H EYWO O D H IL L’S 201 9 CH R ISTM A S SH OPPIN G GUI D E NEW BOOKS, RARE BOOKS, AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
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A very warm welcome to Heywood Hill’s 2019 Christmas Shopping Guide. The talented booksellers in each of our various departments have banded together to find the very best books for all your festive shopping needs. Unless otherwise specified, all books included are hardback. Whatever literary gems you seek, whether beautiful art books, the best new fiction, or an antiquarian treasure, there is something here to suit all tastes. 2019 has been another vibrant year here at Heywood Hill. As ever, our Subscriptions Department are busy every month individually selecting books for readers across the world. Always our most popular Christmas gift, you can read more about the famous service that they offer on page 12. We are also very pleased to relaunch our Children’s book subscriptions this year, with delightful new stationery illustrated by Lara Apponyi. Find out more on page 19. As our reputation for building tailored libraries advances, this year we were thrilled to launch officially the Heywood Hill Libraries Department, complete with its own dedicated Rare Books Specialist, Nicole Mansour, and led by the highly talented Zoe Dickey. You can read more about the new department and how to commission a library on page 23. We don’t only build libraries, though; we also sell them, complete and entire. If you have a world-class collection and would like some advice, our Formed Collections Department is at your disposal; read more about it on page 22. Meanwhile, our shop on Curzon Street continues to thrive. Our New Books and Rare Books Departments are always on hand to offer expert guidance; indeed, they love nothing more than talking to readers or collectors about books. This Christmas Shopping Guide offers inspiration for all kinds of readers. However, if you do find yourself uncertain of which book to choose, or are looking for something not contained within these pages, please do not hesitate to get in touch; our booksellers are always delighted to assist. With festive wishes,
Nicky Dunne, Chairman
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Meet the Team Biography & Memoir History Politics & Current Affairs Science, Philosophy & Religion Travel & Nature Writing Poetry & Literary Criticism A Year in Books Fiction Crime & Thriller Order Form A Year in Books for Children Children Ages 0-4 & 5-8 Years Children Ages 8-12 & 12+ Years Formed Collections Heywood Hill Personal Accounts
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Libraries Art & Architecture Fashion & Interior Design Special Books Rare Books Gardens & Gardening Sport & Hobbies Food & Drink
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MEET THE TEAM
Andrew Turton Andrew is our Bookshop Manager and Head of New Books. He cheerfully welcomes customers to our Curzon Street shop, and makes sure we always have the best new books in stock. His Christmas Highlight: L‘ eonardo 500 (p.27) is a truly special, landmark book; a beautiful object in itself, showcasing the breathtaking work of the great artist.’
Camille Van de Velde Camille is Head of Subscriptions, responsible for leading the small team of personal booksellers who work on our bespoke book subscription service, A Year in Books (p.12). Her Christmas Highlight: ‘Our brand-new tote bag (p.19). Super stylish, and perfect for carrying around all the books we read.’
Andrew Mcgeachin Andrew is our Head of Rare Books. Based in the beautiful Red Room at the back of our Curzon Street shop, he is on a permanent mission to source unusual, beautiful and interesting rare books for our stock. His Christmas Highlight: ‘I would choose Ira Gershwin’s copy of P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, inscribed to him by the author (p.33). Two great names in one!’
Zoe Dickey Zoe is the Head of Libraries. Along with her colleague Nicole Mansour, she puts together and installs tailored libraries, large and small, for individuals and corporations all over the world (p. 23). Her Christmas Highlight: ‘I love the new illustrated welcome pack for A Year in Books for Children (p.19). I would have really loved to find that under the tree when I was young.’
Jana Mucaj Jana is our Bookkeeper, in charge of keeping all of Heywood Hill’s finances in check, including looking after our customers’ Personal Accounts (p.22). Her Christmas Highlight: ‘I’ve loved all of JP Delaney’s books so far, and his new novel, The Perfect Wife (p.16), is no exception. 2
Jerry Vinalon Jerry is our Post Room Manager. He oversees the complex process of making sure our customers receive their monthly books on time, and is the man behind our beautiful brown paper and blue ribbon packaging. His Christmas Highlight: ‘A Year in Books (p.12), of course!’
Michelle Poalses Our newest fulltime Bookseller Michelle works on the shop floor helping customers to find their perfect book, and generally brightening everyone’s day. Her Christmas Highlight: ‘William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy (p.6). The East India Company and what they got up to is really fascinating, and we haven’t had a book properly delve into that history before, so I’m excited about this one!’
Eleanor Franzén Eleanor is a Personal Bookseller for our subscription service, drawing on her vast knowledge of books (she read 200 last year) to individually select a title for each of her customers every month. Her Christmas Highlight: ‘Well, the dream would obviously be a tailored library (p.23); all my favourite books in First Edition, exciting new titles to explore…’
Jasper Jennings Jasper is a Rare Bookseller, with particular specialisms in Rare Prints and the eighteenth and nineteenth century. His Christmas Highlight: ‘I would pick Mrs Head’s Weather Calendar (p.31) as my favourite – a fun compendium of historical musings. And then of course there’s the Bloomsbury Group association with Lytton Strachey, with his simple but delightful bookplate by the artist Dora Carrington, who adored him.’
Karin Scherer Probably the most experienced Bookseller in London, Karin works on our shop floor, as well as taking care of a select few longstanding subscribers. Her Christmas Highlight: ‘For me it has to be The Offing by Benjamin Myers (p.14); one of the most inspirational, life-affirming, whetting-yourappetite-for-literature-and-poetry books I have read in a long time.’
Faye Keegan Like Eleanor, Faye is a Personal Bookseller on our Subscriptions Team. She also runs our social media, and puts together our irregular email newsletter. Her Christmas Highlight: ‘I am obsessed with the Mrs Dalloway Manuscript Facsimile (p.28). To be able to get up close to Woolf’s handwriting, her corrections and indentations, is amazing. Also her choice of purple ink is characteristically fabulous.’ www.heywoodhill.com
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone £35.00 The third volume of Charles Moore’s definitive biography details Thatcher’s final period of office, her combative retirement, and the controversy that continued to surround her even in death. With unique access to Thatcher herself, as well as her papers and closest associates, Moore’s is an intimate portrait, both personal and political, of The Iron Lady.
