Casemate IPM Fall 2020 Catalog by Casemate Publishers Ltd

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FALL 2020

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Casemate IPM Welcome! In a year that defies description, we are nevertheless very excited to present our Fall 2020 IPM catalog to you. There are many wonderful books on these pages in a plethora of categories. For us the joy of working on the IPM books is that the list might not defy description, but it is ever evolving. From crafts to crime, fiction to fashion, religion to railroads, monsters, magic, and an author named Terry Pratchett, there is a book in here to meet every reader’s desire. This is a testament to the publishing clients we represent who are continually working to bring the best and most relevant books to you. It is an honor to work with so many creative and talented people. For our clients and all those who sell and purchase our books, we want to express our gratitude for the support and teamwork as we navigate the current climate while searching for the new normal. The challenges of 2020 have put the book business to the test and we are still here, still evolving, still meeting each obstacle as it appears, and still thankful for our colleagues around the world who continue to inspire us. Any questions, concerns or comments you may have are always welcome. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information. We still have customer service ready to take your call any day. We encourage you to Follow us on Twitter @CasemateIPM and/or Like and Follow us on Facebook. You can also sign up for our newsletter to learn about new releases. Thank you all for supporting Casemate and our clients! Sam Caggiula US Marketing & Publicity Director Tel: (610)-853-9131 Email: casemate@casematepublishers.com Website: www.casematepublishers.com

Dufour Editions

Eland Publishing

Fernhurst Books **

Fonthill Media

Gaudium **

George F Thompson Publishing

Gill Books

Golbal Collective Publishing

Green Bean Books

Grub Street Cookery**

Jantar Publishing

Histria Kids

Library of the Holocaust

Schreiber Publishing

Bartleby Press

Eshel Books

Kasva Press

Liberties Press

The Liffey Press

Medina Publishing

Mercier Press

Messenger Publications

Neem Tree Press

The O’Brien Press

Brandon 48

Table of Contents Addison & Highsmith

Arden 3 Arena Sport**

Banovallum 9 Bauhan Publishing

BC Books **

Birlinn **

Blackstaff Press

Canbury Press **

Colourpoint 16 Columba Books

Countryside Books

Papillote Press

Pen & Sword

Air World

Polaris** 66 Polygon** 67 Protea Boekhuis

Salmon Poetry

Sandstone Press

Somerville Press

Tempest 76 White Owl

Wordwell Books

Y Lolfa

Publishers marked above with ** are not available from Casemate Publishers in Canada Our front cover is taken from The Cairngorms: A Secret History, featured on page 14.

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Addison & Highsmith

Betrayal of a Republic

The Lost Diary of Anne Frank

Memoirs of a Roman Matrona

Johnny Teague $32.99 • Hardback • 200 pages 6 x 9 inches • November 2020 FIC014000 • 978-1-59-211055-1 Johnny Teague lives in Tombal, TX

Joost Douma $32.99 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9 inches • October 2020 • HIS002020 978-1-59-211062-9 • Joost Douma lives in New York, NY

Based on historical facts, Betrayal of a Republic: Memoirs of a Roman Matrona recounts the demise of the Roman Republic as seen through the eyes and reflections of Cornelia Africana, mother of the Gracchi brothers and a woman at the zenith of power and influence in the Republic. In her final years, an aging Cornelia looks back on her life and that of her sons who tried to save the Republic. The novel gives readers keen insight into the secret life of women who were politically active behind-the-scenes. It recounts a successful women’s revolt in 195 BC, with mass sit-downs at the Forum that resulted in greater social freedoms. The reader gets a rich and rare look at the rise of one of the Republic’s most politically influential women and the forces that helped to shape her extraordinary life. The story is even more compelling for the parallels it offers with current superpower politics, the rise of strongmen, financial scandals, the shrinking of the middle class, and questions about the future of our democracy.

Captain Cooked

A Blue Coast Mystery

Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge… and Recipes!

Almost Solved Nick Sweeney

S.P. Grogan

$19.99 • Paperback • 160 pages 5 x 8 inches • November 2020 FIC019000 • 978-1-59-211064-3

$32.99 • Hardback • 276 pages 6 x 9 inches • December 2020 FIC022000 • 978-1-59-211065-0

In A Blue Coast Mystery: Almost Solved, a London nurse narrates the story of a drifter she latches onto in a public hospital. Henri is in permanent recovery, not only from his heroin addiction but from the 1960s. She is curious about his past life on the Côte d’Azur with a French countess, hanging out with the Rolling Stones in their exile. Henri dismisses that story; it’s an old one. Instead, he tells her about a couple he knew in Nice, the man an Armenian with the convenient name Armen, and his wife, Luciana, originally from Bessarabia, a forgotten battleground of Europe, subsumed into the bigger countries around it. They are gamblers who continually made and lost small fortunes. They are also genocide survivors—a word Henri understands for the first time when he hears them utter it—Armen escaping the Smyrna conflagration in 1922, and Luciana surviving the totalitarian powers that scourged Europe in the Second World War. Both are from places that no longer exist. Henri’s affinity with them becomes friendship, even as their troubles multiply when Luciana falls prey to a wasting disease.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a seminal piece of twentieth century literature. It recounts the tragic and moving story of a young Jewish teenager faced with the horrors of Nazism. In it, The Lost Diary of Anne Frank picks up where her original journal left off, taking the reader on a credible journey through the tragic final months of her life, faithfully adhering to her own, very personal, diary format in the process. In The Lost Diary of Anne Frank, Anne receives mysterious help from many quarters. A strange lady on the other side of the fence haunts her dreams. Her sister falls in love with a Nazi guard. Her mom, once vilified, becomes a hero. Anne struggles with the existence of God and His presence or absence in all of her ordeals. She contrasts the depravity of man with what she sees as mankind’s evident virtues. Her longing to experience sensual pleasures is numbed by forced over-exposure.

All she wanted was a quiet beach where she could go topless. It was not to be. Videographer Madison Merlot Dayne arrived on the Big Island to shoot the HDTV of her culinary father’s popular television food show, Insatiable Delights. From the moment of her arrival, Madison and her father are involved in trying to discover who may have poisoned a revered Hawaiian singing star. Her working vacation involves riots, suspicious accidents, earthquakes, flowing lava, ancient Hawaiian war weapons, and a real ‘cliff-hanger.’ Madison is likewise having men problems. She desires island romance, but is not prepared for three men in her life… at the same time. And there is the mystery of the boiling cauldron. Will Madison get off the island alive?

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Arden Arden On Bondi Beach

A Passion for Exploring New Countries

Ann Game Andrew Metcalfe $35.00 • Paperback 256 pages • 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available • FIC000000 978-1-92-598438-5

On Bondi Beach tells the story of a day in Bondi by allowing residents and visitors to tell their stories. The beach changes as the day passes. Different people arrive and leave, and as their lives and stories intersect, those being talked about become those who are talking. This is a book about living in a particular place, but it is also about contemporary Australia, flourishing in transience and diversity.

Matthew Flinders & George Bass Josephine Bastian $35.00 • Paperback • 334 pages • 6 x 9 inches Currently Available • HIS057000 978-1-92-598418-7

Flinders wanted to be an explorer ‘second only to Cook’, Bass a naturalist. For eight years these two pursued their destiny. After discovering Australia, they were ready for even greater ventures. And then it was all over. Bass had set out on a voyage he would never finish. His life ended when he was 32 years old. Flinders, standing before before the governor of Ile de France (Mauritius), was told his claim to be the commander of a great expedition of discovery was frankly incredible, all lies; he was thrust into prison as a spy and detained for nearly seven years.

Dancing under the Southern Skies

If George Orwell were alive today…

A History of Ballet in Australia

On “Nineteen Eighty-four” and the thrust of Orwellian satire

Valerie Lawson $40.00 • Paperback • 374 pages • 8.2 x 9.5 inches • Currently Available • PER003010 978-1-92-558874-3

A vivid narrative history of Ballet in Australia, Valerie Lawson’s Dancing Under the Southern Skies goes far beyond what audiences see on stage to reveal what has been behind the red velvet curtain. The lives of the dancers who toured to Australia, among them Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn, and of those who stayed and of those who created companies in Australia, are presented in a fascinating mosaic of interviews, letters and personal stories from dancers, directors, producers, impresarios and critics.

John Dale $15.00 • Paperback • 52 pages • 5 x 7 inches Currently Available • HIS037030 978-1-92-598468-2

Great writers engage with the changing times and by using their imaginations transform their ideas and environments into fiction. More than any other writer of the 20th century, George Orwell responded to a period of historical change by imagining his dystopian future of Nineteen Eighty-Four, perhaps the most influential political novel ever written. At the same time Nineteen Eighty-Four was very much a product of postwar England with its rations and shortages.

Death of a Typographer Nick Gadd $20.00 • Paperback 324 pages • 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available • FIC031000 978-1-92-598419-4

Martin Kern has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. When a local printer is found dead in his workshop, his body in the shape of an X, Martin and his co-investigator, journalist Lucy Tan, are drawn into a mystery that is stranger than anything they have encountered before. Someone is leaving typographical clues at the scenes of a series of murders. All the trails lead back to Pieter van Floogstraten, a Dutch design genius who disappeared without trace in the 1970s, and who has since been engaged in a mystical scheme to create the world’s most perfect font, which is concealed in locations around the globe.

Dignity in a Teacup True Stories of Courage and Sacrifice from Christmas Island Christine Cummins $35.00 • Paperback • 242 pages • 6 x 9 inches Currently Available • HIS037030 978-1-92-598440-8

Dignity in a Teacup chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counselor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island, Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories shared by hundreds of asylum seekers, Christine describes the reasons people were forced to flee their homelands. These true stories are compelling and reveal the lives of ordinary people seeking a safe new life.

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Arden Arden Spirits in the Bush

Monster & Colossus

The Art of Gippsland Simon Gregg $70.00 • Paperback 368 pages • 240 x 12 inches • July 2020 • BIO001000 978-1-92-580169-9

The evocative nature of Gippsland, and its isolation by mountains, oceans, forests and swamps, has incubated a diverse yet distinctive body of artists. Spirits in the Bush surveys the art of Gippsland, from the colonial to the contemporary. Expansive, original and illuminating, it leads readers on a journey through artistic and provincial history, interweaving the lives of residents and visitors. It paints a vivid picture of the influence of place on the cultural imagination. Author Simon Gregg reveals how artists have grappled with a region that is in equal measures beautiful and brutal and has been the stage for many of the key battles in Australian art history.

Inside the Verse Novel Writers on Writing

Cassi Plate $35.00 • Paperback • 293 pages • 6 x 9 inches September 2020 • LCO011000 978-1-92-598427-9

Costas Taktsis, arguably the most important post-war Greek writer, called himself a ‘Sacred Monster’, and his life-long Australian friend Carl Plate—an important painter, Gallerist and influencer of modern art in Sydney—the Colossus of Woronora.

In these twenty-two interviews with verse novelists from the UK, USA, Australia and Canada, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the genre of the verse novel. Her subjects are notable representatives of countries where the genre thrives; among them is Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld to create a unique reading experience.

Donna Leslie $70.00 • Paperback 380 pages • 9 x 11.5 inches • July 2020 BIO001000 • 978-1-92-598403-3

In 1980, Johnson’s encounter with Aboriginal artists in the deserts of central Australia revolutionized his entire approach to art and life. In 1982, when he learned of the existence of the ancient medieval Buddhist cave temples of Mogao at Dunhuang in Western China, the experience also set his imagination aflame. These two spiritual and artistic traditions inspired the path Johnson was to take over the next four decades. Over time his work expanded to include references to Japanese, Tibetan, Native American and a range of other sources and influences. Today, as a veteran artist, he has created an imagined universe abundantly informed by influences and ideas.

Visual Reality

A Life of the Poet

An Analysis of the Visual Image in Painting

$35.00 • Paperback 270 pages • 6 x 9 inches • October 2020 BIO007000 • 978-1-92-598402-6

$35.00 • Paperback 180 pages • 6 x 9 inches September 2020 BIO007000 978-1-92-598425-5

The Art of Tim Johnson

David Campbell Jonathan Persse

Linda Weste

Letters Between Greek Writer Costas Taktsis & Australian artist Carl Plate & their Families in Cosmopolitan Post-War Sydney

Spiritual Journeying

David Campbell (1915–79) was one of Australia’s finest lyric poets. He published eleven books of poems and two of short stories. He was a regular contributor to The Bulletin, when under Douglas Stewart’s literary editorship (1939–61) it promoted Australian writing. In those years, he had 135 poems included in The Bulletin, and seven short stories. He also occasionally had poems published in The Listener in England. Much of his poetry was inspired by his love of the land, in all its forms, and by his belief in the unity of all things in nature. Though not conventionally religious, he was a true pantheist.

Percy Leason $35.00 • Paperback 188 pages • 6 x 9 inches July 2020 • BIO001000 • 978-1-92-598460-6

Percy Leason possessed an extraordinarily inquisitive mind. He was constantly developing new ideas and ways of thinking and eventually he developed a pioneering study in the role of visual perception in art. He was an art philosopher and theorist before his time. In the early 20th century, modernism was challenging to all artists but Leason saw it as a threat to the very survival of Art. To counteract the subjective validation of any practice being accepted as Art, he constructed an objective approach. This is the core of his treatise the Theory of Perceptual Art.

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Arden Arden Anatomists of Empire

Four Weeks One Summer

Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World

When It All Went Wrong Nicholas Whitlam $35.00 • Paperback • 328 pages 6.1 x 9.2 inches • August 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-92-598465-1

Ross L Jones $40.00 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6 x 9 inches • November 2020 • MED039000 • 978-1-92598470-5

The 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith traveled the globe collecting, cataloging and constructing morphologies of the biological world with the aim of weaving these into a new vision of bio-ecology that links humans to their deep past as well as their evolutionary niche. They dissected human bodies and scrutinized the living, explaining for the first time the intricacies of human biology. They placed the body in its environment and gave it a history, thus creating an ecological synthesis in striking contrast to the model of humanity that they inherited as students. Their version of human development and history profoundly influenced public opinion as they wrote prolifically for the press and they published bestsellers on human origins and evolution.

Melbourne Street Life Andrew J May $35.00 • Paperback 406 pages • 6 x 9 inches • July 2020 SOC026000 978-1-92-598461-3

Ugo Catani’s A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889, sets the scene for Andrew May’s invitation to walk the streets of Melbourne, imagine the everyday past, and see the urban landscape with new eyes. For the author, as for artists like Catani and Tom Roberts, the street frames the ever-changing throng of the wealthy and down-and-out, the passers-by, shoppers, idlers, hawkers, cabbies, entertainers, beggars, larrikins, prostitutes, custodians and law-breakers. It is the stage of ritual, procession and protest and the site of proud architecture, fine trees and public utilities. And it also has its hazards, of traffic, animals, assault, falling buildings, fire. Original and vital in subject and tone, this award-winning book is a rich commentary on the growth and transformation of a great Australian city.

In the summer of 1936, over just four weeks, it all went wrong— for democracy and for Spain, even for the British royals. Politicians failed, and Hitler was emboldened to plan a new European war, and more. When some army generals sought to overthrow Spain’s elected government, Francisco Franco quickly emerged as their leader; Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy supported him with men and materiel; pusillanimous politicians in Britain and the United States, even in France, turned a blind-eye—and the Spanish Civil War was on. Edward VIII took a scandalous holiday cruise with Mrs. Simpson, Berlin staged the greatest sporting event of modern times, the alternative Peoples’ Olympiad never came to be, and Barcelona was transformed into a unique workers’ paradise. All this in four weeks. It was an incongruous, at times brilliant, juxtaposition of events.

Maddest Place on Earth

French Canadian Rebels as Australian Convicts

Jill Giese $35.00 • Paperback 220 pages • 6 x 9 inches • July 2020 HIS037060 978-1-92-598462-0

Gold-fuelled Melbourne was booming, but dwelling in the fault lines of the proud young colony was an alarming fact—Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in the world. Was it the antipodean sun, gold mania, excessive masturbation, the heady pace of modern life? The true story of colonial Victoria’s quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers—a gifted artist, exiled from his homeland for his madness; an ambitious doctor, bringing enlightened treatment ideals to his post in charge of the overflowing asylum; and a mysterious undercover journalist, who sensationally exposed the lunatics’ plight in Melbourne’s press.

Brian M. Petrie $35.00 • Paperback 540 pages • 6 x 9 inches • December 2020 • BIO006000 978-1-92-187565-6

After the 1838 Lower Canada rebellion, 58 French Canadians were convicted of treason, sentenced to death, and later transported to life at hard labor in New South Wales. From the day they left Quebec, until the last man returned home in 1848 their activities were closely observed in journals, diaries and newspapers Some became servants and tradesman for their French-speaking superintendent; others were only lightly employed; and with a sympathetic handling of their petitions by the Governor, political efforts locally and in Britain and Canada, and sheer luck, they only served two years before parole was granted and they were pardoned.

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Arden Arden How Australia Led The Way

Jessie Traill

Dora Meeson Coates and British Suffrage

Jo Oliver

A Biography $40.00 • Hardback • 448 pages 6 x 9 inches • July 2020 BIO001000 • 978-1-92-598410-1

Myra Scott $17.50 • Paperback • 140 pages 9.4 x 8.5 inches • July 2020 BIO010000 978-1-92-598467-5

Soon after its foundation in 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia gave women the vote and the right to sit in parliament. Women’s suffrage was in fact a major aspect of the new nation’s progressive and international thinking. With great vigor, Australian women, including the Melbourne-born artist Dora Meeson Coates, ably involved themselves with the women’s movement in Great Britain. Here, Myra Scott vividly describes the increasingly violent women’s movement in England, the opposition to it by menfolk generally, the British Prime Minister’s personal bias against it, Australia’s part in this scenario, Meeson’s creative activism—and her rousing Suffrage Banner, which has pride of place in Australia’s parliament house.

Slow Train to Democracy Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979 Anne E. McLaren $35.00 • Paperback • 238 pages • 6 x 9 inches October 2020 • BIO010000 • 978-1-92598430-9

This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century. The book interweaves personal encounters with records of the democracy movement in Shanghai, revealing a vast outpouring of grievances by ordinary people at a time of dramatic social change.

Jessie Traill was one of Australia’s most outstanding etchers, working in a field uncommon for women of her time. This biography explores her remarkable life—as artist, traveler, humanitarian and independent spirit. From the ten-year-old who first met Tom Roberts painting on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, to a student of Frederick McCubbin and etchers John Mather and Frank Brangwyn, Jessie developed her professional skills. She interrupted her career to work as a voluntary nurse in France during World War I, later raising funds for and revisiting war-torn Europe. Through diary extracts, descriptions of her world travels and personal letters we hear her voice and see through her eyes, beauty, humor and the joys of simple living.

Lord Sydney The Life and Times of Tommy Townshend Andrew Tink $35.00 • Paperback 376 pages • 6 x 9 inches • August 2020 BIO006000 978-1-92-598466-8

When the British Cabinet accepted his recommendation that convicts be sent to Botany Bay, Lord Sydney—Thomas Townshend—instructed the Treasury ‘forthwith’ to provide for the First Fleet. Townshend chose the name Sydney for his barony in memory of his distant uncle Algernon Sidney, who had been beheaded in 1683 for writing ‘the people of England… may change or take away kings’. As a cabinet minister, though, he was measured and capable, displaying ‘the rare faculty of perceiving intuitively, the latent powers in the men with whom he came in contact’.

Friends, Fashion & Fabulous– ness The Making of an Australian Style Sally Gray $35.00 • Paperback • 330 pages • 6 x 9 inches July 2020 • DES005000 • 978-1-92-598459-0

Famed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik once claimed that Australia in the 1970s was ‘the most creative place in the world.’ He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book, first in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the 1970s–90s. Four friends in particular are at the heart of this book: fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson and artists Peter Tully and David McDiarmid.

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Arena Sport

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Muhammad Ali

The Life of a Legend

Fiaz Rafiq Rasheda Ali

Fiaz Rafiq $24.95 • Paperback • 392 pages • 6 x 9 inches 30 photographs • December 2020 BIO005000 978-1-90-971597-4

Arnold Schwarzenegger—a bodybuilder-turned-real-estate mogul who turned an undefeated streak at the Mr Olympia contest into an astonishing film career and eight years as the governor of California—is, for many people, the embodiment of the American Dream. From humble beginnings in a small village in Austria, Schwarzenegger has come to symbolize the opportunities that exist for anyone willing to work hard—parlaying success and self-confidence into the influence to shape hearts and minds across the globe. Even today, whether he’s campaigning against climate change or fist-bumping fellow strongmen at his self-titled athletic event, he’s one of the few men on the planet who’s recognizable from his first name alone. Arnold. Fiaz Rafiq uses in-depth interviews with Schwarzenegger’s peers to tell the life story of the one-time Governator, featuring exclusive interviews with his personal and close friends, fellow bodybuilders and training partners, Hollywood co-stars, directors, executive producers, political personalities and journalists—all offering first-hand accounts of the man they know. Together, these voices show new dimensions to the Arnold we all think we know—from the driven young man who brought building into the mainstream to the passionate advocate for political change.

The Life of a Legend

$24.95 • Paperback • 352 pages • 6 x 9 inches 30 photographs • July 2020 • BIO016000 978-1-90-971593-6

Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable sports personalities and celebrities of our time. He is a legend who transcended boxing and rose above all sport. A man of mythic proportions, Ali rose to become a prominent feature of our cultural landscape. Through exclusive accounts from family members, close friends, associates and adversaries, Fiaz Rafiq has compiled a compelling and intriguing insight into a sporting legend. Muhammad Ali’s story is an epic one, one of bravery, courage, hope, skill and indomitable will. Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend is an oral biography of the greatest icon of world sport who continues to influence millions.

Bruce Lee The Life of a Legend Fiaz Rafiq Diana Lee Inosanto $24.95 • Paperback • 392 pages • 6 x 9 inches 30 photographs • July 2020 • BIO016000 978-1-90-971595-0

Named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the 20th century, Lee wasn’t just an actor and martial artist, but a director, inventor, husband, father and philosopher. His martial art, jeet kune do, is still practised around the world, while UFC champions credit him with inspiring the growing sport of mixed martial arts. His films kick-started a global kung fu boom and retain the power to awe today, while his thoughts—collected in a series of books from Lee’s own notes—still inspire. Bruce Lee: The Life of a Legend is a unique oral biography that combines the memories of Lee’s original students, close friends, co-stars and colleagues—those who knew him best—to provide a candid view on the action movie star adored by millions, capturing the essence of a complex man in a way no straightforward narrative ever could. Further, for the first time ever in print, legendary professional boxing, bodybuilding and MMA champions and personalities from the motion picture industry pay homage to Lee, giving a blend of unique perspectives on a man who changed the face of their respective sports.

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Arena Sport Into the Bear Pit

Made in Africa

The Explosive Autobiography

The History of African Players in English Football

Craig Whyte

Ed Aarons

$14.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • 8pp color plates Currently Available • BIO016000 978-1-90-971564-6

$21.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 6.15 x 9.2 inches • 16pp color plates December 2020 • SPO040000 978-1-90-971592-9

From being the most dominant club in Scottish football history, Rangers F.C., one of the most famous and powerful names in British sport, was sold to venture capitalist Craig Whyte in 2011 . . . for £1.

The signing of Naby Keïta for almost £53m in August 2017 was the third time in the space of 14 months that Liverpool broke the transfer record for an African player Tracking his first season in English football and featuring interviews with Klopp and those closest to Liverpool’s three biggest African stars, Ed Aarons tells the story of the thrilling 2018/19 campaign that ended with the club’s sixth European crown after just missing out to Manchester City in the thrilling Premier League title race. Yet the historic season which saw Mané and Salah share the Premier League’s Golden Boot with Arsenal’s Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang would not have been possible had it not been for those who blazed the trail before them. Made in Africa tells the story of the pioneers who changed the face of English football forever.

When Whyte walked through the gates at Ibrox, the club was mired in debt and plagued with a toxic culture which seeped everywhere—from the corridors of power to a sectarian hard core in the stands. The ‘great Whyte hope’ was touted for a time as Rangers’ saviour but he was soon hung out to dry as the fall guy for Rangers’ misery as the unthinkable happened. The club was plunged into liquidation and the reformed club suffered the indignity of demotion to the third division, the lowest echelon of Scottish professional football. Full of startling revelations, this is the previously untold story of greed, corruption and scandal at the heart of Rangers F.C., told, definitively, by the man who was at the very center of the storm.

The Ghosts of Caithkin Park

Fighting Spirit The Autobiography of Fernando Ricksen

Inside Third Lanark’s Extraordinary Final Season

Fernando Ricksen Vincent De Vries

Michael McEwan

$14.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • 16pp color plates Currently Available • BIO016000 978-1-90-971590-5

$28.95 • Hardback • 288 pages 6.1 x 9.2 inches • November 2020 SPO040000 • 978-1-90-971598-1

Fernando Ricksen was a fighter. As a footballer, Ricksen carved out a fearsome reputation for Rangers, Zenit St Petersburg and Holland. Throughout his time at Ibrox, his aggressive approach won him hero status among the Rangers fans, and off the field he was just as dynamic a force, finding himself on the front page as often as in the sports section. After leaving the club in 2006 and signing for Zenit St Petersburg, he went on to defeat his former teammates in the final of the 2008 UEFA Cup and established as wild a reputation in Russia as he had in Glasgow. Ricksen was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2013, and here his extraordinary life story is chronicled, along with his 6 year battle with the disease. Fighting Spirit details his wild experiences both on and off the field, in a roller coaster journey of football, alcohol, drugs, sex, violence and corruption.

The summer of 1967 was Scottish football’s finest hour. Celtic won the European Cup. Rangers reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Kilmarnock got to the semis of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Scotland defeated world champions England at Wembley. It was the best of times. With one exception. Third Lanark Athletic Club, one of the country’s oldest and most successful football teams, a founder member of the Scottish Football Association, and to date one of only four teams to defeat both Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final, played its final game. And hardly anybody seemed to notice. Why? Michael McEwan brings rich archival research together with interviews with the key surviving players in the Third Lanark squad from that final season, as well as opposition players and other relevant figures from the era. Over 50 years on, the demise of Third Lanark remains one of Scottish football’s darkest hours—and, by ludicrous coincidence, it occurred in the midst of one of its brightest.

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Bauhan Publishing • Banovallum Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Me

Block, Paper, Chisels Prints from New Hampshire’s Monadnock Region

Growing Up Jewish in a Christian World Arthur Ullian

Kim Cunningham

$24.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6 x 9 inches • September 2020 BIO018000 978-0-87233-324-6 Bauhan Publishing

$30.00 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.5 x 10 inches • October 2020 ART016030 978-0-87233-322-2 Kim Cunningham lives in NH Bauhan Publishing

Following a life-changing accident that left him paralyzed at age 51, Arthur Ullian began to realize that not only did life in a wheelchair make him feel “different,” but he had always felt like an outsider to some degree, having grown up Jewish in the elite WASP world of prep schools, cotillion classes, sailing yachts, and restricted clubs. He also came to see that over the course of his life he had, paradoxically, internalized the prevailing Christian view of the “Jewish character” and unconsciously attempted to replicate the social and material trappings of those who excluded him.

A History of Triumph Motorcycles James Robinson $22.99 • Hardback 144 pages • 7.5 x 9 inches 200 illustrations • Aug 2021 • TRA001000 978-1-911658-58-0 Banovallum

Triumph is truly one of the most enduringly popular names in motorcycling. The word itself literally means to win and Triumph the motorcycle maker has been for the most part of its 100-plus years been a world-class winner. Author James Robinson, editor of The Classic MotorCycle magazine, delves into the recesses of the Mortons photographic archive to find rare images of beautiful Triumph machines from every era of the company’s history—from the early days in the late Victorian age to the Great War, the Vintage period (1918-1930), the 30s, the Second World War, the 1950s boom years, the cool 60s, the difficult 70s, the death and rebirth of Triumph in the 80s and beyond—right up to the present day.

Block, Paper, Chisels is a colorful collection of over seventy prints created by artist Kim Cunningham throughout her four decades in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. This wide-ranging exploration of the block print medium includes everything from images of familiar landscapes and local wildlife to more abstract collages celebrating the beauty of trees. Background information on Kim’s influences and technique are included, and her haiku poems accompany two series of prints.

The Evolution of the Custom Scooter Stuart Owen $22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 150 illustrations • October 2020 TRA001000 • 978-1-911658-48-1 • Banovallum

Lambretta and Vespa scooters dominated the British two-wheeled market back in the 1950s. Originally seen as a vehicle primarily for transport, the scooter quickly grew into something very different. Perceptions underwent a radical shift and machines once disregarded as a functional and mundane became a way of life for their owners. Subcultures such as the Mods and scooter boys grew up around the scooter, a focal point for fashions that have continued to develop. Soon each owner was customizing their scooter according to their own tastes and desires as far as their budget would allow. The age of the scooter as a status symbol had arrived.

Lambretta & Vespa Street Racers Stuart Owen $22.99 • Hardback 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 illustrations • September 2021 TRA001000 • 978-1-911658-60-3 • Banovallum

Scooter sales had already peaked in Britain by the mid-1960s—led by the likes of the Lambretta and Vespa. Originally designed as transportation for commuters, the scooter came to be seen more as a vehicle for leisure. Ownership shifted to the younger generation and their appetite for speed and power was insatiable. Shops appeared offering performance tuning services for the first time and a new era of scootering dawned. Production of the Lambretta ceased in 1971 and although Vespa survived, the scooter scene went underground during the 1970s. The passion for tuning continued to flourish however and the release of Quadrophenia inspired a new wave of devotees going into the 1980s.

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Banovallum Banovallum The Rise and Fall of King Coal

Mods & Rockers

Nick Piggott

The Origins and Era of a British Scene

$22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 images October 2021 • HIS015000 978-1-911658-63-4

$22.99 • Hardback • 144 pages 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 100 • June 2021 SOC022000 • 978-1-911658-38-2

Gareth Brown

Deep-mined coal is no longer produced in the United Kingdom—the last of the country’s collieries was closed at the end of 2015, causing the sun to set on a vast industry that at one time boasted 3,000 mines and employed well over a million workers. The Rise and Fall of King Coal tells the fascinating story of coal… from its origins in prehistoric swamps to its early primitive mining methods and to its role as the mineral that fueled the Industrial Revolution and put the ‘Great’ into Britain. It explores the history and operation of the collieries and their railways, explains the location of the coalfields and examines the hazards, hardships, disputes and tragedies that were part of every miner’s life.

Murders That Shocked the World– 1980s

Murders That Shocked the World– 1990s

Micheal Cowton

$11.99 • Paperback 200 pages • 5 x 7.8 inches • June 2021 • TRU002000 • 978-1-911658-46-7

Any murder is an horrific crime, but some homicides are so shocking, so grisly or so unusual that they grab headlines all over the world. The most horrendous murders that took place during the decade of New Wave and permed hair are detailed in Murders That Shocked the World—1980s. Among those profiled are serial killers Andrei Chikatilo, Fred West, Dennis Nilsen and Bobby Joe Long, while the unsolved murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp, and Swedish politician and statesman Olof Palme, also are investigated.

An unparalleled moral panic gripped the people of Britain during the spring of 1964 as two bitterly opposed domestic factions, the like of which had not been seen before, clashed in the nation’s seafront towns. The Mods and the Rockers had grown in numbers throughout the decade’s early years and by Easter ’64 their ranks and more importantly their differences had become so great that they could no longer be ignored. The overt hostility these two groups displayed toward each other rose until conflict was inevitable. The ominous signs of this impending explosion were spectacularly missed by the authorities until it was way too late. In Mods & Rockers, author Gareth Brown explains the genesis of both movements right through from their conception to the cell splitting that separated them. It closely studies their development, and most importantly, highlights their enduring impact on the popular culture of today.

$11.99 • Paperback 200 pages • 5 x 7.8 inches • October 2021 • TRU002000 978-1-911658-55-9

There are monikers that chill to the bone. The ‘Green River Killer’, The Beast’, ‘The Chessboard Killer’, ‘Dr Death’, infamous serial killers the likes of Gary Ridgway, Luis Gavarito, Alexander Pichushkin and Fred West, who spread fear throughout neighborhoods, towns and cities. Murders That Shocked the World—1990s covers these and more in a gripping narrative, relaying disturbing stories of people who murdered for abnormal psychological gratification, alongside unsolved crimes like those of television presenter Jill Dando, and American rapper and actor Tupac Shakur.

