July
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August
10-21
September
22-29
Union Books
30-39
October
40-43
November
44-46
Highlights
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Index
48
Contacts
CONTENTS
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Raymond Chandler A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography
Tom Williams
l A major new biography of this literary great l National
newspaper serialisation
l Digital PR campaign targeting crime websites, fansites and online communities l Extensive national and regional newspaper reviews and features l Appearances
at literary festivals
World 400pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £25 978 1 84513 526 3 16pp b/w plates Biography US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: PFD/Aurum Press 2
What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as impenetrable and deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel, The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most mysterious of writers. The Raymond Chandler revealed is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age – experiences that fuelled his writing as much as they scarred his life. Born in Chicago, in 1888, the disappearance of his alcoholic father forced Chandler and his doting mother back to Ireland, and eventually London. Later, intent on forging a new career unconstrained by the petty mores of the British middle class, he returned to the US – to corruption-ridden Los Angeles – where he met his one great love: Cissy Pascal, a married woman 18 years his senior. It was only during middle age, after worsening alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career as an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction, although his success was to prove bittersweet. An obsessive attitude towards his craft, unrealised literary ambitions and a suicidal turn after Cissy’s death combined to prevent him from recapturing the verve of his earlier novels. In this long-awaited new biography, the most balanced and comprehensive yet written, Tom Williams shadows one of the twentieth century’s true literary giants and considers how crime was raised to the level of art.
JULY
Extract: JULY
A major new biography of the writer who, more than any other, has defined modern crime fiction
Los Angeles in the 1920s was a dark place. America was undergoing a second revolution and one in which the City of Angels took a leading role. This was the age of dangerously short-skirted flappers, wild parties, automobiles and, since 16 January 1920, illegal alcohol. LA led the way. Hollywood stars like Clara Bow set an example of casual sex, free drinking and constant partying, and it was all recorded and disseminated in the newest of the new inventions: the tabloid newspaper. It was ‘the greatest, gaudiest spree in history’ according to F. Scott Fitzgerald. And LA having sprouted out of the desert was not just the trailblazer – it was also the most at risk. The city was in such a hurry to be that the institutions to protect it and such citizens could not keep up with its rapid growth. Despite being illegal, alcohol was freely available in the city’s speakeasies, underground bars and backstreet stores, whether it was home-brewed or imported over the border. Prostitution was rife and girls came day after day in the hope of seeing their names in Hollywood’s lights, only to provide ripe fodder for pimps when their dreams failed. And gambling was common throughout the city too – even when it became illegal, it was able to re-form and regroup elsewhere, just, but safely, outside the city limits. At the heart of these criminal enterprises were a series of underworld bosses – a syndicate – who went about their business quietly and with a low profile. These men were the real bosses of LA and, though the individuals who made up the syndicate may have been anonymous, to the majority their presence was not unknown: they were ‘The System’. This group of powerful men controlled the police and would get officers to help collect the ‘take’ – the tax the underworld bosses creamed off criminal enterprises in their areas. They also exerted a grip on politics and in 1921, Charlie Crawford, one of the System, conspired to get George Cryer elected mayor of the city and succeeded in keeping him in office until 1929. If you were under the System’s protection, you could literally get away with murder. ‘It was the most lucrative, the most efficient, and the best-entrenched graft operation in the country’, according to a contemporary journalist. It was little wonder that the wide-eyed Midwesterners who had come to LA seeking a better life quickly became disillusioned with a city that was so corrupt. And it was in this corruption that the seeds for noir fiction found fertile soil.
Tom Williams is a writer and journalist living in north London. Previously, he has written for the Observer and the Spectator magazine. 3
JULY
‘One of the finest sports books of recent years: wellresearched, highly readable and packed with anecdotes’ Leo McKinstry, Mail on Sunday
Criminal London
Fred Trueman
Kris and Nina Hollington
Chris Waters
From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street and Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel to the East End of the Krays and The Sweeney’s Hammersmith and Ealing, London’s streets have played silent witness to countless crimes, both real and imagined. Moreover, in print and on screen, the city has exported its criminal heritage to the world, becoming a global capital of wrongdoing rivalled only by New York and Los Angeles. Yet there has been no single guide to its darker points of interest – until now. Traversing the city’s factual and fictional past, Criminal London features original walks and over 100 sights to visit, including: the scenes of infamous murders, watering holes frequented by notorious felons, the homes of great consulting detectives, and locations from London’s rich history of law and order, such as The Clink, Tyburn Tree and Bow Street Police Station. Aimed at adventurous tourists and curious Londoners who enjoy exploring the surprising nooks and crannies of their city, this is a sightseeing guide for the intrepid.
Fred Trueman was so much more than a cricketing legend. ‘The greatest living Yorkshireman’ according to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Trueman couldn’t help but excel at everything he did, whether as a hostile fast bowler for Yorkshire and England, the first man to take 300 Test wickets in a career or a comically outspoken radio commentator for the BBC’s Test Match Special, regularly spluttering, ‘I don’t know what’s goin’ off out there!’ Beloved of the crowds who filled grounds to capacity to witness his belligerent way of playing the game and nothing but trouble to the cricket authorities, ‘Fiery Fred’ was the epitome of a full-blooded Englishman. But, as Chris Waters reveals in this, the first full biography, behind the myth of the hard-drinking, womanising extrovert was in truth a far less self-assured man – terrified even his new dog wouldn’t like him – and whose version of his bucolic upbringing actually bore no relation to the gritty and impoverished South Yorkshire mining community he grew up in. Drawing on dozens of new interviews with his Yorkshire colleagues, family and friends, this life of Fred Trueman surprises and even shocks, but also confirms the status of an English folk hero.
A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime
The Authorised Biography
l Highly acclaimed in hardback and certain to be featured in paperback round-ups of national and regional newspapers
l Original London guidebook published in time for the 2012 Olympics
l Reviews in cricket magazines and on sporting websites
l Extracts and features in London newspapers and magazines
l Local outdoor and print advertising campaign targeting Yorkshire Cricket Club
l Reviews in true crime magazines and websites
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‘Chris Waters deserves extremely high marks for his welcome, authentically honest new biography of Fred Trueman’ Frank Keating, Guardian ‘[A] thorough and well-judged biography’ Sunday Times
l Crime-themed walks partnership with walking websites
World 320pp 190 x 106mm Pocket-sized paperback with flaps £10.99 978 1 84513 778 6 Over 100 colour photographs Travel US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Andrew Lownie/ Aurum Press
JULY
Follow in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the most infamous figures of London’s criminal history with this unique illustrated guide to the city’s darker side
Kris Hollington is a freelance journalist and author, who has co-written five bestselling books on policing in London with Metropolitan police officer Harry Keeble. He is also a Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper enthusiast and wrote a walk inspired by the adventures of the former for the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Nina Hollington is a professional photographer, who has provided many of the images for this book. They both live in London.
World 304pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 746 5 16pp b/w plates Sport US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press
Chris Waters is the cricket correspondent of the Yorkshire Post. He lives in Leeds. This is his first book. 5
‘[A] quite wonderful biography … a remarkable story about greatness’ Yorkshire Post
‘I feel very honoured to have shared a TARDIS with Sarah Jane Smith, and I feel very lucky to have shared some time with Lis Sladen. She was extraordinary’ David Tennant
JULY
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography
The Autobiography
Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt Foreword by Roy Evans
Elisabeth Sladen New in Paperback Completed only months before her death in April 2011, Elisabeth’s memoir is funny, ridiculous, insightful and entertaining, and a fitting tribute to a woman who will be sadly missed by millions.
NEW IN PAPERBACK On 30 May 1984, Joe Fagan made footballing history as the first English manager to win the Treble. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries, as well as new interviews with players and colleagues, this authorised biography reveals Fagan’s vital contribution to Liverpool’s domination of the game in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.
‘Her candour and affection make this a poignant parting gift and, in an unexpected way, one of the most revealing Doctor Who books ever written’ Doctor Who Magazine ‘The glimpse into the working relationship and mutual adoration shared by Sladen and Tom Baker is worth the ticket alone’ Sci-Fi Now World 352pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £7.99 978 1 84513 826 4 16pp colour plates Biography US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Cecily Ware Literary Agents/Aurum Press
‘A treasure trove of stories and anecdotes’ Starburst l Events
and marketing activity with The Doctor Who Experience in its new Cardiff home l Extensive
review coverage in sci-fi, women’s interest and TV media
l Competitions
and reviews targeting Doctor Who fans
Elisabeth Sladen played companion Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures. She also appeared in Coronation Street, Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em and Z-Cars.
World 368pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 78131 014 4 8pp b/w plates Sport US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Luxton Harris Limited/Aurum Press
l Paperback round-ups in sports pages of newspapers, particularly in Liverpool l Reviews
in football magazines and on sporting websites
Andrew Fagan is a journalist, who has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Independent. He is also Joe Fagan’s grandson. Mark Platt is a writer and broadcaster, who currently works for LFC TV.