Jung Chang Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China £25.00 China’s answer to our own Mitfords, the Soong sisters were at the heart of twentieth-century Chinese society. By turns intimate and epic, this group biography examines how, despite diametrically opposing political beliefs, the three sisters remained close throughout their lives, and how each left their own indelible mark on their country’s history.
A. N. Wilson Prince Albert: The Man who Saved the Monarchy £25.00 Whilst for most the spirit of the Victorian Age is embodied by the queen for whom it is named, this new biography from one of our most eminent popular historians offers an alternative perspective. A. N. Wilson argues that it was Prince Albert, not his wife, who was the key influencer and architect of the era.
Stuart Wheeler Winning Against the Odds: My Life in Gambling and Politics £20.00 The fascinating story of a fascinating man, Winning Against the Odds encompasses high-stakes gambling, city finance, and political intrigue. Prominent Brexiteer, inventor of the spread bet, and supplier of the largest political donation on record in the UK, Stuart Wheeler is a character who shall surely go down in history as a true British eccentric.
Alison Light A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation £20.00 In this luminous memoir of love and loss, writer and critic Alison Light details her relationship with the radical social historian Raphael Samuel, their marriage, and her life after his death. Light’s frank and touching account celebrates the capacity we all have to share our lives, and to change our selves. 4
Olivia Potts A Half Baked Idea: How Grief, Love and Cake took me from the Courtroom to Le Cordon Bleu £14.99 When her mother died, Olivia Potts was working long hours as a criminal barrister. To deal with her bereavement she escaped to her kitchen, and what began as a distraction from grief soon turned into the roadmap for a life beyond it. Interspersed with recipes, this is a hilarious and heart-breaking memoir about love, loss, and really great cake.
Amrou Al-Kadhi Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen £16.99 Incisive, insightful, and inimitable, Unicorn tracks its author’s journey from god-fearing Muslim boy to outspoken drag queen. Including time spent at Eton College and Cambridge University, Amrou Al-Kadhi relates their experience with wit and warmth. This is a story of identity, of family, of queerness, and, ultimately, of belonging.
Julian Barnes The Man in the Red Coat £18.99 Samuel Pozzi was a pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker who was also the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. Set against the glittering backdrop of Belle Epoque Paris, this new biography from the Man Booker winning Julian Barnes is witty, richly detailed, and impeccably researched.
Annabel Venning To War with the Walkers £20.00 As told by their granddaughter and great-niece, this is the remarkable story of six siblings, variously swept along by the momentous events of the Second World War. From London, to Italy, to Burma, to Singapore, To War with the Walkers demonstrates the extraordinary struggle for survival faced by ordinary men and women throughout the war.
Leo McKinstry Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace £25.00 Using extensive research and archival material, Attlee and sheds new light on one of the most remarkable political relationships in British history. In a gripping narrative, Leo McKinstry skilfully details their peacetime rivalry, their wartime alliance, and their later-life letter-writing, brilliantly bringing to life this vibrant and traumatic era of modern British history.
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HISTORY
William Dalrymple The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company £30.00 In his most ambitious work to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company in the wake of the British Empire. The Anarchy demonstrates how, in the guise of a multinational business, this unregulated private company functioned as a dangerously aggressive colonial power.
D. J. Taylor Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature, 1939-51 £25.00 Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton and Janetta Parlade: these four forgotten figures of the Blitz-era London literary scene are the subject of this latest volume from writer and critic D. J. Taylor. Bright, beautiful and bohemian, they associated with figures such as Cyril Connolly, Lucian Freud, Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford.
Colin Grant Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation £18.99 Drawing on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings, and memoirs, Colin Grant tells the story of the pioneering men and women who travelled to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and early 1960s. Brilliantly illuminating an essential and much misunderstood chapter of British history, Homecoming offers an unforgettable portrait of a generation.
Max Hastings Chastise: The Dambusters Story, 1943 £25.00 Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 617 Squadron, has become part of Britain’s national legend. In this dramatic reframing of a familiar story, renowned military historian Max Hastings sets the Dams Raid within its wider context of the bomber offensive and the Second World War.
Diana Preston Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World £25.00 In the final winter of the Second World War, three worldleaders met to decide the future of the world. Diana Preston converts what might be dry diplomacy into highoctane historical drama in this meticulously researched and brilliantly related account of the conversations that led to the imposition of Communism throughout Eastern Europe. 6
Julie Peakman Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires £25.00 Taking in five hundred years of empire-building all over the globe, and including debauched clerics and hog-sodomizing pilgrims, sexually fluid cannibals and homosexual samurai, Licentious Worlds tracks the history of sexual attitudes and behaviours, and how these intersected with the exploitation of women and minority groups.
Dominic Sandbrook Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 £35.00 A vivid and entertaining examination of some of the most controversial years in recent British history. Acclaimed modern historian Dominic Sandbrook’s exploration of the early 1980s, a decisive turning-point in our national story, is vivid, surprising, and gloriously entertaining.
Dan Jones Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands £25.00 Bestselling author of The Templars Dan Jones demonstrates his trademark combination of authoritative scholarship and expert storytelling in this gripping, page-turning work of popular history, this time turning his attention to the medieval religious wars which have left an enduring imprint on global relations.
Peter Hennessy Winds of Change: Britain in the Sixties £30.00 The early 1960s were a period of immense change and uncertainty in Britain: the uneasy peace of the Cold War, the Great Train Robbery, a changing relationship with Europe. In this wonderfully vivid new history, Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy.
Caroline Moorehead A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism £20.00 Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of men and women throughout occupied Italy rose up and fought to liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four such young women, who joined the Resistance and lived clandestinely in the mountains surrounding Turin. This is their story. www.heywoodhill.com
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Steve Richards The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May £20.00 Based on unprecedented access and in-depth interviews, this landmark publication from Westminster stalwart Steve Richards brilliantly brings to life the nine men and women who have served as British prime minister over the last fifty years, shining a light on their successes and failures, and what makes each of them stand out.