John Burton– Race The Man the Magic and the Mayhem Micheal Cowton $29.99 • Hardback 200 pages • 6.5 x 9.4 inches • 80 images Currently Available • BIO029000 978-1-911658-41-2

A prodigious talent stalked by controversy, celebrity chef John Burton-Race has always lived life on the edge.” He worked under renowned chef Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and when Blanc opened Le Petit Blanc in Oxford, he turned to Burton-Race to head the kitchen. Here the young, aspiring chef would win his first Michelin star. Three years later he opened his own restaurant, L’Ortolan in Berkshire. Awarded two Michelin stars, the achievement was repeated in 2000 at John Burton-Race Restaurant at London’s Landmark Hotel.

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BC BC Books Books My Scottish Holiday Tin

My Scottish Nature Tin

$18.95 • 4.7 x 7.85 inches September 2020 • TRV009000 505-5-33-950004-7

$18.95 • 4.7 x 7.85 inches September 2020 • TRV009000 505-5-33-950003-0

A unique activity tin packed with fun things to do and look out for whilst in Scotland. Includes: 2 x mini sticker sheets (one with letters to personalize the tin lid with names and holiday destinations, one with images to stick on) Visitor ID card to personalize 48pp mini travel journal for photos, fun facts and did-you-knows

A unique activity tin all about Scottish nature featuring animals, trees, plants and landscapes, from the golden eagle and red deer to the pine marten and wild cat, not forgetting the Scots pine, silver birch and heather and lots more besides. Includes: 2 x mini sticker sheets (one with letters to personalize the tin lid) 48pp mini book for photos, fun facts and did-you-knows 48pp nature quiz and puzzle book Set of 5 pencils Set of 52 super-collector cards in card box

48pp mini boredom-buster puzzle book Set of 5 color pencils Set of 52 super-collector cards in card box

My Scottish Activity Book Sasha Morton Charlotte Pepper $12.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.65 x 11 inches color throughout • Currently Available YAN001000 • 978-1-78-027652-6

This brand-new activity book for children features a huge range of activities involving different skills. It covers all kinds of topics—including places, people, animals and their habitats, history, myths and legends, castles, stone circles and monuments, transport, sport and much else besides, Activities include: Dot-to-dot, word searches, sticker pages, coloring, missing letters, mazes, story-writing, drawing, games and lots more.

Magic Painting Book: Scottish Myths and Legends $12.95 • Paperback • 32 pages • 8.65 x 11 inches b/w artwork throughout (becomes full color when water applied) • September 2020 YAN001000 • 978-1-78-027653-3

Let your children unleash the magic of Scotland’s myths and legends with this remarkable magic painting book! Unveil dragons, unicorns and even Nessie with the magic paint brush! Go on a journey of discovery through this exquisite and stimulating book that will entertain children of all ages. Just dip the brush (included with the book) in water and apply directly to the page to bring the illustrations to vibrant life!

Magic Painting Book: Scottish Nature $12.95 • Paperback • 32 pages • 8.65 x 11 inches b/w artwork throughout (becomes full color when water applied) • September 2020 YAN001000 • 978-1-78-027656-4

Let your children discover all of the most iconic Scottish animals with this remarkable magic painting book! Discover the majestic red deer, playful otter and the amazing Highland cow with the magic paint brush! Go on a journey through all the animals, big and small, in this exquisite and stimulating book that will entertain children of all ages. Just dip the brush (included with the book) in water and apply directly to the page to bring the illustrations to vibrant life!

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Birlinn Birlinn Jane Haining

Insurrection

A Life of Love and Courage

Scotland’s Famine Winter

Mary Miller

James Hunter

$14.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • 8pp b/w plates November 2020 • BIO006000 978-1-78-027666-3

$18.95 • Paperback • 336 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • 8pp b/w plates November 2020 • HIS015090 978-1-78-027678-6

Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland’s heroines. A farmer’s daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane was a Church of Scotland missionary, and went to the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she worked as a boarding school matron in charge of around 50 orphan girls. The school had 400 pupils, most of them Jewish. Jane was back in the UK on holiday when war broke out in 1939, but she immediately went back to Hungary to do all she could to protect the children at the school. She refused to leave in 1940, and again ignored orders to flee the country in March 1944 when Hungary was invaded by the Nazis. Her brave persistence led to her arrest in by the Gestapo in April 1944, for “offenses” that included spying, working with Jews and listening to the BBC. She died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz just a few months later, at the age of 47. Her courage and self-sacrifice, her choice to stay and to protect the children in her care, has made her an inspiration to many.

When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as people’s basic foodstuff. Oatmeal’s soaring price was blamed on the export of grain by farmers and landlords cashing in on even higher prices elsewhere. As a bitter winter gripped and families feared a repeat of the calamitous famine then ravaging Ireland, grain carts were seized, ships boarded, harbors blockaded, a jail forced open, the military confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences were imposed on others. But thousands-strong crowds also gained key concessions.

Putting the Tea in Britain

Ardnish

The Scots Who Made Our National Drink

Angus MacDonald

A Novel $13.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • September 2020 FIC014000 • 978-1-78-027651-9

Les Wilson $21.95 • Hardback • 274 pages 5.45 x 8.5 inches • 8pp b/w plates August 2020 • CKB019000 978-1-78-027657-1

From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response to a crisis. But tea itself has a dramatic, and often violent, history. That history is inextricably interwoven with the story of Scotland. Scots were overwhelmingly responsible for the introduction and development of the UK’s national drink, and were the foremost pioneers in the development of tea as an international commodity. This book reveals how Darjeeling, Assam, Ceylon and Africa all owe their thriving tea industries to pioneering work by Scottish adventurers and entrepreneurs. It’s a dramatic tale. Many of these men jeopardised their lives to lay the foundation of the tea industry. Many Scots made fortunes—but it is a story with a dark side in which racism, the exploitation of native peoples and environmental devastation was the price paid for ‘a nice cup of tea’. Les Wilson brings the story right up to date, with a look at the recent development of tea plantations in Scottish hills and glens.

Ardnish, the Highlands of Scotland, 1944. On his deathbed, Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. During his 85 years he has witnessed much—world wars, the loss of family through death and emigration, and the daily struggles which face the small remote community. Waiting anxiously for the priest, his mind travels back to the dusty plains of South Africa in 1901, where he fought as a Lovat Scout during the Boer War, and where he met the woman who was the love of his life. Forced to abandon her and her young daughter in a British concentration camp, DJ returns to Scotland and his old life after his camp is ambushed by Boers and many of his fellow soldiers are massacred. As he lies dying, an unexpected visitor arrives at Ardnish making it more imperative then ever for DJ to come to terms with the past and to make peace with himself—and his family—while there is still time.

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Celtic Saints

Celtic Blessings

Laurence Wareing

$12.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 4.35 x 6.95 inches • b/w line drawings throughout Currently Available • OCC036010 978-1-78-027570-3

$12.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 4.4 x 6.95 inches • b/w line drawings throughout Currently Available • OCC036010 978-1-78-027569-7

They may be coated in layers of myth and pious anecdote but dig deep enough and the pioneering leaders of Celtic Christianity are revealed as reassuringly human individuals, responding to their faith by deliberately living on the edges of society. From the goddess-nun Brigid and absent-minded Cainnech to severe ascetics such as Columbanus and Baldred, together they demonstrate a close connection with the natural world, an astonishing self-discipline and, above all, a rigorous commitment to what it meant to be ‘pilgrims for Christ’. Establishing a network of influential monastic communities, they travelled from the territories of the Atlantic seaboard—Ireland, Wales and Cornwall—across Scotland, the north of England and deep into continental Europe, transforming the religious experience of all they encountered.

Writing well over a thousand years ago, the Celtic saints and their followers who penned them reflected not just the cares and concerns of their own times, but also gave voice to the universal human experience—the hopes, fears, joys and anxieties that are as much part of modern existence as they were in the Dark Ages. Meditations on birth, death and everything else that comes in between, as well as comments on the rhythms of everyday life, are mixed with musings on the natural world, the divine and, of course, the eternal questions that everyone asks.

The Pocket Guide to Whisky Featuring the Whisky Tube Map Blair Bowman Nikki Welch $13.95 • Paperback • 144 pages • 4.35 x 7 inches • color throughout • September 2020 CKB006000 • 978-1-78-027688-5

The ever-expanding world of whisky can be a daunting one, with a deluge of new brands, distilleries and literature on the subject making it all but impossible for the amateur whisky drinker to find their way. Blair Bowman provides a compact and accessible, easy-to-use guide to help budding whisky enthusiasts on their way. The Pocket Guide to Whisky explores every kind of whisky, from the well-known Scottish giants of Glenlivet, to the exotic Japanese Hibiki, and includes the ever-growing and hotly debated blended whiskies too! This little volume will tell you everything you need to know, from what to look for in whisky and what to avoid, to getting the best value for money to the perfect accompaniments to your dram and the ideal whisky for every occasion.

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Treasure Islands

The Cairngorms

True Tales of a Shipwreck Diver

A Secret History

The Scottish Coastal Colouring Book

Alec Crawford

Patrick Baker

Eilidh Muldoon

$18.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6.15 x 9.2 inches • 8pp b/w plates • September 2020 HIS057000 • 978-1-78-027601-4

$14.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 5.1 x 7.8 inches December 2020 • TRV010000 978-1-78-027646-5

In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon Martin. Diving in Hebridean waters, they explore remains of the Spanish Armada, and the wreck of the SS Politician, the vessel made famous in Whisky Galore. But money is scarce and irregular, and the work is fraught with danger and disappointment. Until they hear of one of the most incredible wrecks of all time—the White Star Liner Oceanic, which, when built in 1899, was the biggest and most luxurious ship in the world. Widely regarded as an ‘undiveable’ wreck, lying somewhere off the remote island of Foula, they decide to take the challenge. If successful, the rewards will be enormous, but unbelievably dangerous waters and appalling weather conditions are just half the challenge. When a large salvage company takes action against them, they also have a huge legal fight on their hands.

Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into the Cairngorm plateau, and Patrick Baker tracks them down. He traces elusive wildlife and relives ghostly sightings on the summit of Ben Macdui. From the search for a long-forgotten climbing shelter and the locating of ancient gem mines, to the discovery of skeletal aircraft remains and the hunt for a mysterious nineteenth-century aristocratic settlement, he seeks out the unlikeliest and most interesting of features in places far off the beaten track. The cultural and human impact of this stunning landscape and reflections on the history of mountaineering are the threads which bind this compelling narrative together.

$13.95 • Paperback • 48 pages • 9.85 x 9.85 inches • b/w line drawings throughout September 2020 • GAM019000 978-1-78-027686-1

Stretching for almost 10,000 miles (including numerous islands), the coastline of Scotland is one of the most varied in the world, from beautiful sandy beaches and flower-laden machair to dramatic cliffs and sea stacks. In this book Eilidh Muldoon has drawn 23 views celebrating the huge diversity of Scotland’s coasts, featuring dramatic landscapes and seascapes, picturesque fishing villages and imposing castles, not forgetting the animals that make the coast their home. Includes: The Waverley paddle-steamer (Firth of Clyde); St Abbs (Berwickshire); Ailsa Craig and Culzean Castle (Firth of Clyde); Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm (Dumfries and Galloway); Portsoy, Spey Bay, Lossiemouth (Moray coast); Corryvrechan Whirlpool (Argyll and Bute); Portree (Skye) (Portree); Castlebay (Barra); John O’Groats (Caithness); St Kilda; North Ronaldsay Lighthouse and The Old Man of Hoy (Orkney); Shetland (cliffs, puffins, tombolo) and many more.

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Birlinn •• BC BC Books Books Birlinn

The King over the Water

The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

The Atlas and Jigsaw of Scotland

A Complete History of the Jacobites

A Financial History of Edinburgh

Benedict Blathwayt

Ray Perman

$18.95 • Jigsaw Puzzle • 24 pages • 8.4 x 12.2 inches color throughout • August 2020 YAN001000 • 505-5-33-950005-4 • BC Books

Desmond Seward $21.95 • Paperback • 400 pages • 5.1 x 7.8 inches • 16pp color plates • November 2020 HIS015090 • 978-1-78-027676-2 • Birlinn

This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight through the heather are well known, but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. Based on the latest research, The King over the Water weaves together all the strands of this gripping saga into a vivid, sweeping narrative, full of insight, analysis and anecdote. ‘Few causes have aroused a more gallant response from the peoples of these islands than the Honest Cause’, writes Desmond Seward, ‘whether they were fighting for it at Killiecrankie, Prestonpans or Culloden, at the Boyne, Aughrim or Fontenoy, or dying for it on the scaffold’.

$18.95 • Paperback • 400 pages • 5.1 x 7.8 inches • 8pp b/w plates; 8pp color plates December 2020 • BUS069000 978-1-78-027680-9 • Birlinn

It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial center. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s two largest and oldest banks—and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.

This jigsaw is a great way to find out all about Scotland—its cities, mountains, rivers, wildlife and famous places, not to mention history, culture, sports, industry and transport. Featuring detailed illustrations and key placenames, it is accompanied by a paperback atlas which introduces each part of Scotland, contains lots of information, and is packed with over 150 vignette drawings.

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Birlinn Colourpoint • Canbury Press • Blackstaff Press Lisburn, Past and Present People, Places and Things

99 Immigrants Who Made Britain Great

John Scott Hanna Fredrick Gilbert Watson

Louis Stewart Naomi Kenyon

$16.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 8.3 x 10.2 inches • Currently Available HIS015000 • 978-1-78073-261-9 Colourpoint

$30.00 • Hardback • 224 pages 7.3 x 9.75 inches • October 2020 HIS015080 • 978-1-91-245433-4 Canbury Press

Lisburn town and environs contain a treasure trove of local history. This book explores a wide range of topics as we visit the Maze, Kilwarlin, Lissue, Hillsborough, Glenavy, Lambeg, Hilden and Ballyskeagh. Subjects that attract attention include archaeology, industrial heritage, transport, health and social welfare, sport, arts and crafts, and music. We meet with local dignitaries, men and women, who, having lived in or passed through the wider Lisburn area, went on to make a major impact in their chosen field at home and abroad. At the human level we find romance, bravery, faith, dedication, charity, heroism, tragedy, and the celebration of war and peace. We see history reflected in the colors of stained glass, as Lisburn, Past and Present provides a window to the history of people, places and things.

A beautiful illustrated book celebrating the achievements of 99 inspirational characters who made a new life in Britain. From Hans Holbein to Raheem Sterling, Freddie Mercury to Judith Kerr, and from Joan Armatrading to Kylie Minogue, TS Eliot to Malala Yousafzai, they have helped to make our country. Many arrived broke, knowing little English. They achieved success by overcoming obstacles and working hard. And their legacies are still with us, imbuing modern Britain with style, ingenuity and pleasure. Alec Issigonis designed the Mini car, while Henry Wellcome funded British science. Without Michael Marks, we wouldn’t have Marks & Spencer. Without Ludwig Guttmann, there would be no Paralympics. Each individual occupies a double-page spread, with a biography and an illustration. A reader can add a 100th individual, perhaps a friend, relative, colleague or neighbor.

My Homeplace Inheritance

Fields of Wonder The Incredible Story of Northern Ireland’s Football Heroes 1980–86

Soda Farls, Apple Tarts and other Recipes for Life from my Irish Country Childhood

Evan Marshall $16.95 • Paperback • 200 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • December 2020 SPO040000 • 978-1-78073-240-4 Blackstaff Press

Susan Farrell $14.95 • Paperback • 200 pages 5.3 x 8.5 inches • October 2020 BIO007000 • 978-1-78073-262-6 Blackstaff Press

Set largely in the 1960s and 70s, Susan Farrell’s vivid memoir is a compelling account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons, and still recovering from the impact of the Second World War. Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food and family stories in abundance to trace the legacy of that way of life through rationing, the Troubles and the increasing pressures on our connection with seasonal eating and country living.

For six glorious years and two astonishing World Cup campaigns in the 1980s, tiny Northern Ireland stood up to the global football giants, including mighty host nation Spain. The inspiring story of the squad, which matched legendary experience with extraordinary youthful talent, is one of battling spirit and good humor against the odds. Spirit of ’82 tells the full story of how Northern Irish football flourished again for the first time since the glory days recounted in Spirit of ‘58, and after a period when not even the mercurial presence of George Best could lift the team beyond the occasional flash of brilliance in the midst of defeat. Including interviews with 10 players and their manager, the book will transport football and sports fans pitch-side to revel in the drama of Northern Ireland’s fluctuating fortunes and footballing heroics on international stages from Wembley to Mexico City.

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Columba Birlinn • BCBooks Books An Irish Guide to the Holy Land Michael Kelly $19.00 • Paperback • 120 pages 7.7 x 5.1 inches • July 2020 TRV003000 • 978-1-78-218370-9

Michael Kelly has led more than a dozen pilgrimages to the Holy Land. In this unique guidebook, he will take readers to the sites associated with the earthly life of Christ from Bethlehem to Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem. Whether you are planning a trip to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, or simply want to deepen your understanding of faith this book is indispensable. This book will help the Gospel sites come alive and enhance readers’ appreciation for the Holy Land. As well as the sites, there are chapters on the culture, food, wine and people that make up the fascinating mix that is the Holy Land today some 2,000 years after Christ walked in the land. With detailed maps, this book will appeal to travelers to the region and also serve as an enchanting insight for armchair pilgrims with an interest in the area or far-flung places in general.

Journeys of Faith Stories of Pilgrimage from Medieval Ireland Louise Nugent $22.99 • Hardback • 350 pages 8.8 x 6.1 inches • Illustrated Currently Available • REL070000 978-1-78-218372-3

A complete guide to the world of pilgrimage in medieval Ireland, this book brings the reader on a tour of how Christianity was celebrated in medieval times. Including both the pilgrimages within Ireland and the extraordinary journeys that were undertaken beyond the border, the reader will learn about these arduous undertakings true testaments to the lengths people went to in order to profess their faith. Written by archaeologist Louise Nugent, it explores history in great detail, and uncovers what we can learn from evidence left behind by people long ago. Filled with photographs of the sites as they appear now, alongside maps of the paths that were walked, this book will help the reader understand the paths walked before them and how they can undertake such pilgrimages today.

Food, Feast and Fast

Gospel Reflections and Prayers

The Christian Era from Ancient world to Enviromental Crisis

Daily Mass Readings

P. Fintan Lyons $22.99 • Hardback • 408 pages 8.8 x 6.1 inches • Illustrated Currently Available • CKB041000 978-1-78-218371-6

This book aims to change our view of food and the lack of it. The format of short chapters with concise conclusions makes this book very attractive and readable. Lyons offers a magisterial history of feasting and fasting, from Cain and Abel to the ascetic monks on Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry, from the long-term consequences of the Black Death to the challenge of Calvin, and from De Tocqueville’s comments on the American diet. We learn of changes in the design of kitchens and dining rooms, the introduction of forks and knives, and the histories of animal welfare and vegetarianism.

Silvester O’Flynn $22.99 • Paperback • 700 pages 6.1 x 8.8 inches • Currently Available REL012000 • 978-1-78-218374-7

Due to popular demand, Homily Hints and Prayers (2017) from Fr Silvester O’Flynn has been revised with the parish community in mind. This book offers two very short reflections on the daily gospels. These simple and clear reflections are ideal for parish groups looking for a guide to their prayer and discussion. Gospel Reflection and Prayers is an invaluable resource for any group looking to have a deeper understanding of the daily Mass readings. This book would be an invaluable help to any group who gathers to pray with the day’s Mass Readings.

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z Books Columba 50 Best Irish Walks

The Outlaw Christ

John G. O’Dwyer

The Response, in Poetry, to the Question: Who Do you Say that I am?

$18.99 • Paperback • 140 pages 5.1 x 8.7 inches • Illustrated • July 2020 NAT011000 • 978-1-78-218915-2

John F. Deane

John G. O’Dwyer’s Irish walks have become famous through his column in The Irish Times. Now his 50 favorite rambles are gathered here in one pocket-sized volume. A must read for anyone interested in Ireland’s hills and mountains, these trails range from easy to moderate walks all around Ireland, taking anywhere from 1.5 to 4.5 hours to complete. Accompanied by beautiful photographs of the stunning Irish landscape, this is an ideal collection for the avid walker.

$18.99 • Paperback • 316 pages 8.8 x 6.1 inches • Currently Available REL067000 • 978-1-78-218366-2

In every age and generation, the words and presence of Jesus Christ have given people belief, hope and purpose to develop their full potential. However at the same time, faith in Jesus Christ has often been outlawed as it challenges the overwhelming secular impetus of financial achievements, domination and power over others. To answer this unfortunate occurrence, poets throughout the years have taken up the message and person of Jesus. Often, in the side-lining or the outlawing of Christ, the poets, too, have been side-lined. Outlawed. This book follows the poets in their search for the true Christ, from the 8th century Dream of the Rood where Christ was a warrior hero climbing onto the Cross to defeat the rule of Satan, to poets like John Donne, George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins, up to our own day, with modern Irish poets like Patrick Kavanagh, Pádraig J. Daly and James Harpur. The book presents a stimulating and intriguing anthology of poems that bring Christ to life in our own uncertain and challenging times.

The Bee’s Knees

Hallelujah

Ireland’s Love of Bees from the Celts to Connemara

Memoirs of a Singing Priest

James Morrissey

Fr Ray Kelly

$22.99 • Hardback • 150 pages 8.4 x 5.3 inches • Illustrated • July 2020 HIS018000 • 978-1-78-218918-3

$18.99 • Hardback • 300 page 5.4 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available REL070000 • 978-1-78-218368-6

Why are bees so important? Why do we need to protect them? This is a complete guide to bees in Ireland, including their role as pollinators, the importance of the queen, the drones, the workers and the democracy of the beehive. You can even learn about how they communicate with the waggle dance! With a whole history of beekeeping in Ireland, alongside profiles of Irish beekeepers, including the beekeeper at Glenstal Abbey, this is also a guide to what WE can do to save one of the most important species in our environment.

Fr Ray Kelly, “the singing priest”, became a worldwide internet sensation when a video of him singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at a wedding in 2014 went viral. The emotional video and his wonderful voice captured hearts globally and garnered him millions of views. In 2018, he auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent, singing “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M., where he made it to the semi-finals of the show, demonstrating his astonishing ability to connect with people through his singing. This is his memoir, describing his fascinating journey from parish priest to fame, and following his experience of sharing his exceptional talent with the world. Filled with stories of how music has always been a huge part of his world, from singing with his family as a child, to performing “Danny Boy” for Pope John Paul II in the Vatican and forming a boy band in seminary school.

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Countryside Books • Dufour • Eland Publishing z • Editions z The Boxford Mosaic

Resuming Maurice

A Unique Survivor from the Roman Age

And Other Essays on Writers and Celebrity

Anthony Beeson Matt Nichol

Philip Mosley

$20.00 • Paperback • 80 pages 9.1 x 6.5 inches • full color throughout • Currently Available • SOC003000 978-1-84674-392-4 • Countryside Books

This fascinating full-color book tells the complete story behind the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. The Boxford Mosaic, dating from around 350AD, is one of just three mosaics of its kind in the world—a masterpiece of Roman artistry and a beautifully preserved link to the past. Yet it lay hidden beneath a field in Boxford, England, for some 1,600 years until is was fully uncovered in the summer of 2019. The book reveals the inside story of its rediscovery, excavation and the myths depicted on it.

Letters from Egypt An EnglishWoman on the Nile, 1862–69 Lucy Duff Gordon $19.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • September 2020 BIO022000 • 978-1-78060-038-3 Eland Publishing

In 1862, Lucie Duff Gordon left her husband and three children in England and settled in Egypt, where she remained for the rest of her short life. Seeking respite from her tuberculosis in the dry air, she moved into a ramshackle house above a temple in Luxor, and soon became an indispensable member of the community. Setting up a hospital in her home, she welcomed all—from slaves to local leaders.

$19.00 • Paperback • 140 pages 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available LCO010000 978-0-80-231364-5 Dufour Editions

This is a collection of personal essays on greater and lesser known writers whose lives and careers have sparked some of Philip Mosley’s own literary and historical interests. Drawing on the experience of a forty-year academic career, he also introduces elements of personal narrative into his appreciations of this diverse set of authors Corresponding to the growing academic sub-discipline of celebrity studies, a unifying theme of literary celebrity and its discontents runs throughout the volume. The collection aims at the ‘common reader’ (in Virginia Woolf ’s sense), a broad audience of literary enthusiasts and especially those interested in how literary history and criticism, biography and memoir, and celebrity studies may intersect in productive and engaging ways.

Eothen

On Fiji Islands

Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

Ronald Wright

Alexander William Kinglake $19.95 • Paperback 283 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches Currently Available BIO026000 • 978-1-78060-142-7 Eland Publishing

One of the most witty and idiosyncratic of travel books, Eothen started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map for a friend, but took Kinglake seven years of painstaking work to finesse. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 through Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Cairo and Damascus, are barely mentioned. The infectious charm lies in the conversations, the whimsical chance encounters and the attitudes of the author. Kinglake was writing to amuse but also to lampoon the pomposity of earnest travelers seeking to establish themselves as professional authorities.

$19.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • September 2020 • SOC008000 978-1-78060-159-5 Eland Publishing

In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christianity, from colony to flourishing self-government, without losing their own culture. As Ronald Wright observes, societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that did, and often used this fact as an excuse to conquer, kill and enslave. Touring cities bustling with Indian merchants, quiet Fijian villages and taking part in communal ceremonies, he attributes the remarkable independence of Fiji to the fact that the indigenous social structure remains intact and eighty-three per cent of the land remains in local hands.

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Fernhurst z Books Navigation: A Newcomer’s Guide

Splicing Companion for Racing Sailors

Sara Hopkinson

How to splice braided rope

$17.95 • Paperback • 96 pages • 6.75 x 9.5 inches • 82 Halftones, color; 121 Illustrations, 12 Charts • Currently Available • TRA008000 978-1-91-262104-0

Gareth Lincoln

Get to grips with navigation at sea. This best-selling book gives you all the information you need to know to do just that! It starts from scratch, uses no jargon and features diagrams and pictures, instead of words, wherever possible. It has been updated to cover all modern navigation. It is recommended by Fernhurst Books for beginners and Day Skipper students. Written by an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner who runs her own RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, it is the perfect place for newcomers to navigation to start. It explains simply how to look at charts, find your position, look at tides, plan your passage and determine the course to steer. It will help you find out where you are and how to get to where you want to be. In a new innovation, diagrams from this book are being made available to navigation instructors to use in their own classes.

Modern braided ropes have transformed sailing with incredible strength from ever smaller thickness. They are a godsend to the racing sailor who is always looking for strength without additional weight. The nature of these ropes requires different techniques to join them together or make eyes to attach to fittings and this is where this book comes in. It is a guide to the different types of braided ropes—where to use and how to splice them for typical uses on a racing sailboat. It provides clear easy-to-follow photographs and is splash-proof and spiral bound, which means that it is perfect to take into the dinghy park or onboard and use where you need to do your splicing. It lays out flat, so you don’t have to hold it open as you follow the sequences with both your hands full of rope and fids!

Wind Companion for Racing Sailors

West Country Cruising Companion

$13.60 • Spiralbound • 24 pages • 3.25 x 8.75 inches • 111 Halftones, color • Currently Available CRA055000 • 978-1-91-262103-3

David Houghton Fiona Campbell $13.60 • Spiralbound • 24 pages • 3.25 x 8.75 inches • 6 Halftones, color; 50 Illustrations, color • Currently Available • SPO036000 978-1-91-262106-4

Out of all the explanations for why a sailor has lost out on a race, an unforeseen change in the wind and weather is by far one of the most frequent. Whether a bad windshift; the non-occurrence of a sea breeze; or being becalmed, the weather has a huge impact on racing. However, it is not hard to turn these problems around. This handy guide has all you need to work out the best way to use the wind to your advantage and boost you up the fleet. The book covers all the essentials for racing, from why gusts form and where to find them, to the formation of the sea breeze (which is never quite as simple as first appears!). Splash-proof and spiral bound, this little companion stands up to frequent use and serves as a great aid-memoire that will fit into your pocket or kit bag, meaning that you can always work out a detailed forecast for your specific racing area, regardless of whether you are on home territory or on completely new waters.

A Yachtsman’s Pilot and Cruising Guide to Ports and Harbours from Portland Bill to Padstow, Including the Isles of Scilly Mark Fishwick $59.50 • Hardback • 272 pages 8.5 x 12 inches • 340 Halftones, 57 Charts • Currently Available SPO036000 • 978-1-91-262105-7

First published in 1988 as West Country Cruising, Mark Fishwick’s definitive sailing guide for the ever-attractive coastline of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly combines a skilful blend of pilotage and cruising information, as well as suggestions of where to eat and what to do ashore. The book is enhanced with colour charts and detailed photography, including spectacular aerial shots of ports, harbours and anchorages. This latest, ninth, edition is fully updated for publication and further updates are provided every Spring on the Fernhurst Books’ website.

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Fonthill z • Media z High Style on the High Seas

Lady Anne Clifford 1590–1676

Passenger Ships Interiors

Gordon Thorburn

Disraeli v Gladstone Westminster’s Most Bitter Feud Roger Mason

William H. Miller $34.00 • Paperback • 8.5 x 10.86 inches 176 color and black & white • October 2020 HIS057000 • 978-1-78155-784-6 William H. Miller lives in Secaucus, NJ

Ocean liners conjure up an instant image of luxury. This book looks at a century or so of the decor of ocean liners. It begins with the likes of the Mauretania, commissioned in 1907, and shows the Edwardian flourish and finery—the palm court days. We move into the 1920s & ‘30s, to Art Nouveau, German Bauhaus and of course the high glamour of Art Deco. Ships include the Paris, the innovative Ile de France, the Bremen and the stunning Normandie and Queen Mary. Then there is post-war moderne, ‘mid century’ as it is dubbed today, and finally the contemporary of the current cruise generation—the floating resorts.

Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Artist: The Pious Pixie Dawn Robinson $28.00 • Paperback • 6.14 x 9.21 inches 33 color and black & white • Currently Available ART016030 • 978-1-78155-741-9

Pamela Colman Smith is the mysterious artist behind the most renowned tarot deck in the world, for many years forgotten. Born in London to American parents, Pamela was a prolific illustrator and artist who mixed with the great and good of art and theater, among them W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. ‘Adopted’ by actress Ellen Terry, she spent some years with the Lyceum Theatre crowd, also working as an exotic storyteller, known as Gelukiezanger, in bohemian London. People have questioned her sexuality, her ethnic origins and alleged synaesthesia, assuming her to be biracial and lesbian. These are discussed but the biggest mystery of all is why she converted from mysticism to Catholicism.

$30.00 • Hardback 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 24 color and black & white Currently Available • BIO014000 978-1-78155-771-6

$38.00 • Hardback 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 100 color and black & white October 2020 • BIO010000 978-1-78155-772-3

When Lady Anne Clifford’s father died in 1605 his illegal will left all to his younger brother. Lady Anne (aged 15) objected to the will and, rightfully, claimed the estates herself. Kings, archbishops and husbands spent years trying to persuade her that she, a mere female, should think of the greater good of society as God and men had ordered it, give up her claim, and let the men have what was properly theirs. By shrewd moves, sheer determination and faith, Lady Anne outlasted and defeated the lot of them, restored her castles and became the grande dame of the north.

Benjamin Disraeli joined William Gladstone in the House of Commons in 1837. A few years later a bitter feud developed between the two men. Their mutual antipathy was so great that Gladstone made an excuse not to go to his rival’s funeral.

Shellac and Swing!

The Topsy Turvy World of Gilbert and Sullivan

This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about them. Among other things this includes an account of Gladstone’s controversial work rescuing prostitutes and his close friendship with former courtesans. It also describes how Disraeli wrote his famous novels, and his early disreputable business activities.

A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain Bruce Lindsay $38.00 • Hardback 6.14 x 9.21 inches 35 color and black & white • Currently Available HIS037070 • 978-1-78155-760-0

Shellac and Swing! tells the story of the gramophone’s ‘golden age,’ from 1900–1955, when it helped to shape Britain’s culture from the arts to warfare. The story focuses on the gramophone, the invention of Emile Berliner in the 1880s, but begins with a brief outline of the first attempts to record the human voice and of Edison’s invention of the cylinder and the phonograph. It uses primary evidence, images and interviews with DJs, fans, musicians and historians to explore this fascinating and often eccentric tale.

Keith Dockray Alan Sutton $24.00 • Paperback • 6.5 x 9.22 inches 175 color and black & white • Currently Available BIO005000 • 978-1-78155-776-1

No musical partnership has enjoyed greater success during its time span, or bequeathed a more powerful and enduring legacy, than that of Gilbert and Sullivan in the later nineteenth century. Even before their first successful collaboration in 1875, both William Schwenk Gilbert (1836–1911) and Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842–1900) had already forged considerable reputations for themselves. Not only are their plots ingenious, the lyrics witty and the music compelling, the operas also present modern audiences with splendidly rich and satirical evocations of Victorian England and its society: the prime subject matter of this book!

