-0)
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

  
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  Otterburn 1388: Bloody Border Conflict
  

  by Stephen Walsh, Peter Armstrong

  ISBN 1841769800 (1-84176-980-0)
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  Our Island Story
  

  by H. E. Marshall, A. S. Forrest

  ISBN 1599150093 (1-59915-009-3)
  Softcover, Yesterdays Classics

  
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  A child's history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which the history of England abounds through the end of the reign of Queen Victoria. Suitable for children ages 9 and up to read to themselves and for children as young as 6 as a read-aloud. [via]

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  Peoples Game
  

  by Walvin

  ISBN 1840183225 (1-84018-322-5)
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  Poems
  

  by Andrew Marvell, Peter Washington

  ISBN 1841157619 (1-84115-761-9)
  Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf

  
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  The Pre-Raphaelites
  

  by Christopher Wood

  ISBN 1841881163 (1-84188-116-3)
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  Proxy: Peter Sotos Pornography 1991-2000
  

  by Peter Sotos

  ISBN 1840680806 (1-84068-080-6)
  Softcover, Creation Books

  
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  Proxy is a large-format compendium of five out-of-print and much-sought-after books by Peter Sotos: Tick, Lazy, Index, Tool, and Special. Proxy also includes a new introduction by Sotos.

  Peter Sotos is one of the most controversial authors in America. A former member of the noise band Whitehouse, he has also appeared in such volumes as Apocalypse Culture. He recently provided the afterword to Feral House's The Gates Of Janus by "Moors Murderer" Ian Brady.

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  Queen Victoria's Commanders
  

  by Michael Barthorp

  ISBN 1841760544 (1-84176-054-4)
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  The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage
  

  by James Naughtie

  ISBN 1841154733 (1-84115-473-3)
  Hardcover, Fourth Estate

  
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  As James Naughtie reminds us in The Rivals, it's seven years since the fabled Islington dinner at which Tony Blair and Gordon Brown decided who was to succeed the late John Smith as Labour leader, and while it's a political union that has profitably endured, there are many, such as Naughtie, happy to ponder any marital itch. Though unauthorised, Naughtie, a presenter of Radio 4's flagship Today programme, has known both men for many years, and neatly summarises how the two young guns forged an early relationship years before power came to Labour. Familiar hotspots of the last government are entertainingly described, if lacking new revelation: the Brown/Cook feuds, Blair's near-adultery with the Liberal Democrats, Geoffrey Robinson's home loan to Peter Mandelson, his subsequent resignation, the Ecclestone affair, Blair's relationship with Clinton, Kosovo and, of course, the question of succession. Naughtie asserts that Blair has two goals: to win a referendum on the European single currency, and to secure a third term--as Prime Minister. Whether this will push Brown into a career outside politics is open to speculation, as his supporters are still of the opinion that Blair strongly intimated that he would hand over power mid-second-term.

  Of the duopoly, Naughtie ultimately does rather better with Brown, as the Chancellor presents the tangible qualities of a durable political heavyweight bruiser, whereas getting a handle on Blair can be tantamount to swiping mist. Blair, with his mongrel ideology, charismatic deputies and ability to shrug and move on, sees new horizons where Brown sees yet another bend in a road leading from a very proud, rooted past. The Iron Chancellor is portrayed as a deep, committed thinker, doggedly stubborn and as wedded to the past as the future. Hardly Flash Gordon, he's been digesting that Granita meal for years.

  Servants of the People, Andrew Rawnsley's more jaunty, hugely enjoyable volume, now out in an updated paperback edition, perhaps stole Naughtie's thunder somewhat, but The Rivals still delivers a cogent and enjoyable version on the political karaoke, whether you're a Blair Witch or a Brown Noser. And it certainly keeps matters bubbling until Alastair Campbell writes his book. --David Vincent [via]

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  The Royal Navy 1939-45
  

  by Ian Sumner, Alix Baker

  ISBN 1841761958 (1-84176-195-8)
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  The Scots Kitchen: Its Traditions and Lore with Old-Time Recipes
  

  by F. Marian McNeill

  ISBN 1841830704 (1-84183-070-4)
  Softcover, Mercat Pr

  
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  The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
  

  by Arthur Herman

  ISBN 1841152765 (1-84115-276-5)
  Softcover, Fourth Estate

  
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  'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. [via]

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  Slim: The Standardbearer A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim
  

  by Ronald Lewin

  ISBN 184022214X (1-84022-214-X)
  Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

  
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  Spike: An Intimate Memoir
  

  by Norma Farnes

  ISBN 1841157872 (1-84115-787-2)
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  In these affectionate memoirs of 35 years as agent, close friend and sometime-foe, Norma Farnes portrays Spike Milligan in all his guises. Uncovering a great many personal anecdotes, "Spike" reveals his extraordinary sense of humour, his ongoing battle with a restless mind, his remarkable, life-long friendships with Peter Sellers and Eric Sykes, his relationship with his family and the industry, and his heartening struggles with society at large. [via]