David Cameron For the Record £25.00 For the first time since 2016’s controversial EU referendum, former prime minister David Cameron speaks out about his decision to call the vote, the campaign that followed, and his view of it all today. He also discusses, with searing honesty, his time in parliament, as well as opening up about his home life.
Nesrine Malik We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent £16.99 Has freedom of speech become a cover for promoting prejudice? Has the concept of political correctness been weaponised to avoid ceding space to those excluded from power? In this bold and urgent examination of contemporary prejudice, Nesrine Malik undermines the assumptions that shape our society, and challenges us to find new stories with which to frame it.
Andrew Roberts Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History £25.00 Combining meticulous research with compelling storytelling, Leadership in War examines nine major figures from modern history – including Churchill, Thatcher, and Hitler. Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the wars their various nations were embroiled in. Both inspiring and cautionary, these portraits offer important lessons on leadership in times of struggle.
Jack Shenker Now We Have Your attention: The New Politics of the People £16.99 From far-right bloggers in Newcastle, to climate crisis campaigners in Brighton, Now We Have Your Attention takes its cue from the grass-roots of contemporary politics to illustrate how disillusionment with Westminster is fuelling a passionate engagement with politics of a completely different kind: local, personal, effective and utterly fearless.
Wherever fascism has taken root, it has met with resistance. In this spellbinding new collection, the Reverend Fergus ButlerGallie, bestselling author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, presents fifteen men and women who dared to stand up to fascism, proving that some hearts will never be conquered. Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild?
Hossein Kamaly A History of Islam in 21 Women £16.99 Encompassing times and places throughout history and across the globe, A History of Islam in 21 Women celebrates the lives and groundbreaking achievements of the extraordinary women in the history of Islam, from the first believer, Khadija, and the other women who witnessed the formative years of Islam, to award-winning architect Zaha Hadid in the twenty-first century.
Jonathan Safran Foer We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast £16.99 Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival; but perhaps by changing what we eat for breakfast, we might just be able to keep it at bay. With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents the essential debate of our time as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life.
Tom Holland Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind £25.00 In this ambitious and intriguing tome, Tom Holland argues that the emergence of Christianity was the single most transformative development in Western history. Dominion demonstrates the enduring impact of Christianity on patterns of western thought throughout history, including in areas traditionally viewed as its antithesis: science, secularism, and even atheism.
Bill Bryson The Body: A Guide for Occupants £25.00 Much-loved writer Bill Bryson returns with this thought-provoking and funny exploration of the human body; how it functions, and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body is a highly entertaining attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.
SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie Priests de la Resistance!: The Loose Canons who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century £20.00
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TRAVEL & NATURE WRITING
Taran Khan Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul £14.99 When Taran Khan travels to Kabul, the land of her forbears, she discovers a fragile city in a state of flux, governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living. Her account of this journey is filled with unique insights about the meaning of home and the haunting power of loss and absence.
Peter Fiennes Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers £16.99 What better way to travel than in the company of Britain’s finest writers? In Footnotes, Peter Fiennes does just that: inspired by the likes of Charles Dickens, J. B Priestly, and Beryl Bainbridge, he embarks on a quest, touring the country in an attempt to understand it through the books, journals and diaries left by these brilliant authors.
Hisham Matar A Month in Siena £12.99 As a grieving teenager, Hisham Matar found hope in the work of the great artists of Siena. A Month in Siena is the encounter, twenty-five years later, between the writer and the city he had worshipped from afar. It is a dazzling evocation of an extraordinary place and its effect on the writer’s life.
Tiffany Francis Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night £16.99 Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia. In Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis travels around Britain and Europe exploring nocturnal landscapes, from the Northern Lights to the Midnight Sun, investigating how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art and literature.
Paul Theroux On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip £20.00 Beginning in Nogales, a Mexico-US border town with a forty-foot steel fence running through its centre, the master of contemporary travel writing Paul Theroux immerses himself in the beautiful and culturally rich yet troubled heart of modern Mexico. On the Plain of Snakes is an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict.
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Following the immense success of The Poetry Pharmacy, William Sieghart returns with further poetic prescriptions, all accompanied by his warm and witty meditations on the spiritual ailments he seeks to cure. From ageing bodies and existential crises to long-distance relationships and embracing slovenliness, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns caters to all-new conditions while drilling further down into the universals.
John Burnside The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century £25.00 Our collective memory of the twentieth century is irreversibly shaped by the poets who lived and wrote in it. In this major work of scholarship, the acclaimed poet, author and academic John Burnside brings together poets from throughout the century and across the globe, bearing witness to the transformative beauty and power of poetry.
Rachel Cusk Coventry £14.99 From acclaimed novelist Rachel Cusk, this collection of essays, encompassing memoir, cultural and literary criticism, offers new insight into the themes at the heart of its author’s fiction. With pieces on gender, politics, and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this is essential reading for any lover of literature.
Ella Risbridger (ed.) Set Me On Fire: A Poem for Every Feeling £14.99 Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too.
Christina Hardyment Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings £25.00
POETRY & LITERARY CRITISM
William Sieghart The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope £12.99
Novel Houses visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Wuthering Heights, each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it.
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A Year in Books
B esp oke B o ok Sub s c r ipt ions A Year in Books is the most personalised book subscription service in the world, and makes the perfect Christmas present for bookworms everywhere; whether for your spouse, your child, your parent, friend, host or colleague, this versatile gift continues to provide bookish joy the whole year through. Our dedicated team of bibliophiles read over 500 books a year, and are experts at helping readers find the books that are just right for them. They act as personal booksellers to our subscribers, individually choosing books to suit them each month. Prices start at £125. You can choose whether books are paperback, hardback, or a mix of both, and whether they are sent every month, every other month, or every quarter. Whatever way you choose, they will always arrive with a beautiful bookmark designed exclusively for us by Cressida Bell, and wrapped in our trademark brown paper and blue ribbon.
Wh at our custom er s say : “Every month, I am delighted by how your selections consistently align to my tastes while still managing to expand my horizons.” “Truly one of the best gifts I’ve ever received.” “The most perfect and personal gift.” “I have enjoyed the selections so much and came to anticipate the package arriving each month.”