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Why Societies Self-Destruct

The Downfall of China or CCP 3.0?

Rescued from ISIS Terror

Niklas Hageback

$24.99 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9 inches b&w illustrations • November 2020 PSY031000 • 978-1-59211-034-6

$39.99 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6 x 9 inches September 2020 • POL000000 978-1-59-211060-5

Firas Jumaah Charlotta Turner

Sigmund Freud’s death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could reach consensus on. Over time, it fell into oblivion. Recent developments, however, have actualized the interest in the death drive as political upheavals and turmoil lead to societal breakdown. Existing conflict theories generally unmask structural factors considered as explanatory root causes, whether social, economic, or political in nature, but, typically, these factors may have been in place for decades. These models consistently fail to identify the triggers that ignite abrupt change and what heralds it. Anecdotally, a certain self-destructive sentiment seems to suddenly hold sway, where the established order, the status quo, simply must be destroyed, and the psychological urges to do so are too great to resist. But why would individuals or collectives elect a self-destructive path, which on a superficial level seems to conflict with the survival instinct and the assumption of perpetual human progress? Thus, the question must be posed: are these manifestations of the death drive? The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct offers an explanatory framework and methodology to predict periods of destruction that often have grim effects on societies.

The Downfall of China or the Emergence of CCP v3.0? is a book for everyone that aspires to understand the enigmatic Middle Kingdom which has become so mighty that its domestic affairs are bound to play out also globally. The author describes why we now have arrived at a critical junction where the path chosen by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will decide whether it will face an impending downfall, or yet again can manage to radically transform itself and weather the storm. Niklas Hageback has an extensive background in psychology, working with behavioral finance, modeling irrational collective behavior at tierone financial institutions and consulting firms, such as Deutsche Bank, KPMG, and Goldman Sachs. His previous works include the bestseller, The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct.

The Death Drive

$39.99 • Hardback • 250 pages • 6 x 9 inches October 2020 • BIO019000 978-1-59-211061-2

In the summer of 2014, Firas Jumaah was working diligently to complete his doctorate in chemistry at Lund University in Sweden when he suddenly received news that an ISIS advance in northern Iraq threatened the lives of his wife and children who had returned to their native land for a family wedding. The Islamic State had unexpectedly launched an assault on a nearby village inhabited by members of the Yazidi religious minority, to which Firas belongs, slaughtering or enslaving the entire population. Fearing for his family, Firas immediately returned to Iraq and soon found himself reunited with them behind enemy lines. As the situation worsened by the minute, Firas managed to send a message to his professor, Charlotta Turner, to let her know that he did not expect to return to Sweden to complete his dissertation. Unbeknownst to Firas, Charlotta sprang into action and consulted university officials about what could be done to help. Unwilling to accept this tragic situation or to abandon her student and his family to the whims of fate, she quickly organized a commando mission that resulted in the dramatic rescue of Firas, his wife, and his two young children, ages four and six, from war-torn Iraq, bringing them safely back to Sweden.

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George F Thompson z • z Publishing American / True Colors

A Country No More

Stephen Marc Bill Kouwenhoven

Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon

$49.95 • Hardback • 328 pages 11 x 9 inches • 250 color photographs and 4 composites October 2020 • PHO011030 978-1-938086-78-6 Stephen Marc lives in Chicago, Il and Bill Kouwenhoven lives in New York, NY

Krista Elrick Gregory Nobles

American / True Colors is an exploration—from coast to coast—of who we are as Americans. Photographer Stephen Marc captures American identity and sense of place like no other artist has, from the perspective of a baby-boomer generation African American documentary/street photographer raised in the Midwest. His book is a record of the collective American community in 2020, in all kinds of places; from public gatherings at special events, to commemorations, parades, and protests, to everyday encounters in city streets. This is a critical period of social-media distractions and political divisions reminiscent of the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, and Marc’s photos straddle the presidencies of Barrack Obama and Donald Trump. Americans are witnessing a significant readjustment in how they define themselves and recognize each other as Americans; and those in search of the “American Dream” today have to be prepared for the contradictions. Marc’s stunning portrait of who we are as Americans contains 250 photographs in advance recognition of America’s 250th birthday in 2026.

Our Time on Earth Tom Young Aprile Gallant $50.00 • Hardback 152 pages • 12 x 12 inches 83 color photographs • October 2020 NAT011000 • 978-1-938086-77-9 Aprile Gallant lives in Massachusetts

Wide-ranging and operatic in scale and in scope, Our Time on Earth—Tom Young’s fourth book— is an intuitive gaze at the mystery, promise, and condition of human life on Earth in 2020. In an expansive collection of eighty-three new photographs, artfully sequenced into thematic parts, Young brings to us a visual narrative that simultaneously hints at the apocalyptic unfolding of contemporary life while offering reverential hope for a better world. Our Time on Earth plays knowingly off the idea that human endeavors on the planet can be as brief as the beat of a hummingbird’s wing and as long-lasting as mercury and lead embedded in a local river or stream.

$55.00 • Hardback • 256 pages 12.25 x 10.75 inches 150 illustrations • October 2020 • PHO013000 • 978-1-938086-80-9 Krista Elrick lives in Santa Fe, NM

In 2010, when photographer Krista Elrick began traversing John James Audubon country in search of the birds the nineteenth-century American naturalist observed, painted, and wrote about, she encountered scarcely a sighting. Instead, she found the lushly forested watersheds and waterways that Audubon had passionately described in his journals vastly altered with many of the bird species extinct and their supporting habitat all but disappeared. Industrial buildings, parking lots, and strip malls had overtaken much of the area, edging out the natural world. It was a country no more. With a vintage Hasselblad film camera in hand, Elrick traveled more than 45,000 miles over ten years, following in the footsteps of Audubon as she sought clues to what had happened to these places and to the animals and peoples who once lived there.

Requiem for the Innocent

Marking Time, A Trilogy

El Paso and Beyond

Timeline, Backscatter, and Our Time on Earth

John Willis Robin Behn $25.00 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8 x 10 inches 23 color photographs • September 2020 PHO011030 • 978-1-938086-79-3

On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at Walmart Supercenter #512 in El Paso, Texas. This chapbook and the traveling exhibition that accompanies it are meant to honor the memory of those twenty-two beautiful, innocent beings who lost their lives in El Paso on that summer day and to help heal not only the twenty-seven others who were injured, but the countless others in America, New Zealand, Norway, and the world who suffer and have suffered from hate in whatever form it takes. All royalties earned from the sale of the chapbook and all special collections received at the exhibit are being donated to the families of those who died and were injured on that fateful day in El Paso.

Tom Young John Rohrbach $100.00 • Hardback • 392 pages • October 2020 • PHO011000 • 978–1–938086–81–6

In Tom Young’s trilogy of books, the common thread is time: the marking of time in one’s personal life and the events that unfold; the marking of time in society in which one can see change on the landscape and in our towns, homes, and cities; the marking of time on our planet Earth, in which we see the impact of human life on our planetary home. With this trilogy, Tom Young has made a lasting impression in the world of photography and art in how he renders time in our collective and individual lives.

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Gill Books z A Dream of Death How Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s Dream Became a Nightmare and a West Cork Village Became the Centre of Ireland’s Most Notorious Unsolved Murder

The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in US Politics Caitriona Perry $29.95 • Hardback 272 pages • 6.3 x 9.4 inches Currently Available • POL000000 978-0-71718-4828

In The Tribe, Caitríona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were once considered kingmakers in local and national elections, but generations of assimilation and rising numbers of newer immigrants have diluted that power. Many even argue that the concept of an Irish vote is dead. Here, Caitríona Perry gets to the heart of the source and effectiveness of Irish power and influence in America and how it could, or should, evolve in a post-Brexit world, offering a fascinating insight into the inner workings of US politics.

Ralph Riegel $18.50 • Paperback • 304 pages • 5.3 x 8.5 inches • August 2020 • TRU002000 978-0-71718-6716

Here, in the definitive account of what became Ireland’s most notorious unsolved crime, Ralph Riegel delves into the facts and theories of the unsolved murder that caused such shock waves in Sophie’s native France and in the quiet Cork countryside she had chosen as her retreat.

Recovering Richie Sadlier $14.00 • Paperback 304 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • Currently Available • BIO016000 978-0-71718-9540

When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall striker Richie Sadlier retire from football at age 24, his life spiraled out of control. Without structure or a sense of purpose, and fueled by a dependency on alcohol, he spent years running from the dark memories and feelings that had haunted him since childhood. Until one day, he hit rock bottom and decided to confront his demons.

The Tribe

Go, Johnny, Go! Paul O’Flynn $10.95 • Hardback 192 pages • 5.1 x 7.8 inches • November 2020 • YAN053000 978-0-71718-9762

Johnny Sexton dreamed of becoming a rugby legend from the moment he was born. A schoolboy star, he struggled to make a breakthrough at first but finally burst onto the scene with Leinster. Johnny set his sights on the one team he wanted to play for more than anything else: Ireland. But someone was standing in his way. The Irish team already had a famous fly-half— Ronan O’Gara. Could Johnny up his performance and outshine his rival? This is the story of how Johnny Sexton became one of the greatest Irish rugby players of all time, leading Ireland to Grand Slam glory and the becoming World Rugby Player of the Year in 2018.

Tom Crean –The Brave Explorer John Burke Fatti Burke $10.95 • Hardback 32 pages • 7.7 x 10 inches • Currently Available • YAN038000 978-0-71718-6563

Tom Crean was one of ten children who grew up on a farm near Anascaul in County Kerry. He loved adventure and, at the age of 15, he ran away to join the British Navy and sail around the world. While his ship was moored in New Zealand, Tom met Captain Robert Scott. Scott’s dream was to be the first person ever to reach the South Pole and he asked Tom to join his crew. Get ready to discover epic tales of endurance, bravery and determination in this inspiring life story of Tom Crean.

All In Jamie Heaslip Matt Cooper $14.00 • Paperback 304 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • August 2020 BIO026000 978-0-71718-9533

Jamie Heaslip is one of the most decorated players in the history of Irish rugby. Over the course of a thirteen-year career, during which he amassed 229 appearances for Leinster and 100 international caps. Here, in a frank and stirring account of his years on rugby’s front line, Heaslip recalls the events, wisdom and personalities that helped craft his winning mindset and vault Ireland to the summit of world rugby. An inspiring personal memoir and insider account of Ireland’s transformation from amateur backwater to professional powerhouse, All In is also a profound meditation on sport, leadership and what it takes to succeed in the harshest of environments.

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GillzBooks •z The Daly Dish

The Irish Granny’s Pocket Farmhouse Soups

100 Masso Slimming Meals for Everyday Gina Daly Karol Daly

Gill Books

$25.00 • Hardback 256 pages • 7 x 9 inches • CurrentlyAvailable CKB039000 • 978-0-71718-6495

$6.50 • Hardback • 256 pages • 5.1 x 5.8 inches Currently Available • CKB105000 978-0-71718-6013

Gina and Karol Daly have always been larger than life, there just isn’t as much of them anymore. Together they’ve lost almost 140 pounds, and they’ve done it while eating food that looks like it could have come straight from the local takeaway. Just over a year ago they started sharing their recipes on Instagram and have since garnered over 100,000 followers between them. The Daly Dish is the first collection of recipes that have made the couple an Instagram sensation. For anyone who wants to eat the food they love, but with slimming tweaks that support weight loss and maintenance, it is packed with delicious and easy-to-recreate meals, proving you can lose weight while still loading your plate!

There’s nothing nicer than a bowl of delicious hot soup on a cold day! This delightful recipe book celebrates old-fashioned Irish soups that are enjoyed in farmhouses throughout the country, with nourishing traditional favorites that can be enjoyed by all the family. Includes recipes for potato soup, mutton broth, cabbage soup, beef and barley soup, and parsnip soup.

Trisha’s Transformation

The Impossible Dream

Beat the Bulge and Still Indulge!

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Steorn, the Celtic Tiger’s Most Audacious Start-up

Trisha Lewis $25.00 • Paperback • 256 pages • 7.4 x 9.7 inches • October 2020 • CKB039000 978-0-71718-8680

Chef Trisha Lewis was days away from her 30th birthday when she set herself the goal of losing over half her body weight. She weighed 27 stone and was often mocked for her size. Now, through sheer determination, she has overhauled her life—giving up smoking, joining a gym and transforming her diet. Here, for the first time, Trisha shares her story, tips and the recipes that have led to her incredible 8-stone weight loss. As a trained chef, her mission is to maintain the flavors she loves while losing weight, and these recipes prove Trisha’s mantra—that you can beat the bulge and still indulge.

Barry J. Whyte $18.50 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • August 2020 • BUS007000 978-0-71718-8048

In 2006, a previously unknown Irish technology company by the name of Steorn created headlines globally when it took out a full-page ad in The Economist, in which it claimed to have made the scientific breakthrough of this—or any other—century: perpetual motion, nothing less than a complete and immediate solution to the global energy crisis.

The Irish Granny’s Complete Cookbook Gill Books $10.95 • Hardback520 pages • 5.9 x 6.6 inches • Currently Available CKB101000 • 978-0-71718-5993

Combining recipes from the bestselling Irish Granny’s Pocket Recipe Book, Pocket Irish Potato Recipe Book and the Irish Granny’s Pocket Farmhouse Kitchen, this large-format cookbook is your complete guide to traditional Irish cooking. Granny has selected her best, most popular recipes to create the ultimate recipe book, something that belongs on every kitchen shelf. Let her teach you all you need to know about delicious, nutritious country cooking. Includes traditional recipes like soda bread, Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, and the best recipe for scones.

A Pocket Guide to the Wild Atlantic Way Gill Books $6.50 • Hardback • 256 pages • 5.1 x 5.8 inches Currently Available • TRV021000 978-0-71718-6006

The Wild Atlantic Way is Ireland’s most famous and most popular driving route, attracting thousands of visitors each year. Stretching from west Cork right up to Donegal, it is a place of incredible, breath taking scenery, with beautiful places to stay, delicious food and great craic. This little book is both a guide to and a souvenir of one of the world’s most spectacular areas.

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The President’s Surprise Peter Donnelly

Blindboy Boatclub $14.00 • Paperback 256 pages • 5.1 x 7.8 inches • August 2020 FIC029000 • 978-0-71718-9502

Provocative and unsettling, these stories rove through the centuries, from the barren fields of Famine-struck Meath to the chaotic landscape of the near future, where social media has colonized the deepest recesses of the human subconscious. This is a world populated by characters lost and at odds with the demands of contemporary life, for whom the line separating redemption and madness has grown impossibly fine. Razor-sharp social commentary, it is an era-defining work from one of Ireland’s most anarchic satirists.

A very special surprise has been planned for the Irish President’s birthday and he is sent out to walk the dogs in the Phoenix Park so preparations can get underway. But will the President enjoy his day out in the park so much that he forgets his own birthday party? A witty and stylish celebration of the birthdays, the President and one very funny surprise. ‘A love story to Ireland’ –Children’s Books Ireland

The Friendship Fairies

Harry’s Magic Tables

Lucy Kennedy Philip Cullen

Learn your Times Tables in as Little as a Week—Magic!

$9.95 • Paperback 160 pages • 6.1 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • YAF027000 • 978-0-71718-9496

Emme, Holly and Jess are just like regular girls, always messing and having fun. But they’re also fairies, and instead of regular schooling they go to friendship classes, where they learn all about being kind and having good manners. Then they’re sent out into the human world to teach children what they’ve learned. Of course, it’s not always easy being good! Will they ever be able to graduate from fairy school? Told with the author’s trademark sense of fun and cheekiness, this book will appeal to all small children who are trying to make friends while having a laugh along the way.

$9.95 • Paperback 32 pages • 9.8 x 11.8 inches • Currently Available • YAF027000 • 978-0-71718-8727

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Nine-year-old Harry Moraghan never found math easy. But when it came to learning his multiplication tables, difficult soon became impossible. So Harry’s mum invented an ingenious method of helping him over that first hurdle. She combined pictures and rhymes to help him visualize the answers. Just two weeks later, Harry had all his multiplication tables down pat.

Young Fionn Small Kid, Big Legend Ronan Moore Alexandra Colombo $10.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 5.3 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • YAF001000 • 978-0-71718-5863

He is Ireland’s most famous warrior, a legendary figure who has enchanted children for millennia. But who really was Fionn Mac Cumhaill? And what was he like when he was a child? In this wonderful, modern retelling of an ancient tale, based on a 12th-century manuscript, Ronan Moore brings young Fionn to life in a series of wild adventures. Including the well-known myths of the Salmon of Knowledge and the Dragon of Tara, this book will appeal to all children as they follow Fionn’s life up to the point of his becoming leader of the Fianna.

All About the Baby Sleep Solution Your Questions Answered Lucy Wolfe $18.50 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.1 x 9.2 inches • Currently Available • FAM034000 978-0-71718-5542

When it comes to baby sleep, Lucy Wolfe has seen—and solved—it all. Her stay-and-support approach has helped thousands of parents achieve the holy grail of babyhood—a full night’s sleep. By helping parents understand their child’s sleep science and common tendencies in the first three years, Lucy shows parents how to introduce and maintain a gentle approach that is 98 per cent effective in addressing sleep issues. This book provides all the support needed for both baby and parents to overcome persistent challenges and get the sleep they need.

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Taslima Unbound

Zarrar Said

Writings on Feminism, Secularism, and Human Rights

$24.95 • Hardback • 304 pages 9 x 6 inches • Currently Available FIC019000 • 978-1-7344019-0-5 Global Collective Publishers Zarrar Said lives in New York City

An assassin, accused of heinous acts of terror, begins his testimony by claiming responsibility for the murder of the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Salim Agha. To explain his motive, he begins by telling Salim’s story. Full of fascinating mysticism, Salim’s life commences with a prophecy from a levitating saint: he was destined for greatness from the start. Born into poverty in a feudal village his life takes a turn when his landlord, General Khan, sees something special in the boy and promises to enroll him in a prestigious school in the city. But everything starts to crumble. In an accidental act to impress Khan, Salim inadvertently contributes to a coup d’état that derails his nation. He manages to escape to New York City but over the years in exile, Pureland is taken over by the Caliphate. Inspired by the true tragic story of Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize winning physicist, Zarrar Said’s novel Pureland is a tour-de-force debut about a nation that has lost its way, its people who suffer from unspeakable tyranny, and a remorseful hero whose legacy has been wiped out by hatred.

Taslima Nasrin $27.99 • Hardback • 325 pages • 9 x 6 inches • October 2020 • SOC010000 978-1-7344019-2-9 Global Collective Publishers

Internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin brings together for the first time in English a compelling collection of her work written over a period of thirty years. In this powerful selection of essays, Taslima confronts issues of women’s oppression and gender inequality, freedom of speech, and religious violence. In bold, pragmatic style, her language of protest challenges the androcentric paradigms that have dictated the female experience for millennia. Taslima unflinchingly questions long held views on marriage, effects of religious rituals on women, prostitution, genital mutilation, divorce, and sexual assault, among many other crucial issues. Forced into exile after being expelled from Bangladesh for her frank and brave writing, Nasrin has been a heroic and courageous voice throughout the world, with many of her works topping the bestseller lists. Taslima Unbound captures the essence of her life’s work and is key for those seeking to gain a deeper understanding of this celebrated feminist writer.

The Peddler and the Baker

Striker Boy

Yael Molchadsky Liora Grossman

$12.95 • Paperback • 320 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • No illustrations October 2020 • JUV032000 978-1-78-438544-6 • Green Bean Books

$17.95 • Paperback • 32 pages 5 x 8.5 inches • 30 color illustrations August 2020 • JUV039000 978-1-78-438481-4 • Green Bean Books

‘A poor but happy peddler lives in the attic of a bakery. Whilst he does not have much, he is content with his life. Every morning, he wakes up to the wonderful smell of freshly baked bread and loudly exclaims his joy through the open window. The baker, however, grows ever more irate that the peddler should enjoy the smell of his bread without ever paying for it. He asks the Rabbi for help. The Rabbi summons the peddler and instructs him to return in one week with enough money to pay the baker back for all the times he has enjoyed the smell of his challah. The peddler works harder than ever that week. On Friday morning, when he returns with as much money as he can scrape together, the Rabbi takes his coin-pouch and shakes it for the baker to hear. The sound of the coins is payment, the Rabbi says, for the smell of the bread. Sound and smell, just like Shabbat, are free for everyone in the world to enjoy. A delightful retelling of an inspiring folktale, The Peddler and the Baker teaches the importance of sharing and inclusivity, the beauty of Shabbat and the idea that anyone, regardless of their circumstances, has the right to find joy in the world. A recipe for challah follows the story.

Jonny Zucker

Just a few days after Nat Levy’s thirteenth birthday, he and his dad Dave return to England for the first time in seven years. Since his mother died, the two of them have been traveling from country to country, wherever Dave can pick up work, and Nat has been playing street soccer with the local kids whenever he has a chance—even on Copa Cabana beach in Rio de Janeiro! Now it’s a bit of a shock to come back to England, where the cottage Dave has bought turns out to be a wreck, and the prospect of going to school is looming for Nat. The only positive aspect is that they are close to Hatton Rangers, the soccer team they both follow, but even the team is struggling to avoid relegation and possible bankruptcy. Amazingly, Nat’s soccer skills are spotted and he is put forward for a tryout with the team, but there is something fishy going on that is looking increasingly dangerous… In this soccer-centered thriller, Nat learns about being part of a team, when to take chances, when to accept criticism and when to stand up for himself. His independence and self-reliance help him through some tricky and risky situations.

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The Everyday Dairy–Free Cookbook

Vegan Recipes From Japan

Margaret Costa’s Four Seasons Cookery Book

Miller Rogers Emily White

Malte Härtig Jule Felice Frommelt

Margaret Costa

$24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 7 x 10 inches November 2020 • CKB039000 978-1-911667-01-8

$32.95 • Hardback • 250 pages • 7 x 10 inches February 2021 • CKB086000 978-1-911667-04-9

Lactose intolerance or an allergy to milk means avoiding cream, butter, milk, cheese, yoghurt, and ice cream as well as many prepared foods to which lactose is added (such as bread, cereal, salad dressings, cake mixes, and frozen meals). The Everyday Dairy-Free Cookbook explains all you need to know about this condition, how to tackle the problem and where to go for help and advice. As with the other titles in this best-selling Everyday series the book contains 200 recipes for family meals and there is a special section on catering for children. There are dairy-free recipes for soups, dips and starters, light meals, main dishes, fish dishes, vegetarian dishes, savory sauces and accompaniments, salads and dressings, puddings, sweet sauces, sweets and treats, baking, pastry, breakfasts, and beverages. If you or someone in your family cannot tolerate lactose this book will make catering for their needs simple and straightforward with so many meals to choose from.

This is more than a cookbook of Japanese cuisine. Malte Härtig is an expert in Japanese Kaseki cuisine. Today the term is used for a special style of a light multi-course menu consisting of 7-10 different courses in a Japanese restaurant. It is a particularly light meal that is strictly vegetarian in accordance with its origin from the Zen philosophy. Particular care is taken in the selection of ingredients and prepared in such a way that their own taste is emphasized. The recipes are accordingly simple, but excellent in combination and taste. The vegetables are prepared according to the seasons from the garden or weekly market, with few ingredients. This cookbook combines local vegetables and fruits, rice and other cereals with Japanese ingredients such as miso, soy sauce, sake, the sweet wine mirin or the soup stock dashi and prepared using Japanese cooking techniques, such as tempura, Japanese-style barbecue way. They are simple and light, nourish body and soul and open up a new perspective on cooking and how we deal with food. The accompanying text illuminates the cultural background of the recipes and tells entertaining stories from the land of the rising sun. When a philosopher and trained chef team up with a gardener and food photographer, you can expect something special.

$27.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 7 x 10 inches November 2020 • CKB077000 978-1-911667-00-1

Originally published in 1970 and re-issued by Grub Street for the first time in 1996, our new edition hit the bestseller lists and went on to sell over 20,000 copies and its reappearance was praised by contemporary cookery stars like Nigel Slater, Delia Smith and Simon Hopkinson. Also in that year Margaret Costa was honored at the prestigious Glenfiddich Awards. Margaret Costa came to prominence by replacing Robert Carrier as the Sunday Times cookery writer, and although this was her only significant book, it’s hugely influential and was named by Observer Food Monthly as one of the top 50 cookbooks of all time. The book has stood the test of time and indeed many of those writers who praise her also admit that they have taken their inspiration from her wonderful writing. The book is organized according to the seasons, and within each one there are also themed chapters such as “Olives”, “Comforting Breakfasts” or “Proper Puddings”. This is a modern classic which no cookery collection should be without.

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Sourdough Mania Anita Šumer $32.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 7 x 10 inches November 2020 • CKB004000 978-1-911621-93-5

Anita Šumer is a passionate, self-taught, 100% sourdough baker and teacher, based in Slovenia who has become an international sensation—she now has over 70,000 followers on Instagram @sourdough_mania. She started baking sourdough when her husband was ill and could not eat yeasted bread. So successful has she been that she is now teaching sourdough baking around the world; 9 countries and across 3 continents. In 2017, she published her unique sourdough book in her native Slovenia, a first of its kind and the book received two Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The book has now been published in German, Dutch, French and Croatian. The book features both simple-to-make recipes and more ambitious recipes for more festive occasions. Readers can feast their eyes (and later their stomachs) on rye bread, simple white bread, corn bread, buckwheat bread, fruit bread, donuts, brioches and much more. Sourdough Mania contains chapters on types of grain, making a sourdough leven, the baking process, ingredients and useful tools. Every stage is fully illustrated with step-by-step photography on weighing, mixing, kneading, shaping, scoring, and baking, to take you on a journey to the healthy world of sourdough baking made easy. Anita has started a real bread revolution which more and more people are joining in to bake healthier and more delicious bread. Sourdough Mania is here.

The Elizabeth David Collection

Buddha Bowls

Elizabeth David

$25.95 • Hardback • 126 pages • 7 x 10 inches February 2021 • CKB090000 978-1-911667-05-6

$32.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 5 x 6 inches February 2021 • CKB115000 978-1-911667-08-7

In 1965 Elizabeth David opened a shop in Pimlico, London, where she sold Le Creuset pans and other hard-to-get-hold-of kitchen utensils. The store, with its marvelous window displays, was as influential as her books would eventually be, pioneering a new generation of shops devoted exclusively to kitchenware. Rosi Hanson, who worked in David’s shop for two years says, “She was good fun, and the shop was magical. She rather loved being a shopkeeper, perhaps because it gave her a rest from writing. If someone wanted some very specific piece of equipment, I often heard her say: ‘If you could come back, I think I may have one at home.’” While she was still involved with the shop which bore her name, Elizabeth David Ltd, she produced a series of four little booklets: The Baking of an English Loaf, Dried Herbs, Aromatics and Condiments, English Potted Meats and Fish Pastes and Syllabubs and Fruit Fools which were sold exclusively in the shop. They were simple black and white productions which have now become rare, highly sought-after and very expensive collector’s items. So Grub Street is delighted to have acquired the rights to these booklets from the David Estate and we are redesigning them as four hardback books in a slip case with specially commissioned beautiful artwork making them the perfect gift item. So for the first time in over 50 years these charming works will be available once again.

Tanja Dusy

The perfect way to eat: a colorful bowl, packed with wonderful healthy ingredients. Buddha Bowls are now a ‘must’ on the menus of many on-trend bars and restaurants: they are not only satisfying, they are also really nourishing. The concept comes from Asia and all recipes have a simple basic theme in common: a wide variety of ingredients and flavurs come together in a bowl to create a harmonious overall meal. The balanced combination of carbohydrates, fat and protein provides the body with everything it needs for well-being. In Buddha Bowls, bestselling author Tanja Dusy provides 50 meat-free recipes for breakfast bowls, quick and easy bowls and sophisticated super bowls, and also gives readers numerous basic recipes so that you can combine your own bowl creations in no time at all. Each bowl in this book is put together as an ideal mix. Whatever you like is allowed, and anyone who wants can simply replace individual components. In this way, everyone gets full, happy and completely satisfied in their own personal way. It’s so easy to mix and match parts of the meals to make your own combos for healthy comfort food that tastes great and is easy to prepare.

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Heimdal • Histria Kids z • Jantar Publishing Powerfully Perplexing Presidential Profiles

The Life and Times of Fuzzy Wuzzy Craig Sidell Evgeniya Kozhevnikova

Rod Martinez

$24.99 • Hardback • 24 pages 8.5 x 8.5 inches • color September 2020 JUV002000 • 978-1-59-211058-2 Histria Kids Craig Sidell lives in New York City

$24.99 • Hardback • 96 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • b&w illustrations August 2020 • HIS036000 978-1-59-211059-9 Histria Kids Rod Martinez lives in Tampa, FL

Powerfully Perplexing Presidential Profiles is a fun fact/trivia book on our United States Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump, written in a fun, witty style, to make learning entertaining and enjoyable. The book includes a never before published timeline linking two presidents at the same time somewhere in history. Whether you like American History or not, you will find a wealth of stories and facts to be shared that could spark conversation or debate at any party. After all, George Washington’s kids were the first to play on the White House lawn right... or were they? This book covers a vast array of presidential trivia and facts, making it a fun read for kids and adults alike.

54 Rue Centrale Presse, Litterature et Gastronomie Lyonnaies 1930–1950

Bellevue

Big Love

Ivana Dobrakovova Julia Sherwood

Balla Julia Sherwood

$23.00 • Paperback 224 pages • Currently Available • FIC019000 978-0-99-344677-1 Jantar Publishing

Jean-Bernard Frappe $15.00 • Paperback • 304 pages • 6 x 8 inches July 2020 • HIS037070 • 978-2-84-048555-1 Editions Heimdal – Text in French

An original idea, unexpected focal points, picturesque and touching characters, twenty years between war and peace, this is what the pages of this book offer: a story of Lyon seen through the prism of the adventures and the trials and tribulations of several protagonists who, to say the least, are original: Journalists, authors, artists, fantasists, gastronomes, among whom Marcel Grancher, Frederic Dard and Curnonsky.

The Life and Times of Fuzzy Wuzzy is the timeless story of a beloved bear born without any hair. Join Fuzzy Wuzzy as he lives life to the fullest. This book teaches children the importance of being kind and loving and that it’s not what you look like that is important. A great life begins with love for everyone and everything around you. The perfect book for reading aloud and sharing. The simple rhymes and beautiful illustrations are sure to engage your children for years to come. Fuzzy Wuzzy is not just a bear—he is a role model for all and an inspiration to live your life to the fullest. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair but it just didn’t matter! The author, Craig Sidell, is a father of five wonderful children, living in the fuzziest city in the world, New York City. There with his amazing wife, his family explores the vibrant city around them and feasts on the best vegan food in the world.

Blanka takes a summer job at a center for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly. A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unraveling, evolving from carer to cared for. A novel about our own inability to escape ‘our own private cages’, imprisoned by fear, anxiety and mistrust, no less than indifference to others.

$23.00 • Paperback 126 pages • Currently Available • FIC019000 978-0-99-344678-8 Jantar Publishing

Andri and his girlfriend Laura have been seeing each other for a long time now but it isn’t clear what each sees in the other. Self-absorbed, delusional, or just a regular couple?

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JWG / Library of the Holocaust z • z • Schreiber Publishing

Hate Vanquished, Lives Remembered

Courage was My Only Option

Dictionary of Advanced Russian Usage

A Survivor’s Story

The Will to Survive, the Strength to Remember

A Guide to Idiom, Colloquialisms, Slang and More

Roman Kent

Michael Kayser

$23.00 • Paperback • 344 pages • 9 x 6 inches Currently Available • BIO006000 978-1-88-232614-3 • Library of the Holocaust

$56.95 • Paperback • 780 pages • 10 x 7 inches Currently Available • REF008000 978-0-88-400351-9 • Schreiber Publishing Michael Kayser lives in Ohio

Charlotte Arpadi Baum $18.00 • Paperback • 208 pages • 8.5 x 5.5 inches • September 2020 • BIO006000 978-1-88-232615-0 • Library of the Holocaust

After Kristallnacht, in November 1938, the Arpadi family felt an increased urgency to leave Riga for safety, so they jumped at the chance for exit visas to Latvia, where they had relatives. They hoped next to be bound for Shanghai where they could find sanctuary. . In early 1941, the family received visas to leave. Happily, it was not China where they were headed, but rather to America, sponsored by her mother’s cousin. The family pleaded with Charlotte to leave with them, but she insisted that she would stay, Somehow spared the fate of most of the other Jews, she worked in a hospital for a time. When the former Ghetto was re-populated with Jews from Germany and elsewhere, her luck held and she continued to work in a variety of jobs. On occasion the task even brought a short-lived spell of relative comfort which gave her hope. However, in 1943 she was sent to the newly-established concentration camp, Kaiserwald. During the next year, as the Russians closed in, she and her fellow inmates were evacuated to Stutthof, an even more horrifying concentration camp inside Poland. After enduring a tortuous forced march, she was finally liberated by the Russians. After the German surrender, Charlotte realized that she could not remain in the East, under the thumb of the Russians. She made her way to Berlin and then to Paris and was finally able to find and contact her parents in New York.