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  The Story Of Wine
  

  by Hugh Johnson

  ISBN 1840009721 (1-84000-972-1)
  Hardcover, Miller/Mitchell Beazley

  
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  This fascinating history of wine is written with all the characteristic enthusiasm and wit of its famous author, Hugh Johnson. Unlike many comprehensive histories, this book is easily "digestible" and explores the cultural history of wine in enthralling chapters. The colorful prose makes the book a joy to read from cover to cover and a delight to dip into at leisure. [via]

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  Supertoys Last All Summer Long, and Other Stories of Future Time
  

  by Brian Wilson Aldiss

  ISBN 1841490431 (1-84149-043-1)
  Hardcover, Orbit

  
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  Blame it on taxes. According to SFWA Grand Master Brian Aldiss, that's the main reason he sold the movie rights to the Pinocchio-android tale "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" to Stanley Kubrick back in 1982. Bound here along with two followup short stories and nine unrelated short pieces from more recent years, "Supertoys" was to be the source material for Kubrick's last movie. Of course, Kubrick died, and then Steven Spielberg inherited the rights, intending to follow through on Kubrick's original vision.

  In fairness, Aldiss has never seen his original story--nor the two pieces added later, "Supertoys When Winter Comes" and "Supertoys in Other Seasons"--as a Pinocchio fable at all. As he recounts in the wry, revealing foreword to this collection, "I could not or would not see the parallels between David, my five-year-old android, and the wooden creature who becomes human.... Never consciously rewrite old fairy stories." But the interpretation of the stubbornly eccentric Kubrick prevailed until Aldiss was "wheeled out of the picture."

  These three excellent stories occupy just the first 35 pages of this compilation, but they accurately capture one of the great voices of British SF at his prime, with a plaintive, thoughtfully nuanced story about existence and the meaning of being human. The remaining tales range from intriguing to distractingly strident to borderline mawkish, but make no mistake about what's the main attraction here. In fact, the foreword alone, with Kubrick exposed at his curmudgeonly worst ("[To Aldiss:] You seem to have two modes of writing--brilliant and not so damned good"), makes this a collection worth picking up. --Paul Hughes [via]

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  Tewkesbury 1471: The Last Yorkist Victory
  

  by Christopher Gravett, Graham Turner

  ISBN 1841765147 (1-84176-514-7)
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  Thieves Like Us
  

  by Stephen Cole

  ISBN 1599900416 (1-59990-041-6)
  Softcover, Bloomsbury USA

  
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  Towton 1461: England's Bloodiest Battle
  

  by Christopher Gravett, Graham Turner

  ISBN 1841765139 (1-84176-513-9)
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  Tunnel Visions
  

  by Christopher Ross

  ISBN 1841155675 (1-84115-567-5)
  Softcover, Harper Uk

  
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  Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
  

  by Christopher Ross

  ISBN 1841155667 (1-84115-566-7)
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  Itinerant philosopher Christopher Ross' debut book Tunnel Visions--a deftly observant sideways glance at human nature when in transit or, more often, not--sprung from 16 months working as a Station Assistant for London Underground. Or Platform 6, northbound Victoria Line, at Oxford Circus station, to be precise. A series of notes from the Underground, it provides a placatory centre of calm and rationale in our increasingly eddying lives as Ross, previously a corporate lawyer, oriental carpet smuggler and Japanese soap actor, takes the McJob to find a personal space in which to ruminate. After the surreal procedures of the training school, he is allocated his own patch, of which he grows quickly proprietorial. In a collection of precise tableaux, he neither leans upon nor ignores the inevitable anecdotal luggage that accumulates, but relates it with philosophical detachment and, when necessary, an engaged moral probity. He observes the archetypal gaits of his commuters, sings harmonies with a busking act, witnesses the spit and polish applied for a visit by John Prescott, and a man emerge from a train tunnel after being told at the previous station that it would be quicker to walk. Green grapes, he learns, are more deadly than banana skins, though not as lethal as suicidal "one-unders" (or "track pizza", in unforgiving New York parlance). A captured mosquito turns out to be unknown in Britain, an ugly, beswaddled baby turns out to be a monkey, and a dog on a lead a domesticated fox. Nothing is what it seems, but only if you look.

  Like the best travel literature, Tunnel Visions chooses internal rather than external landscapes, and describes them with a steady calm eye. From the autopilot of the Victoria Line trains to the sheep-like, but never sheepish, autopilot of his gaggles of passengers, the wisdom, and man-hours, Ross invests in this woefully under-resourced utility rewards with the best view from the other side of the Tube tracks since John Wain's novel The Smaller Sky, now sadly out-of-print. In the end the pessimism ground Ross down, but the Oxford Circus' loss was literature's gain, with this terrific, humane, utterly original legacy.--David Vincent [via]

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  The Unfortunates
  

  by Laurie Graham

  ISBN 1841153141 (1-84115-314-1)
  Hardcover, Fourth Estate

  
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  An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair
  

  by Spicer, Tim, Lieutenant-Colonel. Obe

  ISBN 1840183497 (1-84018-349-7)
  Softcover, Mainstream Pub Co Ltd

  
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  by Tim Spicer

  ISBN 184018180X (1-84018-180-X)
  Hardcover, Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited

  
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  Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
  

  by Lauren Child

  ISBN 1841219185 (1-84121-918-5)
  Hardcover, Orchard Books

  
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  Utterly Me, Clarice Bean is Lauren Child's rather marvellous follow up to the super-savvy picture books that first launched the unforgettable Clarice into Smarties Prize and Kate Greenaway Medal winning orbit. This time, Child has moved away from her usual format and strikes gold in a novel for younger folk.