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R E A D I N G CO N SU LTAT I O N The welcome letter will invite the lucky recipient to tell us what sort of books they would like to receive. They can either do this online, over the phone, or come and meet their personal bookseller in the shop.
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A personal bookseller will choose books especially to suit the individual tastes of your friend, colleague or dear one, and send them to their door in our beautiful trademark wrapping.
T H E B E ST B I T Throughout the year, the person to whom you have given this gift will build up a collection of brilliant books they might not otherwise have found. Their reading life will be enriched, and they will think of you every time they receive their new book.
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Romesh Gunesekera Suncatcher £16.99
1964 Ceylon, is a poignant coming-of-age story about difficult friendships and sudden awakenings. Teenage Kairo is bored in the sweltering school summer holidays – until he meets the rebellious and magnetic Jay. Told in taut and luminous prose, this is a mesmerising story of the loss of innocence, and the price of privilege. Suncatcher
Emma Forrest Royals £12.99 Set amidst the gritty glitz and glamour of the 1980s London fashion scene, Royals is the love story of unlikely friends from completely different worlds: shy, uncertain, working-class Steven, and bold, anarchic aristocrat Jasmine. Emma Forrest’s prose is pithy and poetic in its exploration of friendship, family, art, and finding out who you really are.
Margaret Atwood The Testaments £20.00 Perhaps the most hotly anticipated publication of the year, Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to her seminal 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale picks up the story fifteen years later, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from the terrifying fundamentalist theonomy, Gilead. Already shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this is Atwood at the height of her cultural relevance.
Benjamin Myers The Offing £16.99 Evocatively set on the post-war Yorkshire coast, The Offing is a tender and timely story of cross-generational friendship: when sixteenyear-old Robert meets the eccentric and artistic Dulcie, both of their lives are changed forever. Benjamin Myers’ expertise at conjuring a distinct sense of place shines through in this warming tale of art, love, and the importance of human connection. 14
Robert Harris The Second Sleep Set on Exmoor in 1468, £20.00
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is an intriguing, intelligent, and surprising novel from the author of last year’s bestselling Munich. As young priest Christopher Fairfax is drawn deeper and deeper into an isolated village community, everything he believes – about himself, his faith and the history of his world – is tested to destruction. Second Sleep
Tracy Chevalier A Single Thread £14.99 Mourning the loss of her fiancé and brother after the Great War, Violet begins a new life in Winchester, where she falls in with the broderers, a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral. Tracy Chevalier’s subtle emotional insight and precise historical detail combine in this beautiful story, expertly told.
Salman Rushdie Quichotte £20.00 Simultaneously an homage to Cervantes’ classic Don Quixote and a contemporary masterpiece in its own right, the latest work from Booker Prizewinning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie is a dazzling and imaginative tour-de-force about the modern quest for love and family, and the so often blurred line between fact and fiction.
James Meek To Calais, In Ordinary Time £18.99 To Calais, In Ordinary Time summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien and eerily reflective of our own. Set in 1348, the novel follows three travellers on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death. Imaginative, complex and compelling, this is intelligent historical fiction at its best.
Jessie Burton The Confession £16.99 From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist, The is an engrossing and emotionally complex story of secrets, storytelling, motherhood and friendship. Set in the 1980s and the 2010s, the novel follows three brilliantly drawn female characters between London, California, New York and Mexico.
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Edna O’Brien girl £16.99 Captured, abducted, and forced into marriage, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Inspired by the schoolgirl kidnappings committed by Boko Haram and built from Edna O’Brien’s on-theground research in Nigeria, Girl is a harrowing but necessary tale for our modern age. www.heywoodhill.com 1 5
CRIME & THRILLER
John le Carré Agent Running in the Field £20.00 A new John le Carré novel is always a matter of great excitement for us here at Heywood Hill, and this latest offering does not disappoint. Set in contemporary London, Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time. By turns heart-breaking and darkly humorous, and relayed with unflagging tension, it once more confirms its author’s status as master of the modern spy novel.
JP Delaney The Perfect Wife £12.99 JP Delaney is the unsung hero of the modern psychological thriller. The Perfect Wife is a highly original blend of speculative fiction and domestic noir, which is simultaneously addictively entertaining and searingly intellectual. This rollercoaster of a novel asks increasingly prescient questions about love, power, and the nature of humanity.
Alan Furst Under Occupation £20.00 Set in occupied Paris in 1942, Alan Furst’s latest espionage thriller is masterfully suspenseful. The novel follows Paul Ricard, who, after a chance encounter with a dying man, is drawn deeper and deeper into the French resistance network.
Laura Purcell Bone China £12.99 Surely Daphne du Maurier’s natural heir, Laura Purcell is fast becoming the contemporary queen of gothic fiction. Set on the atmospheric Cornish coast, Bone China features mysterious illness, superstitious ritual, and family secrets. This is an intricate and chilling novel perfect for those cold winter nights.
Jessica Fellowes The Mitford Scandal £14.99 Truly an elevation of the ‘cosy crime’ genre, Jessica Fellowes’ reimaginings of the Mitford sisters as amateur sleuths are entirely delightful. This latest instalment in the series focuses on Diana Mitford, newly married to Bryan Guinness, as she hotfoots it around Europe – only to become embroiled in a case of murder…
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A Year in Books For C hi l dre n
We love choosing books for children. We think that children are often the most discerning readers, whilst also being the most open to exploring new stories and ideas. We love choosing books for precocious youngsters who read above their expected level (just like we did at that age!), and know all the best books that are complex enough in their language, but exciting and relevant enough in their content to keep bright young minds entertained. We don’t only cater to bookworms, though: we help children of all reading levels find books they love, and firmly believe that there are books to suit every child, even the most reluctant readers.
We are very pleased indeed, then, to present the newly updated A Year in Books for Children. Charmingly illustrated by LA-based artist Lara Apponyi, the children’s welcome letter now unfolds into an A3sized poster, featuring a beautiful ‘Reading Tree’ on which young readers can record their thoughts about all the books they receive, helping them reflect on their tastes, and find out what sort of reader they might grow up to be…
For more detail on how A Year in Books works, see page 12.