When the Lodz Ghetto was liquidated, things became even more perilous. After four days packed together in a boxcar, the family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau where a process of complete dehumanization began. After a selection that separated Roman and Leon from Mamma, they were sent to the main camp. The smells of the crematoria, the gallows outside the window and the regular gunshots mixed with starvation and the guards’ brutality made life unbearable. With their health deteriorating, and facing certain death, Roman and Leon tried to attach themselves to an outside work detail. They earned a temporary —and still very dangerous—respite of sorts at the Gross-Rosen Concentration camp, but soon found themselves at the notorious Flossenburg Concentration camp. Together, the young brothers survived and were liberated by American troops. And living for a time as refugees, they were sponsored to come to Atlanta and begin the semblance of a normal life. As Michael Berenbaum, noted Holocaust scholar, said about the original version of Kent’s autobiography: “Few have written detailing the politics of this chapter of contemporary Jewish history. Fewer have written with such courage and with so deep a sense of justice.”

Fully Expanded—New Larger Format. Twice the Content of the First Edition. The thrust of Second Edition of The Dictionary of Advanced Russian Usage remains the same: to encompass words and phrases which have not fallen within the scope of standard English-Russian/Russian-English dictionaries or to simply offer a new take on translations which have become “old hat”, but which may not be anywhere near as precise as one might desire. The current edition also embodies a vast expansion of contemporary slang with thousands of new entries, as well as a substantial foray into criminal cant. Classical entries have also been markedly increased with examples from the works of A. Rybakov, V. Soloukhin, E. Zamyatin, V. Astafiev, etc., as well as numerous writers of the 19th century. The Dictionary of Advanced Russian Usage is still an essential resource for a full-throated English-Russian/Russian-English translation in a fast-changing world. With this greatly expanded second edition, it will become absolutely indispensable.

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Jackson Westgate Group / Bartleby Press • Eshel Books z God and the Goalposts

From Behind the Screen

A Brief History of Sports, Religion, Politics, War and Art

How a Brash Young Man from Jim Crow New Orleans Became a Civil Rights Leader in Texas

Ori Z. Soltes $24.00 • Paperback • 332 pages 9 x 6 inches • September 2020 HIS002000 978-0-93-543758-4 Bartleby Press Ori Soltes lives in Maryland

Curtis M. Graves

Crossing the goal line, with the football tucked safely in his arms, the NFL star falls on one knee, bows his head, crosses himself and utters a prayer of thanksgiving to God, giving one more example of the ever expanding connection between sports and religion. At least it seems to be expanding. The question is: was there truly a notable surge in that relationship between sports and religion? And if there has been a surge, is it unique in history, or merely part of an ongoing ebb and flow? This book, now in a revised edition, offers a concise yet detailed account of this multifaceted association—and its implications for the ongoing game (the ultimate sport!) of trying to understand what we humans are as a species.

Book Drive A Novel Robert Eringer $15.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 8 x 5.25 inches • October 2020 FIC002000 978-0-93-543759-1

A once best-selling novelist, arrogant and self-centered, is forced by his publishing contract to publicize his new work, starting with a one-week book tour along the West Coast. Christopher Lathom was a young man when his first book, universally hailed as a masterpiece, first appeared. It was so successful, in fact, that he has been living off the royalties for the past thirty years until eventually he was forced to sell of his own papers to survive and write. This is a road-trip of unrelenting conflict and surprising twists and turns. Can the novelist Christopher Lathom become the hero of his own story or is he just a remnant of past glory?

$21.50 • Paperback • 224 pages 9 x 6 inches • September 2020 BIO006000 978-0-93-543761-4 Bartleby Press

After a New Orleans upbringing, by the time Curtis Graves entered the Army, he had already earned a reputation for political activism in the cause of equality. Returning to Texas, he ran for a seat in the Texas State Legislature and on winning became one of the first African Americans to hold state office since Reconstruction. He served six years, but even after he left office—and politics—Graves has never stopped battling for fairness and equal opportunity. He tells his story with real style, remembering with warmth and good humor all the people –both famous and not so well-known— who have touched his life along the way. Even more, he gives us an important first-hand, inside understanding of the struggles for civil rights in America.

Tradition and Transfor– mation

The Hotel on St. James Place

Ori Z. Soltes

Molly Goloubow

$62.95 • Paperback • 680 pages • 10.5 x 8.25 inches • October 2020 • ARC005000 978-0-93-543760-7 • Ori Soltes lives in MD

This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of “Jewish art and architecture” by posing and responding to a series of questions. Against the background of these questions, Tradition and Transformation follows a long and wide trajectory that moves from the Israelite period to the present day, and carries us from the Middle East to Europe, Asia, North Africa, South and North America and back to the Middle East, as it searches for answers. But it is the journey, not the arrival that is important.

978-0-93-543757-7

$15.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 8.5 x 5.5 inches • September 2020 • BIO006000

By the early 1970s Atlantic City, New Jersey had seen better days. Its heyday was decades in the past, and the uncertain promise of casinos had not yet become a reality. Shabby, rundown and even seedy were often terms used to describe the once attractive seaside resort city. It was vastly different than the small shtetl in Poland where Holocaust survivors Harry and Sonia Golubcow once lived. That world had been totally destroyed. When they became the proprietors of the Seacrest Hotel on St. James Place, a small walk up hotel situated less than a block from the Boardwalk, they brought their memories with them and maintained their old world ways.

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Kasva Press • Liberties • The Liffey Press z •Press z Little Altar Boy

Nine Tenths of the Law

John Guzlowski

Claudia Hagadus Long

$14.95 • Paperback • 322 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • FIC022020 978-1-948403-15-3 Kasva Press

On a snowy Thursday night in Chicago, there is a knock on Detective Hank Purcell’s door. Sister Mary Philomena has seen something terrible at Saint Fidelis Church—a violation of all she holds sacred. The next Monday, she is found murdered in the convent basement, next to a furnace stuffed with old papers and photographs. And Margaret, Hank’s teenage daughter, has disappeared. Hank and his unconventional partner Marvin Bondarowicz try to force their way through a wall of ecclesiastical silence to find the killer, while their search for Margaret takes them from swank lakeside flats to drug dens to south-side basement blues clubs…and the snow keeps falling.

Liberties Press

$14.95 • Paperback • 232 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • FIC051000 978-1-948403-16-0 Kasva Press

Two sisters, their mother, and a Nazi thief. In 1939, a beautiful enameled heirloom menorah was looted by the Nazis, grabbed from the hands of its young Jewish owner. Too beautiful to kill, Aurora herself was singled out by the SS for “special duties.” Eighty years later, Aurora’s daughters Zara and Lilly discover the family menorah in a New York museum. Haunted by their mother’s buried memories, the sisters scheme to get it back—but their quest takes a dangerous turn when the menorah disappears, leaving a trail of murder and mayhem behind it. Aurora’s memories, it turns out, are very much alive; and now her secrets can bind the sisters together or tear them apart.

Testosterone Dublin 8

So Far, So Good

Gerry Mullins

An Adventurous Life

$16.99 • Paperback 255 pages • 6 x 9 inches Currently Available FIC050000 978-1-91-258913-5

TV producer Jimmy Fyffe starts taking anabolic steroids to restore the ‘manliness’ he has lost in a disastrous career and unhappy marriage. His plan works—a little too well. Soon he is a cocaine dealer, carving out a market in Dublin’s more affluent suburbs. This draws him into conflict with two established drugs gangs. He is kidnapped, beaten and terrorized, and is linked to the killing of a drugs-lord and two Gardaí. Testosterone, Dublin 8 describes the effect of the ‘male hormone’ on an individual, and the wider society, told against the backdrop of a gentrifying Dublin. It is a moral tale wrapped in a classic thriller that gets to the heart—and veins—of modern Ireland.

Island of the Setting Sun In Search of Ireland’s Ancient Astronomers

Paddy Barry $25.95 • Paperback 320 pages • 6.7 x 9.4 inches • Over 60 color photographs and maps July 2020 • BIO023000 • 978-1-91-609984-5 The Liffey Press

So Far, So Good recounts the story of an ordinary man who has enjoyed extraordinary adventures throughout his life. Trained as a civil engineer, Paddy Barry managed to combine raising a family with exploring remote parts of the world, often on his Galway Hooker sailing boat. From Siberia to Tierra del Fuego, Connemara to Malawi, Greenland to Ethiopia, on mountains and on sea, Paddy has endured hardships and visited places very few could match.and its tow—and retracing the remarkable journeys of Irish monks in Iceland. So Far, So Good is a rollicking, delightful account of a life truly well lived, and a striking example of a work/life balance that is much to be envied.

Anthony Murphy Richard Moore $39.95 • Paperback • 352 pages • 6 x 9 inches 70 images • July 2020 • HIS015000 978-1-91-609985-2 • The Liffey Press

Ireland is home to some of the world’s oldest astronomically-aligned structures, giant stone monuments erected over 5,000 years ago. Finally back in print, this reissued edition presents evidence suggesting the builders of monuments such as Newgrange and its Boyne Valley counterparts were adept astronomers, cunning engineers and capable surveyors. Their huge monuments are memorials in stone and earth, commemorating their creators’ perceived unity with the cosmos and enshrining a belief system which resulted from a crossover between science and spirituality.

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Kingdom Unseen

The Last Great Event

Isle and Empires

People of Saudi Arabia

With Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison

Romanov Russia, Britain and the Isle of Wight

Ray Foulk Caroline Foulk

Stephan Roman

Alex Schlacher $40.00 • Hardback • 224 pages • 8.4 x 11.2 inches • Illustrated • November 2020 PHO019000 • 978-1-91-148742-5

Most countries have been well-traveled and documented extensively. Saudi Arabia isn’t one of them. Shrouded in mystery, the country and its people are relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Alex Schlacher traveled the length and breadth of the Kingdom and was enthusiastically welcomed by people eager to shine a light on their fast-changing and increasingly modern nation. The result is a collection of seventy portraits and stories of people living in a vast country steeped in history and on the cusp of change—from metalworkers to karate instructors, Schlacher beautifully captures the people of Saudi Arabia.

$20.00 • Paperback • 364 pages • 6 x 9 inches Illustrated • August 2020 MUS033000 • 978-1-91-148743-2

The list of performers is a who’s who of the then music elite: Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, the Who, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Joni Mitchell, Procul Harum, the Doors, Leonard Cohen, the Moody Blues, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Kris Kristofferson, Donovan, Melanie, Jethro Tull—the list goes on. This was Britain’s Woodstock and all on a tiny island off the south coast. It would also be Hendrix’s last major performance—seventeen days later he was dead. The 1970 Festival was a pivotal event in so many ways. It spanned five days and nights with an audience widely reported to have reached 600,000 (on an Island with a population of 120,000) who were entertained by an unsurpassed galaxy of world famous musicians. But the organization of such a huge happening was inevitably far from plain sailing. It proved to be a roller coaster ride for the intrepid young Foulk brothers, who navigated its course through a year of relentless political buffeting—from local reactionary opponents and then from extremist counterculture militants. Just as Island opponents were busily sabotaging the festival site and issuing death-threats, so too an unsavoury cabal of radicals arrived from London under the banner of the White Panthers, intent upon undermining the event.

$30.00 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.2 inches 30 images over 3 x 8pp plate sections April 2021 • BIO014000 • 978-1-91-148739-5

The tumultuous story of the Romanovs and their enigmatic relationship with Britain is brought to life in Stephan Roman’s Isle and Empires, as he explores the misunderstandings, suspicions and alliances that created an uneasy partnership between two of the world’s most powerful Empires. In August 1909 the Isle of Wight hosted the Russian Imperial family during their visit to Cowes Week, then the most glamorous yachting regatta in Europe’s social calendar. A new era of Anglo-Russian collaboration was dawning and seemed destined to become a dominant force in 20th century global politics. The Tsar’s visit to Cowes was deliberately intended to set the seal on this new alliance. Less than ten years later the Romanovs had been overthrown, with the British government and royal family accused of betrayal and complicity in their deaths. Isle and Empires is a journey into a world of Imperial glory and power, family rivalry, wars, intrigue and alliances. It is also a story of Russia’s revolutionaries, spies and terrorists, and the refugees fleeing Tsarist oppression who found shelter and safety both in mainland Britain and on the Isle of Wight. These events reverberate to the present day and much of what happened when the Romanovs ruled Russia continues to set the pattern for the current relationship between the two countries.

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Ever wondered why your spine tingles when Hannibal Lecter escapes from custody? Or why a narcissistic, womanizing assassin for Her Majesty’s Secret Service is revered worldwide as a fictional hero? Or why you feel a thrill when Frank Underwood manipulates a naïve senator? Or why you root for Tom Ripley to avoid the clutches of the Italian police? Psychopath? takes you on a journey through the world of fictional villains and antiheroes—the lying, the cheating and the murder. Are they psychopaths in the true sense? Guided by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, this book examines whether a fictional forensic psychologist might come to that very conclusion. More importantly, why do you long for the antihero to succeed?

Laying it on the Line The Border and Brexit Jude Collins $16.49 • Paperback • 320 pages 5.25 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available BUS079000 • 978-1-78-117744-0

A collection of interviews with diverse stakeholders, Laying it on the Line: Opinions on the Border gives voice to a wide range of views on the line across Ireland that everyone forgot. Established a century ago, it has reemerged as central to relations, turning into not just the border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK, but between the EU and the UK. In this book we hear from those living in border communities, where social and economic life has flourished since the Good Friday Agreement. With Brexit, their lives and livelihoods risk serious damage. Interviewees include former Taoiseach John Bruton, historian Diarmuid Ferriter, MEP Martina Anderson, Derry footballer and barrister Joe Brolly, former RUC officers and British soldiers, and a wide range of other politicians, journalists, experts and people affected in Northern Ireland economically and politically, we are entering uncharted waters where dangerous winds blow.

Irish Leprechaun Stories Bairbre McCarthy $5.50 • Paperback • 160 pages 4.25 x 5.5 inches • Currently Available JUV012020 • 978-1-78-117531-6

The leprechaun is the shoemaker of the Irish fairy kingdom. He is a solitary, fun-loving and very crafty fairy. Often he is seen sitting cross-legged with a tiny hammer in his hand, working on a fairy shoe. Those who have been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of him have described his appearance. He is no bigger than three feet tall and sometimes as small as twelve inches. Usually, he wears a suit of green and has fine leather shoes adorned with silver buckles. Sometimes he wears a cap with a feather. The leprechaun is the keeper of the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow and he knows where all the wealth of the world is buried. If you are lucky enough to catch him, you must keep your eyes on him at all times and not allow him to distract your attention or he will disappear. If he does not outsmart you he can make you very wealthy and make your wishes come true!

Moore Street The Story of Dublin’s Market District Barry Kennerk Joe Duffy $18.99 • Paperback • 256 pages 6.5 x 9.5 inches • Currently Available HIS018000 • 978-1-78-117177-6

Moore Street has long held a special place in the hearts of Irish people. Whether playing host to its local customers or to the generations of country folk who visit the area at Christmas, the market is as synonymous with Dublin as coddle or a pint of porter. It has given rise to some of the city’s most vibrant characters and has witnessed pivotal moments in Irish history. It was here that the redoubtable Biddy Mulligan was dreamt up, where the leaders of the 1916 Rising made their last stand and where businessman Bill Cullen learnt his trade. Yet for all that, the street was once just part of a much larger market—home to a myriad of second-hand clothes dealers, furniture brokers, poulterers, rabbit sellers, butchers and vegetable traders, all plying their trade in the narrow lanes and alleys. For the first time, Moore Street, Dublin’s Market District recounts the history of the entire market area, charting its growth and development since the eighteenth century—the real ‘heart of the rowel’.

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The Mortgage Coach

Faction Fighters of Kerry

The Ultimate Guide for First-time Buyers, Homeowners Trading Up or Switching Mortgage

Seán Moraghan $18.99 • Paperback • 320 pages 5.25 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • HIS018000 978-1-78-117750-1

Joey Sheahan

On town streets or in green fields, at fairs, race meetings and saints’ patron days, rival gangs of Irishmen used to meet to battle and beat each other with cudgels and sticks. The practice was particularly prevalent in the 1800s, and involved tens, hundreds and even thousands of men and women at a time. Days of the Blackthorn uses eyewitness descriptions, as well as the oral history of local communities, to provide a visceral sense of this exciting and brutal activity in County Kerry. From the Battle of Ballyeagh between the Cooleens and the Lawlors that left eighteen dead, to the savage combats of various strongmen, such as Seón Burns or ‘Big Mick’ Foley, this is a fascinating account of a wild and violent time in Ireland’s history.

Dream Big An Irishwoman’s Space Odyssey Niamh Shaw

BIO022000 978-1-78-117715-0

$16.49 • Paperback 288 pages 5.25 x 8.5 inches Currently Available

What do you do with impossible dreams? When do you let them go? Niamh Shaw, scientist, engineer and performer, had always felt that something was missing in her life. Stepping away from a full-time academic career, she initially thought that it might be acting. She realized that if she didn’t pursue her childhood dream of going to space, she would spend the rest of her life regretting that she had given up on herself. And so this 40-year-old woman from Ireland began a journey she is determined to finish. Along the way she is also inspiring people to love science as much as she does. An account of her journey so far, Niamh’s story reminds us that we must fight to be the person we are destined to be.

$16.49 • Paperback • 192 pages 5.25 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • BUS006000 978-1-78-117738-9

A practical Irish guide for those house hunting, preparing for their mortgage application as well as mortgage switching. The mortgage process can appear daunting but, armed with a little knowledge and lots of expert advice, the journey from preparation to the application through to approval and drawdown can be a smooth one. The recipe for success is planning, The Mortgage Coach is a confidence booster to those setting out on the mortgage journey. The guidelines cover the need for good preparation—from selecting the best mortgage, through to the application, how to structure the deposit, how overpaying can work for you and the essential need to review your mortgage regularly. The bonus is that this book is written with refreshing clarity.

The Autograph Tree

Harry Boland

William Henry

Jim Maher

$16.49 • Paperback 288 pages 5.25 x 8.5 inches Currently Available HIS018000 978-1-78-117639-9

$21.99 • Paperback 320 pages 5.25 x 8.5 inches Currently Available HIS018000 978-1-78-117660-3

Between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Lady Augusta Gregory welcomed numerous distinguished literary and artistic friends to her home in Coole Park. Many of these visitors were invited to carve their initials onto a wonderful 160-year-old copper beech tree in her walled garden, which became known as ‘the Autograph Tree’. This book contains profiles of the signatories. The book is also a history of the Irish Literary Revival told through the biographical accounts of these people, as many of them played significant roles in this very important event.

A Biography

The definitive story of Harry Boland, the ardent and prominent Republican, loyal confidant to de Valera and close friend and, later, love rival to Michael Collins for the heart of Kitty Kiernan. This is a detailed and dramatic account of the intricate part played by him in Ireland’s struggle towards independence. Covering Boland’s role in the 1916 Rising, his involvement with Sinn Féin and work in the 1918 general election, through his time in America during the War of Independence, when he came to national prominence campaigning for American support for Irish freedom, it also details Boland’s subsequent return to a broken homeland on the cusp of civil war and his ill-fated attempts to stop the worst from happening.

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Hearers of the Word

Raphael’s World

Did Jesus Really Exist?

Praying and Exploring the Readings for Easter to Pentecost Year A

Michael Collins

And 51 Other Questions

$23.50 • Paperback • 128 pages • 7.7 x 7.7 inches • Currently Available • ART015000 978-1-78-812123-1 Michael Collins lives in Dalton, MA

Nikolaas Sintobin SJ

Kieran O’Mahony $23.50 • Paperback • 250 pages • 5.5 x 8.3 inches • Currently Available • REL052010 978-1-78-812122-4

The growing hunger for the Word of God is an unexpected development in our time. This book sets out to nourish those who desire something deeper and richer than is possible in the usual setting of worship. By exploring the context and background to all three readings, the author hopes to make the readings available for personal prayer and as a preparation for taking part in the Sunday liturgy. A very useful resource for all who wish to get more out the Sunday readings. Fr Kieran is very well-known for his regular e-mailings of resources on the readings. These are hugely popular amongst clergy and others. Now, for the first time, these readings are brought together in a series of books. This is the third volume covering Holy Week to Pentecost.

Hailed by his contemporaries as “the divine painter,” Raphael Sanzio of Urbino (1483-1520) was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael was sought out by popes, kings and aristocrats to decorate their residences. Michael Collins’ new biography, Raphael’s World, portrays the era in which the divine painter lived. Born thirty years after the invention of the printing press and nine years before the discovery of the New World, Raphael harnessed the new techniques of printing and the riches which flowed from the Americas into Europe in the early 16th century. The political map of Europe was changing as Raphael painted for his wealthy patrons. Pope Julius II commissioned him to decorated his apartments at the Vatican while Pope Leo X appointed him architect of the new St. Peter’s which replaced the 1000 year old Constaintinian basilica. While Raphael painted the Apostolic Palace and designed tapestries to be hung in the Sistine Chapel, a German friar, Martin Luther was about to rend Christendom apart. Based on contemporary documentation, Raphael’s World explores the complex era in which the artist flourished and introduces the reader to the fascinating panoply of patrons.

$14.50 • Paperback • 128 pages • 5.5 x 8.3 inches • Currently Available • REL026000 978-1-78-812121-7

What do Christians believe? What is typical of the Christian faith and how Christians live their faith? With 52 questions and answers, this book gives you an overview of the content of the Christian faith. You can read it as an introduction to Christianity. If you are already familiar with it, then it is a deepening refreshment of the basic elements. The questions are taken from life. Is believing for simple souls? Did Jesus really exist? What do people do in heaven? Is God a judge who condemns? Why should you forgive yourself? Does suffering make sense? Are the other religions wrong? Has Jesus laughed? All pieces can be read in a maximum of two minutes. The answer is always followed by two questions to work on it individually or together with others. There are also references to five other questions relating to the subject under discussion. At the end of the book is a list with a short description of 52 common words such as prayer, grace, heaven, Easter, sin, sacrament and devil. In the text these words are marked with an asterisk.

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Blessed John Sullivan SJ

The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet

Irish Jesuits in Penal Times 1695–1811

Fergal McGrath SJ

A Creation Walk in 30 Steps

$5.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 4.7 x 7.1 inches Currently Available • REL071000 978-1-78-812126-2

Brian Grogan SJ

Thomas Betagh and his Companions

John Sullivan SJ was born in Dublin in 1861. Once dubbed ‘the best dressed man about Dublin’, he seemed destined, like his father, for a career in law. Then, following a conversion to Catholicism, at the age of 35 he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Immediately after his ordination, he was sent to Clongowes Wood College, Co Kildare, where he spent most of his remaining years. At Clongowes, he became renowned for the hours he spent in prayer, his asceticism, and for his kindness and wisdom. His reputation spread outside the college walls, with many people calling on him in their hour of need. His love of the poor and sick led to miraculous cures being attributed to him. After his death in 1933, devotion to him continued to grow, and in 1947 the first stage of the process of Canonisation was introduced. The large numbers who visit his tomb in St Francis Xavier Church, Gardiner Street, Dublin, bear testimony to the continuing belief in the power of his intercession with God. John Sullivan SJ was beatified in Dublin in May 2017.

$11.95 • Paperback • 64 pages • 4.7 x 7.1 inches Currently Available • REL062000 978-1-78-812120-0

This booklet offers an unique presentation of the unfolding of our universe. It interweaves the insights of contemporary science with Christian faith, and reveals the divine orchestration of the Creation Story in a dramatic, fresh and appealing way. Part One offers a brief background to the new story of creation which has emerged over the past century with the discovery of the expanding universe. We now know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. Part Two takes the reader through thirty stages of the development of the cosmos and of our Earth from the big bang to the present day. Each stage is succinctly outlined and offers material for prayerful pondering.

Thomas J Morrissey SJ $29.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 5.5 x 8.3 inches • Currently Available • HIS018000 978-1-78-812115-6

This account of the Irish Jesuits from 1695 to 1811 is concerned with those who lived and worked in Dublin and, in particular, with a central figure, the quite remarkable educationalist and pastor, Thomas Betagh. As we shall see, two other Jesuits also played a large part in the life of Betagh: John Austin, who was his teacher and subsequently a colleague, and James Philip Mulcaile, who was a friend, colleague and near contemporary. The life and work of Betagh can only be understood in the context of his time: not only the history of Ireland in the eighteenth century, but also the political, cultural and religious developments in western Europe.

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Neem zTree • z Press Children of War Ahmet Yorulmaz Paula Darwish $12.99 • Paperback • 140 pages 5 x 8 inches • Currently Available FIC014000 • 978-1-91-110729-3

Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI. Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is a Cretan. But with the Great Powers tussling over the collapsing Ottoman Empire and the island’s Christians in rebellion, an outbreak of ethnic violence forces his family to flee to the Cretan City of Chania. He begins to lay down roots and his snappy dress earns him the nickname of Hassan ‘the mirror’. As WWI draws to a close and the Turkish War of Independence rages, he begins a heady romance with the elegant Hüsniye. There are rumors that the Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey but Hassanakis can’t believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one. This powerful novel drawn from the diary of a refugee family evokes the beauty, complexity and trauma of Crete’s past and weaves it into a moving tale of an ordinary man living through extraordinary times.

Distant Signs Anne Richter Douglas Irving $20.99 • Hardback • 240 pages 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available FIC014000 • 978-1-91-110708-8 $12.99 • Paperback • 978-1-91-110709-5

Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany, Margret, a professor’s daughter from the city, meets and marries Hans, from a small village in the Thuringian forest. The couple struggle to contend with their different backgrounds, and the emotional scars they bear from childhood in the aftermath of war. As East German history gradually unravels, with collision of the personal and political, their two families’ hidden truths are quietly revealed. An exquisitely written novel with strongly etched characters that stay with you long after the book is finished and an authentic portrayal of family life behind the iron curtain based on personal experience of the author who is East German and was 16 years old at the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox Hafsa Lodi $45.00 • Hardback • 288 pages 6 x 9 inches • 16 pages of photographs Currently Available • SOC008000 978-1-91-110725-5 $24.95 • Paperback • 978-1-91-110726-2

Modest fashion has been gaining momentum in the mainstream global fashion industry over the past half-decade and is now a multi-billion-dollar retail sector. This is particularly true for millennials who are attracted to the feminist influences behind concealing your body, follow faith-based dress codes, or are attuned to social media, where more and more modest fashion bloggers are using imagery to inspire their followers. While the movement can credit European high fashion houses, like Gucci, for making conservative dresses and layering “in style” and “on trend,” and subsequent Western labels like DKNY, H&M and Mango for dabbling in the realm of modest wear, it is the newly emerging group of faith-influenced fashion brands who are driving the revolution, along with a new crop of Muslim fashion bloggers. These have helped catapult demure dressing trends globally.

Trees For The Absentees Ahlam Bsharat Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp $9.99 • Paperback • 96 pages 4.4 x 7 inches • Currently Available FIC014000 • 978-1-91-110723-1

Young love, meddling relatives, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined—Philistia’s world is that of an ordinary university student, except that in occupied Palestine, and when your father is in indefinite detention, nothing is straightforward. Philistia is closest to her childhood, and to her late grandmother and her imprisoned father, when she’s at her part-time job washing women’s bodies at the ancient Ottoman hammam in Nablus, the West Bank. A midwife and corpse washer in her time, Grandma Zahia taught Philistia the ritual ablutions and the secrets of the body: the secrets of life and death. On the brink of adulthood, Philistia embarks on a journey through her country’s history—a magical journey, and one of loss and centuries of occupation. As trees are uprooted around her, Philistia searches for a place of refuge, a place where she can plant a memory for the ones she’s lost.

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The Three Hares: The Jade Dragonball

Keith Carter $20.99 • Hardback • 451 pages 6 x 9 inches • Currently Available FIC014000 • 978-1-91-110705-7

Scott Lauder David Scott Ross

$14.99 • Paperback • 978-1-91-110710-1

A witty and acerbic novel for our times about corporate greed, the hubris of bankers, contradictions of the clean energy economy and their unintended consequences on everyday people. Finance, environmentalism, rare-earth mining and human frailties collide in a complex of flawed motives. We follow Peter Mount, the self-made Chief Executive of a London-based rare-earth mining company as he and his business are buffeted by crisis-torn Royal Bank of Scotland and by his own actions, real and imagined. Meanwhile in Oregon, Amy Tate and her group of local environmental activists do their contradictory part to undermine a component of the green economy, unwittingly supercharged by the Chinese state. The repercussions of events in pristine Oregon are felt in the corporate and financial corridors of New York and London with drastic consequences. This is a deeply involving novel about the current workings of capitalism, miscommunication, causes and unexpected effects, love and survival.

$12.99 • Paperback • 245 pages 5 x 8 inches • Currently Available JUV022000 • 978-1-91-110717-0

Sara Livingstone’s school trip to the Beijing Palace Museum takes a terrifying turn when an encounter with the ancient Qingming Scroll thrusts her a thousand years into China’s past. With secrets in the shadows and danger around every corner, Sara relies on her wits and her Granny Tang’s stories to survive. As dark forces gather, she must take her place in a cosmic battle and find the courage to face an unworldly ancient magic. “Middle grade to young adult readers seeking a quest fantasy that is a serious notch above other genre reads will appreciate the depth, insights, action, and surprising twists and turns that make The Three Hares: The Jade Dragonball a standout production.” D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

A–Z of an Irish Christmas

Ulster Fairytales and Legends

Sarah Cassidy Kunak McGann

Peter Heaney Nicola Heaney

$9.99 • Hardback • 80 pages 3.9 x 5.2 inches • January 2021 HIS018000 • 978-1-78-849213-3

$19.99 • Hardback • 64 pages 8.65 x 11 inches • November 2020 SOC011000 978-1-78-849217-1

Everything you don’t want foreigners to know about how we celebrate Christmas in Ireland. We can’t be doing with Calling Birds, French Hens or Partridges in Pear Trees: but if it’s Annuals, The Dinner, The Big Shop or The Wexford Carol you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right book! Christmas Party, The/kris-muss par-tee, thuh/proper noun. annual knees-up The one night of the year when employees get to tell their boss exactly how they feel as they strut their stuff on the dancefloor. There’s nothing quite like scrolling through jobs.ie while nursing the hangover from hell.

Where did the Red Hand, the famous symbol of Ulster, originate? It’s the hand of Heremon, a chief so keen to be first to lay claim to the land that he cut his own hand off the threw it from a ship! Not all legends from Ulster are so gory, of course, and in this collection we meet The Great Brown Bull, The Horsemen of Aileach, Paiste, The Great Black Pig, Maeve MacQuillan, Fintán, Febor and Fia and, of course, Colmcille and the Book of Movilla. Evocatively illustrated by Conor Busuttil, this collection of myths from Ireland’s northern province will enthrall readers young and old.

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Ireland

A Century of Building the City

Best–Loved Irish Ballads

Sandra O’Connell Noel J. Brady

Emma Byrne Eoin O’Brien

$49.99 • Hardback • 240 pages • 9.45 x 11 inches • 150 Halftones, color • November 2020 HIS018000 • 978-1-78-849167-9

$19.99 • Hardback • 144 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches December 2020 • MUS037100 978-1-78-849220-1

$39.99 • Hardback • 192 pages • 7.8 x 10.25 inches • November 2020 • PHO023040 978-1-78-849097-9

An illustrated history of the development of Dublin, and the possibilities for its evolution into the future. The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) have commissioned acknowledged experts to explore Dublin’s evolution across a range of topics, with a particular focus on its role as the capital city since independence 100 years ago, as well as on architectural planning and administration. Chapters include • Mary Clark: Civitas to Metropolis, the governance of Dublin since 1192 • Gráinne Shaffrey on Sackville St/O’Connell St • Freddie Dwyer: City of Industry. Iveagh Markets, Four Courts etc • Tony Reddy: City of Opportunity. IFSC, Heuston Quarter, Smithfield • Shane O Toole: arts and the city • Ciaran Cuffe: transport • Paul de Freine: The Healthy City. Hospitals and healthcare • Lorcan Sirr: housing success from failure • Éanna ní Lamhna: The Green City • Sean O’Laoire: The Place of Culture Heavily illustrated with plans, drawings and photographs.