  Clarice's extraordinarily ordinary family are under pressure. Dad keeps muttering about how "there might be a reshuffle going on at work" and how he will "have to jump through hoops" if he wants to get a "share of the pie" because "the big cheese" has been making noises about "some people being left out in the cold if they dont keep their eye on the ball", while mum spends her life "gribbling about pants on the floor and shoes on the sofa". And as for her brother, Minal Cricket, he "tends to be utterly a nuisance".

  Meanwhile, Mrs Wilburton, the school teacher who insists that Clarice sets a book project "which sounds utterly dreary", until, that is, Miss Bean realises there is a prize. Together with best friend Betty Moody, Clarice sets about bagging the booty with the aid of The Ruby Redford Collection, a series of books about an 11-year-old detective.

  As the games commence, Clarice tells her story through her diary, navigating childhood minefields and inviting readers to join her in her wide-eyed wonder at the madness of it all. Children will enjoy the easy-flowing, slightly breathless style and the familiarity of day-to-day dramas, and will undoubtedly agree with many of Clarice's observations on the utter unfairness of childhood in general.

  Black and white drawings and random meanderings into alternative type faces that perfectly ape the bored scribblings of many a child add a visual dimension that will appeal even to less able or reluctant readers as well as to those who enjoy a good read. And let us not forget that Utterly Me, Clarice Bean is just about perfect for reading aloud--in fact, this option is highly recommended as depriving the grown-ups of this laugh-out-loud experience would be utterly, utterly unfair. Ages six and over. --Susan Harrison [via]

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  Vathek
  

  by William Beckford

  ISBN 1840680180 (1-84068-018-0)
  Softcover, Creation Pub Group

  
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  Witches, demons, human sacrifices and other spectral horrors: all intercept Vathek as he journeys to the underworld in this weird and wonderful gothic masterpiece.

  This classic of 18th century Gothic literature, was highly acclaimed by such eminent writers as Byron and H P Lovecraft and remains the most extreme example of this genre.

  Originally composed in French, Vathek was translated into English in 1816, and it is this version which is now presented as part of the popular Creation Classics series. The book includes lithographs by the symbolist artist Odilon Redon, complementing the bizarre text and making this the most completely decadent edition available in print. An introduction by Jeremy Reed illuminates both the text and the eccentric life of William Beckford, a youthful millionaire who spent his fortunes on building the ultimate Gothic folly, where he indulged in such homosexual indiscretions that he was finally exiled from England. [via]

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  Victorian Britain
  

  by Michael Jenner

  ISBN 1841880493 (1-84188-049-3)
  Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited

  
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  Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women
  

  by Heather Creaton

  ISBN 1840003596 (1-84000-359-6)
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

  
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  Wars of the Roses
  

  by Terence Wise, G. A. Embleton

  ISBN 1841760293 (1-84176-029-3)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Weight
  

  by Jeanette Winterson

  ISBN 1841957992 (1-84195-799-2)
  Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

  
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  Canongate Books, together with thirty great international publishing houses, is proud to announce a new series - "The Myths". It is backed by an international marketing and PR campaign. The national media partner is already lined up in the UK. Jeanette Winterson will be touring the UK. In ancient Greek mythology Atlas, a member of the original race of gods called Titans, leads a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. For this he incurs divine wrath: the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. When the hero Heracles, as one of his famous twelve labours, is tasked with stealing these apples, he seeks out Atlas, offering to shoulder the world temporarily if the Titan will bring him the fruit. Knowing that Heracles is the only person with the strength to take this burden, and enticed by the prospect of even a short-lived freedom, Atlas agrees and an uneasy partnership is born. With her typical wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny, Visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to our lives today, Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head and showing us a different truth is once more put to dazzling effect. [via]

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  Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1809-1814
  

  by Stuart Reid

  ISBN 1841765171 (1-84176-517-1)
  Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

  
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  Wellington's Peninsula Regiments (2) : The Light Infantry
  

  by Mike Chappell

  ISBN 1841764035 (1-84176-403-5)
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  Wellingtons Peninsula Regiments (1: The Irish
  

  by Mike Chappell

  ISBN 1841764027 (1-84176-402-7)
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  Why Do People Hate America?
  

  by Ziauddin Sardar, Merryl Wyn Davies

  ISBN 184046383X (1-84046-383-X)
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  With the Battle Cruisers
  

  by Filson Young

  ISBN 1841581267 (1-84158-126-7)
  Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

  
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