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CHILDREN’S AGES 0-4
Emma Chichester Clark All You Need is Love £11.99 Plum loves chasing her friends around the park - but when new dogs try to join in, she isn’t so sure. In this heartwarming tale, Plum learns what it really means to be a friend and how much fun new ones can be - especially when you give them a chance.
Pip Jones, Sara Ogilvie Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention £12.99 While their fellow contestants at the Invention Convention are intent on making shiny new things using old power, can Izzy and Fixer build a recycling machine fuelled by nature? A joyful celebration of the magic of makedo-and-mend.
Lupita Nyong’o, Vashti Harrison Sulwe £12.99
John Burningham Mr Gumpy’s Rhino £12.99 Mr Gumpy is off on an adventure! This time he’s rescuing a rhino who’s lost its parents... But growing rhinos needs lots of food. Will Charlie the rhino and Mr Gumpy manage to make a happy home together? A madcap adventure for children, adults and rhinos alike.
AGES 5-8
A powerful and moving picture book about colourism, self-esteem, and learning that true beauty comes from within. A magical journey through the night sky opens Sulwe’s eyes to her own beauty and changes everything.
Santa Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montifiore Royal Rabbits of London: The Hunt for the Golden Carrot £12.99 According to ancient legend, the Golden Carrot bestows power over all animals and humans. A mysterious bunny called Harlequin believes it’s buried somewhere on the farm. Can the Royal Rabbits stop power-mad Harlequin? And who will find the Carrot first? 20
Sophie Dahl, Lauren O’Hara Madame Badobedah £12.99 A timeless story celebrating friendship and imagination. Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea, where she likes to keep an eye on the guests’ comings and goings. Then one day a particularly in-ter-est-ing old lady comes to stay...
AGES 8-12
Hena Khan More to the Story £12.99 From the critically acclaimed author of Amina’s Voice comes a new story inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, featuring four sisters from a modern American Muslim family living in Georgia.
Sally Gardner Invisible in a Bright Light £10.99 It is 1870: opening night at the Royal Opera House in a freezing city by the sea. Celeste, a theatre rat, wakes up in a costume basket from what she hopes is a bad dream, to find that everyone at the theatre where she works thinks she is someone else.
Philip Pullman The Secret Commonwealth £20.00
P. G. Bell The Great Brain Robbery £12.99 Welcome to the Impossible Places, where there’s fuzzics instead of physics, adventure meets magic, and the journey never, ever takes you where you expect to go.
AGES 12+
The second volume of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed.
Tomi Adeyemi Children of Virtue and Vengeance £12.99 Zelie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orisha. But with civil war looming on the horizon, Zelie reaches breaking point: she must find a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orisha tears itself apart.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Deathless Girls £12.99 Gothic, intoxicating, feminist and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. www.heywoodhill.com 2 1
FORMED COLLECTIONS We sell collections of books on behalf of their owners. Heywood Hill’s Formed Collections department handles these transactions and is led by Nicky Dunne. Book collectors are intriguing; serious book collecting takes time, money and sustained effort over many years. Collectors are devoted to their subjects and the books which reflect their interest and sympathies. When a book collector, or their heirs, decide it is time to sell, they often wish to see their collection kept together and for it to find a new home intact. This is where our Formed Collections Department can help. If a collection meets our criteria in terms of quality, marketability, and value we take it on consignment. We then identify and approach potential buyers, both private and institutional. What sets Heywood Hill apart is our campaigning approach, an exceptional network, and our track record.
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The pursuit of a sustainable future is one we fully endorse. As such, we are very pleased indeed to present the inaugural Heywood Hill Tote Bag. Featuring a beautiful bespoke design by the London artist Cressida Bell, screen-printed onto 100% organic cotton, this bag is produced entirely in the UK. So, as well as helping you cut down on plastic, it also has a much smaller carbon footprint than bags produced overseas. Priced at £19.99, it is available to buy in the shop, or from our website. Just the thing for carrying home your Christmas shopping…
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
THE HH TOTE BAG
If you would like to find out more please contact Nicky Dunne at nicky@heywoodhill.com. A number of our longstanding customers have personal accounts with us, which are paid for via monthly direct debit. In some cases, customers will set up an account to pay for themselves, but in someone else’s name; for example, their god- or grand-child. In doing so, they are opening the door to a lifetime of reading. To find out more about Personal Accounts, please contact jana@heywoodhill.com.
Demand for our exceptional tailored service is growing. This year we created a dedicated Library Department to take even greater care of our individual and corporate clients. Our dynamic duo – Zoe Dickey (Head of Libraries) and Nicole Mansour (Rare Books Specialist and Senior Bookseller) – work closely with our clients through every step of the project, from the initial discussion and proposal to delivery and installation. ‘I am going to get years and years of enjoyment from these books and I cannot thank you enough. I am overwhelmed at how perfect the selection is.’ - Private Client
LIBRARIES
Since 1936 Heywood Hill has helped readers and collectors assemble or enhance libraries all over the world, on every subject under the sun.
We are the best at what we do. Our libraries are coherent, stylish and original. We work discreetly and efficiently, and always deliver every project on time and on budget. We are currently scheduling projects for 2020 and beyond. If you have a project you would like Heywood Hill to help with – be it a shelf of well-chosen books to a room full of interesting and beautiful titles – please contact zoe@heywoodhill.com, call 0207 629 0647, or come and visit us at our Mayfair bookshop.
‘The tiny London shop behind some of the very best libraries’ - The New York Times
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ART & ARCHITECTURE
Susie Green Dogs in Art £25.00 Through a wide range of genres, fashions and cultures, this book brings together more than 200 images to tell the story of dogs in art from ancient times to the present. Including artists such as Hogarth, William Wegman and Lucian Freud, this beautifully illustrated volume offers a dynamic new perspective on our relationship with this much cherished animal.
Jeremy Musson Henbury: An Extraordinary House £50.00 Described by James Lees-Milne as ‘a triumph’, Henbury Hall in Cheshire rises from the rolling contours of its ancient parkland as a Palladian masterpiece of symmetry, elegance and simplicity. In this book, celebrated architectural historian Jeremy Musson tells the story of how the house came to be created by Sebastian de Ferranti, and the various talented craftspeople he brought together.