A collection of Ireland’s greatest and best-loved ballads, including the lyrics, music and chords, along with an introductory piece on each song. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A beautiful guide to the cream of the Irish ballad tradition. Songs of love, yearning, revolution, celebration, emigration, mourning, fun, famine, drinking and more. A collection of powerful yet beautiful ballads of Ireland, placed in and reflecting historical events and traditions. All have stood the test of time and present to the world the uniqueness of Irish history and her musical and revolutionary traditions. Including: • Are You Right There Michael? • Danny Boy • Kevin Barry • I’ll Tell Me Ma • The Irish Rover • Molly Malone • The Rare Old Mountain Dew • The Rocky Road to Dublin • The Rose of Tralee • Whiskey in the Jar Best-Loved Irish Ballads celebrates the songs and tradition of Irish music.

Dublin By Design

Carsten Krieger

A full photographic tour covering the whole of Ireland. Carsten Krieger’s renowned evocative landscape photography is complimented by more intimate shots of craftspeople going about their daily work. Coastlines, rivers, mountains, towns, from scenes that have remained largely unchanged for thousands of years to a vibrant, modern Ireland are captured through his lens.

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The O’Brien z Press The Story of Croke Park

The Big Fella The Life of Michael Collins

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh Graham Corcoran

Eithne Massey

$29.99 • Hardback • 48 pages • 8.65 x 11 inches December 2020 • YAN053000 978-1-78-849206-5

It may seem strange to us now, but for a long time, with Ireland ruled by Britain, it was against the law to play sports like hurling and Gaelic football. That has all changed, and football, hurling and camogie are Ireland’s most popular sports. Gaelic sports icon Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh shares his lifelong passion for the GAA with young readers, as he guides them through its history, and its most iconic stadium, Croke Park. The stadium changed as Ireland changed, and it has been the venue for some of the most memorable matches in our history, as well as major historic events like Bloody Sunday.

Eggcorns

$12.99 • Paperback 208 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • October 2020 YAF024000 • 978-1-78-849210-2

From his childhood on a West Cork farm, Michael Collins dreams of fighting for Ireland’s freedom. His dream comes true when he takes part in the 1916 Rising, but crashes with the surrender of the rebels and internment in a prison camp. Michael fights his way back to become a leader in the fight for independence, creating a spy ring of ordinary people, in a Dublin where nothing is quite what it seems. This books shows us not just why Michael Collins became one of the bravest and most effective leaders Ireland has ever known, but also why he held the keys of 100 Dublin houses, houses where the families were willing to risk their lives in order to keep him safe.

Go To Sleep, Hoglet

Chris Judge

Bex Sheridan

The Supermarket Ghost Gordon Snell Corrina Askin $9.99 • Paperback • 80 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches 8 Illustrations, black & white • November 2020 JUV016000 • 978-1-78-849212-6

It seems like another boring summer for Maria, that is until she meets Davy. Did Davy really appear out of nowhere and why can’t anyone else see him? Is he linked to the tragic accident that happened twenty years ago? And are all the dark rumors about Paddy Breen true? Reluctant at first, Maria agrees to help Davy on his mission of revenge. She soon finds her world turned upside down as she learns more about Davy’s past and Paddy’s secret. An exciting and unpredictable ghost story suitable for younger readers.

Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire? Una Woods

$14.99 • Hardback 48 pages • 6.3 x 6.3 inches December 2020 • HUM018000 978-1-78-849192-1

$18.99 • Hardback • 32 pages • 8.45 x 10.25 December 2020 JUV002000 978-1-78-849143-3

$18.99 • Hardback • 32 pages • 8.45 x 10.25 inches • November 2020 • JUV012030 978-1-78-849119-8

Have you ever seen a Bumbum bee, or an Elelamp? Does your pet wear Doggles? These are all Eggcorns, where a child’s mispronunciation can add a whole other level of meaning! What would a bumbum bee (bumblebee) or Elelamp (elephant) look like? Or Doggles (goggles) or a Carcodile (crocodile)? Illustrator Chris Judge (The Lonely Beast, Danger is Everywhere) has brought his bizarre sense of humour to imagine them for us all.

One misty morning, in their cozy little nests, down by the banks of the river Boyne, all the hedgehogs were snuggling up for the Big Winter Sleep. But one little hedgehog just couldn’t go to sleep. Every time Hoglet closed his eyes, he kept thinking about Rabbit’s Super Special Secret … A baby hedgehog decides that he doesn’t want to hibernate, and goes searching for Christmas magic in the world of humans. A perfect bedtime story for animal lovers.

In an old part of Dublin, right down by the sea, There’s a moon-shaped park with a creepy old tree. The Dublin Vampire lives there. The Vampire wakes up as the sun’s going down. He hops on the ghost bus and rides into town. Have you seen the Dublin Vampire? A funny, warm picture book set throughout Dublin, home to Dracula’s creator, Bram Stoker. Featuring well-known sights around Dublin, including The Crescent (Marino), Five Lamps, O’Connell Bridge, Trinity, Grafton St, Natural History Museum, St Stephen’s Green, Bewley’s, Dublin Castle and Temple Bar.

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The O’Brien z • z Press Sonia O’Sullivan

I’ll Just Take This One

Great Irish Sports Stars Natasha Mac a’Bháird

Erika McGann Gerry Daly

$13.99 • Paperback • 192 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • October 2020 SPO046000 978-1-78-849207-2

$18.99 • Hardback • 32 pages 8.45 x 10.25 inches • November 2020 • JUV002000 978-1-78-849180-8

Born in Cobh, County Cork, Sonia O’Sullivan is Ireland’s best ever athlete, having won Olympic Silver and multiple World Championship gold medals, both on the track and cross country. As a child, Sonia wasn’t national champion: but only because these weren’t held for girls! Her first major international race was in 1990, when she finished 11th in 3,000 meters in the European Championships. Less than a year later, she took more than 5 seconds off the previous world indoor 5,000m record. It wasn’t success all the way, and Sonia had some very difficult days, but she’s an amazing example of what determination, hard work and natural talent can achieve: she’s a real role model for girls and boys alike. This fast-paced, engaging telling of her life is aimed at young readers.

Lily at Lissadell Judi Curtin $12.99 • Paperback 288 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • August 2020 YAF024000 978-1-78-849197-6

When Lily is a young teenager, the time comes for her and her friends to leave school and find work; some are emigrating to America, some going to work in shops. Lily is going into service in the Big House—Lissadell. Lily’s employers, the Gore-Booth family, are kind, but life as a young housemaid can be hard: Lily works long days, she has to learn to get along with the staff, particularly her roommate, the sullen and uncommunicative Nellie, and she misses her home and family. But when Maeve, daughter of Constance Markievicz and niece of the Gore-Booths, comes to visit and decides to paint a portrait of Lily an unusual friendship begins between the two girls from such different worlds.

A wee donkey sat in the shade of a tree. ‘If you had one wish, Grandad, what would it be?’ ‘I’d fix this old back and these wobbly knees, and go see the sights that are out there to see.’ The wee donkey thought, ‘I can’t turn back the years, but I can get Grandad some great souvenirs.’ She slipped through the gate with a small wooden cart, in search of some gifts that would warm Grandad’s heart. The wee donkey heads across Ireland, where she “borrows” the Jeanie Johnston ship from the Liffey, the round tower from Glendalough, kisses from the Blarney Stone and more, to bring to her grandad.But you can’t go taking national treasures like that, particularly when the police find out! A warm and entertaining picture book from the team who brought you Where Are You, Puffling?

The Boldness of Betty

Animal Crackers Fantastic Facts About Your Favourite Animals

Anna Carey $13.99 • Paperback 352 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • October 2020 YAF024000 978-1-78-849123-5

It’s summer 1913 and Betty Rafferty is fed up. Forced to leave school aged 14, Betty is considered lucky when she gets a job in a sweet shop. After all, her Da and her older brother Eddie are both working hard down on the docks in all weathers. But Betty is bored at the shop, and looks with envy at her customers who attend the posh girls school on nearby Eccles Street. But life in Dublin becomes anything but boring when industrial unrest brings the city to a halt. Betty is shocked when her brother Eddie is badly injured by a police charge. The city becomes increasingly violent—and hungry. Betty has never seen anything like the violence and is horrified when employers start locking out workers who refuse to abandon the trade union.

Sarah Webb Alan Nolan $14.99 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6 x 7.5 inches October 2020 • YAN050000 978-1-78-849065-8

Which are the biggest and smallest animals? Which are the most dangerous? Why do dogs love people so much? What animals can live in the heat of the desert, or deep below the oceans? Sarah Webb is animal crazy and has put the answers to all these questions and more in Animal Crackers, a book bursting with information about animals of all types! Crammed full of pictures, cartoons and more from Alan Nolan this is the perfect book for children who want to know more about our furry, feathered (and scaly!) friends.

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The O’Brien z Press Where Are You, Puffling?

My First Book of Ireland

An Irish Adventure Erika McGann Gerry Daly

$13.99 • Board book 18 pages • 6.3 x 6.3 inches 16 Halftones, color July 2020 • HIS018000 978-1-78-849188-4

$16.99 • Hardback • 32 pages • 8.45 x 10.25 inches • Currently Available • JUV002000 978-1-78-849050-4

A puffling has gone in search of adventure— now her puffin parents can’t find her anywhere! They talk to the seal and the gannet and the rabbit; they walk to the huts and the cliffs and the cove. They hear lots of stories of the puffling helping others, but they just cannot find their fluffy, black chick. Finally, they spot her—on a boat out at sea! The puffling is too small to fly home, so the animals of Skellig work together and come up with something very clever …

The Little Black Sheep of Connemara Elizabeth Shaw $14.99 • Paperback • 32 pages • 7.1 x 9.55 inches • July 2020 • JUV002000 978-1-78-849179-2

This charming book tells the adventures of an outcast little black sheep: how he saved the whole flock in a snowstorm, put Polo the bossy sheepdog in his place—and gave the shepherd a great idea! A story about being different, and being a hero.

Shamrock, harp, hurley, tin whistle, cottage, castle: it’s all in My First Book of Ireland. Introduce classic Irish symbols with this fun and engaging baby board book. My First Book of Ireland is filled with pictures of traditional Irish instruments, food, and icons from all over the country. Babies will learn to recognise popular Irish objects with this compact book. With simple text and pictures, this bright and colourful book is perfect for babies learning how to understand the world around them.

All to Play For Donn McClean $12.99 • Paperback 336 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • October 2020 YAF059000 978-1-78-849183-9

Thirteen-year-old Anna loves Gaelic football, and she’s good: focused, skilled and strong. But then everything changes; after a terrible loss, Anna and her family move to a new town. How will she cope with a new home, new school and new GAA club? It seems like even football can’t give her comfort, maybe some help from an unexpected place is just what she needs ... She discovers a forgotten gift from her father—a pair of bright orange football socks. With the help of these brightly colored good-luck charms, Anna slowly begins to gain confidence both on and off the pitch.

The Story of Ireland Brendan O’Brien Cartoon Saloon $16.99 • Paperback 96 pages • 7.75 x 9.85 inches • 400 Illustrations, color; 90 halftones, color • July 2020 • YAN025000 978-1-78-849149-5

A new paperback edition of this popular children’s book. We are going on a long mysterious journey to find out what we can about the Island of Ireland… The Story of Ireland begins ‘After the Ice’ and lasts 9000 years. It tells the story of the whole island and its people. The book’s 27 chapters chronicle the big picture of invasions, wars, Christianity, famine and a divided island, mixed with tales of Celtic head hunters, mysterious stone tombs, the Vikings, the black death, life in castles, the Titanic tragedy, music, mobiles and computers. When it ends a new story is just beginning.

Aim High IrishSports Stars, Trailblazers and Mavericks Donny Mahoney Eoin Coveney $24.99 • Hardback • 64 pages • 7.1 x 9.55 inches December 2020 • YAN038000 978-1-78-849208-9

Meet the Irish men and women who aimed high in the sport they love. From Dan Donnelly, our first heavyweight boxing champion, to our greatest runner, Sonia O’Sullivan. From Brian O’Driscoll’s amazing rugby performances to Rosemary Smyth’s rally driving brilliance. From the heroic rowing of the O’Donoval brothers to the our women’s hockey team: the first ever Irish team to reach a world final. Featuring many people whose achievements have fallen from view, such as Anne O’Brien (the first Irish female professional football player) and Francie Barrett, the first traveler to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games.

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The O’Brien z • z Press Irish Farm Animals

Barney Goose A Wild Atlantic Way Adventure

Bex Sheridan Glyn Evans

Carol Ann Treacy

$19.99 • Hardback • 48 pages 8.45 x 10.3 inches • Currently Available • YAN003000 978-1-78-849121-1

$18.99 • Hardback • 32 pages 8.45 x 10.3 inches • Currently Available • YAF002000 978-1-78-849142-6

A book on all aspects of farming in Ireland, from all over Ireland, including traditional farm animals like cattle, sheep, goats and poultry to more unusual animals like alpacas, wild boar, rhea and fish.

Tom the lighthouse keeper finds an egg washed up on the beach in West Cork. When it hatches, young Barney Goose lives happily with Tom, until he feels a need to fly! What will Barney find as as he travels the Wild Atlantic Way from West Cork all the way to Donegal? And why does he feel a need to fly there? A beautiful picture book showing the sights of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic way.

A charming and engaging book filled with information, much of it Ireland-specific, presented in a light-hearted and child-friendly text. Original illustrations and photographs are featured throughout in an interactive layout. Featuring mighty muckers, horned heroes, woolly ones, hoofed heckles, feathered friends and happy helpers.

Deadly Irish History– The Vikings John Farrelly $12.99 • Paperback 144 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • 150 Illustrations, black and white • Currently Available • YAN025000 • 978-1-78-849103-7

Irish history isn’t boring ... it’s DEADLY! And nobody was more DEADLY! than the Vikings who attacked Ireland in the 8th century! The first book in a new series ‘Deadly Irish History’, The Vikings is jam-packed with all kinds of interesting facts and stories about Viking life. Highly illustrated with cartoons and comic strips as well as illustrating how vikings ships and houses were made, it’s also full of things to make and do, quizzes and puzzles. The world of the Vikings in Ireland is an endlessly fascinating one, so be like them and go out and EXPLORE!

Lads in Love

Deadly Irish History– The Celts

Jarlath Gregory $14.99 • Paperback 320 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • December 2020 • YAF052000 978-1-78-849162-4

Ben Brennan, is 17, gay, and lives in a working-class suburb of Dublin with his mum, his Jamaican stepdad, and his younger half-sister, Jamie. Romantic but a little naïve, Ben meets Peter online. Changing how he behaves to suit Peter, he soon finds himself at odds with Soda, an older, flamboyant drag queen, who regularly sneaks Ben and his best friend Chelsea into Pantibar, the local gay bar where Soda performs. It’s a tough environment in which to learn who your friends really are, with the mixed messages of homophobia, Grindr and teenage hormones playing on his mind. Can Ben navigate the pitfalls of modern gay dating, with all its highly sexualised expectations, and be true to himself?

John Farrelly

978-1-78-849130-3

$12.99 • Paperback 144 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 November 2020 YAN025000

The Celts dominated Ireland from their arrival around 700BCE to the early fifth century, taking the country from the bronze age to the iron age. Some Celtic tribes lived peacefully alongside the native Irish while others took what they wanted by force. Eventually though, they more or less became one people and though some historians don’t like the use of the word ‘Celtic’, it’s as good a word as any to describe the Irish people of the time. Irish Celts took on a flavor of their own—they were different in lots of ways to the other Celtic tribes living in Europe and even across the Irish Sea in Britain.

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The O’Brien z Press Take the Lead How to Care for Your Dog–A Fun & Practical Guide

$13.99 • Board book • 18 pages • 6.3 x 6.3 inches • 16 Halftones, color • July 2020 • JNF003000 • 978-1-78-849165-5

Elena Browne Jennifer Farley $15.99 • Paperback • 48 pages • 6.55 x 8.8 inches • 25 Halftones, color; 50 Illustrations, color • July 2020 • YAN003000 • 978-1-78849081-8

A fun and practical guide to caring for dogs and puppies. How to be your best friend’s best friend Introducing children to the responsibility and fun that comes with owning a dog. Dogs and children can be great friends and having a dog can help children develop kindness, understanding and respect for all living things. Dog companionship can improve a child’s social skills with people and caring for a pet can encourage responsibility. The aim of this book is to keep child and dog safe and happy as well as training, tricks and play.

Squirrel, Frog, Eagle, Dolphin: it’s all in My First Book of Irish Animals. Discover creatures big and small with this fun and engaging baby board book. My First Book of Irish Animals is filled with different kinds of wildlife from the hedgerows and woodlands to skies and seas. Babies will learn to recognise native Irish animals with this compact book. With simple text and pictures, this bright and colourful book is perfect for babies learning how to understand the world around them.

Irish Country Life

A Coward if I Return, A Hero if I Fall

Olive Sharkey

Stories of Irishmen in World War I

$19.99 • Hardback 160 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • 17 Halftones, duotone; 250 Illustrations, unspecified • Currently Available HIS054000 • 978-1-78-849184-6

In a fast-paced, modern Ireland it can be difficult to imagine how different our lives are to those that went before. In this book Olive Sharkey lovingly describes the lives, activities and material possessions of irish people living between 1800 and the 1930s. The implements of the home, the farm, the garden and home-crafts are recounted, with detailed drawings and photographs. These once familiar objects—bittles, butterworkers, noggins and truckle beds—are explored, as we are shown a lifestyle where people made much of their own furniture and clothes, and fed themselves from their own land.

My First Book of Irish Wildlife

Neil Richardson $24.99 • Paperback • 368 pages • 6.1 x 8.65 inches • 200 Halftones, black and white • July 2020 • HIS037070 • 978-1-78-849173-0

Ireland's Forgotten Legacy. In 1914–1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found themselves abandoned and ostracised by their countrymen, their voices seldom heard. Includes over 300 photographs and items of memorabelia from the lives of these brave men and their families. An important book that opened up the conversation in Ireland about our role in World War I. Updated, and with a new introduction.

Brehon Laws The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland Jo Kerrigan Richard Mills $24.99 • Hardback • 176 pages • 5.3 x 8.5 inches • 50 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white • Currently Available • HIS018000 • 978-1-78-849107-5

A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient Ireland Thousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a widely accepted, sophisticated and surprisingly enlightened legal system kept society running smoothly. The brehons were the keepers of these laws, which dealt with every aspect of life: land disputes; recompense for theft or violence; marriage and divorce processes; the care of trees and animals.

Irish Tweed History, Tradition, Fashion Vawn Corrigan $19.99 • Hardback 192 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • 125 Halftones, color • Currently Available • DES013000 978-1-78-849021-4

‘To be human is to be involved with cloth.’ Irish Tweed explores the history, the traditions, the patterns, the fashions and the legacy of Ireland’s distinctive, natural woven fabric. Arising from ancient woven traditions of brat (cloak), léine (tunic), linen and poplin, tweed has evolved and reinvented itself many times to weave its beautiful lasting way into our future fashions and psyche.

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The O’Brien z • z Press P is for Poetry Poems from Irish Poets Seamus Cashman Corrina Askin $18.99 • Paperback • 64 pages 7.7 x 9.25 inches • December 2020 YAN043000 • 978-1-78-849178-5

Selected poems from bestselling Something Beginning with P in a beautiful new format edition.

A Feckin’ Tour of Ireland 50 Must Do Things Colin Murphy Brendan O’Reilly $18.99 • Hardback • 256 pages 4.9 x 7.5 inches • Currently Available TRV021000 • 978-1-78-849079-5

Originally published in 2004, the award-winning Something Beginning with P was a collection of new poems for children including poems from leading Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, Rita Ann Higgins, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, Frank McGuinness and Peter Fallon. This new, specially curated, edition of P is for Poetry includes best-loved poems and poets taken from the original collection as well as new additions that are sure to become beloved new favourites.

The Emerald Isle has something for everyone, from the stupendous coastline and cliffs of the Wild Atlantic Way in the west to the culture and cuisine of the Ancient East; from the castles and forts of the historic north to the famed golden beaches of the beautiful south—and not forgetting the mighty craic and decent watering holes to be found everywhere in between! Humorous information about 50 key tourist attractions in Ireland, accompanied by photographs and illustrations. A light-hearted guide of Ireland for natives and visitors alike.

The Sound of Freedom

Symbols of Ireland

Ann Murtagh

Eoin O’Brien

$12.99 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • Currently Available YAF024000 • 978-1-78-849125-9

$9.99 • Hardback • 160 pages 3.9 x 5.2 inches • Currently Available SOC011000 • 978-1-78-849166-2

It’s spring 1919. Ireland’s War of Independence has just begun. In a cottage in County Westmeath, thirteen-year-old Colm Conneely longs to join the local Volunteers, the ‘Rainbow Chasers’ who dream of an independent Ireland. Caught up in republican fever, he smuggles guns, stands up to the RIC during a house raid and raises the tricolour on a lake island. But Colm is also chasing another rainbow—he dreams of a life in America working as a fiddle player and involved in the republican movement there. The arrival in the area of spirited Belfast girl Alice McCluskey is a new development in Colm’s life. She speaks Irish, shares his love of Irish music and is also committed to the ‘cause’. Will Colm stay in Ireland and join the Volunteers or will he fulfil his dream of working as a musician in America? A long-held family secret comes to light, rocks Colm’s world and shows him the way to go.

The harp, the shamrock, the Claddagh ring, St Patrick, Round towers, turf, Aran jumpers, The Giant’s Causeway, Newgrange, Croke Park. An illustrated guide to the symbols, places, treasures, famous figures and mythical creatures of the Emerald Isle.

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The O’Brien Press • Brandon z Queen of Coin and Whispers

Causeway Coastal Route

A Kingdom of Secrets and a Game of Lies

Seth Linder

Helen Corcoran $18.99 • Paperback • 128 pages 7.8 x 10.25 inches • 200 Halftones, color Currently Available TRV021000 • 978-1-78-849096-2

$16.99 • Paperback • 464 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • July 2020 YAF019000 • 978-1-78849-118-1

She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a bloodied blade’ When Lia, an idealistic queen, falls for Xania, her new spymaster--who took the job to avenge her murdered father--they realise all isn’t fair in love and treason. Lia won’t mourn her uncle: he’s left her a bankrupt kingdom considered easy pickings by its neighbours. She’s sworn to be a better ruler, but if she wants to push through her reforms, she needs to beat the Court at its own games. For years, Xania’s been determined to uncover her father’s murderer. She finally gets a chance when Lia gives her a choice: become her new spymaster, or take a one way trip to the executioner’s axe.

Belfast to Derry is one of the world’s greatest road trips. Travelling around the spectacular Causeway Coast is ranked among the world’s five greatest road trips. This book features a selection of the stunning sights and places along the causeway coast. From the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge to the Giant’s Causeway, from the Bushmills Distillery to the Dunluce Castle. This beautiful and engaging book is filled with photographs of famous sites as well as hidden gems.

The Irish Pregnancy Book

Books from the Attic

A Guide for Expectant Mothers

Alice Taylor Emma Byrne

Dr Peter Boylan Dr Jenny Walsh

$29.99 • Hardback • 256 pages 5.3 x 8.5 inches • December 2020 BIO026000 • 978-1-78-849214-0

$24.99 • Paperback • 232 pages 7.5 x 9.3 inches • 17 Diagrams; 12 Halftones, black and white • July 2020 HEA041000 • 978-1-78-849186-0

Having a baby is an exciting and challenging experience, and every birth and every baby is unique. The Irish Pregnancy Book is a user-friendly reference for expectant mothers to turn to time and time again. Using clear language, Dr Peter Boylan and Dr Jennifer Walsh explain what happens in pregnancy, how to care for your health and your baby’s, how your baby grows month by month, and what to expect during labour and delivery. Each chapter contains answers to frequently asked questions. The essential guide to having a baby in Ireland

Alice Taylor takes a look back at the well-used schoolbooks she used in her youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Flicking through the pages of the books and recalling poetry and prose she learned at school, Alice reminisces about these texts, how she related to them and how they integrated with her life on the farm and in the village. In her warm, wise way, Alice reflects on poems and stories on topics ranging from birds, trees and nature to fairy tales and legends, and ties them in with her own knowledge and memory of traditional country life. Containing the text of the poems that readers will remember from their own school days, and evocatively illustrated with photographs of the school books and Alice’s notes on them, as well as nature, flora, fauna and objects associated with schools of old, this is a reminder of childhood days and a treasure trove of memory.

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The O’Brien Press z • •z Papillote Press Gaelic Spirit

Pat Doherty

Field of Dreams ... Home of History

From Stones to Great Buildings

Gerard Siggins

Richard Curran

$12.99 • Paperback • 192 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • Currently Available YAF059000 • 978-1-78-849185-3 The O'Brien Press

$39.99 • Hardback • 288 pages 6.1 x 9 inches • December 2020 BIO003000 • 978-1-78-849190-7 The O'Brien Press

The summer is full of fun as the boys all get into playing GAA—well, apart from Alan, who’s more into studying the opposition, and checking out the GAA stats. Eoin and Dylan take part in a hurling and football blitz against other clubs in the county and find some of the skills they’ve developed in rugby translate well to their native sports. The lads also have a bit of fun setting up a gardening business with their new teammates Vladis and Isaac to make some money. Everything is going well, so Eoin isn’t sure why he bumps into his old ghostly friend, Brian Hanrahan—along with the ghost of Michael Hogan, who died in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday. Usually when ghosts appear to Eoin it is because there’s something brewing. Some mystery or danger! The only thing going wrong in Ormondstown seems to be a bit of trouble with a gang of bullies. But Eoin and Dylan have handled the bullies—or have they?

At age fourteen, Pat Doherty started working as a builder for his uncle in Buncrana, County Donegal. With four years’ experience, he left with several friends to find work in England at the age of nineteen. They worked for Wimpey to begin with, but by the time he was twenty-two, Pat had his own business supplying brickwork and carpentry to building contractors. Building by building, Pat built an empire that became the family-owned Harcourt Developments, employing over 1,500 people. With properties in nine countries and a string of major developments, they are probably best known for the regeneration of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. Always understated and shy of the limelight that many developers thrive on, he survived economic crashes in London in the 1970s and NAMA after Ireland’s economic collapse. Pat believes in the importance of art, culture and society, and has been painted by Lucien Freud.

Riff

Guabancex

The Shake Keane Story

Celia A. Sorhaindo

Philip Nanton

$9.00 • Paperback • 36 pages 5.8 x 8.2 inches • Currently Available POE012000 • 978-1-99-977687-9 Papillote Press

$13.00 • Paperback • 150 pages 5 x 7.6 inches • 10 B&W photos December 2020 • BIO005000 978-1-9997768-9-3 Papillote Press

Riff explores the turbulent life of the Caribbean musician and poet Shake Keane (1927-97). A wanderer, he absorbed many of the themes of the 20th century—colonialism, migration and masculinity. Each of them found expression in his work. Born in St Vincent, he migrated to London in the early 1950s where he became an important figure in the free form jazz scene. A return to his birthplace was blighted by politics, and his last decades were spent in New York City and Norway where he experienced a degree of emotional peace despite financial difficulties. This biography reveals the many features of the life of this trend-setting but troubled Caribbean icon.

On 18 September 2017, a category 5 hurricane, the worst in recorded history, hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. Hurricane Maria destroyed lives and land. Nothing would be the same again. Guabancex, the first published collection of poems by Celia A. Sorhaindo, explores the complex mix of experiences and emotions, both during and after the event.

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Pen & Sword History • Pen z & Sword Archaeology The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

King Arthur

Brutus of Troy

Man or Myth

And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

Tony Sullivan

Raoul McLaughlin

Anthony Adolph $32.95 • Hardback 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS015000 978-1-52-676367-9

$26.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 18 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS002020 978-1-52-677108-7

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria and consider trade ventures through the Tarim territories that led Roman merchants to Han China.

Living on the Edge of Empire

Egyptomaniacs How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Epypt

The Objects and People of Hadrian’s Wall

The book covers the story of Britain’s search for its identity before and after the arrival of Christianity, leading up to the invention of the seeds of the Brutus myth in the 600s AD. It charts the development of his myth into a fully blown adventure story under the pen of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 1100s. It then explores Brutus's story through the Middle Ages, as the centerpiece of Britain’s national consciousness and an important tool in royal and national propaganda and foreign policy (i.e. his myth was used as an excuse for invading Wales and Scotland).

How to Survive in Ancient Greece Robert Garland

Nicky Nielsen

Rob Collins $49.95 • Hardback • 168 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 300 Illustrations • August 2020 SOC003000 • 978-1-78-346327-5

$34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 15 color illustrations • November 2020 HIS009000 • 978-1-52-675401-1

Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian’s Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly illustrated volume showcases the artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations along Hadrian’s Wall in order to examine the daily lives of those living along the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Presented by theme, no other book offers such a diverse and thorough range of the rich material culture of the Wall.

The book is an investigation of the evidence for King Arthur based on the earliest written sources rather than later myths and legends. The evidence is laid out in a chronological order starting from Roman Britain and shows how the legend evolved and at what point concepts such as Camelot, Excalibur and Merlin were added. It covers the historical records from the end of Roman Britain using contemporary sources such as they are, from 400–800, including Gallic Chronicles, Gildas and Bede.

$22.95 • Paperback 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 70 black and white illustrations • December 2020 FIC032000 • 978-1-52-678180-2

In Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed With Ancient Egypt, Egyptologist Dr Nicky Nielsen examines the popular view of Egypt as an exotic, esoteric, mystical culture obsessed with death and overflowing with mummies and pyramids. The book traces our obsession with ancient Egypt throughout history and methodically investigates, explains and strips away some of the most popular misconceptions about the Pharaohs and their civilization

$26.95 • Paperback • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations August 2020 HIS002010 • 978-1-52-675470-7 Robert Garland lives in New York

Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair done? Who would you go to if you got ill, or if you were mugged in the street? All these questions, and many more, will be answered in this new how-to guide for time travelers. Part self-help guide, part survival guide, this lively and engaging book will help the reader deal with the many problems and new experiences that they will face, and also help them to thrive in this strange new environment.

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The Peasants’ Revolting Lives Terry Deary $19.95 • Paperback • 168 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • August 2020 • HIS015000 978-1-52-674561-3

‘Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.’ - Benjamin Disraeli Today we are aware of the habits, thoughts and feelings of the rich, because historians write about them endlessly. The poor are largely ignored and, as a result, their contributions to our modern world are forgotten. Here, skilled raconteur TERRY DEARY takes us back through the centuries with a poignant but humorous look at how life treated the ordinary people who scratched out a living at the very bottom of society. Born into poverty, their world was one of foul food, terrible toilets, danger, disease and death—the last usually premature. Wryly told tales of deprivation, exploitation, sickness, mortality, warfare and religious oppression all fill these pages. Discover the story of the teacher turned child-catcher who rounded up local waifs and strays before putting them to work. Read all about the agricultural workers who escaped the clutches of the Black Death only to be thwarted by lordly landowners. Follow as hundreds of children descend into the inky depths of hazardous coal mines.

Robin Hood The Life and Legend of An Outlaw Stephen Basdeo $19.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6 x 9.5 inches 32 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS015000 • 978-1-52-675758-6

Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor. His story has been re-imagined many times throughout the centuries. Readers will be introduced to some of the candidates who are thought to have been the real Robin Hood, before journeying into the fifteenth century and learning about the various ‘rymes of Robyn Hode’ that were in existence. This book then shows how Robin Hood was first cast as an earl in the sixteenth century, before discussing his portrayals as a brutish criminal in the eighteenth century. Then learn how Robin Hood became the epitome of an English gentleman in the Victorian era, before examining how he became an Americanized, populist hero fit for the silver screen during the twentieth century. Thus, this book will take readers on a journey through 800 years of English cultural and literary history by examining how the legend of Robin Hood has developed over time.