Great Western Railway
Lost Victorian Britain
A History
How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces
Andrew Roden
NEW IN PAPERBACK Gavin Stamp’s acclaimed and poignant book chronicles the catastrophic swathe cut through Britain’s architectural heritage by the twentieth century’s sustained antipathy to the nineteenth, entirely through buildings that have disappeared.
New in paperback ‘God’s Wonderful Railway’, the astonishing engineering feat of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s main line from Paddington to Penzance, has always been beloved of anyone who likes trains. Andrew Roden’s comprehensive history of this remarkable railway company tells the story of nothing less than the opening-up of the isolated south-west of England to the trade and tourism of the modern age.
‘Enthralling’ Country Life
‘A well written book and a pleasure to read’ Railways Illustrated
Gavin Stamp
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‘A highly readable account of a tough but modest man whose achievements deserve better recognition’ Independent on Sunday
The history of one of the world’s most legendary railway companies, now available in paperback
‘This is a heartbreaking book. What we can do now is treasure what survives from the architectural holocaust, and thank Stamp for his sad memorial’ Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times
UK & Commonwealth 192pp 285 x 210mm Trade paperback £16.99 978 1 78131 018 2 Integrated b/w illustrations Architecture/History US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press
‘Well-written and keenly researched account of gratuitous vandalism … a powerful indictment’ BBC History magazine ‘Diligent research’ HHHHH Mail on Sunday Gavin stamp is one of Britain’s most eminent architectural historians. His other acclaimed books for Aurum Press are Britain’s Lost Cities and Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses. He lives in London.
AUGUST
Joe Fagan
Elisabeth Sladen
World 336pp 197 x 129mm B-format Paperback £8.99 978 1 78131 015 1 8pp colour plates Transport/History US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press
‘Enjoyable and illuminating’ Railnews ‘A perfect gift for both seasoned enthusiasts and those who want to know what all the fuss is about’ Heritage Railway l Widespread l Reviews
feature coverage in travel sections of newspapers
in railway magazines
Andrew Roden’s other books on railways for Aurum are Flying Scotsman and The Duchesses. He lives in Cornwall. 7
AUGUST
The Unlikely Warriors The Untold Stories of the Britons Who Fought Franco
Richard Baxell
l High-profile extract in national newspaper l Widespread review coverage in national and regional press – this is the first comprehensive account of the British volunteers l Reviews in history and military magazines and websites
World 400pp 234 x 153mm Jacket royal hardback £20 978 1 84513 697 0 16pp b/w plates Military History US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 8
When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain, in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth, theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly, they hailed from modest working-class backgrounds, leaving behind their families and livelihoods to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Francisco Franco. Drawing on the author’s own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain and Spain, as well as first-hand accounts by writers, both famous and unknown, The Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.
AUGUST
A compelling and provocative new history of the Spanish Civil War told through the words of the Britons who volunteered to fight Franco
Extract: 19 January saw a huge artillery bombardment on the British positions, through which the battalion held on doggedly. Garry McCartney, a Scottish volunteer in the Machine-Gun Company, observed the barrage from the hillside overlooking the valley. He described how the Nationalists ‘saturated’ the British position with shell and machine-gun fire, before sending their aircraft to bomb it. Another member of a British gun crew, perched on the cliff, watched on helplessly: Over our heads was a squadron of Italian bombers painted black. How evil they looked. In a few moments the horrible shrieks of falling bombs split the afternoon air. Hour after hour that squadron of bombers dived and machine-gunned the trenches of the infantry, the only opposition being one battery of three light antiaircraft guns and they were a long way off. It made one sick to realise that over there the bombs were falling on our own mates. What a hell on earth it must have been. Luckily the position we held seemed to have been ignored by the enemigo (enemy). We could only look on helplessly at what appeared to be the annihilation of the Major Attlee Company. The volunteers were forced to cower in the trenches, waiting and hoping for the barrage to end: ‘You could hear the screaming of the bombs and always the screaming seemed to be coming towards the back of your neck.’ Some Nationalist planes flew very low, picking out their targets: ‘You could see them as they dived down at us. You could see the pilot looking out and looking at us as he’s firing at us.’
Richard Baxell studied history as an undergraduate at Middlesex University before taking an M.A. at the Institute of Historical Research. He is the author of the critically well-received British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936–1939, which developed from his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics under Professor Paul Preston, the world’s leading authority on the Spanish Civil War. 9
SEPTEMBER
A Brilliant Little Operation The Full Story of How the Cockleshell Heroes Mounted the Greatest Raid of WW2
paddy asHdoWN
l major national newspaper serialisation
l National Tv and radio campaign with author l Widespread national press review, interview and feature coverage l Countrywide series of speaking engagements and book signings
World 416pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed hardback £25 978 1 84513 701 4 16pp b/w plates Military Agent/Serial: PfD/Aurum Press US/Translation: Aurum Press 10
In 1942, before El Alamein had turned the tide of war in favour of the Allies, the German merchant fleet was able to re-supply its war machine with impunity. So Operation Frankton, a daring and utterly secret raid, was launched by Mountbatten’s Combined Operations and led by the enigmatic ‘Blondie’ Hasler – to paddle ‘Cockleshell’ canoes right into Bordeaux harbour and mine the ships as they lay at anchor. It was a desperately hazardous mission from start to finish – dropped by submarine in open sea to canoe some hundred miles up the Gironde estuary into the heart of Vichy France, surviving terrifying tidal races, only then to face the biggest challenge of all: escaping to freedom on an epic route across the Pyrenees. Fewer than half of the men even made it as far as Bordeaux, and of the four who managed to lay their mines, only two got back to Britain alive. But far greater than the damage caused to the nine ships they partially sank was the immense blow they struck at the Germans’ sense of impregnability. Paddy Ashdown, himself a member of the Royal Marines’ elite Special Boat Squadron whose formation was a direct consequence of Frankton, has always been fascinated by this classic story of bravery and ingenuity. Indeed, as a young man, he chanced to meet ‘Blondie’ Hasler just once. After extensive research into previously unseen archives of Britain and France, he has traced surviving witnesses and penned the definitive account of the amazing wartime raid led by his hero. The real truth about Operation Frankton, he discovers – a deplorable tale of Whitehall rivalry and breakdowns in communication – serves only to make the achievements of Hasler and his ‘Cockleshell’ heroes all the more heroic.
PADDY ASHDOWN’s autobiography, A Fortunate Life, is also published by Aurum Press. Formerly Leader of the Liberal Democrats and the UN High Commissioner for Bosnia, he now sits in the House of Lords.
SEPTEMBER
The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on german ships in Bordeaux Harbour – by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron
ExTracT: Hasler steered Catfish out some two hundred yards from the bank, hoping that, if any observer saw their dark, low shape, they would think it no more than a log drifting up on the flood tide. With about four hundred yards to go and his targets – two groups of vessels some hundred or so yards apart – now fully visible and brightly illuminated under arc lights, he decided that the lesser risk was to hug the shore again, where he could make use of the deep shadows cast by the dockside. Having chosen his prey, Hasler reached into the canoe and drew out their placing rod. There was an audible crack as its spring-loaded joints clicked into locked position. He checked the rod ensuring that each joint was fully locked then carefully secured it along the deck of the canoe, using the paddle retaining fastenings to secure it in place. He then let Catfish drift gently with only minimal paddle strokes back into the shelter of the darkness under the edge of quay. Noting there were arches let into the quayside at regular intervals, which covered tunnels of darkness into which he could vanish, if needed, he began to work his way towards the first ship. Finding it was a tanker and therefore not one of the cargo-carrying blockade-runners, he slid quietly down its side to look at the vessel beyond. This was a mixed passenger and cargo ship, and therefore also not the quarry he was seeking. Hasler wanted to find a vessel on which he could be certain to do more damage than two stern-planted limpets were likely to achieve. His next target was a large cargo vessel, whose riverside flank was fully exposed. Perfect! He allowed Catfish to slide below the big ship’s bows, took off his gloves and reached below his cockpit cover for the first limpet. Being careful to suppress any ‘clang’ as the magnets took hold, he rolled the holdfast onto the ship’s side. Having attached his limpet mine to the placing rod, Hasler lowered it slowly over the side to the full length of the rod and brought it gently in until he felt the small jolt which told him that the magnets had found the ship’s steel plates. Pushing the rod down a few inches more to disengage it from the limpet, he then drew it up, re-secured it on the deck of the canoe and signalled Sparks to move on. The first blow had been struck. Praise for A Fortunate Life : ‘Ashdown has a terrific tale to tell, and he tells it well… the only mandarin-speaking trained killer to rise to prominence in British politics. Even James Bond would put down A Fortunate Life and reflect that his own life seemed suddenly rather monochrome’ Daily Telegraph ‘less a political autobiography than a real-life Dangerous Book for Boys and all the better for it. This is more than anything else an adventure story. Fascinating and uplifting and genuinely, without irony, heroic, the sort of book you should read to your kids, just to let them know what can be done’ Rod liddle, Sunday Times 978 1 84513 522 5 l £9.99 11
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A stunning celebration of the greatest bikes ever made and their designers
Bike!