Carolyn Trant Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties £24.95 On this journey through a fascinating period of social change, artist Carolyn Trant fills in some of the gaps in traditional art histories. Introducing the lives and works of a rich network of neglected women artists, Voyaging Out sets these alongside such renowned presences as Barbara Hepworth, Laura Knight and Winifred Nicholson, weaving devastating individual stories with playful critique.
Simon Callow, Derry Moore London’s Great Theatres £29.99 This richly illustrated book features witty and engaging text by actor Simon Callow, whilst prominent photographer Derry Moore captures the theatres from every angle. From the West End to the South Bank, Westminster to Hackney, the theatres profiled here come to life in ways we rarely see, when the seats are empty and the stages silent.
Umberto Eco On the Shoulders of Giants £30.00 Umberto Eco was one of the most influential and entertaining intellectuals of the last century. This is his final collection of essays, on the subjects of art and culture. Accompanied by beautiful reproductions of the art under discussion, these wide-ranging pieces explore the roots of our civilization, changing ideas of beauty, and our obsession with conspiracies, amongst other fascinating topics. 24
Jan Marsh et al. Pre-Raphaelite Sisters £35.00 In conjunction with a major exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery, this book investigates the lives and work of the women associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some were models, plucked from obscurity to pose for paintings. Several were artists themselves, with aspirations to match those of the men, sharing the same artistic and social networks yet condemned by their gender to occupy a separate sphere.
Jennifer Scott, Helen Hillyard Rembrandt’s Light £35.00 Published to coincide with an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and the celebrations taking place throughout Europe to mark 350 years since the artist’s death, Rembrandt’s Light aims to refresh the way we look at works by this incomparable Dutch Master. The book brings together paintings, etchings and drawings that focus on Rembrandt’s mastery of visual storytelling through light.
Graham Marsh, Simon Whittle Ronnie Scott’s 1959-69: Photographs by Freddy Warren £29.95 Freddy Warren began photographing celebrated jazz club Ronnie Scott’s when it was still a construction site, and went on to photograph every major happening there for more than ten years. This volume, published to celebrate the club’s 60th anniversary, is the first time Warren’s vast archive of jazz photos has been accessed; nearly all the images included in this publication were previously unseen.
Joanna Carey Judith Kerr £18.95 An overview of the life and work of much-loved children’s illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea, who sadly died this year. A thoughtful and intimate portrait, this is not only a celebration of Kerr’s books, but a record of the hard work, development and serious intent behind it.
Martin Gayford The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations £16.95 Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world, both to see works of art and to meet artists. Entertaining and informative, The Pursuit of Art details his most memorable expeditions, including trips to see Brancusi’s Endless Column in Romania and prehistoric cave art in France, and visits to artists such as Robert Rauschenberg in New York, and Marina Abramovic in Venice. www.heywoodhill.com 2 5
FASHION & INTERIOR DESIGN
Ashley Hicks Rooms with A History: Interiors and their Inspirations This delectable volume tracks £45.00 the personal creative journey of celebrated interior designer Ashley Hicks, revealing his creative process, his inspirations, and his approach to different themes. Including images of Hicks’ own work, as well as some of his favourite historical interiors and objects, this book would make the perfect gift for any interiors enthusiast.
Rebecca C. Tuite 1950s Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962 £65.00 It was under editor-in-chief Jessica Daves that American Vogue catapulted itself into modernity, embracing a ‘high/low’ blend of fashion, and introducing world-renowned artists, literary greats, and cultural icons into every issue. This gorgeously produced paperback volume comes elegantly presented in a stylish slipcase, and features carefully curated photographs, illustrations, and page-spreads from the Vogue archives.
Lisa Fine Near & Far £50.00 In Near & Far the founder of Lisa Fine Textiles invites readers into her beautiful homes in Dallas, New York, and Paris, and revisits some of the places and people who have been her greatest sources of inspiration. Not only does the book provide a veritable treasure trove of design ideas, it also offers advice for anyone interested in giving full expression to their personal style.
John Goodall English House Style: from the Archives of Country Life £55.00 English House Style provides a fascinating insight into the development of sixteen seminal interior styles found in English country homes which have helped shape the way we understand design today. The evolution of each style is illustrated with lavish photography taken from the rich archive of Country Life, including images of Chatsworth, Castle Howard, and Strawberry Hill, amongst others.
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Robert Fairer John Galliano for Dior £98.00 John Galliano’s creations for the
house of Dior have entered fashion history. This is the first publication entirely dedicated to showcasing these unforgettable designs. Robert Fairer’s stunning and high-energy photographs convey the drama, glamour and wild imagination that defined Galliano’s Dior shows. A treasure trove of inspiration, this is a must-have reference for fashion and photography lovers alike.
Vividly documented through unpublished photographs, painted portraits, and the artists own words, this breathtaking visual biography examines the life of Lucian Freud. Freud was one of the most important and influential artists of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and this beautifully produced volume provides an unprecedented look at his private life, from childhood snapshots to rarely seen photographs made in his studio during his last weeks of life. An unmissable addition to the library of anyone with a serious interest in art.
Tom Stevenson, Essi Avellan Christie’s World Encyclopaedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine £200.00
SPECIAL BOOKS
Mark Holborn (Ed.) Lucian Freud: A Life £150.00
Enriched with new photography and maps, multiaward winning wine writer Tom Stevenson’s original work is fully updated and significantly extended in this beautiful new edition of the classic reference guide. More than 2,000 producers from around the world are rated on a 100-point global scale with an in-depth analysis of their history, method of production and style of wine. This extraordinary work takes you to five continents and to all the countries where serious sparkling wine is produced.
Martin Kemp, Fabio Scaletti Leonardo 500 £400.00 We are delighted to be the exclusive booksellers in the UK and US for this landmark publication. Limited to 750 copies, with only 400 printed in English, this handsome leatherbound volume includes 160 stunning, highquality images of Leonardo’s work. Lovingly produced and wonderfully crafted, the book breathes new life into the unmissable mind and work of this outstanding and multifaceted artist. It is an essential addition to art scholarship and to the homes of art lovers, both new and well-versed.