The 1066 Norman Bruisers How European Thugs Became English Gentry Helen Kay $42.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.5 inches 32 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS037010 • 978-1-52-675938-2

In 1066 go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz Tezzo crossed the Channel in William the Conqueror’s army. Little did he know that it would take five years to vanquish the English, years in which the Normans suffered almost as much as the people they had set out to subdue. For the English, the Norman Conquest was an unmitigated disaster, killing thousands by the sword or starvation. But for Osbern and his compatriots, it brought territory and treasure— and a generational evolution they could never have imagined. Successive members of the Boydell family fought for monarchs and magnates, oversaw royal garrisons, traveled abroad as agents of the crown and helped to administer the laws of the land. When they weren’t strutting across the stage of northwestern England, mingling with great men and participating in great events, they engaged in feuds, embarked on illicit love affairs and exerted their influence in the small corner of the country they had made their own. By 1378, when William Boydell died from wounds sustained in combat, the nation he defended was England and the enemy he opposed dwelled just forty miles from the place where Osbern had probably grown up.

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Frontline Books • Pen z & Sword Military English Collusion and the Norman Conquest

An Alternative History of Britain

Arthur C Wright

Timothy Venning

The Tudors

$39.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • December 2020 • HIS037010 • 978-1-52-677370-8

In English Collusion and the Norman Conquest, Arthur Wright’s second book on the Norman Conquest, he argues that this monarch has received an undeserved reputation bestowed on him by clerics ignorant alike of warfare, politics, economics and of the secular world, men writing half a century after events reported to them by doubtful sources. How much of this popular legend was actually created by an avaricious Church? Was he just a lucky, brutal soldier, or was he instead a gifted English King who could meld cultures and talents? This is a tale of blood, deceit, ambition and power politics.

Murder During the Hundred Year War The Curious Case of Sir William Cantilupe

Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the Tudor period, though he also strays over into the early Stuart period. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely results. While necessarily speculative to a degree, the scenarios are all highly plausible and rooted in a firm understanding of actually events and their context.

A History Of The Dukes of Bolton 1600–1815 Love Loyalty Joanne Major Sarah Murden

Melissa Julian-Jones $49.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 32 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • TRU002000 • 978-1-52-675079-2

In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. As the case progressed, fifteen members of his household were indicted for murder, and his armor-bearer and butler were convicted. Through the lens of this murder and its context, this book explores violence, social norms and deviance, and crime and punishment ‘at home’ during the Hundred Years War.

$22.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 1 black and white map • September 2020 • FIC040000 • 978-1-52-678192-5

$39.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations Dec 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-47-386350-7

Discover over two hundred years of fascinating history relating to one of Great Britain’s foremost aristocratic dynasties, the (Orde-) Powletts, for several generations the Dukes of Bolton. The family motto, Love Loyalty, references their devotion to the monarchy, but it applies equally to their hearts. Willing to risk all in the pursuit of love, this is the previously untold story of the Dukes of Bolton and their ancestors.

Living in Medieval England The Turbulent Year of 1326 Kathryn Warner $34.95 • Hardback 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-52-675405-9

1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of mercenaries to destroy her husband’s powerful and detested lover, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and brought down her husband King Edward II in the process. It was also a year, however, when the majority of English people carried on living their normal, ordinary lives. Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326 tells the true and fascinating stories of the men and women alive in England in this most eventful year, narrated chronologically with a chapter devoted to each month.

The Nonconformist Revolution Religious Dissent, Innovation and Rebellion Amanda Thomas $49.95 • Paperback • 280 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-47-387567-8

The Nonconformist Revolution explores the evolution of dissenting thought and how Nonconformity shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialized society. The foundations for the Industrial Revolution were in place from the late Middle Ages when the early development of manufacturing processes and changes in the structure of rural communities began to provide opportunities for economic and social advancement.

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Pen & Sword z • z History Empress Alexandra The Special Relationship Between Russia’s Last Tsarina and Queen Victoria Melanie Fay

The Daughters of George III

Alix, the youngest of Alice’s daughters and allegedly one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe, was a special favorite of the elderly queen, who hoped that she would marry her cousin Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and one day reign beside him as Queen. However, the spirited and stubborn Alix had other ideas…

In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Though more than fifteen years divided the births of the eldest sister from the youngest, these princesses all shared a longing for escape. Faced with their father’s illness and their mother’s dominance, for all but one a life away from the seclusion of the royal household seemed like an unobtainable dream.

Victoria Owens $49.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations December 2020 • BIO003000 978-1-52-676881-0

When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage, husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much adventure. Over the years, she made the keenest observation of iron production, the fluctuations of the trade and the engineering innovations that touched upon its developments. When John died in 1852, she was therefore uniquely well-placed to succeed him as head of the works.

Catherine Curzon

Catherine Curzon $39.95 • Hardback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS058000 978-1-47-389753-3

The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist

The Finest Queen Britain Never Had

Sisters and Princesses

$39.95 • Hardback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations December 2020 • BIO022000 978-1-52-672387-1

Lady Charlotte Guest

Sophia— Mother of Kings

$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • BIO014000 978-1-52-676298-6

When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privilege, she hated the groom she called “pig snout” and wept at news of her engagement. In the austere court of Hanover, the vibrant young princess found herself ignored and unwanted. Bewildered by dusty protocol and regarded as a necessary evil by her husband, Sophia Dorothea grew lonely as he gallivanted with his mistress under her nose.

Elizabeth I

Marie Antoinette’s Confidante

The Making of a Queen Laura Brennan

The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

$34.95 • Hardback 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations August 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-52-671457-2

Elizabeth I is arguably one of the greatest monarchs and women of English history. Against an uncertain political and religious backdrop of post-reformation Europe she ruled at the conception of social modernization, living in the shadow of the infamy of her parents reputations and striving to prove herself an equal to the monarchs who had gone before her. This book seeks to explore some of the key events of her life both before and after she ascended to the English throne in late 1558. By looking at the history of these selected events, as well as investigating the influence of various people in her life, this book sets out to explain Elizabeth’s decisions, both as a queen and as a woman.

Geri Walton $26.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • BIO014000 • 978-1-52-678153-6 Geri Walton lives in California

Marie Antoinette has always fascinated readers worldwide. Yet perhaps no one knew her better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thrse, the Princess de Lamballe. The Princess became superintendent of the Queens household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, a unique perspective of the lavishness and daily intrigue at Versailles is exposed. As the plotters and planners of Versailles sought, at all costs, to gain the favor of Louis XVI and his Queen, the Princess de Lamballe was there to witness it all.

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Pen & Sword z History A History of Death in 17th Century England

A Date with the Hangman A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

Ben Norman

Gary Dobbs

$24.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • December 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-52-675526-1

$19.95 • Paperback • 152 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 15 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS015000 978-1-52-676740-0

Death was a constant presence in the lives of the rich and poor alike in seventeenth-century England, being much more visible in everyday existence than it is today. This book guides readers through the subject using a chronological approach, as would have been experienced by those living in the country at the time, beginning with the myriad causes of death, including disease, war, and capital punishment, and finishing with an exploration of posthumous commemoration. Although contemporaries of the seventeenth century did not fully realize it, when it came to the confrontation of mortality they were living in wildly changing times.

Ladies of Magna Carta

Joan, Lady of Wales

Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England Sharon Bennett Connolly $49.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 color illustrations • August 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-52-674525-5

Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. Matilda was not the only woman who influenced, or was influenced by, the 1215 Charter of Liberties, now known as Magna Carta.

It is a sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain’s courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for a number of offenses; both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, the death penalty, in theory at least, remained for a number of offenses. During the twentieth century, 865 people were executed in Britain, and of those only 3 were ever posthumously pardoned. This book details each and every one of those executions, and in many cases highlights the crimes that brought these men and women to the gallows.

Power and Politics of King John’s Daughter Danna R Messer $39.95 • Hardback 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 illustrations • December 2020 BIO022000 • 978-1-52-672929-3

The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joan’s is a known, but little-told or understood story.

Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty 1685–1715 Julian Whitehead $39.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 15 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS027000 978-1-52-674852-2

King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the rebellion by his nephew the Duke of Monmouth. In just over three years James had been deserted by those he loved and trusted and had to flee to France in exile. His throne was seized by his son-in-law and daughter, and when they died, his younger daughter succeeded. For James it was a personal tragedy of King Lear proportions; for most of his subjects it was a ‘Glorious Revolution’ that saved his kingdoms from Popery.

Women of Power in AngloSaxon England Annie Whitehead $49.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS058000 • 978-1-52-674811-9

Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one, yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or his mother who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of witchcraft and regicide. Anglo-Saxon women were prized for their bloodlines—one had such rich blood that it sparked a war—and one was appointed regent of a foreign country. Royal mothers wielded power; Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons.

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Pen & Sword z • z History Cholera The Victorian Plague Amanda J. Thomas $24.95 • Paperback 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS015060 978-1-52-678181-9

Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda Thomas uses firs-hand accounts, blending personal stories with an overview of the history of the disease and its devastating aftereffects on British society. This fascinating history of a catastrophic disease uncovers forgotten stories from each of the major cholera outbreaks in 1831–3, 1848–9, 1853–4 and 1866.

Heroes and Villains of the British Empire Their Lives and Legends Stephen Basdeo $24.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • Integrated black and white illustrations October 2020 • HIS051000 • 978-1-52-674939-0

From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world’s surface. The common saying was that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. What began as a largely entrepreneurial enterprise in the early modern period, with privately run joint stock trading companies such as the East India Company driving British commercial expansion, by the nineteenth century had become, especially after 1857, a state-run endeavor, supported by a powerful military and navy. By the Victorian era, Britannia really did rule the waves.

Hunting the Last Great Pirate

Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia Brother and Sister of History’s Most Vilified Family

Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star Michael Edward Ashton Ford $39.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS057000 • 978-1-52-676930-5

In 1827 the Duke of Wellington—former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister—ordered the withdrawal of British soldiers from the island of Ceylon after years of bloody conflict there. English cargo vessels, including the unarmed English Quaker ship Morning Star, were dispatched to sail to Colombo to repatriate wounded British soldiers and a cargo of sealed crates containing captured treasure.

Samantha Morris $39.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • December 2020 • BIO014000 978-1-52-672440-3

Myths and rumor have shrouded the Borgia family for centuries—tales of incest, intrigue and murder have been told of them since they themselves walked the hallways of the Apostolic Palace. In particular, vicious rumor and slanderous tales have stuck to the names of two members of the infamous Borgia family—Cesare and Lucrezia, brother and sister of history’s most notorious family. But how much of it is true, and how much of it is simply rumor aimed to blacken the name of the Borgia family?

Life in the Victorian Asylum The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care

Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica

Mark Stevens

James Hamilton

$24.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 25 black and white illustrations • October 2020 PSY018000 • 978-1-52-678209-0

$42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 color & black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS057000 • 978-1-52-675357-1

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the thousands of ordinary people who experienced Victorian mental health care? Life in the Victorian Asylum is the story of those ordinary people. It details their daily routine, the treatments they were offered and the rules to which they had to conform. Immerse yourself in the period detail of ward life. Meet the staff and other patients. Seek a diagnosis for your illness. Tour the hospital and take part in the activities on offer.

During parts of his three voyages in the southern Pacific and Southern Oceans, Cook ‘narrowed the options’ for the location of Antarctica. Over three summers, he completed a circumnavigation of portions of the Southern Continent, encountering impenetrable barriers of ice, and he suggested the continent existed, a frozen land not populated by a living soul. Yet his Antarctic voyages are perhaps the least studied of all his remarkable travels. That is why James Hamilton’s gripping and scholarly study is such an original and timely addition to the literature on Cook and eighteenth-century exploration.

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Pen & Sword History •zPen & Sword Military Gender and Sexuality in Ireland John Gibney

Life in Miniature A History of Dolls’ Houses Nicola Lisle

$24.95 • Paperback 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • July 2020 HEA042000 • 978-1-52-676955-8

$39.95 • Hardback 184 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 50 plus color & black and white illustrations • December 2020 • CRA056000 • 978-1-52-675181-2

The history of sexuality in Ireland remains relatively understudied when compared with the more well-worn paths of political and military history, but that is not to say that it has never been considered. Now, in the fourth installment of the ‘Irish perspectives’ collaboration between Pen and Sword and History Ireland, a range of experts explore Irish history from the perspective of the broad concept of sexuality, in both theory and practice.

Popular in Britain since the late seventeenth century, dolls’ houses are tiny slices of social history that give us a fascinating glimpse into domestic life over the last 300 years. In this beautifully-illustrated book, Nicola Lisle explores the origins and history of dolls’ houses and their furnishings, from the earliest known dolls’ house in sixteenth-century Bavaria to the present, and looks at how they reflect the architecture, fashions, social attitudes, innovations and craftsmanship of their day. She discusses the changing role of dolls’ houses and highlights significant events and people to give historical context.

The Irish Diaspora John Gibney

$34.95 • Hardback 136 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 64 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS018000 978-1-52-673683-3

Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produced emigrants. The existence of the Irish ‘diaspora’ is the subject of this fifth installment of the ‘Irish perspectives’ collaboration between Pen and Sword and History Ireland. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Americas and Australia, this anthology explores the lives and experiences of Irish educators, missionaries, soldiers, insurgents, from those who simply sought a better life overseas to those with little choice in the matter, and who established an Irish presence across the globe as they did so.

The Irish War of Independence and Civil War John Gibney $24.95 • Paperback 168 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS018000 978-1-52-675798-2

In the aftermath of the First World War, a political revolution took place in what was then the United Kingdom. Such upheavals were common in postwar Europe, as new states came into being and new borders were forged. What made the revolution in the UK distinctive is that it took place within one of the victor powers, rather than any of their defeated enemies. In the years after the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland, a new independence movement had emerged, and in 1918-19 the political party Sinn Féin and its paramilitary partner, the Irish Republican Army, began a political struggle and an armed uprising against British rule.

Georgian Recipes and Remedies A Country Lady’s Household Handbook Michael J Rochford $29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-52-672729-9

Discover the recipes for Mrs. Rooke’s Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord’s Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries “as green as they grow” and make Sir Theodore Colladon’s Peach Flower Syrup. Feast on Lady St. Quintin’s Dutch Pudding and Mrs. Eall’s Candied Cowslips. Then wash it all down with Lady Strickland’s Strong Mead or some Right Red Dutch Currant Wine. These are just some of the delightful Georgian recipes found in the receipt books of Sabine Winn, the eighteenth-century Swiss-born wife of Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet Nostell.

The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland Bryskett’s Cottage James Charles Roy $80.00 • Hardback • 640 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 19 color illustrations • November 2020 HIS018000 • 978-1-52-677072-1 James Charles Roy lives in MA

This is the story of the ‘First British Empire’—in Ireland—and of the perennial Irish Question dating from the middle ages which defeated Britain at the height of her imperial power. The Tudor period is crucial and the long-simmering problem came to the boil in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Ireland has been overshadowed by the huge events surrounding Tudor history but was central to Elizabeth’s foreign policy when Protestant England was threatened by the European Catholic superpowers—Spain and France— with Ireland as the backdoor for invasion.

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Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade

Captain John Smith, Adventurer

A History of British Baking

The Operations of the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron 1807–1867

Piracy, Pocahontas and Jamestown

From Blood Bread to Bake-Off

Anthony Sullivan $49.95 • Hardback • 400 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • Integrated maps • August 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-52-671793-1

Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain’s somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa’s west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain’s decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy’s ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans.

R E Pritchard $34.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • HIS051000 • 978-1-52-677362-3

Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old. He was one of the founders of the English settlement at Jamestown, where he faced considerable danger from the natives as well as from within the faction-ridden settlement itself. In fact, were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest. This swashbuckling Elizabethan adventurer was resourceful, intelligent and outspoken, with a vision of what America could become. In this riveting book, R.E. Pritchard tells the rip-roaring story of a remarkable man who refused to give in.

Emma Kay $49.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 100 black and white illustrations December 2020 • CKB004000 978-1-52-675748-7

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art has changed, evolved and progressed over time. Renowned food historian and author, Emma Kay, skillfully combines the related histories of Britain’s economy, innovation, technology, health, cultural and social trends with the personal stories of many of the individuals involved with the whole process: the early pioneers, the recipe writers, the cooks, the entrepreneurs. The result is a deliciously fascinating read, one that will prove to be juicer than the juiciest of juicy baked goods.

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Pen & Sword z History Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2

Mrs Despard and The Suffrage Movement

Ready for Action Lucy Adlington

Freedom League

$29.95 • Paperback • 296 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • September 2020 • HIS027100 978-1-52-676646-5

Suffragette Fascists Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers Simon Webb

$24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations Nov 2020 • BIO022000 • 978-1-52-676741-7

Charlotte Despard's name should be synonymous with those of Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett; instead, she remains overlooked. She fought for better and fairer living/working conditions for all, supporting adult suffrage before becoming heavily involved in the fight for votes for women.

A History of Magic and Witchcraft Sabbats, Satan and Superstitions in the West Frances Timbers

$29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • September 2020 • HIS058000 • 978-1-52675688-6

Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs Pankhurst and her Women’s Social and Political Union could be viewed as a proto-fascist movement; an idea likely to strike the modern reader as grotesque. Yet the WSPU certainly had much in common with the emerging fascist parties. The group was financed by wealthy and aristocratic backers, and terrorism, in the form of bombing and arson, was widely used against working-class men and women.

Founder of The Women’s

Lynne Graham-Matheson Helen Matheson-Pollock

Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action is a unique, illustrated insight into the experiences of women worldwide during World War Two and its aftermath. The history of ten tumultuous years is reflected in clothes, fashion, accessories and uniforms. As housewives, fighters, fashion designers or spies, women dressed the part when they took up their wartime roles. Attractive to a general reader as well as interesting to a specialist, the experiences of British women, is expanded to encompass every continent affected by war.

Stories of Indepen dent Women from 17th–20th Century

$22.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 color illustrations • Currently Available • SOC005000 • 978-1-52-675763-0

Broomsticks and cauldrons, familiars and spells: magic and witchcraft conjures a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and shines a light on the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world.

Genteel Women Who Did Not Marry Charlotte Furness $39.95 • Hardback • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches 32 black and white illustrations • November 2020 • HIS058000 • 978-1-52-670438-2

As the fight for women’s rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in which they lived. Some chose to be writers, some were successful business women, some chose to nurture and protect, some traveled the globe.

A History of the Medicines We Take From Ancient Times to Present Day Anthony C Cartwright N Anthony Armstrong $24.95 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • MED071000 • 978-1-52-672403-8

Here is a lively account of the development of medicines from traces of herbs found with the remains of Neanderthal man, to prescriptions written on clay tablets from Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC, to pure drugs extracted from plants in the nineteenth century to the latest biotechnology antibody products.

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Pen & Sword FamilyzHistory / Social History •z A Guide to Tracing Your Family History using the Census Emma Jolly $29.95 • Paperback • 200 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations Sept 2020 • REF013000 • 978-1-52-675522-3

The census is an essential survey of our population, and it is a source of basic information for local and national government and for various organizations dealing with education, housing, health and transport. Providing the researcher with a fascinating insight into who we were in the past, Emma Jolly’s new handbook is a useful tool for anyone keen to discover their family history. With detailed, accessible and authoritative coverage, it is full of advice on how to explore and get the most from the records.

Tracing Your Theatrical Ancestors A Guide for Family Historians Katharine M Cockin $29.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • December 2020 • REF013000 978-1-52-673205-7

Katharine Cockin’s handbook provides a fascinating introduction for readers searching for information about ancestors who had clearly defined roles in the world of the theater and performance as well as those who left only a few tantalizing clues behind. The wider history of public performance is outlined, from its earliest origins in church rituals and mystery plays through periods of censorship driven by campaigns on moral and religious grounds up to the modern world of stage and screen.

Tracing Your Poor Ancestors

Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet

A Guide for Family Historians Stuart A Raymond $29.95 • Paperback • 200 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • REF013000 • 978-1-52-674293-3

A Guide for Family Historians

Many people in the past—perhaps a majority— were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Raymond’s handbook is the ideal guide to them. He examines the history of the poor and how they survived. Some were supported by charity. A few were lucky enough to live in an almshouse. Many had to depend on whatever the poor law overseers gave them. Others were forced into the Union workhouse. Some turned to a life of crime. Vagrants were whipped and poor children were apprenticed by the overseers or by a charity.

$26.95 • Paperback • 184 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations • August 2020 • REF013000 • 978-1-52-676838-4

Chris Paton

In Tracing Scottish Family History on the Internet, Chris Paton expertly guides the family historian through the many Scottish records offerings available, but also cautions the reader that not every record is online, providing detailed advice on how to use web based finding aids to locate further material across the country and beyond. He also examines social networking and the many DNA platforms that are currently further revolutionizing online Scottish research.

Children at Sea

Beatrix Potter

Lives Shaped by the Waves

Her Inner World

Vyvyen Brendon $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations Sept 2020 • HIS057000 • 978-1-52-677242-8

Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent ‘home’ from India or those packed off to English boarding schools at the age of seven, the subjects of Vyvyen Brendon’s previous books. Captured slaves, child migrants and transported convicts faced an ocean passage leading nearly always to lifelong exile in distant lands. Boys apprenticed as merchant seamen, or enlisted as powder monkeys, or signed on as midshipmen, usually progressed to a nautical career fraught with danger and broken only by fleeting periods of home leave. “Solitary among numbers”, as Admiral Collingwood described himself, they could be not just physically at risk but psychologically adrift—at sea in more ways than one.

Andrew Norman $22.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations Dec 2020 • BIO022000 • 978-1-52-677496-5

Even before she emerged from the cot in her nursery Beatrix Potter was up against it. With her prodigious memory she recalled being placed under the tyranny of a cross old nurse who introduced her to witches, fairies and the creed of the terrible John Calvin. More sadness followed. She had no siblings of her own age and was brought up virtually in isolation. She was afflicted by two most unpleasant illnesses one of which has not previously been recognized—and she found herself often at odds with her mother. She also had a love affair that ended tragically. Yet, she grew up to become one of the most original of children’s authors whose books are as popular today as they were when they were first published almost a century ago.

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Air World • Pen & SwordzHistory • Frontline Books Britannia Airways

Safety is No Accident– From ‘V’ Bombers to Concorde

The World’s Largest Holiday Airline Graham M Simons

A Flight Test Engineer’s Story John R W Smith

$49.95 • Hardback 320 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches •175 color illustrations December 2020 TRA002000 • 978-1-52-675878-1

Founded in 1961 as Euravia by British businessman Ted Langton and aviation consultant J.E.D. Walker, at a time of considerable turmoil for the independent sector of the British air operators’ industry, Britannia Airways went on to become the world’s largest holiday airline. By 1972, Britannia had developed to such a degree that it was the biggest of the British independent charter airlines. It was also a groundbreaking operation—during the late 1960s, it became the first charter airline to offer assigned seating, as well as hot in-flight meals.

$49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 98 color & black and white illustrations Sept 2020 • BIO015000 • 978-1-52-676944-2

Numerous books have been written by Test Pilots, but few, if any, from the perspective of an Aeronautical Engineer working as Flight Test Observer/Engineer in partnership with the Test Pilot. This book is an account of the author’s flight-testing career, from the 1960s to early 1980s, at Avro and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). It is because of such people that the millions of flights undertaken each year are trouble-free.

Ian Fleming’s Inspiration The Truth Behind the Books Edward Abel Smith $34.95 • Hardback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations Aug 2020 PER004000 • 978-1-52-675769-2

In this book, we go through the plots of Fleming’s novels explaining the real life experiences that inspired them. The reader is taken on a journey through Fleming’s direct involvement in World War II intelligence and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond’s world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming’s life which were also taken as inspiration. Most notably, the friends who Fleming kept, among whom were Noel Coward and Randolph Churchill and the influential people he would mingle with, British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.

Britain’s Wartime Evacuees

The Undying Flame

Secret War Against the Arts

Gillian Mawson

Nigel McCrery

Richard Knott

$29.95 • Paperback 24 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations August 2020 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-678151-2

$34.95 • Paperback 256 pages • 6 x 9.25 240 b/w images July 2021 • HIS027100 • 978-1-52-674062-5

$49.95 • Hardback 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 38 black & white photographs • December 2020 • HIS015000 • 978-1-52-677031-8

Hundreds of thousands of school children, and mothers with babies and infants, were removed from their homes and families, and sent to live with strangers in distant rural areas and to entirely unfamiliar environments. Some children were also sent to countries of the Commonwealth, such as Canada and Australia. The evacuations had an enormous impact upon millions of individuals, both those that were evacuated and those that had to accommodate and care for the displaced multitude. Over the course of eight years research Gillian Mawson has interviewed hundreds of evacuees from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Among thr carnage of World War II were hundreds of individuals of all nations who had competed in Olympic Games. Imagine the loss of so many of the world’s greatest sportsmen and women of the present era. The author has painstakingly researched the lives, achievements and circumstances of death of almost five hundred athletes of the period. While many were household names at the time, this exceptional work honors these fallen Olympians and reminds us of the futility and wastefulness of war.

During the 1930s, the British Intelligence agencies became increasingly concerned about Communist influence in the country. They reacted by spying on thousands of ordinary British citizens. Amongst them were many artists and writers who, in tune with ‘the spirit of the times’, had become sympathetic to left-wing causes, most notably the Spanish Civil War. Telephones were bugged, post opened, homes searched and people encouraged to report suspicious behavior—all reminiscent of the East German Stasi.

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z & Sword Military Pen & Sword Historyz •• Pen Churchill and Eden

1920

Partners Through War and Peace

A Year of Global Turmoil

David Charlwood

$39.95 • Hardback • 296 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • December 2020 POL000000 • 978-1-52-674489-0

$22.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 20 black and white illustrations • August 2020 HIS037030 • 978-1-52-676717-2

Friends, rivals, confidants: for more than two decades, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden worked closely together. But while one is revered as a great leader and national icon, the other is remembered as the architect of Britain’s worst foreign policy failure.

Violent uprisings are tearing apart the Middle East, nationalism is on the march in Europe and an unlikely presidential candidate is running for election in the US on a populist platform to put ‘America first’. The year is 1920.

Churchill and Eden tells the story of the relationship between two men who led Britain through war and peace. The narrative ranges from the sunny south of France to the deserts of Africa and the jungles of Vietnam, covering the eras of the Second World War, the decline of Britain’s Empire and the coming of the Cold War—and reveals a new perspective on the lives and decision-making of two of the most well known political figures of the Twentieth Century

1920: A Year of Global Turmoil tells the story of twelve months that set in motion one hundred years of history. From America to Asia, the events of 1920 foreshadowed the decline of empires, the coming of another global conflict and the rise of an American president who would change his country’s relationship with the world. Weaving personal accounts with grand narrative, it vividly illuminates a past which echoes the present.

Radio Broadcasting

Great Escape Forger

A History of the Airwaves Gordon Bathgate $24.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.25 inches • 40 black and white illustrations • December 2020 TEC061000 • 978-1-52-676940-4

2020 marks the centenary of Marconi’s experimental transmissions and this book seeks to commemorate this anniversary. The book examines the history of radio and traces its development from theories advanced by James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz to the first practical demonstrations by Guglielmo Marconi. It looks back to the pioneering broadcasts of the BBC, examines the development of broadcast networks in North America and around the world. It spotlights radio’s role in the Second World War. The book also features the radio programs and radio personalities that made a considerable impact on the listeners during the ‘Golden Era’. It also examines how radio, faced by competition from its electronic progenitor—television, adapted and survived. Indeed radio has continued to thrive despite increased competition from mobile phones, computers, mp3 players and smart speakers. The book looks to the future and speculates how radio will fare in a multi-platform future.

The Work of Carl Holmstrom—POW #221. An Artist in Stalag Luft III Susan Holmstrom $34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 color & black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS027100 • 978-1-52-676798-1 Susan Holmstrom Kohnwich Lives in FL

Carl Holmstrom’s superb artwork depicts life as a ‘kriegie’ in a unique manner. But, more than that, he spent the major part of his captivity in Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp, famous for ‘The Great Escape’. The audacity of the 76 escapees was only matched by the callousness of the Nazis who murdered 50 after recapture. As well as skillfully recording camp life, Carl forged invaluable official documents. He also sketched his fellow prisoners and encouraged others to take up drawing as hobby. Remarkably he saved over 200 examples of his work by carrying them on the appallingly arduous 1945 winter march from Poland into Germany. Post war, Carl Holmstrom said, “The drawings were made during imprisonment and represent a sincere effort to portray to the American people and especially to the relatives of the prisoners, intimate glimpses of Kriegie life.” His words proved to be prophetic.

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Pen & Sword Transport •zPen & Sword True Crime Classic Car Museum Guide

George and Robert Stephenson

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Machinery

Pioneer Inventors and Engineers

Robin Jones

Lance Cole

Anthony Burton

$42.95 • Hardback • 240 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 100 color & black and white illustrations Sept 2020 • TRA001000 • 978-1-52-673587-4

$49.95 • Hardback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 50 black and white illustrations Dec 2020 • TRA004000 • 978-1-52-675498-1

$34.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • 150 color illustrations • December 2020 BIO003000 • 978-1-52-678369-1

A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history. Written by a long-established motoring writer with wide experience of driving and the fettling of old cars all over the world. This new motor museum companion includes: British motoring and transport museums guide via descriptions and photographs. 90 British museums described. Comprehensive world motor museum listing: over 350 global museums cited.

This is a new biography of two great British engineering pioneers, who did much to develop the world we now live in. George and Robert Stephenson, were at the forefront of early railways and were at the cutting edge of modern engineering history. Industrial historian Anthony Burton looks into these two giants of the late Georgian and early Victorian age, who were responsible for the development of much of the early railway map in both Britain and other parts of the world.

The three decades, from the 1830s to the 1850s, saw an explosion of technical excellence, and it was Brunel who in so many cases lit the blue touch paper. He did not always get it right first time, and it was left to others to reap the fruits of his many labors. Nevertheless, his actions fast-forwarded the march of progress by several decades.

Donald Hume Notorious Bank Robber and Double Murderer

From the Flying Squad to Investigating War Crimes

Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad

Jonathan Oates

Ron Turnbull

Dick Kirby

$29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 30 black and white illustrations Aug 2020 • TRU002000 • 978-1-52-676966-4

$19.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations • September 2020 MED030000 • 978-1-52-676647-2

$29.95 • Paperback 288 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 integrated black and white illustrations • September 2020 HIS015000 • 978-1-52-675217-8

The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing car dealer Stanley Setty to death, of cutting up his corpse and dropping his body parts from an airplane. He then fled Switzerland, taking up with a Swiss woman in Zurich, but he needed money to finance his lavish lifestyle and he returned to robbery. He carried out two armed robberies, shooting a member of the bank staff, but getting clean away. Then in 1959 his attempt to rob a bank failed and he shot dead a bystander. Arrested, he stood trial and was sentenced to life, but was later deemed criminally insane and was returned to Britain and to prison.

For over ten years he was first detective on the scene when a murder was committed in south London. In the confusion and horror of the crime scene he identified the forensic clues that would later be needed to convict the killer in the calm and measured atmosphere of the Old Bailey; calling out the necessary experts from pathologists to ballistics specialists; protecting the scene against contamination. One slip and a case would crumble; one moment of inspiration and the Yard would have its man.

Since 1919, Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London’s streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most sophisticated surveillance and crime-fighting equipment. As crime figures soared in the 1950s and ‘60s the Flying Squad, as C8 Department was now known became involved in the most serious cases nationwide—The Great Train Robbery, Brink’s Mat, The Millennium Dome and Hatton Garden heists.

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z • zTrue Crime Pen & Sword

Unsolved London Murders

Serial Killers The World’s Most Evil

Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad

The 1920s & 1930s

Nigel Blundell

Dick Kirby

Jonathan Oates

$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations August 2020 • TRU002010 • 978-1-52-678174-1

$49.95 • Hardback • 264 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations September 2020 • POL014000978-1-52676533-8

$24.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 60 black and white illustrations November 2020 • HIS015000 978-1-52-678343-1

Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into outdated police methods, and the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed—all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. In this companion volume to his best-selling Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London, Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 haunting, sometimes shocking cases from the period between the two world wars. Included are the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury, violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies, the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly, the strychnine poisoning of egg-seller Kusel Behr, the killing by arsenic of three members of a Croydon family, and, perhaps most gruesome of all, the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. Jonathan Oates describes each of these crimes in precise, forensic detail. His case studies shed light on the lives of the victims and summon up the ruthless, sometimes lethal character of London itself.