A tribute to the world’s greatest cycling designers
ricHard moorE and daNiEl bENsoN
l High profile picture-based extract in a national newspaper weekend supplement l Blanket reviews and features in cycling magazines l Digital PR and marketing campaign targeting the numerous UK cycling websites, blogs and online communities l Author
radio interview campaign
l Direct marketing activity with manufacturers featured in the book l Over 600 spectacular full-colour photographs make this book a visual treasury of bicycle design
UK 352pp 242 x 199mm Hardback £25 978 1 78131 011 3 600 illustrations Sport US: Rizzoli Translation: Quintessence Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 12
To some, the bicycle is merely a convenient way of getting around. To others, it’s a cult object, a marvel of engineering and aesthetic. Bike! is a celebration of the racing bikes that have propelled champions to glory and the rest of us towards our own private moment of euphoria. This is the beautifully illustrated story of the artisans and visionary sportsmen and women who have joined forces to create two-wheel legends. Illustrated with more than 600 full-colour pictures, and with essays from Britain’s leading writers on cycling, Bike! covers more than 40 of the legendary brands that have shaped the history of cycling and their most fabled creations. From the cradle of road biking on the plains of Northern Italy to the rugged trails of Marin County, California – the birthplace of mountain biking – via the factories of the Far East, Bike! unmasks the heart, soul and history behind the world’s most celebrated bike brands, from Calnago and Campagnolo to Shimano and Specialized. The portraits that emerge are not just of the brands themselves but also of the pioneers who created these iconic objects and the sportsmen and women who made them famous. A gorgeous, coffee-table cycling book edited by Daniel Benson and Richard Moore, the acclaimed author of In Search of Robert Millar, who is also an award-winning journalist and a former racing cyclist. Alongside an in-depth history of the racing bike, written by experts in the field, is a wealth of information on technical features and design elements to satisfy the most avid cycling devotee. RICHARD mOORE is a former racing cyclist, who represented Great Britain, and writes for Rouleur magazine, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and The Scotsman. His biography of Britain’s most successful Tour de France cyclist Robert Millar, In Search of Robert Millar, won the ‘Best Biography’ category at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. DANIEl BENSON is Managing Editor at Cyclingnews.com 15 13
SEPTEMBER
The definitive biography of English rock and roll’s most influential band, this is the story of how The Kinks created the soundtrack to Swinging London
Electric Dreams
God Save The Kinks
The Human League, Heaven 17 and the Sound of the Steel City
A Biography
Rob Jovanovic
David Buckley
l The first serious account of a band and a movement whose music came to define an era l Highly-targeted Last.fm and Spotify advertising campaign l Blanket review coverage in music magazines and websites l Competitions and giveaways for fan clubs and sites of all the bands featured in the book l Sampling and stickering activity with major music magazine l Print and online advertising in the music press
World excluding USA 400pp 206 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £20 978 1 84513 666 6 16pp colour plates Music US: Edwards Fuglewicz Literary Agency Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Edwards Fuglewicz Literary Agency/Aurum Press 14
When The Human League released Dare, their seminal third album, in October 1981, they provided the soundtrack and the look for a whole new era. With its Vogue-inspired artwork and infectious mix of nightclub pop and post-punk experimentation, the record set a completely new agenda: entirely of the moment, cerebral yet danceable, aesthetically unabashed and wryly post-modern. It went on to become one of the biggest-selling albums of the Eighties, spawning four major hit singles – including No.1s on both sides of the Atlantic – and made an instant celebrity of the band’s colourful frontman, Phil Oakey. In Electric Dreams David Buckley, the acclaimed author of Strange Fascination: David Bowie – The Definitive Story, charts The Human League’s unlikely rise from avant-garde veterans of the punk wars to international chart-toppers and reveals how a small number of bands in Sheffield created the music that came to define a decade: electro-pop. Praise for David Buckley’s previous books: ‘One of the most authoritative books on David Bowie you’re ever likely to read’ Mojo on Strange Fascination ‘As a critique-cum-re-establishment of the David Bowie character, “definitive” is pretty much it’ Guardian on Strange Fascination ‘Reconstructs their fables with an insider’s sense of authority’ Rolling Stone on REM: Fiction
David Buckley is a regular contributor to Mojo magazine, and author of six books including his unrivalled biography of David Bowie, which the Guardian described as ‘definitive’.
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The untold story of how a band, a city and a lot of synthesisers changed pop music forever
l High-profile extract in a national newspaper l Reviews in men’s, music and popular culture magazines
In August 1964, The Kinks released their third single, ‘You Really Got Me’. With its unforgettable distorted guitar riff, it went on to reach No.1, entering the US Top Ten later the same year. Followed by a string of hits, the record marked the breakthrough of one of Britain’s most innovative and influential bands and a turning point in the fortunes of two brothers whose troubled history is as characterful and bittersweet as the music they produced: Ray and Dave Davies. In songs such as ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’, ‘Waterloo Sunset’, ‘Days’ and ‘Lola’, The Kinks drew on music hall, rhythm and blues and folk to craft a peculiarly English pop idiom that has inspired generations of songwriters, from David Bowie to Damon Albarn. Pocked by sibling rivalry, furious on-stage violence, rock’n’roll excess, walkouts, overdoses, a career-throttling ban from the US, gross self-indulgence and a curious rebirth as Eighties stadium rockers, the story laid bare in God Save The Kinks is one of the greatest in British pop history.
l Interview campaign on national and regional radio
Praise for Rob Jovanovic’s previous books:
l Stickering and sampling activity in partnership with major music magazine
‘An absorbing account of creative tensions, taboo-busting behaviour and avant-garde experimentation’ Metro on The Velvet Underground: Unpeeled
l Print and online advertising in the music press
World English Language 432pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £20 978 1 84513 671 0 16pp colour plates Music US: Aurum Press Translation: Pollinger Limited Agent/Serial: Pollinger Limited / Aurum Press
‘A fabulous insight into an enigmatic performer’ Real magazine on Kate Bush: The Biography
Rob Jovanovic has written about music for over a decade, contributing to, among others: Mojo, Q, Level, Record Collector and Uncut magazines. His previous books have covered artists as diverse and unique as Kate Bush, Beck, R.E.M., Pavement, Nirvana, The Velvet Underground and Big Star. 15
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The tale of how a uniquely British combination of ingenuity, bluff and sheer luck produced some of the greatest games of all time
Greasepaint and Cordite
Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders
How ENSA Entertained the Troops During World War II
How British Videogames Conquered the World
Andrew Merriman
l High-profile serialisation in a national newspaper l Widespread reviews and features in history magazines, and magazines aimed at older readers l Author appearances at literary festivals l Broadcast PR campaign featuring performers whose stories are recounted in the book
World 256pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed hardback £18.99 978 1 84513 618 5 8pp b/w plates History US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 16
Once the Second World War had broken out, it soon became clear that morale would be a crucial factor in the military effectiveness of our Armed Forces. And so was born the Entertainment National Services Association, or ENSA – to send the nation’s best singers, dancers, musicians and comedians, from Noël Coward to Gracie Fields, to entertain the troops, however far away they might be. Over the course of the war ENSA gave their first break to such postwar stars as Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd, as well as enshrining the young Vera Lynn forever as the forces’ sweetheart. When Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, George Formby was one of the first ashore, while a distinguished troupe of actors under Laurence Olivier was performing Shakespeare to British soldiers in a Hamburg theatre within weeks of the German surrender. Now, Andrew Merriman has talked to many surviving ENSA veterans, from Vera Lynn to Donald Sinden, to piece together the story of the extraordinary adventures of the ordinary young men and women sent out far across the world – even to inhospitable, dangerous destinations like Burma – whose contribution to the war effort was song, dance and laughter.
Andrew Merriman’s other books for Aurum are acclaimed biographies of Hattie Jacques and Margaret Rutherford. He lives in London.