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SPECIAL BOOKS
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway: Manuscript Facsimile £199.00 Introduced by two essays, one from Virginia Woolf expert Helen Wussow, the other by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham, this is the first ever reproduction of the manuscript of Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, Mrs Dalloway. It offers a rare insight into Woolf’s creative process, showing her deletions, her corrections, and the fluctuating intensity of the purple ink she favoured. This gorgeous volume, which comes in a matching green slipcase, is therefore an important purchase for anyone with an interest in the development of the English novel in the twentieth century.
The Faber Icons Complete Set £100.00 In celebration of their 90th birthday, renowned British publishers Faber & Faber are releasing a special series of ten of their most iconic poetry collections (one for each decade of publishing). With distinctive new covers and endpapers commissioned from a range of renowned printmakers, textile designers and pattern-makers, they represent the strength and richness of Faber’s poetry heritage, and include collections by T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Wendy Copy, amongst others.
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Ben Tibbetts Alpenglow £50.00 takes the reader through a journey of personal adventure, immersive art and breathtaking scenery. Whether you are a lover of mountain landscapes, an aspiring alpinist, or already a veteran of many adventures, this book will provide a wealth of original and inspiring material to help with planning future excursions or simply immersing yourself in the beauty of the high mountains.
Alpenglow
Quentin Blake, Will Self Moonlight Travellers £195.00 A large-format, signed Collector’s Edition of this literary and artistic meditation on the theme of night travel from two of our greatest contemporary creative talents. A unique collaboration, this book brings Quentin Blake’s macabre wit into dialogue with the imaginative insight of Will Self. With characteristic sharpness, Self mingles fiction, fact and flights of memory to transport the reader on a radical tour of Blake’s mysterious lands.
Douglas Percy Bliss While Daddy’s Away at War: Poems and Pictures Sent to His Daughters £90.00 When Douglas Percy Bliss went away to do his wartime service, he made for each of his daughters, Prudence and Rosalind, a little album of handwritten poems by authors such as Walter de la Mare, Robert Louis Stevenson and Frances Cornford. Every poem was illustrated delightfully with wit and humour. Here, these albums are reproduced in a facsimile volume, with 4 tipped-in illustrations and a short letterpress introduction by the ladies for whom the anthologies were created in1941 and 1945.
Tim Walker Shoot for the Moon (Special Limited Edition) £1000.00 Delving deep into the art and mind of one of the most exciting and original fashion photographers working today, Shoot for the Moon showcases the gamut of Walker’s weird, wild wonderlands. This special edition is limited to 250 copies, and includes a signed archival photographic print, and 16 extra acetate gels. Its cover is screen-printed metallic ink on black paper.
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RARE BOOKS
We are pleased to include a small selection of items from our Rare Books department which are available to purchase in time for Christmas. You can see what other treasures we have to hand by paying us a visit in the Curzon Street shop. If you are looking for a particular rare book or print, please don’t hesitate to contact us at rarebooks@heywoodhill.com.
Edward Ardizzone Tim and Lucy Go to Sea £195.00 A First Edition from Edward Ardizzone’s muchloved classic series of children’s stories featuring Little Tim. Tim and Lucy Go to Sea was published in 1938, and follows Tim and his new friends Lucy and Mr Grimes as they set out to sea, only to fall into the clutches of villainous mutineers. This copy includes folio original pictorial boards (without dust wrapper), and has a little rubbing to the extremities, but otherwise is in very good condition.
Jane Austen Works: The Novels and Letters £995.00 The Winchester Edition of Jane Austen’s complete works, published in Edinburgh in 1911, edited by R. Brimley Johnson and with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Each of the 21 8vo volumes is in its original blue cloth with gilt titles and foliate decoration to the spines, top edges gilt, and others uncut. The titles are printed in red and black. This very good set includes a frontispiece portrait of Jane Austen to volume one.
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John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman £5,995.00 One of 25 numbered, specially-bound ‘Film Edition’ copies to commemorate the making of the 1981 movie adaptation. This is copy No. 5, and is signed by John Fowles, Harold Pinter, Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, producer Leon Clore, art director Assheton Gorton, and photographer Freddie Francis. The volume is handsomely bound in full single gilt line panelled burgundy morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, with marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. It is presented as new in publisher’s slipcase.
Mrs Henry Head The Weather Calendar Year £195.00 This 1917 First Edition constitutes a record of the weather for every day of the year. 8vo., its original cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper board, it has a little light soiling and some browning to the free endpapers, but is otherwise a very good copy. However, its real interest is in the fact that it belonged to Lytton Strachey, and contains the small bookplate designed for him by artist Dora Carrington.
William Shakespeare The Works of William Shakespeare £195.00 A handsome single-volume Complete Works of Shakespeare, newly printed for the Shakespeare Head Press in 1934. This stout 8vo. is bound in full tan morocco, with gilt lettering on the spine, and all edges gilt. There is a light stain to the edge of the first few leaves; otherwise, this is a very good copy. www.heywoodhill.com 3 1
RARE BOOKS
J. P. Sayer A Map of the Strand from Trafalgar Square to Aldwych £95.00 J. P. Sayer was a British artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He is best remembered for the posters that he designed for the Great Western Railway Company in the interwar years. This charming pictorial map was designed for The Strand Magazine in 1947. A colour lithograph, the sheet is 200 x 275 mm (8 x 10¾ ins.).
Stowe Park [Print] £75.00 This chromoxylographic print is from F. O. Morris’ The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland , published in London c.1880. The sheet is 225 x 290 mm (9 x 11½ ins.). Formerly the country seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, Stowe Park in Buckinghamshire has been home to the independent Stowe School since 1923.
Sylvia Plath Winter Trees £175.00 This slim 8vo. is complete with publisher’s blue cloth and dust jacket. There is some toning to the rear jacket panel, and a couple of spots of foxing to the page block edge, but overall this is a very good copy. Published posthumously by Faber and Faber in 1971, Winter Trees was that year made The Poetry Book Society’s Choice for Autumn.
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Christopher Hibbert Victoria £395.00 This 1979 First Edition was the author’s own personal copy, especially bound for him – in full burgundy crushed morocco – by Zaehnsdorf in London. The volume also includes his bookplate, and has the original dust jacket bound in at the rear. A small 4to, the volume is profusely illustrated in colour and black & white, and the inner dentelles are elaborately gilt. The corners are a little bumped, and there are a few scuffs to the cover, but otherwise this is a near fine copy.