On an internationally acknowledged Scale of Evil, these are the worlds worst serial killers. The qualifications for entry to this list of the vilest criminals of all time are a propensity for sadism, torture and murder without a shred of remorse. Using expert evidence, this book looks behind the shocking headlines and delves into the minds of monsters. What drove them to crime? What turned seemingly ordinary members of society into sick slayers. How did they self-justify their heinous deeds? And, quite simply, how did they get away with murder? Included in this catalog of the worlds most evil killers are men who committed crimes so monstrous that they almost defy belief yet to their neighbors and work colleagues seemed quite normal. Dennis Rader was a respected pillar of society yet set out on nightly killing sprees. David Parker Ray was just an average working guy but had a torture chamber in his backyard. Fred and Rose West raised a large extended family yet violently abused and murdered their own children. These are examples of the killers who sank to the darkest depths of depravity. Find out what made them such monsters in Serial Killers: The Worlds Most Evil.

In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder inquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled—or indeed, any—detectives. Thus was born the Reserve Squad, or Murder Squad, as it later became known. Despite a reluctance by some forces to call upon The Met, the Murder Squad has proved its effectiveness on countless occasions with its remit extended to British territories overseas. A particularly sensitive case was the murder of a local superintendent on St Kitts and Nevis. A former Scotland Yard detective, the author uses his contacts and experiences to get the inside track on a gruesome collection of infamous cases. Child murderers, a Peer’s butler, a King’s housekeeper, gangsters, jealous spouses and the notorious mass murderer Dr Bodkin Adams compete for space in this spine-chilling and gripping book which is testament to the Murder Squad’s skills and ingenuity—and the evil of the perpetrators. Brimming with gruesome killings, this highly readable book proves that there is no substitute for old fashioned footwork and instinct.

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Penguin Random House South Africa z Night Skies of Botswana

The Zulus of New York

Includes Local Star Lore

Professor Zakes Mda $17.00 • Paperback 208 pages • 5.2 x 8.2 inches September 2020 • FIC014000 978-1-41-521015-4 Zakes Mda lives in Ohio

Stephen James O’Meara $17.00 • Paperback • 184 pages 5.8 x 8.3 inches • 270 color photographs • July 2020 NAT033000 • 978-1-77-584693-2

Botswana is one of the best locations in Africa to view wildlife and also—because of its relatively low levels of light pollution—the stars. This book introduces the night skies of the southern hemisphere as seen from Botswana, and describes the stars and constellations that are visible to the naked eye. The author discusses some essential stargazer’s tools and tips before mapping the southern skies in a series of monthly star charts that feature the most prominent stars and constellations. A chapter on the solar system—its planets, asteroids, meteroids and other ‘space junk’—presents in broad brushstrokes our corner of the visible universe. Dotted throughout the book are lively accounts of ancient African and European star lore, telling of the unfaltering connection over millennia between humans and the heavens above.

Pollinators, Predators & Parasites

Palaces of Stone Uncovering Ancient Southern African kingdoms

The Ecological Roles of Insects in Southern Africa

Mike Main Thomas Huffman

Clarke Scholtz Jenny Scholtz

$16.00 • Paperback • 176 pages • 5.83 x 8.26 inches • 170 illustrations • August 2020 TRV002000 • 978-1-77-584614-7

$37.95 • Paperback • 448 pages • 8.5 x 11 inches 2000 color photographs • December 2020 NAT037000 • 978-1-77-584555-3

Palaces of Stone brings to life the story of these early African societies, from AD 900 to approximately 1850. Some, such as Great Zimbabwe and Khami in Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe in South Africa, are famous world heritage sites, but the majority are unknown to the general public, unsung and unappreciated. Yet, the stone ruins that have survived tell a common story of innovative architecture and intricate stonework; flourishing local economies; long-distance travel; global trade; and emerging forms of political organization.

The Great Farini would stride on to the stage and announce, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, and now for the highlight of the day, the ferocious Zulus.’ The impresario Farini introduced Em-Pee and his troupe to his kind of show business, and now they must earn their bread. In 1885 in a bustling New York City, they are the performers who know the true Zulu dances, while all around them fraudsters perform silly jigs. Reports on the Anglo-Zulu War portrayed King Cetshwayo as infamous, and audiences in London and New York flock to see his kin. What the gawking spectators don’t know is that Em-Pee once carried nothing but his spear and shield, when he had to flee his king. But amid the city’s squalid vaudeville acts appears a vision that leaves Em-Pee breathless: in a cage in Madison Square Park is Acol, a Dinka princess on display. For Em-Pee, it is love at first sight, though Acol is not free to love anyone back.

Organized around 13 distinct biomes within the region, the book covers insects endemic to each system as well as those more widely distributed. It reflects the importance that insects fulfill as essential participants in most ecological processes—from pollination, predation, parasitism, soil modification and nutrient recycling to food for multitudes of other organisms including bacteria and fungi as well as specially-adapted plants and specialized, insect-feeding arthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals.

100 Trees to see on Safari in East Africa Quentin Luke Henk Beentje $13.00 • Paperback 160 pages • 5.83 x 8.26 inches • 400 illustrations • Currently Available NAT034000 • 978-1-77-584549-2

East Africa is one of the world’s premier wildlife regions, well known for its mass migrations of herds and the dramatic predators that accompany them. As iconic are the trees that grow here—some endemic to the region and almost all identified with the plains and slopes of this land, stretching from the muggy coast, through grasslands and up to the cold, dry reaches of high mountain peaks. Among them are mangroves, cycads and palms; marulas, acacias and sausage trees; fever trees, toothbrush trees and giant bamboos and heaths.

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Penguin RandomzHouse South Africa •z Tapas with Liam Tomlin

Angama Mara Cookbook

Liam Tomlin

Nicky Fitzgerald

$39.50 • Hardback • 256 pages 8.9 x 11.7 inches • 146 photographs November 2020 • CKB115000 978-1-43-231075-2

$21.00 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.3 x 10.2 inches • 150 Photographs September 2020 • CKB001000 978-1-43-231037-0

After so many years in professional kitchens, Liam wanted to move away from the formal structure of restaurants with reservations, stuffy service and fixed menus that are repeated day after day. At Chef’s Warehouse, Liam has moved away from food with too many layers and components. His way of cooking is focused on technique and on extracting as much flavor as possible to create tasty and well balanced dishes. This book will show you how to create over 70 delicious tapas dishes for every occasion, with professional results.

Angama Mara is a remarkable owner-run safari lodge located high above the floor of Africa’s Great Rift Valley and overlooking Kenya’s Maasai Mara, which is considered by many to be the loveliest game reserve in Africa. The name ‘Angama Mara’ is inspired by the Swahili word for ‘suspended in mid-air’. Here guests will find a lodge where everything is simply perfect: two intimate camps of just 15 tented suites each, a private airfield and access to the Mara below, tailor-made safari days and a famously warm Kenyan welcome. A great safari is also about great food, which is not only delicious but also reflects and celebrates the environment. Almost more important than the food itself is where it is served and Angama Mara offers a dazzling choice of dining venues. This book features about 50 delicious recipes plus a gallery of stunning photographs of this magical camp, including the people, the décor, the food and, of course, the reserve.

Peacocks & Picathartes

Whole

Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife Rupert Watson $15.50 • Paperback • 224 pages 6 x 9.2 inches • 42 black-and-white illustrations • September 2020 NAT043000 • 978-1-77-584560-7

Both informative and entertaining, Peacocks & Picathartes is a celebration of Africa’s diverse birdlife and examines not only the continent’s endemic bird families, but also those birds that, despite being more widespread, are quintessentially African. Watson’s anecdotal style vividly captures his encounters with prized species, such as the secretive White-necked Picathartes and the elusive Congo Peacock. His enthusiasm extends from the common to the extraordinary: he conveys the sheer delight mousebirds take in ‘being what they are’—and reveals the surprise discovery in 1991 of a new partridge in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Drawing on precolonial and current-day avian accounts, he offers his own insights based on a lifetime of personal observations in the wilds of Africa, recounting unforgettable expeditions, quirky bird behavior, shifting taxonomy, moments of rare good luck—and much more.

Bowl Food for Balance Melissa Delport $24.50 • Paperback • 192 pages 8.5 x 10.6 inches • 100 photographs August 2020 • CKB039000 978-1-43-230858-2

Whole– Bowl Food for Balance is all about healing your relationship with food. Food is not the enemy and neither is your body. Taking the time to get to know your body, treating it with respect and nourishing it with real fresh food is the single most important thing you can do for yourself. Eating mindfully, cutting out processed foods and embracing the foods that fuel you and leave you feeling energized are all part of the journey to finding happiness with food.

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zPolaris Polaris The Beatles 101

Chasing a Rugby Dream

A Guide to the Beatles in 101 Moments, Records and Stories

Book One: Kick Off

Vikki Reilly

James Hook David Brayley

$14.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 6.1 x 7.8 inches • color throughout December 2020 • MUS050000 978-1-91-353814-9

$12.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • December 2020 YAF059000 • 978-0-95-750767-8

The Beatles are not only a rock n’ roll group, but a social and cultural phenomenon that have captivated music fans for decades. For many, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr changed everything. This guide distils their amazing story into 101 informative and entertaining chapters, taking you from their rough and ready early Liverpool days through their world-shattering success in sound, stage and screen, to an afterlife that could never have been predicted when they first started out. Here, you’ll find facts and figures about their chartbusting songs, albums and films, meet the people that helped them along the way, and visit milestones and controversies such as their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, meeting Elvis Presley, John Lennon’s ‘Bigger than Jesus’ comments, experimenting with drugs and the avant-garde, and starting up Apple.

Small, skinny and short-sighted . . . and dazzlingly talented. Jimmy Joseph loves rugby. All he dreams about is one day playing for his country in a World Cup, or winning a Test series for the Lions with a last-minute drop-goal. But when he kicks an up-andunder in the schoolyard and accidentally hits the new head of PE, Mr Kane, on the head, he makes a powerful enemy. Jimmy and his best friends – Manu, Scott and Kitty – try to prove their worth on the rugby field, but to no avail. Mr Kane has it out for them, and he’s being helped by team captain Mike Green, well known as the school bully.

A Kind of Magic

Tekkers

Making the Original Highlander

Seth Burkett $13.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 5.1 x 7.8 inches • September 2020 YAF059000 • 978-0-95-750769-2

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When two budget-conscious American producers took a chance on a college student’s script, they set in motion a chain of events involving an imploding British film studio, an experimental music video director still finding his filmmaking feet, a former James Bond with a spiraling salary, and the unexpected arrival of low-budget indie film company, Cannon Films. Author Jonathan Melville looks back at the creation of Highlander with the help of more than 60 new cast and crew interviews, including stars Christopher Lambert and Clancy Brown. With exclusive writer commentary on unmade scripts, a fresh look at contemporary production material, never-before-seen photos from private collections, previously unpublished storyboards and artwork, a glimpse into the promotional campaign that never was, and a look at the ever-expanding franchise, A Kind of Magic is the book no Highlander fan can be without.

When Zak isn’t scoring goals for his local soccer team, Redwood Rangers, he is endlessly working on his freestyle videos with his dad. And when one of those videos goes viral, his whole life changes. As the views come rolling in, everyone wants a piece of him. Barcelona want him to shoot an advert with Messi. Major sports brands want to endorse him. Suddenly his face is on every sports channel. But as his celebrity status grows, Zak begins to realize that online fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Tekkers is an amusing and entertaining story about the power of social media with the core message that followers are great, but friends are even better. This is the first book in a planned trilogy of books following Zak on his soccer and YouTube journey.

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The New Road

John Splendid

Hamish Henderson

Neil Munro

Collected Poems

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Hamish Henderson Corey Gibson

First published in 1914 and praised by John Buchan as ‘one of the finest romances of our time’, The New Road is a classic suspense thriller. The new road of the title refers to the military road which General Wade carved into the Highlands to destroy the clans, and it is along this road that events unfold. It is 1773, thirty years after the Jacobite rebellion and the time of the Highland Clearances. When two adventurers, Ninian Campbell and Aeneas MacMaster, travel north on a clandestine mission to investigate rumors of a planned uprising, they find themselves pursued by mysterious enemies and drawn into a web of intrigue and corruption. The New Road was Neil Munro’s last and most accomplished novel.

In the autumn of 1644 Colin, heir to the Laird of Elrigmore, returns to his native Argyll after seven years’ service as a soldier of fortune. He finds a land torn apart by bitter civil war, with the complex rivalries of Royalist and Parliamentarian, Catholic and Covenanter set against the ancient feuding of the Clans Campbell and MacDonald. At Inveraray, a town under imminent threat from the forces of the all-conquering Marquis of Montrose, Elrigmore meets the heroic John Splendid—like himself a veteran of the foreign wars and a man of great courage and resourcefulness. As the Royalist army descends on the town, both men find themselves inexorably drawn into the heart of the conflict as their loyalty to the clan chief, the Marquis of Argyll, takes precedence over everything else. But danger and disillusion lie in wait for them in the service of Argyll, as they embark on a series of extraordinary adventures amid the chaos and carnage of civil war in the Highlands.

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Hailed by some as the most important Scottish poet since Burns, Hamish Henderson lived an epic life against the backdrop of some of the defining social, political and cultural battles—both national and international—of the twentieth century. A soldier, academic, folklorist, political activist, songwriter, translator and poet, he was a seminal figure in the Scottish folk revival and literary renaissance. His humanist legacy lives on in all of these spheres, but it is perhaps through his poetry that we may experience, most keenly, the ‘method in his magic.’ In every verse and lyric we catch glimpses of a brilliant, complex and highly original mind, whilst also developing a fuller understanding of Henderson’s lifelong mission to ‘make poetry become people.’ Published to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Hamish Henderson, this collected poems is the first since the poet’s death and makes available, for the first time, new material from the archive. The book opens with ‘Freedom Becomes People’, first published in Chapman 42, and reproduces, in full, his ‘Ballads of World War II’ and ‘Elegies for the Dead’ in Cyrenaica. This volume pushes at the boundaries between high modernist poetics and popular folk song; between the profound and profane; between works of individual and collective endeavor and between the poet and his purpose.

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Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits

A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems

Jim Byers Jonathan Trew

Alexander McCall Smith

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A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar with them. This anthology is a personal curation and not just a simple collection of poems. Each poem, handpicked by Alexander McCall Smith, leads the reader from one poem to the another. Intimate in tone, the editor shares the pleasure he finds in these poems through short epigraphs written for each piece.

Explore Edinburgh’s hidden music heritage, plus a few of its more tuneful tall tales, with this eye-opening guide of the city’s music milestones, famous gigs, infamous incidents and colourful characters. From folk to funk, pop to punk and past to present, this collection of bitesized stories traces the people, venues and gigs that made the city’s music scene. From Bowie to the Bay City Rollers, Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits touches on the big names as well as lifting the lid on the city’s lesser known legends. And just who did leave their teeth in a yoghurt pot on the bar in Sandy Bell’s?

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Midwinter

Neu! Reekie!

John Buchan

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A follow up to the immensely popular #UntitledOne and #UntitledTwo. This year’s anthology gives us more of the promising and established names in British poetry who have all shared the Neu! Reekie! bill. Many of the works are new, many are favorites read at the events; all are savored, sublime, sumptuous voices within poetry already.

The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west. He soon begins to suspect someone close to the Prince is passing information to the Government, but just as he closes in on the traitor his own life is put in danger. Who is the turncoat and can Maclean save his own life and his Prince?

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Karoo Fossils

Jan Smuts

South Africa’s first Land Animals

Son of the Veld, Pilgrim of the World

Dr Michael Cluver

Kobus du Pisani Prof Dan Kriek

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Author J.M. Coetzee sold his house in Cape Town, unaware that he was leaving behind unique documents from his teenage years. In the attic of his former home, the new owners discovered a forgotten brown suitcase and a large cardboard box, containing a complete photographic archive of old prints and negatives from Coetzee’s childhood never seen before. The book also has an exclusive interview with John Coetzee about his boyhood and photo experiments.

The Karoo rocks have preserved fossil remains for millions of years. This palaeontological treasure trove tells us more about the first mammals, early dinosaurs, and the ancestors of living reptiles such as crocodiles that roamed our country ages ago.

Like Paul Kruger at the end of the nineteenth century, and Nelson Mandela as the twentieth century drew to a close, it was Jan Smuts who stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries in the first half of the twentieth century; he was a leader of extraordinary stature and his statesmanship is recognized internationally. Many of the biographies and other works on Smuts appeared during his lifetime or soon after his death. Today, a few generations later, we have a better perspective on his contributions within the historical context of his time.

New discoveries explain the impact that climate and environmental changes had on these primitive animals, and recent geological research reveals why fossils much like those of the Karoo have been found in India, China and even Antarctica.

Bailies Party: The New Land

Bailies Party: The Frontiers

Bailies Party: The Old World

(1820–1834)

(1834–1852)

(1757–1819)

Dr. Karel Schoeman M.D. Nash

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In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers. His party soon dissolved, but Bailie became extensively involved not only in the affairs of the Eastern Cape, but also those of the Transorange in the early stages of European settlement, and the colony of Natal.

This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the British Settlers, tells the story of an adventurous life inextricably linked with the colonial history of South Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. The second volume (of three), deals more specifically with the manner in which the settlers adjusted to their new environment. This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the British Settlers, tells the story of an adventurous life inextricably linked with the colonial history of South Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century.

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers. The first volume (of three) based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the Settlers, attempts to trace the European background of both Bailie and the members of the settler groups, and to understand the cultural heritage they brought with them to South Africa.

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Salmonz Poetry In the Kingdom of Autumn

A Beautiful Pain

The Chanter’s Reed

Daniel Thomas Moran

Catherine Barry

James Ragan

$17.95 • Paperback 120 pages • 5.3 x 10.1 inches • Currently Available • POE001000 978-1-912561-82-7 Daniel Thomas Moran lives in New Hampshire

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“Moran’s is an egalitarian poetry which will attract readers who do not usually read poetry and this is as great an achievement as any high modernist grail.” Matt Haw Poetry Salzburg Review, Austria “Fierce argument is not his motive for writing poetry, but more a wish to repair and preserve time—with all the risks and opportunities that implies. Moran looks at the moment straight-on and makes it worthy of our attention. We are taught that unity, symmetry and beauty are judgments for art; I would add clarity, intensity and sincerity. These are real words for real people.” —Grace Cavalieri The Washington Independent Review of Books

Katie

Four Seasons

Poems for the Young and Young at Heart

Paul Balfe $14.95 • Paperback 70 pages • 5.3 x 8.5 Currently Available POE001000 978-1-912561-70-4

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

“Paul Balfe’s poems are distinguished by a forensically intelligent eye for the telling detail which cuts to the heart of seemingly inconsequential encounters or childhood memories (. . .) Whether describing a father and a son seeing their past and future within each other; a child remembering his mother finding momentary sanctuary in a grotto off Meath Street or a cow finding no sanctuary from the harsh reality of farming; a horrific case of incest summed up in the rage of four dispassionate lines; the curious juxtaposition of a hospice built beside a graveyard or an ingrained memory of how social distinctions were revealed even within the coded buttons of confirmation outfits; Balfe mines universal truths from everyday life, dissecting his experiences in poems that are shrewd, honest, humane, unflinching and memorable.” —Dermot Bolger

There’s a joyfulness here, with poems that catalogue in precise detail what it means to be alive, whether it is the Dublin of the 1970s, with Phil Lynott ‘strutting down Grafton Street’ or a suburban back garden, where there are branches ‘pregnant with scarlet berries.’ But there is social realism and political activism too; the writer is unflinching in acknowledging her own mortality and remembering the lives of those on the margins, invisible to most of us and forgotten by those who should have taken better care. Part troubador, part campaigner, Catherine Barry has written poems that are both lyrical and polemical, reminding we readers of our duty to watch, to notice, to bear witness and, ultimately, to endure.” —Nessa O’Mahony

$14.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 6.1 x 10.1 inches • Currently Available • POE001000 • 978-1-912561-88-9 James Ragan lives in Los Angeles, CA

Praise for James Ragan’s Poetry: “James Ragan’s poems spare no passion in believing they sing.” —Seamus Heaney Nobel Prize Winner “Ragan dominates the art of image, the art of poetic line, and the art of poetic narration with insight that marks major poets.” —Miroslav Holub Nobel Prize Nominee “James Ragan’s poems are satisfying and distinctive, full of arresting collocations and striking phrases.” —Richard Wilbur U.S. Poet Laureate

Cycles and Lost Monkeys Jo Slade

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Completed before his A Farewell to Poetry, Katie: Poems for the Young and Young at Heart gathers the best of Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s poems dealing with the first five years of his granddaughter’s, Katie Crowley’s, life. It is a joyful celebration of the unique bond between grandparents and their grandchildren. The poems are full of love and humour and will be enjoyed by children, parents and grandparents.

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are inquisitive, sonorous, intense poems that draw us into a world where actuality and dream collide, where loneliness, grief and resilience are innate. Informed by history and personal memory, Jo Slade propels us forward, from the title poem, Cycles and Lost Monkeys, with its dark specter of surveillance, to the final section where we are confronted by the consequences of indifference to authoritarianism.

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New and Selected Short Poems

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In Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital Kevin Higgins uses the darkest humour to throw some occasionally bizarre but mercilessly honest light on the vexed, and often absurd, subject of his chronic illness. In this, his fifth full collection of poetry, he also gives his readers, as they have come to expect, in poems steeped in the influence of Brecht, Swift, and Zbigniew Herbert, his views in undiluted form on everything from homelessness and identity politics to anal sex and comedians who used to be edgy during the 1990s.

“Ruth O’Callaghan’s work is wide-ranging in subject and versatile in form. I particularly enjoy her meditative and humane poems on human relationships.” —Connie Bensley on Unportioned “These are poems that confront the worst that life has to show and tell us with a dedication to truths most of us never have the courage to face up to. Only a poet, and probably only a woman poet who has looked unflinchingly at the extremes of good and evil and yet retained faith in an ultimate good, could have written them.” —Anne Stevenson on Vortices

Anne Casey $14.95 • Paperback 104 pages 6 x 9 inches Currently Available LIT004290 • 978-1-912561-74-2

out of emptied cups explores what it means to be human—a consciousness contained within a shell that dictates so much of what our experience of life will be. Including internationally award-winning and shortlisted pieces, these strongly felt poems interrogate what it means to be a woman in a world where the female body still preordains so much for the person it contains. At times unabashedly political, this book plumbs the poet’s own experiences of birth, death, loss, treatment/mistreatment and place in the world—as a woman, as an immigrant, as a parent, as a former environment journalist/author depicting the decline of our planet, as a human being questioning our treatment of others.

Sandra Ann Winters

Ruth O’Callaghan

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out of emptied cups

Do Not Touch

Unportioned

lives in North Carolina

$14.95 • Paperback 70 pages • 5.3 x 8.5 inches Currently Available POE001000 978-1-912561-80-3 Sandra Ann Winters

“Sandra Ann Winters Our Irish Garden is a delicious procession of rhyming couplets using an extended garden metaphor…” —Leslie McGrath, Judge of the 2019 NY Yeats Society Poetry Prize praises a poem from this collection Do Not Touch is Sandra Ann Winters’ second full-length book of poetry, in which section I weaves the themes of sexuality, nature, and everydayness. Winters often explores intimacy in terms of unusual experiences expressed in language that is infused with imagery: Nefertiti’s red-painted toes; “she slips into a Koi pond, her breasts brush against the lily pads, dragonflies buzz.”

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Revenant

Dairena Ní Chinnéide

Clare McCotter

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“Motherhood, anger, sex, meditation and gratitude swirl in the sea of these poems, and if the sea washes the shores of Corca Dhuibhne, the territory and the known terrain of her poetry in Irish, Dairena Ní Chinnéide is well able for the sea and its turning currents when she embarks on this voyage into English. Here in these poems her own place sings to us in its own tongue, as her own life sings back to the poet in all its rich variety of experience. Here are poems of rueful sorrow, informed reflection, earned intelligence and delight.” —Theo Dorgan

Revenant is Clare McCotter’s second book of poems. Written within arm’s reach of a cemetery wall, the collection inhabits a hinterland where bones, real and metaphorical, slip their graves. In these physical and metaphysical landscapes there is no quest for closure. Wounds and graves stay open—resolution is out of the question. Navigating sound waves and cartographies of wind the dead come and they go, their bone constellations glimmering in the townlands of County Derry, the bogs of County Meath, the sands of Shelling Hill Beach and the Atacama Desert. Although clearly preoccupied with the un-historied lives of women buried in that local cemetery, the collection is not rooted in a specific place.

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May Day 1974 Rachael Hegarty

Dede Cummings $14.95 • Paperback • 102 pages • 5.3 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • POE001000 • 978-1-912561-86-5 Dede Cummings lives in Brattleboro, VT

“In The Meeting Place, Dede Cummings exposes some of the more interesting cards in the deck of her life. The results are a series of openhearted, straightforward poems, which are as sensitive to the natural world as they are to the inner one. Best of all, they are sensitive to the reader, whose presence is welcomed (if sometimes shyly) into these intimate rooms.” —Billy Collins

The Egret Lands with News from Other Parts Mary Madec $14.95 • Paperback 90 pages • 6.1 x 9.3 inches • Currently Available • POE001000 978-1-912561-67-4

In this third collection, Mary Madec returns to the real world of what it means to be herself, a woman of these times, exploring again the territories of the heart. She presents a partly imagined trajectory, extending beyond the present and deep into the past, reaching into the experiences of silence and calling out the ‘voices.’ Her poems are compassionate and courageous, sensual and sometimes visceral meditations on the injured or aging body, the broken heart, the reality of our ineluctably transient lives, and all the attendant grief. And yet there are light touches of redeeming humor, and always the Little White Egret of hope canceling out the darkness.

An Upside Down World. Knute Skinner

912561-62-9

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“What an extraordinary book this is. What a challenge, to give voices to the dead. And how triumphantly Rachael Hegarty succeeds, how utterly convincing these poems are in their delicacy, their humor, and the truth of their language; how well her words become these people, who now become the protagonists of their own lives. There are many lovely things here, in this book that is full of love.” —Ciaran Carson

“In the early 1990s, in his volume The Bears And Other Poems, Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project—the elaboration of short poetic fictions. In the intervening years he has become a master of this charged and compelling form. These short poems are exquisitely compressed narratives delineating and exposing lives often within a relational context. The narrators are a diverse bunch: adulterers, deviants, adventurers, lovers, friends, whose utterances and scraps of dialogue frame the foibles, truths, frailties and enduring alliances between characters strewn across a variety of contexts. In some of the poems there is an undisclosed but implied secret that entreats the reader to return . . . . " —Frank Golden

Severance

Among the Gliesians

Robert Fanning

Philip Fried $14.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6 x 9 inches Currently Available POE005020 978-1-912561-57-5 Ronert Fanning lives in Michigan

In his fourth full-length collection, Robert Fanning takes a dramatic leap into a liminal world. In poems both measured and free, both cadenced and incantatory, we follow two marionettes—Professor and Grief—who search for a life untethered and authentic. Crossing from day into night, from wood into flesh, from wakefulness into dream, from ice into thaw, Severance sings of a way—through the narrows of time and body—toward healing.

$14.95 • Paperback 86 pages 5.3 x 10.1 inches Currently Available POE001000 978-1-912561-83-4

In Among the Gliesians, Philip Fried continues experimenting with different registers of language, technical jargon, and a variety of literary and non-literary forms, ranging from sonnet, ballad, acrostic, and villanelle to press release and report. His witty and compassionate work takes on a new urgency, however, as he focuses on our alarming present situation. Dealing with such topical themes as mass shootings, nuclear gamesmanship, and threats to democracy, Fried’s poems reveal a struggle for meaningful expression when meaning itself is under attack. In the section giving its title to the book, reports on an extraterrestrial society hold up a mirror to our own culture.

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Salmon z • Poetry z Keeping Planes in the Air

The Somnambulist and the Good Life

Lori Desrosiers $14.95 • Paperback • 94 pages 5.3 x 8.5 inches • Currently Available • POE001000 978-1-912561-87-2 Lori Desrosiers lives in Westfield, MA

David Cavanagh

“In this thoughtful and nuanced collection, Lori Desrosiers maps that country sometimes called the past, sometimes called memory, into which loved ones have gone or soon will be disappearing. It’s a space limned by nostalgia, which can be beautiful for the trace of what used to be, in the way that an armless goddess is lovely. It’s a place inhabited by spectral presences who don’t seem to realize they are going or gone— Such is the thrall and pull that this world still exerts over all of us. And so, the ghosts of those who perished in the tsunami in Japan hail taxis and reserve private rooms at hotels. The poet’s grandmother at 70 shoplift[s] at the five and dime. The ghost of Emily Dickinson speaks through her washbowl, her inkwell, her quill. In the ordinary calamity of our days, we seek their guidance and benevolence.” —Luisa A. Igloria

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The poems in The Somnambulist and the Good Life, David Cavanagh’s fifth book, probe what it means to be attentive in this life, the pain and beauty of living with open eyes and heart. They consider the dangers of sleepwalking through existence, as well as the mysterious power of what lies below the surface of awareness. Dealing with relationships, the environment, gun violence, dying, birds’ flight, musical earworms and more, these poems explore with precision and clarity the urgent need for an engaged thoughtfulness if “the good life” is to be anything more than a sad irony.

Where the Lighthouse Begins

The Hollow Woman on the Island

Timothy Houghton

Nessa O’Mahony

$14.95 • Paperback 66 pages • 5.3 x 10.1 inches • Currently Available • POE001000 • 978-1-912561-81-0 Timothy Houghton lives in Glen Arm, MD

What lies behind much of the lyric poems in Where the Lighthouse Begins is a motivating sense of loss: in some poems, a dead father, an aging mother, a troubled brother; or, in other poems, a conflict, such as a war. The natural world also plays a major role, as a redeeming force, often in the form of the birds that are so much a part of the poet’s life. Sometimes, too, humor is present as a source of relief. By the end of the book, readers may feel that the mystery of time is perhaps the most fundamental theme.

$14.95 • Paperback 74 pages 5.3 x 8.5 inches Currently Available POE001000 978-1-912561-63-6

Nessa O’Mahony’s fifth volume of poetry explores many of her signature themes developed over a 20-year period. She writes with renewed urgency about life and love, continues her preoccupation with history (the hidden and overt), questions cultural identity and demonstrates her keen affinity with nature and landscape as well as exploring the liminal areas between loss and gain. At the heart of this new collection is a central sequence, the Hollow Woman poems, that explore O’Mahony’s recent scrape with ovarian cancer, an experience that provoked profound questions about the essence of womanhood and female identity when faced with existential threat.

Reckonings Patrick Moran $14.95 • Paperback 96 pages 6.1 x 9.3 inches Currently Available POE001000 978-1-912561-69-8

Patrick Moran’s fourth collection, Reckonings, traces the poet’s journey from a rural upbringing, marked by religious fervor, to a world of fraught intensities and troubled legacies. Having charted his progress through a diocesan boarding school, where he takes his first, tentative steps as a poet, Moran next focuses on early adulthood, a period of existential questing and drifting, when he struggles to find a voice in the classroom and on the page. While the last section opens on a buoyant note, with a group of marriage poems, echoes of earlier turbulence are still heard, notably in “Spectral” where nightmares disrupt his sleep and memories rip open/ (his) delicate/ stitching.

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z Press Sandstone The Secret Life of the Mountain Hare

The Weekend Fix

Andy Howard

Craig Weldon Bee Leask

$19.99 • Paperback • 208 pages 9.6 x 9.6 inches • July 2020 NAT001000 978-1-913207-26-7

Among the most captivating of creatures, the mountain hare has inhabited Britain’s upland landscape since the last major ice age. Andy Howard fell in love with these shy, charming creatures at first sight. Here he introduces them both as a species precious within the great wheel of the seasons, and as individuals with their own, delightful personalities.

Cameron McNeish Robert Macfarlane

Chasing the Deer The Red Deer Through the Seasons

The Life of Billy Bland

$29.99 • Hardback 320 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • December 2020 • SPO050000 • 978-1-913207-28-1

Like many young people of his generation, Craig Weldon came of age on hills all around the British Isles, but especially the Munros in Scotland. With his friends he braved the high mountains of the Cuillin and the lower tops of Gloucestershire, wild Welsh farmers and even wilder midges in the Highlands. Usually funny, sometimes dangerous, more often wet, one thing was for sure: life was never boring!

All or Nothing at All

Come by the Hills

Come by The Hills follows Cameron McNeish’s popular 2018 memoir, There’s Always the Hills, and celebrates his life on the Scottish hills, his many friendships with hill-goers, writers, broadcasters and active people of all kinds.

$12.99 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • October 2020 SPO050000 978-1-913207-24-3

Steve Chilton Kíllian Jornet $29.99 • Hardback 320 pages • 6.5 x 9.5 inches • September 2020 BIO016000 • 978-1-913207-22-9

All or Nothing At All is the life story of Billy Bland, fellrunner extrordinaire and holder of many records including that of the Bob Graham Round until it was broken by the foreword author of this book, Kílian Jornet. It is also the story of Borrowdale in the English Lake District, describing its people, their character and their lifestyle, into which fellrunning is unmistakably woven. Filled with stories of competition and rich in northern humor, All or Nothing At All is testimony to the life spent in the fells by one of their greatest champions, Billy Bland.