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The extraordinary story of the young entertainers sent out to distant theatres of war
Rebecca Levene and Magnus Anderson
l Sponsorship of retro-gaming minisite for launch l Features in broadsheets and tabloids about the success of British computer games designers l Features and reviews in business press, and on the business pages of national press l Extensive online PR campaign targeting gaming websites, blogs and forums l Reviews in men’s, technology and gaming magazines
BC excluding Canada 288pp 216 x 135mm Demy trade paperback £14.99 978 1 84513 704 5 8pp colour plates Popular Culture/Business US/Translation: Watson, Little Ltd Agent/Serial: Watson, Little Ltd/ Aurum Press
It’s become the greatest British invasion of them all: Lara Croft is a world famous pin-up and the British-made Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 120 million copies worldwide. The UK videogames industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music. Yet gaming’s birth in Thatcher’s Britain was almost accidental. While government policies variously ignored or cherry-picked humble computers like the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro, it was left to a grass-roots culture of amateur programmers and teenage entrepreneurs to unlock their true potential. Isolated from the rest of the world by its particular machines, British gaming evolved in a strange and brilliant profusion of odd-ball characters, programming miracles and Pythonesque humour. So when the games industry went global, British developers were ready to be a driving force behind the new Cool Britannia and beyond. Grand Thieves and Tomb Raiders is a story of local talent bursting onto the international stage and of a generation of brilliant young programmers whose creations swept them from the bedroom to the boardroom and unimagined riches.
Rebecca Levene has been a writer and editor for over fifteen years and is now a scriptwriter in the games industry. Magnus Anderson is a merchant banker and business analyst who has been following and investing in the videogames sector for over a decade. They both live in London. 17
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‘Even today we hear people ask in surprise: What is the use of these voyages of exploration? What good do they do us? Little brains, I always answer to myself, have only room for thoughts of bread and butter’ Roald Amundsen
The Last Viking
The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen
Stephen Bown
l High-profile national newspaper serialisation l Blanket reviews coverage in national newspapers l Author national TV and radio campaign
UK Commonwealth 400pp 236 x 155 mm Royal format hardback £25 978 1 84513 844 8 Two plate sections Travel/Polar exploration US: Perseus Translation: Perseus Agent/Serial: Perseus/Aurum Press 18
One hundred years have passed since Robert F. Scott’s beleaguered expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole in January 1912, only to find they had been beaten to their goal by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, some 33 days previously. The Last Viking is the fascinating story of the life and death of Amundsen, Scott’s redoubtable Norwegian rival and one of the 20th century’s trailblazers of polar exploration. Living in an era of turbulent political and technological change, Amundsen’s legacy transcends mere nautical significance; with his successful navigation of the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in 1905, he became one of the first national heroes of a newly-independent Norway – a stature he maintained throughout his career until his mysterious death in 1928. Set against the backdrop of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, The Last Viking weaves together a mesmerising biographical narrative of adventure, peril and discovery.
Extract: In the early 20th century, despite centuries of tragic, doomed expeditions, many of the great geographical mysteries that had intrigued and perplexed adventurers and glory-seekers for centuries remained unconquered, unexplored, embarrassing blank spots on the otherwise increasingly detailed global maps. While Tibet, Africa and the Amazon had all been repeatedly visited, every ocean navigated and every desert traversed, the Northwest Passage, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Northeast Passage, sirens to generations of seekers, had still seldom been visited. One man, with little better technology than previous explorers, would undisputedly claim all of these geographic prizes within a twenty-year span in the early 20th century. While his name is known, particularly for being the first to reach the South Pole – which ironically he didn’t consider to be his greatest accomplishment – the Norwegian Roald Amundsen should be remembered as one of the greatest technical explorers of all time. Like the revered British mariner James Cook, his feats are unrivalled. Just as science triumphed over mysticism during the Enlightenment, giving us the scientific method and a framework for studying the world, Amundsen’s military-style execution of his objectives, delivered with gusto, verve and flamboyant self-promotion, changed forever the way the geographical world would be perceived and future expeditions planned. The world was not the same after Amundsen.
Stephen Bown was born in Ottawa and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. Specialising in the history of science and exploration, his books include Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travelers in the Golden Age of Natural History and the internationally successful Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail. 19
SEPTEMBER
Now in a delightful smaller format, this perennial bestseller is the perfect gift for everyone who aspires to Audrey Hepburn’s legendary style
What Would Grace Do?
What Would Audrey Do?
Timeless Lessons for Living with Grace and Style
Nina de la Mer
l The
style guide for the Mad Men generation and a perfect companion to What Would Audrey Do? (over 30,000 copies sold)
l Exclusive extract in national newspaper weekend supplement l Blanket
feature and review coverage in women’s and fashion press
World 258pp 216 x 135mm Jacketed demy hardback £14.99 978 1 84513 705 2 Two-colour illustrations throughout Fashion/Gift US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 20
Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana … move over, darlings! Icons one and all you might be, but to our minds Grace Kelly beats you, hands down, to the No. 1 spot in history’s roll call of leading ladies. Sure, most of you have inspired generations of fashionistas, some of you have lit up the silver screen, and one among you married a prince, but only Grace – model, actress, socialite and princess – has done all three, and made it look effortless. Grace Kelly remains the unchallenged embodiment of refined glamour, style and poise. Through her well-chosen roles, some canny decision making, and of course her camera-wooing good looks, she shone out on celluloid; becoming one of cinema’s most adored and unforgettable actresses. And there aren’t many Hollywood stars whose on-screen characters so closely resemble their real life. Her faultless beauty and playful charm captured the hearts of a succession of male co-stars, while her role as Princess Alexandra in The Swan preempted (as Alfred Hitchcock put it) her most enduring ‘last role’ as wife to the Prince of Monaco. The essential blonde riposte to the bestselling What Would Audrey Do?, this beautifully designed guide to charting a course through modern life in style offers lessons from Tinseltown’s very own princess on how to handle everything from careers and cashmere, to manners and men. Grace Kelly set a standard for elegance that has inspired women ever since; What Would Grace Do? reveals her secrets
Nina de la Mer is the author of The Modern Maiden’s Handbook, a humorous take on the women’s self-help formula. Under the pseudonym Gina McKinnon, she has written several non-fiction books. She lives in Brighton with her husband and daughter.
september
This charming new guide to modern life reveals the secrets of the Princess of Hollywood and how to discover your inner Grace – perfect for the Mad Men generation
Pamela Keogh
l New gift format of this bestselling title (30,000 copies sold) l Blanket features and reviews in women’s media l Extensive coverage in national newspaper Christmas gift round-ups
Audrey Hepburn epitomised grace and style, not only in her appearance but in her very essence. Whether in fashion, relationships, home life, or her work – both on screen and for UNICEF – no role model is more worthy of imitation. So, who better to turn to when pondering the right thing to do in our complex, modern world? In an era fraught with self-interest, artifice and vulgarity, Audrey can teach us how to remain demure, sophisticated, loving and gorgeous, everyday. Drawing on examples from the actress’s extraordinary life, this hugely enjoyable, beautifully-designed book offers advice on dating, seduction techniques and marriage from the woman who enjoyed romances with John F. Kennedy, William Holden and Albert Finney; tips on how to apply Audrey’s style to twenty-first-century clothes, make-up and accessories; insights into raising children, taming husbands and achieving a work-life balance and lessons in philanthropy from the star who used her fame to help others long before Bono or Angelina. Indeed, everything one might need to survive in the modern world. So, in place of strife, just ask yourself: What would Audrey do? ‘A gem’ Elle ‘Lovely’ Glamour ‘This beautiful little book is packed full of wisdom and anecdotes from Audrey Hepburn’s life. Dip into it when you’re having a style crisis Prima
British Commonwealth excluding Canada 272pp 197 x 129mm B-format hardback £9.99 978 1 78131 016 8 Two-colour illustrations throughout Fashion/Gift US/Translation: Gotham Books Agent/Serial: Gotham Books/ Aurum Press
Pamela Keogh is the author of the internationally bestselling illustrated biographies, Audrey Style and Jackie Style, also published by Aurum Press. Among other publications, she has written for American Vogue and The New York Times. She lives in New York. 21
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How far can you go with a ten-dollar bill? Join acclaimed journalist Steve Boggan on a strange and wondrous journey across America as he ‘passes the buck’
Follow the Money
A Journey to the Heart of America
STEVE BOGGAN
l An intelligent and affectionate portrait of America in the style of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Tim Moore’s French Revolutions l A natural choice for summer reading and promotions l Huge
Armed with a ten-dollar bill and an insatiable curiosity to be led where it took him, journalist Steve Boggan booked a flight to America with the intention of spending the money and then following it for as long as he could while it changed hands. Pretty soon what began as a pipe dream morphed into an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights; through six states, across 4,828 kilometres. Bolstered by a sense of humour (and a small – and increasingly grubby – set of clothes), this beautifully written debut charts Boggan’s experience – and adventures – following the money. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repossessions woman from Colorado, gets wasted (more than once) with a blues band in Arkansas and hangs out at a mansion owned by a famous quarterback in St Louis, Boggan enters the lives of ordinary people as they receive – and pass on – the bill. Add to that, the missionaries from Missouri, the Amish in Michigan, the banker from Chicago and the deer hunters from Detroit, and what emerges is a chaotic, affectionate and hilarious portrait of a modern-day American that tourists rarely get to see.
serial and radio potential
l A debut writer with a strong track record in investigative reportage for national press l A surprising portrait of an unfamiliar America
July World English 304pp 234 x 153mm Trade Paperback £12.99 978 1 908526 09 0 Travel Translation: MBA Agent/Serial: MBA/Union 22
STEVE BOGGAN was Chief Reporter for the Independent and co-founder of the newspaper’s investigations unit before moving into feature writing, which he now does for the Guardian, The Times and the Evening Standard. He lives in London and this is his first book.