P. G. Wodehouse The World of Jeeves £7,500.00 Ira Gershwin’s personal, First Edition copy of The World of Jeeves. 8vo., it comes in its original cloth with dust wrapper. There is a little wrinkling to head of spine of wrapper, which has a small closed tear to front panel, but otherwise this is a very good copy. The volume is inscribed to Gershin by its author: “To Ira my favourite lyricist and author of my favourite book, from Plum/ P.G. Wodehouse Dec 27 1967”.
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G A R D E NS & G A R D E N I N G
Kathryn Bradley-Hole English Gardens: From the Archive of Country Life Magazine £55.00 Featuring a foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, this gorgeous volume provides an unprecedented in-depth look at the English country garden. Britain’s foremost garden writer, Kathryn Bradley-Hole, takes a fresh look at more than seventy gardens from across the country, in doing so distilling the essence of what makes the English garden style so sought after.
Catherine Horwood Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants £30.00 Beth Chatto was the most influential British plantswoman of the past hundred years, authoring many of the best-loved gardening books of the twentieth century. This fully authorised biography was composed with exclusive access to Chatto’s personal archive, and includes extracts from her notebooks and diaries never previously published.
Isabel Bannerman Scent Magic: Notes from a Gardener £30.00 At once romantic and extremely practical, Scent Magic immerses its reader in the luscious smells of the fragrant garden. Plantswoman, designer, and garden-maker extraordinaire Isabel Bannerman combines a warmly written account of her year’s gardening with an encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatic plants to grow throughout the changing seasons.
Tim Richardson Cambridge College Gardens £40.00 Featuring the most exquisite gardens in and around Cambridge’s colleges, this book combines brilliant research and elegant prose with stunning photography by Clive Boursnell. The gardens are as rich and varied as the colleges themselves, often set within stunning architecture, and include formal quadrangles, naturalistic planting, walled gardens, rooftop oases, productive plots and watermeadows. 34
Penelope Hobhouse, Ambra Edwards The Story of Gardening £35.00 This fully updated and revised edition of the gardening classic charts the fascinating evolution of gardening over thousands of years, in doing so bringing to life the world’s most beautiful and magnificent gardens. Unrivalled in its coverage, this exceptional book is guaranteed to appeal to gardening enthusiasts of all ages and levels of expertise.
SPORT & HOBBIES Henrietta Knight Starting from Scratch: Inspired to be a Jump Jockey £20.00
In her latest book on racing, Henrietta Knight - the three-time Gold Cup-winning trainer of the legendary Best Mate - speaks to more than 70 jump jockeys – including Sir Anthony McCoy, Ruby Walsh, and Richard Dunwoody – about what inspired them as children to take up one of the most dangerous jobs in sport.
Duncan Hamilton The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus £20.00 Neville Cardus popularised cricket during the interwar period, and changed sports journalism forever. Known for his exquisite phrase-making and disdain for statistics, Cardus was a star in his own right. However, as this richly evocative biography finds, his private life was far darker than his rhapsodic prose. The Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age.
Andrew Noakes 100 Years of Bentley £60.00 100 Years of Bentley is a lavish celebration of the company, from its earliest models right up to the modern-day cars. Featuring more than 200 pictures, many from the club’s archives and some never seen in print before, this beautiful book details the whole history of Bentley - from W.O. Bentley’s early days as a railway engineer, to the new era of electrification.
Mike Aylwin Unholy Union: When Rugby Collided with the Modern World £20.00 The last of the major sports to embrace professionalism, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the limit. Unholy Union is a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the sport, examining the journey so far and speculating on where it will go next. It is irreverent and provocative, asking uncomfortable questions of rugby, but imbued throughout with affection for the game.
Marie de Pellegar, Benoit Capdebarthes An Illustrated History of Equestrian Sports: Dressage, Jumping, Eventing £35.00 This entirely original book is replete with previously unpublished information about the sport, riveting stories, archival photographs and text, key facts and figures, and memorable anecdotes. Portraits of riders and some of the sport’s most remarkable horses complete the volume, which acts as a key and original point of reference and an essential addition to the collection of any equestrian lover. www.heywoodhill.com 3 5
FOOD & DRINK
Kate Young The Little Library Year: Recipes and Reading to Suit Each Season £25.00 The Little Library Year is the perfect gift for gourmands and bibliophiles alike. Highly original and entirely charming, it contains a mouth-watering selection of book-inspired recipes, illustrated with beautiful photography, and accompanied by seasonally inspired reading recommendations. Comfort food for the stomach and soul.
Nigel Slater Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter £22.00 The second in a pair of season-led vegetable books from beloved author and cook Nigel Slater, Greenfeast has over 110 gently sustaining recipes, including milk, mushrooms and rice - as comforting as a cashmere blanket - big soups like tahini, sesame and butternut, and crumbles made with leeks, tomato and pecorino. These spirit-lifting recipes are a varied and glorious celebration of simple, plant-based cooking.
Neil Ridley, Gavin D. Smith, David Wishart The World of Whisky: Taste, Try, and Enjoy Whiskies from Around the World £30.00 Whisky is the world’s favourite spirit and is enjoying booming sales, yet too often it’s shrouded in mystery, myth and complexsounding terminology. This authoritative book, written by three world experts, gives simple advice on how to seek out and enjoy the immense diversity of flavours and styles on offer, and how to become more adventurous.
Mirabel Guinness Biddesden Cookery £14.99 Charmingly illustrated by Roland Pym, this book is a compilation of recipes contributed by the whole Guinness family, ranging from the amateur to the professional and reflecting Biddesden life from the nursery tea to the dinner party. The book shows how best to enjoy the familiar ingredients of English country cooking.
Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson The World Atlas of Wine, 8th Edition £50.00 is recognized as the essential and most authoritative wine reference work available. This eighth edition will bring readers, both old and new, up to date with the world of wine: 22 new maps have been added, and the text has been given a complete overhaul to address the topics of most vital interest to today’s winegrowers and drinkers.
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