EXTRACT: I left Route 36 at its junction with the 281 as the sun slipped beneath a glowing blanket of corn, flat as a piece of cardboard. It was 6.50 on the evening of the first of October. I had been driving due west from Kansas City for five hours and the turn north came as a relief. For a few moments, in the absence of glare the road seemed darker until ahead and to the right, I began to make out industrial shapes above the flatness. Great steel towers appeared to grow out of the crops, angular and jarringly out of place in an otherwise agricultural landscape. Through the gloom a water tower came into view, the kind you see in small towns all over America, with the word LEBANON painted across its girth. This was where I would begin to follow the money. I would travel alone and unpaid in the finest Corinthian tradition, propelled only by curiosity and itchy feet. Its serial number was IA74407937A and it was burning a hole in my pocket. I had marked it with little red squares in the top right-hand corner of each side so I could identify it easily, even though there is a long-running debate in the US over whether marking money is illegal and sticklers say that writing anything on a bill for whatever reason breaches Title 18 of the US Code, section 333, which deals with ‘Mutilation of National Bank Obligations’. I didn’t fancy six months in prison, but I needed to be able to identify the bill quickly if it was moving fast. I envisaged dark exchanges in bars and nightclubs, swift handovers in gas stations, shady deals for bags of crack under damp railway arches, ostentatious showers of notes from winners at the roulette table. I couldn’t stop the world at each exchange while I put on my reading glasses and checked that this note was indeed IA74407937A. People might think I was odd.
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A provocative, witty and pugnacious riposte to our culture of ‘foodism’ and the celebrities who champion it
You Aren’t What You Eat
EXTRACT:
STEVEN POOLE
On a crisp autumn evening in a North London street, a rotisserie trailer is parked outside a garden flat, green fairy lights blinking on and off, warm chickens perfuming the air. A thirtyish hipster wanders out to where I’m standing with a friend on the pavement and drawls his unimpressed judgment of what is going on inside. ‘I think the arancinis are not quite spicy enough,’ he says, with an eaten-it-all-before air. ‘Could have more flavour, not really exotic.’ Right now I haven’t the faintest idea what arancinis are or even how to spell them, but I nod knowingly. ‘I thought the Korean burger was quite good,’ the hipster goes on, without much kimchi-fired enthusiasm, ‘but I think a lot of people don’t make their food with enough shebang…’ Twenty-five years ago, he could have been an indie-rock fan bemoaning the blandness of chart music. Now he’s a social-smoking, foodier-than-thou critic at a ‘Food Rave’. We are living in the Age of Food. Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies (Heston Blumenthal) or bronze-moulded pasta (Jamie Oliver) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers. Food festivals (or, if you will, ‘Feastivals’) are the new rock festivals, featuring thrilling live stage performances of, er, cooking. Where will it all end? Is there any communication or entertainment or social format that has not yet been commandeered by the ravenous gastrimarge for his own ravenous purpose? Does our cultural ‘food madness’, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich suggests, tip into ‘food psychosis’? Might it not, after all, be a good idea to worry more about what we put into our minds than what we put into our mouths?
Fed Up with Gastroculture
l Launching on ‘Super Thursday’ to compete with Christmas cookery bestsellers, such as Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson l A brilliant polemic in the style of Bad Science by Ben Goldacre and How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
We have become obsessed by food: where it comes from, where to buy it, how to cook it and – most absurdly of all – how to eat it. Our television screens and newspapers are filled with celebrity chefs, latter-day priests whose authority and ambition range from the small scale (what we should have for supper) to largescale public schemes designed to improve communal eating habits. So, when did the basic human imperative to feed ourselves mutate into such a multitude of anxieties about provenance, ethics, health, lifestyle and class status? And since when did the likes of Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson gain the power to transform our kitchens and dining tables into places where we expect to be spiritually sustained? In this subtle, witty and erudite polemic, Steven Poole argues that we’re trying to fill more than just our bellies when we pick up our knives and forks, and we might be a lot happier if we realised that sometimes we should throw away the colour supplements and simply open a can of baked beans.
l National newspaper serialisation guaranteed l Early media interest in pitting Poole against food writers/celebrity chefs in the national press l Online campaign targeting gastrobloggers and tweeters to inflame debate
October World 208pp 176 x 125mm Hardback £12.99 978 1 908526 11 3 Current Affairs/Food All Rights: Union Books 24
STEVEN POOLE is the author of Trigger Happy and Unspeak. He has written extensively on books and culture for the Guardian and other publications, and has appeared at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Bath and Edinburgh Literary Festivals, the Rotterdam Film Festival and GameHotel, as well as on BBC television, BBC radio, NPR and ABC radio. He lives in London. 25
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In its long history, the river Thames has frozen solid forty times. These are the stories of that frozen river
Moby-Duck
The Frozen Thames
HELEN HUMPHREYS
The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost At Sea
DONOVAN HOHN
l Received
exceptional press coverage in hardback l Widespread press and broadcast coverage
l Author
event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
NEW IN PAPERBACK When Donovan Hohn first heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to some beachcombers and read up on Arctic science and geography. ‘But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away.’ Before long, Hohn’s accidental odyssey pulls him into the secret world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors and the shadowy terrain of Chinese toy factories. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity. ‘Masterful’ Financial Times ‘Exceptional’ The Times
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‘A wonderfully wilful and picaresque adventure... highly readable and supremely entertaining’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
l A brilliant example of creative non-fiction/atmospheric history in the style of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd
And so opens this breathtaking and original work of forty vignettes based on events that actually took place each time the river froze between 1142 and 1895. In startling prose, acclaimed novelist Helen Humphreys deftly draws us into these intimate moments, transporting us through time. Whether it’s Queen Matilda trying to escape her besieged castle in a snowstorm, or lovers meeting on the frozen river during the Plague Years, or a humble farmer persuading his oxen that the ice is safe, Humphreys’ achingly beautiful prose acts like a photograph, recapturing the moment and etching it forever on our imagination. Stunningly designed and illustrated throughout with full-colour period art, The Frozen Thames is a genrebending work from one of our most respected writers.
l Beautifully written and illustrated with period art l Serial potential and review coverage l Sold over 40,000 copies in North America lA
critically acclaimed author
‘Extraordinary’ Metro
September UK 416pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 908526 02 1 US: Viking ANZ: Scribe Translation: Viking Agent/serial: Viking/Union 26
DONOVAN HOHN‘s work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Outside and the Best Creative Nonfiction. A former English teacher and previously senior editor of Harper’s, he is now features editor of American GQ. He lives in New York with his wife and sons. Moby-Duck is his first book.
November BC excluding Canada 192pp 150 x 130mm Hardback £12 978 1 908526 13 7 20pp integrated colour period art Illustrated History US: Bantam Canada: McClelland & Stewart Translation: McClelland & Stewart Agent/Serial: Aitken Alexander/ Union
HELEN HUMPHREYS is the author of four books of poetry and five novels, including Leaving Earth (which was a New York Times ‘Notable Book’) and, most recently, The Reinvention of Love. Born in Britain, she now lives in Kingston, Canada. 27
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The latest addition to the major series of illustrated guides produced by The World of Fine Wine magazine
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Finest Wines of Germany
Edited by ALEX CLARK and ROSALIND PORTER
l The
first in an annual series of Union Anthologies edited by Alex Clark and Rosalind Porter lA
brilliant collection of new work from some of our most revered writers
We live with the idea of sin every day – from the greatest transgressions to the tiniest misdemeanours – but surely the concept was invented for an age where divine retribution and eternal punishment dominated the collective consciousness? Do we really believe gluttony is actually damnable, rather than just something to be avoided if you give a fig about your waistband? Is sloth such a big deal in a world of wall-to-wall leisure opportunities? In this lively collection of new writing, seven of our most acclaimed authors and thinkers – including Ali Smith, Francine Prose and Nicola Barker – go head to head with Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth and Vanity to explore what we really mean when we talk about sin. The resulting mix of erudite and playful essays and startling new fiction might not make you a better person, but it will certainly provide pause for thought when you’re next laying the law down or – heaven forfend – about to do something beyond the pale yourself.
sTEpHaN rEiNHardT photography by JoN WyaNd
l The Finest Wines of Champagne won the International Wine Book of the Year award at the prestigious louis Roederer Wine Writers Awards 2010 l The Finest Wines of Tuscany and The Finest Wines of Champagne were both shortlisted for the André Simon Awards 2010
integrated b/w illustrations
l The Finest Wines of Bordeaux was shortlisted for the gourmand Wine Book Awards 2010
l Review coverage and serial opportunities
l The Finest Wines of Rioja received the Special Commendation at the André Simon Awards 2011
l Beautiful
November World 224pp 216 x 153mm Hardback £16.99 978 1 908526 15 1 10pp b/w integrated illustrations Anthology All Rights: Union Books 28
OCTOBER
‘Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike’ Oscar Wilde
UK and Europe 272pp 220 x 165mm Flexibound with flaps and silk ribbon £20 978 1 78131 021 2 Over 100 colour photographs and illustrations Food & Drink US/Translation: University of California Press/Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Fine Wine Books
Focusing on one of the twenty-first century’s most exciting and innovative wine producing regions, this edition covers the most majestic of Rieslings, lesser-known varieties of Silvaner, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and upcoming classics such as Pinot Noir – hailed as the new ‘Red Riesling’. With a history and wine culture dating back to the Middle Ages, German wine once had a reputation for subtlety and quality; Rieslings from the Rhine, Mosel and Saar were among the most sought-after and expensive wines in the world. However, throughout the World Wars, a perception of German wine as being ‘cheap and sweet’ emerged – a development encouraged by the 1971 German Wine Law, which based wine categories on sugar levels. Now 100 years since the last Golden Age of German wine, a new era of rejuvenation, innovation and variety has dawned. The author looks in depth at topics including: climate and soil, the new generation of wine growers, developments in German drinking culture, as well as considering grape varieties and viticulture. The book concludes with a profile of the most noteworthy producing regions, vineyards and a list of classic vintages. Praise for previous books in the series: ‘Well-written, authoritative, and beautifully produced’ Daily Express ‘Picture-postcard packaged. Stylish arty photography’ Jancisrobinson.com
STEPHAN REINHARDT has been writing about German wine for more than ten years. He is editor of the monthly German/Swiss review Weinwisser, and also contributes regularly to other publications including The World of Fine Wine, Falstaff and Effilee. 29
The Secret Listeners How the Y Service Intercepted German Codes for Bletchley Park
Sinclair McKay
l Hugely-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Secret Life of Bletchley Park l Major national newspaper serialisation and extensive review and feature coverage l Stunning £25,000 consumer campaign, including national outdoor advertising, intriguing digital campaign and submission for all major retail promotions l National TV and radio campaign featuring veterans from the book l Leading
literary festivals confirmed
World 352pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed hardback £20 978 1 84513 763 2 8pp b/w plates History Agent/Serial: Aurum Press US/Translation: Aurum 30
Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine’s codes, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by ‘the Listening Service’ – the wartime department officially named the Y (as in Wireless) Service, whose bases moved with every theatre of war: Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar, Ceylon, as well as having listening stations around the coast of Britain, from Scarborough to Portland Bill, to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. Following in the footsteps of his Sunday Times bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, Sinclair McKay has tracked down Y Service veterans in search of their remarkable stories of how, as very young men and women, they were sent out to distant outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park. Catching the flying boat from Southampton, or joining rust-bucket ships for voyages halfway round the world, they pitched up in the colourful chaos of Cairo, or in Malta amid daily air attacks, or even in the limpid paradise of the Turks & Caicos Islands. There, the work was a gruelling endurance test of eight-hour shifts tuning in to crackly radio broadcasts in German or Japanese, or accurately transcribing the endless tap-tap of Morse code for transmission on to Bletchley Park for decrypting. These young men and women endured tropical heat so sweltering that their shoes filled with perspiration and also exotic hazards like snakes curled up in a filing cabinet. But thanks to their efforts the tide of war was turned against Rommel in the Western Desert, and against the Japanese in Burma’s jungle war, and as they threw themselves into the raffish nightlife of expatriate Cairo, they also had the time of their lives. Rich in oral history, by turns rampageous and extraordinarily poignant, this is the story of a forgotten group of courageous young men and women without whom the war might never have been won.
October
Extract:
October
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park comes the untold story of the men and women in far-flung outposts whose eavesdropping on the enemy changed the course of WWII
Through the silence of the night, they were listening to the heart of the conflict. In bare rooms, lit with green-shaded lights, and furnished with plain desks, chairs and tables upon which rested the latest wireless equipment – Bakelite, metal, the vanilla glow of illuminated dials – dedicated men and women would sit, their ears clamped in warm headphones, in a strange halfworld. The signals they were receiving might have been actual voices or the abstract dots and dashes of Morse, but they all represented determination and bravery – and sometimes even the poignant laughter of fear. For the listeners, the 2 a.m. watches were the worst, no matter which part of the world – from England’s South Coast, from Cairo to Mombassa, to Delhi to New Zealand – the operator was working in. For Victor Newman, a wireless operator in Colombo, Ceylon, some of these nocturnal watches were disrupted by mighty storms, violent rain smashing down on woven palm leaf roofs. In Egypt, apart from the perpetual bains of dust and sand, night-shifts for special wireless operator Bob Hughes would sometimes be made impossible by distant thunder, which would create agonising feedback – ‘this terrible crackling’ – in the headphones. In Singapore, Joan Dinwoodie suffered especially from the relentless suffocating heat, ‘the perspiration running into our shoes.’ Yet all of this is sadly and curiously uncelebrated today. While the codebreakers of Bletchley Park – who fought so long to achieve the recognition they so richly deserve – are now properly honoured, the other people who made their work possible remain in the shadows. So much so that the very term ‘Y Service’ remains unfamiliar to many. Yet it was the ‘Y Service’ who kept the mighty machinery of Bletchley Park fed with information; it was the Y Service operatives who listened in on the entire German war apparatus – every hour, every minute of every day. It was these young people who were the first to hear of any tactical shift, any manoeuvre, any soaring victory, any crushing defeat. It was their painstakingly pinpoint accurate work – the fruits of their labours then gathered up and sent on to Bletchley Park at top speed – that enabled codes to be cracked quickly and German strategies seen through.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park spent over five months on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was Christmas number two non-fiction paperback in 2011. It has sold over 160,000 copies (TCM sales). Exceptional review coverage included: ‘An eloquent tribute to a quite remarkable group of men and women, whose like we will not see again’ Mail on Sunday ‘Recreates the unique atmosphere of this extraordinary place… remarkable’ Daily Telegraph ‘It’s all so indelibly – and Britishly – moving’ Sunday Telegraph
Sinclair McKay is the author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park for Aurum Press, as well as histories of Hammer films, the James Bond movies and the pastime of rambling. He lives in London.
‘A breathtaking, eye-opening book’ A. N. Wilson 978 1 84513 6338 l £8.99
‘A remarkably faithful account of what we did, why it mattered and how it all felt at the time’ Guardian 31
OCTOBER
OCTOBER
The official celebration to coincide with the commercial release of the first-ever full-length animated feature film
The Fairest One of All The Making of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
J. b. KauFmaN
l Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the top ten highest grossing American films of all time l This landmark edition reveals neverbefore-seen archive material including early artwork and original storyboards
In 1934, Walt Disney set out to create the first-ever full-length animation blockbuster. Many experts said it couldn’t be done – up to that point, animation meant funny cartoons and silly animals. The idea of a beautiful, engaging feature seemed impossible. Of course, Walt Disney pulled off the impossible, creating the Oscar-winning film that millions have come to know and love. This book, created in close collaboration with the Walt Disney Family Foundation, takes readers behind the scenes of this epic undertaking, with never-before-published concept artwork, and insider stories from the people who were there, and who created a unique masterpiece. This deluxe edition includes a foreword by Diane Disney Miller, Walt’s daughter and the head of the Foundation.
l Campaign to target major fan-bases of the film through screenings, social media and fan clubs l Illustrated extract pitched to weekend supplements and reviews across film press l The latest addition to Aurum’s stunning cinematic history list which includes deluxe editions, such as The Making of the Empire Strikes Back and The Art of Ray Harryhausen
BCE (exc. Canada) 320pp 320 x 280mm Jacketed hardback £35 ISBN 978 1 78131 025 0 Full-colour and gold throughout Film & TV Agent: Weldon Owen Publishing Serial: Aurum Press US/Translation: Weldon Owen Publishing 32
J.B. KAUFmAN is a film historian and leading expert on Disney animation and films of the era. He has authored three prior books on Disney, and gives talks and presentations on the subject. 33
OCTOBER
An exploration of everything the countryside means to us, from a hundred years of the Telegraph’s archive
Sign Language 2:
The Book of the Countryside
More Travels in Unfortunate English from the Readers of the
l Editorial
features and book offers in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
l Review
coverage in general interest and literary magazines Language sold over 30,000 copies
l Sign
World 160pp 125 x 180mm PLC hardback £8.99 978 1 78131 020 5 Colour photographs throughout Humour US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 34
The alarming commandments, unwittingly hilarious advertisements and revolting menus – anyone for ‘Lavender Frog Porridge’? – produced by poor or mistranslated English prove sources of both bafflement and guilty pleasure for modern globetrotters. Indeed, for the past four years the Telegraph’s Sign Language, which presents the funniest and oddest of the thousands of unintentionally amusing signs spotted by the newspaper’s readers on their travels, has become one of its most popular features, drawing over 300,000 online visitors every week. So, in 2011 Aurum Press and the Telegraph published the very best of Sign Language – only to discover that the state of our mother tongue was far worse than suspected. Thousands of new images flooded in and, as they did so, it became clear that ‘genuine fake watches’ and ‘bung hole spread’ represented the least of our worries. Something had to done … And, of course, that something was a sequel.
OCTOBER
Following the surprise humour hit of Christmas 2011 comes another astounding collection of the funniest and strangest signs as observed by the readers of the Daily Telegraph
Edited by sTEpHEN moss
l Editorial features and book offers in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph l Review coverage in rural interest magazines l Widespread regional newspaper review and feature coverage
World 352pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed hardback £20 978 1 84513 843 1 Natural History US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press
Here are much-loved countryside columnists such as J.H.B. Peel and Robin Page, classic English writers including John Betjeman and W.F. Deedes, alongside eminent modern naturalists like Peter Marren and even unlikely proponents of the rural life like Boris Johnson. But this is no bland celebration of bucolic idyll, but an exploration of everything that the countryside represents to the British. For some it means the reintroduction of longlost wildlife such as the red kite or the survival of ancient crafts like thatching and basket-weaving; for others it means the freedom to jounce along a green lane in a four-wheeldrive Range Rover. To Charles, Prince of Wales, his new town of Poundbury is the countryside (along with his Duchy Originals) while subjects as diverse as crop circles, second homes, Mad Cow Disease and polytunnels all stand as controversial flashpoints in the modern debate about what, and who, the countryside is for. Surprising, hugely varied, by turns funny and provocative, this is an essential exploration of a central aspect of our national identity.
STEPHEN mOSS was for many years a senior producer in the BBC’s Natural History Unit, working on Springwatch, Birding With Bill Oddie and Birds Britannica. His other books for Aurum Press include A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching and A Skyful of Starlings. He lives in Somerset. 35
OCTOBER
Imagine My Surprise... Unpublished Letters to
Edited by iaiN HolliNgsHEad
l Full
support from the Daily Telegraph, who will run editorial features and book offers
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editions have sold over 200,000 copies
The first volume of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in Thinking…?, not only became a Christmas bestseller but also established the paper’s letter-writers as a uniquely waggish, eccentric and maverick institution. They can be relied upon, particularly in the letters slightly too pungent or off-thewall to print on an august Letters page, to offer a new and memorable take on the great events of the day. Now, with the fourth book in the series, Iain Hollingshead collects together our favourite letterwriters on everything from this summer’s Olympics to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, as well as the rather more obscure concerns voiced by ‘M’, the habitual correspondent who believes himself to be the head of MI5 but writes from an internet café in Bristol. Trenchant, choleric and hilariously funny, this will once again be the humour book of the year. ‘A Christmas treat. Our great fear is that the Telegraph will stop publishing this title.’ Comment from an Amazon reader
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OCTOBER
The essential humour gift book of the year returns in the anticipated fourth volume of this bestselling series – guaranteed to provoke laughter and amazement
EXTRACT: SIR Harry Redknapp need not worry about not being able to operate a computer. If his dog is smart enough to have a bank account in Monaco, I am sure it can do his online banking for him. SIR As far as I am concerned, Mr Hester may have his bonus and Mr Goodwin his knighthood in exchange for the removal of the RBS Group logo from the centre of the pitches on which the Six Nations games are being played. SIR Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon? Something sounds a bit fishy to me. SIR The media widely refers to Jeremy Clarkson as “one of the BBC’s best exports”. So what is he still doing here? SIR I can readily see why someone would want to leave Birmingham as fast as possible, but I do not understand why any sane person would ever want to get there sooner. So I have a simple suggestion to halve the cost of HS2: build just one line out of Brum.
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World 192pp 178 x 118mm Jacketed hardback £9.99 978 1 78131 019 9 Humour US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 36
IAIN HOllINgSHEAD has edited four collections of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph for Aurum Press. Now a special features writer on the paper, he lives in London. 37
Britain’s Lost Breweries and Beers Thirty Famous Homes of Beer That Have Brewed Their Last Pint
cHris arNoT l The latest in Aurum’s hugely successful ‘lost’ series, which has sold over 50,000 copies l Direct marketing partnership with CAmRA l Covers breweries throughout Britain, including Scotland and Wales l Photo
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The latest to disappear is Tetley’s in Leeds: by the end of 2012, the classic Yorkshire beer will no longer be brewed in the county, but rather in Wolverhampton, and its historic brewery in the city will close. But Britain’s classic breweries have been closing since the Sixties, usually taking their much-loved and flavoursome beers with them. Now, Chris Arnot visits 30 towns and cities where the historic brewery has gone, from Sunderland and Vaux in the Northeast to Brighton and Tamplin’s on the South Coast, and London, where the closure of Truman’s, Whitbread, Mann’s, Courage and many others has left the capital with just one major brewery, and finds out from those who used to brew the beers, and those who drank them, how much was lost. This is a story of more than the disappearance of Tolly Cobbold bitter or King & Barnes’ winter ale: when a historic brewery in the heart of Ipswich or Nottingham closed its doors, as Arnot’s affectionate elegy confirms, something of the town died with it.
OCTOBER
OCTOBER
An illustrated tribute to Britain’s vanishing breweries joins Aurum’s acclaimed ‘lost’ series
‘[This] heady romantic hymn to a variety of once famous fields is a coffee-table classic for and of posterity’ Frank Keating, Sports Books of the Year Guardian BRITAIN’S LOST CRICKET GROUNDS The Hallowed Homes of Cricket That Will Never See Another Ball Bowled CHRIS ARNOT £25.00 978 1 84513 591 1
‘moving … this is a heartbreaking book’ Simon Jenkins, The Sunday Times LOST VICTORIAN BRITAIN How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces GAVIN STAMP £25.00 978 1 84513 532 4
‘A powerful and evocative pictorial record … filled with atmosphere’ The Times BRITAIN’S LOST RAILWAYS The Twentieth-Century Destruction of our Finest Railway Architecture JOHN MINNIS £25.00 978 1 84513 450 1
‘An elegant testimonial to these vanished houses’ Apollo
World 192pp 285 x 210mm Jacketed hardback £25 978 1 78131 002 1 Full colour photographs throughout Food and Drink Agent/Serial: Aurum Press US/Translation: Aurum Press
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ENGLAND’S LOST HOUSES From the Archives of Country Life GILES WORSLEY £20.00 978 1 84513 614 7
CHRIS ARNOT writes regularly for the Guardian, for whom he penned a Pubs column for some while. His Britain’s Lost Cricket Grounds is also published by Aurum Press. He lives in Coventry.
‘An engrossing, no-punches-pulled denunciation of the wilful destruction of our urban landscape since the 1930s’ The Times BRITAIN’S LOST CITIES A Chronicle of Architectural Destruction GAVIN STAMP £16.99 978 1 84513 523 2 39
NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER
The definitive illustrated history of the writers, filmmakers, artisans and aesthetes who created the world’s most extraordinary genre
Steampunk
Victorian Visionaries, Scientific Romances and Fantastic Fictions
briaN J. robb
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World 192pp 280 x 240mm PLC hardback £25 978 1 78131 026 7 250 full-colour and b/w photographs and illustrations Science Fiction US: Voyageur Press Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Fox & Howard Literary Agency/Aurum Press 40
Simultaneously a literary movement, ultra-hip subculture and burgeoning cottage industry, Steampunk is the most influential and arresting new genre to emerge from the late twentieth century. Spinning tales populated with clockwork Leviathans, cannon-shots to the moon and coal-fired robots, it charts alternative histories in which the British Empire never fell or where the atom remained unsplit. A term first coined in 1987 by science fiction author K.W. Jeter, Steampunk was born of myriad influences: the classic scientific romances of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, a growing nostalgia for Victoriana and an ironic reaction to the dystopian futurescapes of Cyberpunk. Today it has grown to become a global aesthetic, making its mark on art, architecture, fashion and even music. This wide-ranging, beautifully-illustrated and much needed history explores the genre’s many intricate expressions, tracing its development in fiction, cinema, television, comics, videogames and beyond. From the futuristic visions of Fritz Lang and the otherworldly imaginings of Alan Moore and Hayao Miyazaki to Doctor Who’s adventures in time and space, and the dark fantasies of China Miéville, Brian J. Robb sets the key works of Steampunk squarely under the lens of his brass monocle, examining their ideas and themes in forensic detail.
BRIAN J. ROBB is a former editor of Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Magazine UK and Dreamwatch, the acclaimed entertainment magazine for fantasy and science fiction. He has also written books on Doctor Who, silent cinema and directors Wes Craven, James Cameron and Ridley Scott. 41
NOVEMBER
An endlessly absorbing anthology of great lives drawn from the archives of the Telegraph
The Examined Life The in 365 Days
‘s Greatest Obituaries
Edited by Harry de Quetteville
l The perfect bedside companion for the inquiring reader l Editorial features and book offers in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph l Review coverage in general interest and literary magazines
World 560pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £25 978 1 78131 027 4 Integrated b/w photographs Biography US/Translation: Aurum Press Agent/Serial: Aurum Press 42
The Telegraph’s obituaries pages are renowned for their quality of writing and capacity to distil the essence of a life from its most extraordinary moments. A unique mix of heroism, ingenuity, infamy and eccentricity, The Examined Life collects the very best obituaries that the paper has published to create an endlessly fascinating compendium of human endeavour. Organised day by day around the calendar year, with each life presented on the date it ended, the book includes hundreds of remarkable stories. World statesmen jostle with glamorous celluloid stars, pioneering boffins sit alongside chart-topping rock’n’rollers, while artists and their muses mingle with record-breaking sportsmen, Victoria Cross winners, spies, showgirls and captains of industry – as well as the titans of rather more esoteric fields. Here, for instance, can be found Britain’s greatest goat breeder, a hangman who campaigned to abolish the death penalty, a priest to Soho’s pimps, a cross-dressing mountaineer and a minister who preached a gospel of avarice. (Donations in notes only, please, as ‘Change makes me nervous’.) A treasure trove of human virtue, vice and trivia, The Examined Life is the perfect gift for the curious.
NOVEMBER
Extract: July 28th 2009 THE RT REV DR FREDERICK J EIKERENKOETTER II, who has died aged 74, was a pioneer preacher of what has become known as the ‘Prosperity Gospel’; this is based on the claim that the root of all evil is not the love of money, but the lack of it. The Reverend Ike, as he was known to his followers, offered to open people’s hearts to the love of God: ‘But it won’t be the God you learned about in Sunday School. It won’t be that stingy, hardhearted, hard-of-hearing God-in-the-Sky.’ Instead it would be a God who teaches that salvation lies in being rich. ‘Close your eyes and see green,’ he exhorted his followers. ‘Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool.’ The main beneficiary of this approach was the Reverend Ike himself. As well as founding no fewer than three churches, he was one of the first evangelists to exploit the power of television. At the height of his success, in the 1970s, he reached an audience estimated at 2.5 million. In return for spiritual guidance, he requested cash donations – notes, preferably, rather than coins (‘Change makes your minister nervous,’ he claimed). The Reverend Ike had no qualms about flaunting it with luxurious homes in New York and Hollywood, a huge rhinestone-encrusted wardrobe, drawers full of flashy jewellery and a fleet of Cadillacs, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. ‘My garages runneth over,’ as he put it. January 14th 1988 AIR VICE-MARSHAL JOHN ‘THE BARON’ WORRALL,
who has died aged 76, led a Hurricane fighter squadron throughout the fall of France and in some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Britain. The desperate predicament of Worrall – at 29 somewhat older than most of his pilots in No. 32 Squadron – as they fought to protect their Biggin Hill base and other No. 11 Group airfields in the summer of 1940, can be gauged from a typical exchange: Controller: ‘24 bombers with 20-plus more behind them.’ Worrall: ‘Got it.’ Controller: ‘20-plus more bombers and 20 fighters behind and above.’ Worrall: ‘All right.’ Controller: ‘Now 30 more bombers and further 100-plus fighters following.’ Worrall: ‘Stop. No more information please. You are frightening me terribly.’ It was hardly surprising that Worrall became known as ‘the Baron’, a sobriquet recalling the First World War ace Manfred ‘the Red Baron’ von Richthofen.
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HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
Britain’s Lost Cities Gavin Stamp £16.99 978 184513 523 2
England’s Lost Houses Giles Worsley £20.00 978 1 84513 614 7
I Rest My Case Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead £9.99 l 978 1 84513 690 1
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Lost Victorian Britain Gavin Stamp £25.00 978 184513 532 4
Britain’s Lost Cricket Grounds Chris Arnot £25.00 978 184513 591 1
Britain’s Lost Railways John Minnis £25.00 978 184513 450 1
Alien Vault: The Definitive Story of the Making of the Film Ian Nathan £30.00 978 1 84513 667 3
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back: The Definitive Story Behind the Film J W Rinzler £45.00 978 1 84513 555 3
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Woman Who Worked There Sinclair McKay £8.99 l 978 1 84513 633 8
Not in My Day, Sir Cricket Letters to the Daily Telegraph Martin Smith £14.99 978 1 84513 626 0
Am I Alone in Thinking…? Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead £9.99 l 978 1 84513 502 7
Felling the Ancient Oaks John Martin Robinson £30.00 978 1 84513 670 3
Moby-Duck Donovan Hohn £20.00 978 1 90852 600 7
Banksy Will Ellsworth-Jones £20.00 978-1845136994
I Could Go On… Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead £9.99 l 978 1 84513 598 0
Pigs Might Fly The Inside Story of Pink Floyd Mark Blake £9.99 978 1 84513 366 5
Feet in the Clouds A Tale of Fell Running and Obsession Richard Askwith £8.99 978 1 84513 082 4
Mile by Mile on Britain’s Railways S.N. Pike £12.99 978 1 84513 612 3
Mile by Mile London to Paris Reginald Piggott and Matt Thompson £12.99 978 1 84513 772 4
Hero The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia Michael Korda £12.99 l 978 1 84513 771 7
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HIGHLIGHTS Miss Savidge Moves Her House The Extraordinary Story of May Savidge and her House of a Lifetime Christine Adams, Michael McMahon £8.99 l 978 1 84513 518 8
The Most Dangerous Enemy Stephen Bungay £10.99 978 1 84513 481 5 46
The Austerity Olympics When the Games Came to London in 1948 Janie Hampton £8.99 l 978 1 84513 720 5
Last of the Summer Wine The Inside Story of the World’s Longest-Running Comedy Programme Andrew Vine £8.99 l 978 1 84513 711 3
The Barbed-Wire University The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War Midge Gillies £8.99 l 978 1 84513 777 9
The Complete Book of the Olympics David Wallechinsky, Jaime Loucky £25.00 978 1 84513 695 6
The Coast to Coast Walk Martin Wainwright £12.99 978 1 84513 854 7
Thames Path in London From Hampton Court to Crayford Ness: 50 miles of historic riverside walk (National Trail Guide) Phoebe Clapham £12.99 l 978 1 84513 706 9
Sign Language Last Call for the £8.99 Dining Car The Daily Telegraph Book 978 1 84513 715 1 of Great Railway Journeys ed: Michael Kerr £9.99 978 1 84513 770 0
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M McKay, Sinclair Merriman, Andrew Moby-Duck Moore, Richard Moss, Stephen P Platt, Mark Poole, Steven Porter, Rosalind R Raymond Chandler Reinhardt, Stephan Robb, Brian J Roden, Andrew S Secret Listeners, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Sign Language 2 Sladen, Elisabeth Stamp, Gavin Steampunk T Telegraph Book of the Countryside, The U Unlikely Warriors, The W Waters, Chris What Would Audrey Do? What Would Grace Do? Williams, Tom Y You Aren’t What You Eat
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Just Boris A Tale of Blond Ambition Sonia Purnell £8.99 978 1 84513 716 8
A Anderson, Magnus Arnot, Chris Ashdown, Paddy B Baxell, Richard Benson, Daniel Bike! Boggan, Steve Bown, Stephen Brilliant Little Operation, A Britain’s Lost Breweries Buckley, David C Clark, Alex Criminal London D Daily Telegraph letter series De la Mer, Nina De Quetteville, Harry E Electric Dreams Evans, Roy Examined Life, The F Fagan, Andrew Fairest One of All, The Finest Wines of Germany, The Follow The Money Fred Trueman Frozen Thames, The G God Save the Kinks Grand Thieves and Tomb Raiders Greasepaint and Cordite Great Western Railway H Hohn, Donovan Hollingshead, Iain Hollington, Kris Hollington, Nina Humphreys, Helen I Imagine My Surprise... J Joe Fagan Jovanovic, Rob K Kaufman, J.B. Keogh, Pamela L Last Viking, The Levene, Rebecca Lost Victorian Britain
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