Neil McIntyre Simon King $34.99 • Hardback • 224 pages • 9.6 x 9.6 inches • December 2020 • NAT019000 978-1-913207-27-4

The red deer, majestic monarch of the glen, is Britain’s largest land mammal and undisputed king of woodlands and glens. Common across the Scottish Highlands and resident elsewhere, the animal is emblematic of our wild country and a beloved icon. Yet to some, red deer are seen as little more than pests. Born into a family of deer stalkers, Neil McIntyre has been fascinated by red deer all his life. They have been central to his career as a wildlife photographer and, in this stunning collection of photographs, he invites you to know and respect them as he does.

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z • z Press Sandstone The Fatherland Files Volker Kutscher Niall Sellar (Translator) $12.99 • Paperback • 576 pages • 5.5 x 7.7 inches • Currently Available • FIC022000 • 978-1-91-224056-2

1932: A drowned man is found in a freight elevator in the giant pleasure palace on Potsdamer Platz; far from any standing water. Inspector Gereon Rath’s hunt for a mysterious contract killer has stalled; but this new case will take him to a small town on the Polish border and confrontation with the rising Nazi party. A mystery full of twists and surprises and a classic detective you will root for all the way to the last page. Masterful.’ “A mystery full of twists and surprises and a classic detective you will root for all the way to the last page. Masterful.” —Michael Ridpath, author of Traitor’s Gate “The body count steadily mounts in Rath’s most complicated case to date.” —Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking “The Fatherland Files is a first-rate historical thriller and Gereon Rath is one of the most intriguing detectives in fiction.” —Paul Burke, NB Magazine “Highly recommended.” —Crime Time "Kutscher successfully conjures up the dangerous decadence of the Weimar years, with blood on the Berlin streets and the Nazis lurking menacingly in the wings.’”—Sunday Times If you like Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther books, you will love this series from Volker Kutscher, the first of which, Babylon Berlin, forms the basis for a major Netflix series of the same name.

The March Fallen Volker Kutscher Niall Sellar (Translator) $12.99 • Paperback • 598 pages • 5.5 x 7.7 inches • December 2020 • FIC022000 • 978-1-91-320704-5

1933: A homeless veteran is found dead under railway arches in Berlin; apparently killed by an army dagger. Gereon Rath is brought onto the case just as the Reichstag mysteriously burns down. Unsettled by the Nazis’ tightening grip; he and Charlotte Ritter must also contend with their political colleagues. The new Germany is frightening; but police work must go on even among book-burning and marching; rising paranoia and fear. Volker Kutscher was born in 1962. He studied German, Philosophy and History, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in 2011, has sold over one million copies worldwide. Volker Kutscher works as a full-time author and lives in Cologne, Germany. Niall Sellar was born in Edinburgh in 1984. He studied German and Translation Studies in Dublin, Konstanz and Edinburgh, and has worked variously as a translator, teacher and reader. Alongside his translation work, he currently teaches Modern Foreign Languages in Harrow. He lives in London. The first three books in the series are available from Picador.

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The Irish Republicans’ Quotation Book

A Novel

Andrew Russell

Eibhear Walshe

$5.50 • Paperback • 96 pages • Currently Available • REF000000 • 978-1-99-999709-0 Somerville Press

$17.00 • Paperback 192 pages • Currently Available • FIC014000 978-1-99-999708-3 Somerville Press

The Last Day at Bowen’s Court deals with the life of the Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, her time in London during the Second World War and her ‘reporting’ on Irish neutrality for the Ministry of Information. At the centre of the novel is her Blitz love affair with the Canadian diplomat, Charles Ritchie, a wartime romance that inspired her most famous novel, The Heat of the Day, a gripping story about espionage and loyalty that became a best-seller. The novel is told from the point of view of Bowen herself, and also from that of her lover Charles Ritchie, her husband Alan Cameron and Ritchie’s wife Sylvia.

Nile Wilson–My Story Nile Wilson $39.95 • Hardback 144 pages • 6 x 9 inches 32 color illustrations December 2020 BIO016000 • 978-1-52-677201-5 • White Owl

Nile Wilson is known to many as a Great Britain Gymnast who won a Bronze Medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and who is England’s most successful ever gymnast at a Commonwealth Games following his 5 medals in 2018. Yet, Nile is so much more than just a gymnast. A YouTuber with over a million subscribers, a social media influencer, a successful businessman and entrepreneur, Nile is also an advocate for mental health awareness, and who has been very open about his own personal struggles. Nile Wilson—My Story gives an unprecedented look into Nile’s true battle to be fit and ready for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics—throughout the Games and the aftermath.

They haven’t gone away you know. —Gerry Adams I am here without hope of this world, calmly awaiting the end. I die a noble death for Ireland’s freedom. —Eamonn Ceannt Give us the future. We have had enough of the past. Give us back our country to live in—to grow in. —Michael Collins The Irish people will be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars. —James Connolly The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit. —Maud Gonne What finally got reforms out of Stormont was the sound of marching feet, not the sound of gunfire. —Eamonn McCann.

Boeing 747 50 Years of an Aviation Icon Ingo Bauernfeind $22.99 • Hardback 144 pages • 7.5 x 9.8 inches • 200 images July 2021 • TRA002040 • 978-1-911658-52-8 Tempest

Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, aviation specialist Ingo Bauernfeind’s new Boeing 747 history celebrates more than half a century of an enduring aviation icon that has changed commercial aviation since its maiden flight in 1969. With personal accounts written by former pilots and crew members, it covers the aircraft’s early history and development, its ground-breaking technology and systems, its remarkable and distinguished commercial career and the numerous variants that have expanded its role and capabilities far beyond those originally intended by its designers.

Rob Key

The Moon

My Life in Cricket

A Beginner’s Guide to Lunar Features and Photography

Rob Key $39.95 • Hardback 224 pages • 6 x 9 inches 32 color illustrations August 2020 SPO054000 978-1-52-676821-6 • White Owl

Ex-England batsman Rob Key is one of the wittiest pundits on TV. Whether it’s a drizzly day-nighter in Derby or a World Cup Final at Lord’s, Key’s wizardry with the mic more than matches that which he had with the bat. In his new book, Key reflects on the past and present of an ever-unforgiving game, in so doing shining light into the darkest recesses of the dressing-room. What he finds there is as amusing as it is shocking, as farcical as it is fascinating. Known as one of the sharpest cricket brains around, Key casts a knowledgeable and sometimes acerbic eye over such areas as fitness, captaincy, and sledging, while delivering a close-up view of some of the biggest names in the game.

James Harrop $42.95 • Hardback • 128 pages • 9.75 x 9.5 inches • 120 color illustrations • October 2020 SCI004000 • 978-1-52-676058-6 • White Owl

A practical guide aimed at beginners interested in learning about the Moon and how to image our closest satellite neighbor. The book contains the complete photographic process including equipment, settings, capture techniques, stacking and image processing, each of which is vitally important to producing a good image. The information is laid out in a visual and easy-to-understand format so that even the dark art of image processing will not seem quite so daunting. There are many high-quality color photos of the Moon to help you learn about different lunar features and a list of 100 lunar targets identified as a challenge for you to find.

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The Fashion Lover’s Guide to Milan Rachael Martin $26.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 5.6 x 7.6 inches • 80 color illustrations & maps September 2020 • TRV009110 978-1-52-673373-3

Milan is the European fashion capital with one of the world’s most unique luxury fashion districts where the leaders of some of the most exclusive fashion houses are still living and working today. It’s the Italian city whose skyline has changed more than any, and whose fashion industry has extended to encompass the worlds of design, restaurants, bars, exhibition spaces, hotels and more. Whether you’re looking for designer labels within the city’s luxury fashion district, prefer to browse the city’s boutiques or pick up some quality vintage at the city’s vintage shops and markets, this is the guide that will tell you where to go. Split into geographical sections along with relevant maps, cultural highlights and suggestions for where to eat and drink, it places Milan as the city of fashion within the context of Italian fashion history and a city, and brings the stories of its people to life. Why did Milan become Italy’s fashion capital? And what does it offer the fashion lover as a city today?

Arsenal The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives Anton Rippon $22.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations October 2020 • SPO040000 978-1-52-676774-5

Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives tells the history of the Gunners through the biographies of key individuals associated with the club from its formation in the gas-lit days of Victorian Britain through to the present day. From David Danskin, the Scottish mechanical engineer and footballer who was the driving force behind the team raised at Dial Square, a workshop at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, to Arsene Wenger, the longest-serving and most successful manager in Arsenal’s history. The in-depth stories of the characters—players, managers, chairmen—here paint a fascinating picture of how the club—indeed, the game of football itself—has developed from workers playing for fun to today’s multi-million-pound business.

The Magic of Terry Pratchett Marc Burrows $29.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations October 2020 • BIO007000 978-1-52-676550-5

The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain’s best-selling living author, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the Discworld series, his work has been translated into 37 languages, and performed as plays on every continent in the world, including Antarctica. Journalist, comedian and Pratchett fan Marc Burrows delves into the back story of one of UK’s most enduring and beloved authors, from his childhood in the Chiltern Hills, to his time as a journalist, and the journey that would take him—via more than sixty best-selling books—to an OBE, a knighthood and national treasure status. The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the result of painstaking archival research alongside interviews with friends and contemporaries who knew the real man under the famous black hat, helping to piece together the full story of one of British literature’s most remarkable and beloved figures for the very first time.

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Modern Rainbow Patchwork Quilts

Creating Year Round Colour from Plants, Beautiful Textile Projects

14 Vibrant Rainbow Patchwork Quilt Projects, Plus Handy Techniques, Tips and Tricks

Alicia Hall

Paula Steel

$19.95 • Paperback • 104 pages 150 color illustrations • Currently Available • CRA007000 978-1-52-674723-5

This beautifully illustrated book takes you on a botanical journey through the year, showing you how to create colorful and environmentally friendly plant dyes. You’ll learn sustainable methods of growing and harvesting plants; the tools and techniques required to extract dye; which fabrics and yarns to choose; and the simple method of using soy milk as a fixative, to ensure rich and long-lasting colors. The book includes easy-to-follow tutorials explaining how to make four stunning pieces using seasonal plant dyes: a linen cushion cover, embroidered picnic blanket, hot water bottle cozy, and quilt.

$19.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 8.4 x 10.8 inches • 150 color illustrations Currently Available • CRA031000 978-1-52-675241-3

Building on the popularity of modern quilting, the book features 14 patchwork projects with a modern look which use rainbows as the overall color theme. The book enables readers to create their own rainbow look, from selecting which colors to use and choosing the appropriate fabrics for a project. Starting from the basics of patchwork the book includes tutorials on creating simple blocks, finishing a quilt and making an envelope cushion, alongside the basic tools and techniques used. Each of the 14 projects is broken down into easy to follow steps with detailed illustrations, making the book accessible for confident beginners as well as more seasoned quilters. The projects range in difficulty and time requirements, meaning that there is something for everyone depending in their time available and skill level.

Sewing Animal Dolls

Modern Brush Lettering

Heirloom Patterns to Make for Daisy and her Friends

A Beginner’s Guide to the art of Brush Lettering, Plus 20 Seasonal Projects to Make

Tina O’Rourke $19.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • 150 color illustrations July 2020 • CRA035000 978-1-52-675765-4

Becki Clark

Learn how to make Daisy Dog, her best friends Rosie Rabbit, the twins Betty and Ben Bear and Daisy’s beret wearing puppy, Mimi. Each character has their own complete wardrobe for all of their adventures together, from playing dress up to long summer picnics, sleepovers and weekend walks. Daisy and Friends features easy to follow step-by-step instructions with full-size sewing patterns for all of the characters, clothes and accessories.

$19.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • 150 color illustrations November 2020 • ART003000 978-1-52-674735-8

Modern Brush Lettering is a creative guide to learning how to brush letter. Becki talks through materials, mark marking, turning your marks into letterforms, joining your lettering and exercises to get your started on your brush lettering journey. There are tips and tricks for perfecting your own style of lettering and 20 seasonal contemporary craft projects to make with your new skill.

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Floral Embroidery

Make Betty & Bert and Dress Them in Vintage Inspired Crochet Doll’s Clothes and Accessories

Create 10 Beautiful Modern Embroidery Projects Inspired by Nature

Cara Medus $19.95 • Paperback • 136 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • 150 color illustrations November 2020 • CRA004000 978-1-52-674727-3

Teagan Olivia Sturmer $19.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • 150 color illustrations November 2020 • CRA008000 978-1-52-675958-0 Tegan Olivia Sturmer lives in Negaunee, MI

Crochet Betty, an amigurumi-style doll, with patterns for her fifties outfits ranging from shopping to movie-going. There’s a detailed explanation of how to make the basic doll Betty, and also her cute cat Bert. Each section has patterns for a selection of stylish removable garments and accessories on a fifties theme, with a few added extras for Bert too. Come with Betty as she channels her inner Audrey Hepburn at the movies, or takes off on holiday in the glamorous footsteps of Grace Kelly.

Floral Embroidery reawakens the age-old practice of embroidery, giving to it a new and modern twist. In this book, you will find 10 embroidery patterns that weave together stunning colors, ancient stitches, and florals picked from your grandmother’s garden. From simple patterns, to more complex and intricate pieces, your creativity will grow and flourish. You will learn to stitch dusty pink roses, leaves and stems that will trail to the edges of your embroidery hoop, and the smallest details that will pull your hoop together and compose the most beautiful bouquet. Once you have completed the patterns, you will be given the tools to create your own original pieces and where to find the materials to do so.

Colourful Fun Embroidery

Craft Your Own Happy

Featuring 24 Modern Projects to Bring Joy and Happiness to your Life!

A Collection of 25 Creative Projects to Craft your Way to Mindfulness

Clare Albans

Becci Mai Ford

$19.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • 150 color illustrations November 2020 • CRA008000 978-1-52-675385-4

$19.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 8.5 x 11 inches • 150 color illustrations December 2020 • CRA000000 978-1-52-674739-6

Take time out to be creative and de-stress with these colorful, fun embroidery projects from Hello! Hooray! Ranging from things you could complete in an afternoon to others that you can take your time over, enjoy every step of the making process as you focus on feeling good through being creative. The finished makes will bring color and joy to your home, workspace and wardrobe. The projects in this book allow you to craft your creative time by selecting makes according to timescale. Choose one of the ‘crafternoon makes’ if you want that sense of joy at finishing something, a ‘medium makes’ project for the days where you have a little more time for crafting, or for something to really take your time over you could stitch one of the longer ‘pick me up’ projects. Each project includes step-by-step instructions, beautiful photos and inspirational ideas for how to make each project your own. So take time to be creative with this colorful, feel-good craft book!

Craft Your Own Happy is a collection of mindful craft projects to make you smile! Perfect for those moments when you need a bit of self-care and relaxation time. Do you ever feel like you spend too much of your day staring at screens, feeling anxious or stressed out? If the answer is yes—then you need this book! The cute colorful projects have all been designed with the feel-goodfactor in mind. Crafting can help to take you away from the worries and pressures of your daily life, and give you back those moments of slowness and focus which can help to reduce anxiety. Unlike other craft books, this is a book that you can dip into and find projects based upon how you are feeling. So you can craft to suit your mood! There are 25 beginner friendly projects to choose from including cross stitching, embroidery, paper craft and more… Why worry when you can craft happy!

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The Real Coco Chanel

The Real Beatrix Potter

The SNES Encyclopedia

Rose Sgueglia

Nadia Cohen

$34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 32 black and white illustrations September 2020 • HIS058000 978-1-52-676101-9

$29.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6 x 9.25 inches • 16 black and white illustrations July 2020 • LIT004290 • 978-1-52-675275-8

Every Game Released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine. Fueled by 19th century literature, she built a life which was partly myth and partly factual. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortune was impossible to track. She was also a performer, lover of many high profile intellectuals and, as believed by many, a Nazi spy. Her life was, extraordinarily, affected by history (the Nazi movement and World War II), symbolism and literature. This biography explores her life from her troubled and poor past to the opening of her first hat shop, passions and secrets; the biography also draws parallelisms between myths and facts and how, and if ever, they match at all. The biography also features chapters on the Chanel Maison and the creation of her iconic trademark as well as her ‘little black dress’ and ‘Chanel No 5’. Finally, the biography ends with a reflection on how the myth of Coco Chanel is represented today in pop culture.

The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world’s most cherished children’s authors. Beatrix Potter’s famous little white books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created and of course her own distinctive illustrations. Born into a typically repressed Victorian family it was assumed that Beatrix would achieve little more than finding herself a rich husband, and so there was no point in bothering to educate her. But the Potters underestimated their daughter. Stifled by the lack of stimulation, she educated herself in art, science, and of course a great love of the natural world. The success of Peter Rabbit proved her to be creative genius who could have become the toast of the London literary scene, but when her fiancé tragically died Beatrix retreated to the Lake District where she reinvented herself as a successful farmer, a canny businesswoman and an early environmental pioneer. Passionately campaigning to save the area from development she helped establish the National Trust, and despite her great wealth Beatrix lived out her days in humble anonymity.

Chris Scullion $39.95 • Hardback • 272 pages • 8.25 x 11.5 inches • 714 color illustrations • December 2020 GAM013000 • 978-1-52-673783-0

Following on from the previously released NES Encyclopedia, The SNES Encyclopedia is the ultimate resource for fans of Nintendo’s second home video game console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Containing detailed information on all 780 games released for the SNES in the west, this enormous book is full of screenshots, trivia and charmingly bad jokes. It also includes a bonus section covering the entire 22-game library of the Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s ill-fated 3D system which was released at the end of the SNES’s life.

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Strandhill An Illustrated History Peigin Doyle

Pat Dargan $20.00 • Paperback 128 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 90 illustrations Currently Available HIS018000 • 978-1-9161375-1-6

Kilkenny: City of Heritage, is an expertly researched but accessibly written history of the streetscapes and buildings that define Kilkenny itself.

Strandhill, the largest coastal village in Sligo, has long been a much-loved destination for tourists, the surfing and water-sports community and for outdoor enthusiasts of all types. It is also a place of immense historic interest with a rich and varied past that local author and journalist Peigin Doyle explores in this beautifully illustrated work. Containing previously unseen archive photographs and images, this is a work that will long be treasured by locals and visitors alike.

The Emergency

The Story of a Wreck

A Visual History of the Irish Defence Forces.

Fionnbarr Moore

The RMS Lusitania was the largest and fastest ocean-going liner in the world when built in 1912—a wonder of the age. Given the dramatic circumstances of its loss its fame is second only to that of the RMS Titanic. Much has been written on the history of the ship—its tragic sinking with great loss of life as well as the mysteries and controversies surrounding the speed of its sinking; whether or not it was carrying contraband goods and its legitimacy as a target of war. This book provides a fresh approach to the story by drawing on new research, a multitude of available sources, state-of-the-art 3D multibeam imagery of the wreck and documents the 2015 commemorative events marking the centenary of the loss of this once great liner.

Michael Collins and the Politics of Violence

$20.00 • Paperback 160 pages 6.14 x 9.21 inches 220 illustrations Currently Available TRV009000 • 978-1-9161375-4-7

RMS Lusitania

$25.00 • Paperback 160 pages 8.27 x 10.83 inches • 140 images • Currently Available • HIS018000 • 978-1-5272-0772-1

The Shadow War

1939–1945 Daniel Ayiotis

$25.00 • Paperback • 200 pages • 8.27 x 8.27 inches • 200 images • Currently Available HIS018000 978-1-9161375-3-0

In September 1939 the Second World War broke out. The fact that Ireland remained neutral in the conflict is well known. What is far less well-known is that from 1939 onwards Ireland prepared to defend itself from invasion. Combining many previously unseen photographs and documents and with a text based on research in Defence Forces and official archives, this book is an illustrated photographic and documentary history of the military and defensive preparations made by Ireland’s Defence Forces during the Second World War, what became known officially only as ‘The Emergency’.

Joseph E A Connell $25.00 • Paperback • 440 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 16 illustrations • Currently Available HIS018000 • 978-1-9161375-0-9

Insurgencies are as psychological and political as much as military. In the War of Independence, the Irish needed to remain active for longer than the nerves of liberal Britain could stand, and they succeeded. Irish governance, rather than military victory, was always the goal. If success can be defined as doing more with less, then Michael Collins must be counted as among the great guerrilla planners of the twentieth century. He understood the limits of what could be achieved by violence—and when to forgo violence for negotiation.

Burncourt–A History Rose Cleary $20.00 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 60 images • Currently Available HIS018000 • 978-1-9161375-5-4

Burncourt is a rural area in Co. Tipperary. The name derives from the burning of the Everard Mansion in 1650. This was done by Cromwell or, as local lore has it, by Lady Catherine Everard, who did not want the castle to fall into Cromwellian hands. The castle was never reoccupied and now lies as an imposing ruin on the landscape. Burncourt is an area where history abounds.

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z Wordwell Books • Y Lolfa Dublin Moving East

Carrickmines Castle

How the City Took Over the Sea

Rise and Fall Mark Clinton

Michael Branigan $40.00 • Hardback • 384 pages • 8.27 x 10.24 inches • 70 images • Currently Available HIS018000 • 978-1-9164922-6-4 • Wordwell

In the thousand years of Dublin history no period of expansion comes anywhere near that of the period 1708–1844 when the city more than doubled in size. All of this activity was triggered and continued to be driven during the entire period by the actions of the port authorities known as The Ballast Board and, after 1786, The Corporation for the preservation and improvement of the port of Dublin.

$40.00 • Hardback 340 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 inches • 70 • Currently Available • HIS018000 978-1-9164922-7-1 • Wordwell

Theobald Walsh of Carrickmines had not intended to defend his castle. The commander of the besieging forces, Sir Simon Harcourt, had not planned to attack it. Yet, in March 1642, the castle was destroyed and hundreds of occupants massacred. How did this come to pass? Ranging across the areas of Shanganagh, Kilgobbin and Balally in south County Dublin, and Old Court and Killincarrig in County Wicklow, and parts of the continent, Mark Clinton explores this fascinating story of family, feuds and, ultimately, ruin.

More Tales From My Welsh Village Ken Smith Mumph

The history and natural history of a National Nature Reserve

OPW OPW $20.00 • Paperback 168 pages • 8.27 x 8.27 inches • 120 • Currently Available • TRV009000 • 978-1-40642977-0 Wordwell

Taking the reader on a journey from north to south and from mountains to manor houses, this beautifully illustrated book celebrates the heritage sites cared for by OPW across Ireland. From Áras an Uachtaráin and the National Botanic Gardens through to Fota and the Great Blasket Islands, this work covers the best that Ireland has to offer from the OPW sites enjoyed by millions of visitors each year.

On a Dark Night with Enough Wind Lilla Pennant

Mike Alexander

$14.99 • Paperback 208 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches • October 2020 FIC016000 • 978-1-78-461826-1 • Y Lolfa

A second humorous novel based on the outrageous antics of local characters from the author’s early life in the South Wales Valleys near Merthyr. By the author of the very popular and funny Tales from My Welsh Village (Y Lolfa, 2018), now in its third impression.

Skomer Island

Living Legacies

$44.99 • Paperback • 400 pages • 6.7 x 9.8 inches • fully illustrated • January 2021 NAT037000 • 978-1-78-461811-7 • Y Lolfa

$11.99 • Paperback • 160 pages • 5.1 x 7.7 inches August 2020 • FIC029000 • 978-1-78-461827-8 Y Lolfa

Skomer is a captivating island and one of Britain’s most spectacular National Nature Reserves, visited by tens of thousands of people every year and receiving regular media attention from magazines, radio and television wildlife programs. It has internationally important populations of seabirds, including puffins and Manx shearwaters, and large numbers of grey seal pups are born on the island’s beaches. The breathtaking displays of spring flowers, including coast-to-coast bluebells, give the island an almost unrivaled beauty, and it is also one of the best-preserved prehistoric landscapes in Britain.

A collection of short stories about the nighttime pursuit of game in the Welsh countryside, based on oral testimony given to the author. A journey around the people and stories of an ancient settlement in the Clwydian Range, written largely in the words of the people who were there, working in secret at night to stay alive.

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Towers of Defiance

Depicting St David

Castles and Fortifications of the Welsh Princes

Martin Crampin

Paul R Davis $29.99 • Paperback • 288 pages • 8.3 x 7.9 inches • fully illustrated • May 2021 ARC005030 • 978-1-91-263130-8

This book explores the history and evolution of the Welsh castle during the time when the native rulers held sway (c.1066-1283). An extremely comprehensive, full-color guide, it is illustrated throughout with spectacular new aerial photography, plans and reconstruction drawings, through which the author examines the various architectural designs and layouts that created the distinctive form of the Welsh castle. A historical introduction sets the scene for the period and explains the ruling aristocracy’s need for castles, exploring the social and political struggles that characterized the age and the ways in which the rulers of early medieval Wales used castles and other defensive structures to enhance and maintain their status. An architectural introduction examines the structure of the castles, their design, layout and method of construction. The gazetteer section then looks at each of the known and presumed native fortifications, organized under the various royal dynasties of medieval Wales. Each entry provides a historical and architectural summary of the site, including recent discoveries and revised interpretations of well-known sites, along with map references and access details for visitors.

$8.99 • Paperback • 80 pages • 8.3 x 8.3 inches fully illustrated • Currently Available REL110000 • 978-1-91-263123-0

Although belonging to a distant medieval Celtic past, every 1 March patron saint St David is still vigorously celebrated in Wales, and he remains very much part of the national consciousness. Hundreds of images of David can be found in the nation’s churches, mainly in the form of nineteenth- and twentieth-century stained glass and sculpture. This book introduces a selection, contextualizing the imagery in relation to the artists and studios that made them, local history and stories associated with St David. In some cases the churches in which images in this book were photographed have now closed and a growing number face an uncertain future. This book aims to foster a better appreciation of these depictions of St David, and encourage more visitors to go and seek out these images. Richly illustrated in full color throughout, packed with over 160 of the author’s striking photographs.

A Nation of Singing Birds Sermon and Song in Wales and Among the Welsh in America Ronald Rees $19.99 • Paperback • 240 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • September 2020 MUS015000 • 978-1-91-263129-2

By the middle of the nineteenth century, Wales—thanks to a repertoire of appealing hymns and an easily-learned form of musical notation—was the fabled sea of song. In America, where the Welsh settled in numbers, they continued to sing. In monoglot, tightly-knit settlements in Delaware, Ohio, Vermont, New York and Pennsylvania, chapels were invariably the focus of community life, and it was a group of Welsh migrants to Utah, led by John Parry, who formed the nucleus of the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Musicality, however, was not confined to the singing of hymns. Harry Caplan, the American classicist, defined preaching as a ‘sacred art’, suggesting that sermons were performances; vocal exercises as well as pedagogical ones. To engage congregations, Welsh preachers—at home as well as in America—delivered their sermons with a discernible cadence or rhythm, in which sound could be as important as meaning. By combining the persuasive power of the word with the emotive power of music, congregations could be brought to states ranging from spiritual readiness to near-hysteria.

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Y Lolfa z The Man in Black

Welsh Castles Colouring Book

Peter Moore—Wales’ Worst Serial Killer Dylan Rhys Jones

Dorian Spencer Davies Dorian Spencer Davies

$14.99 • Paperback • 192 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • c. 30 color & b/w photos November 2020 • TRU002010 978-1-91-263127-8

$7.99 • Paperback • 24 pages • 8.3 x 11 inches • 21 b/w outlines to color Currently Available • GAM019000 978-1-78-461677-9

Written by criminal defense lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones, this is the true story of his experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, known as ‘The Man in Black’, who was found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men in north Wales and seriously assaulting over 30 more over a 20-year period. In his concluding remarks while sentencing Moore, Judge Mr Justice Maurice Kay referred to him as “as dangerous a man as it is possible to find”. Moore admitted the killings and described them in detail, but then changed his story, blaming someone else for the murders. As his brief, the author spent hours discussing with Moore his motivation for murder, his compulsion for the violent sexual assaults, his background, his plans for further murders, his involvement with a circle of friends in north Wales and Merseyside who had similar strange sexual proclivities, and the overwhelming urge he felt to kill. An in-depth firsthand account of full and frank dealings with a particularly vicious individual who apparently gained pleasure from violence, and an insight into the professional and personal pressures suffered by a lawyer during the yearlong process leading up to such a high-profile trial.

A collection of beautiful and fun illustrations of Wales’ most spectacular castles, drawn by well-known Welsh artist Dorian Spencer Davies for you to color and treasure. Anyone from 4 to 94 will enjoy bringing these vivid, joyful images of 21 stunning Welsh landmarks to life. The book includes castles from all over Wales and built by both the Normans and Welsh princes: Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Cardigan, Carew, Carreg Cennen, Castell Coch, Chepstow, Conwy, Criccieth, Denbigh, Dinefwr, Dolbadarn, Dolwyddelan, Harlech, Kidwelly, Laugharne, Pembroke, Raglan, Rhuddlan.

Llanilltud

Let It Go

The Story of a Celtic Christian Community

How to Stop Your Past Ruining Your Future

Philip Morris

David Rahman

$14.99 • Paperback • 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • c. 30 color & b/w photos • September 2020 • HIS037010 978-1-78-461753-0

$11.99 • Paperback • 176 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • some diagrams October 2020 • OCC019000 978-1-78-461830-8

Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr in Welsh) in south Wales is probably Britain’s oldest center of learning. Scholars of church history have called it ‘the Christian axis of the Celtic-speaking peoples’ and ‘the University of the Atlantic of the Celtic period’, and the monastic community there was important across the whole of medieval western Europe. This book provides for the first time a history of St Illtud’s monastery and school, founded in c.500 AD. It looks at developments on the site over the next 1,000 years till the Reformation, as well as at how the Celtic tradition and memory of Llanilltud have been kept alive since then. However, its primary focus is the development of the early monastic community in the context of the Celtic Christian tradition. A scholarly and analytical study, yet written in an engaging and highly readable style.

A self-help book. Leave behind negative patterns of thinking and behavior which give rise to unwanted emotions and hold you back in life. This book offers a combination of theory and sound practical strategies, proven time and time again in mind-coach David Rahman’s workshops and courses to really show people how to live happier lives.

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Y zLolfa •z The Official Scarlets Quiz Book

Grav: Welsh Rugby’s Biggest Character

Matthew Jones

Remembering Ray Gravell

$7.99 • Paperback • 128 pages 4.8 x 7.2 inches • November 2020 • GAM008000 978-1-78-461739-4

Authorized quiz book on regional Welsh rugby union side the Scarlets, comprising 50 rounds of 10 questions each, by the author of the bestselling Welsh Rugby Quiz Book.

A Dragon Called Môr Jilly Bebbington Andrea Grealy $7.99 • Paperback • 64 pages • 4.1 x 8.3 inches 9 b/w illustrations Currently Available JUV039030 • 978-1-78-461799-8

A volume comprising six short stories for children aged 7-9 about a blue sea dragon that makes friends with the children at a hospice and regularly joins in with their activities. The book, written by a volunteer at the T Hafan hospice in Wales, is aimed at educating children and adults alike about what happens there.

Rhys Meirion $11.99 • Paperback • 176 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches • 21 images November 2020 • BIO016000 978-1-912631-18-6

Rugby Union legend and British Lion Ray Gravell played 485 times for Llanelli RFC and was a member of two Grand Slam-winning Wales sides. He was without a doubt one of the greatest characters Wales has ever produced, held in extremely high regard both by rugby devotees and those with no interest in the game. He crossed divides, bringing people together and touching the hearts of all who were privileged enough to meet him. He was so well-loved that 10,000 mourners attended his funeral in Stradey Park in 2007. This collection of anecdotes about Grav from family, friends and colleagues showcases his endless kindness, mischievous sense of humor and legendary humanity and shows that over a decade since his death, he is just as much of a cult hero as ever.

Hard Men of World Rugby

A Celtic Pilgrimage A Walk from Wales to Brittany through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall

Luke Upton $14.99 • Paperback • 192 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • c. 30 color & b/w photos • December 2020 • BIO016000 • 978-1-91-263128-5

The ultimate book about the hard men of Rugby Union. Written by experienced journalist and author Luke Upton, this book includes the gruesome stories of the hardest and most ruthless, yet incredibly talented, players from around the world since the First World War. In our era of citing commissioners, super slow-motion replays and trial by social media, some of their actions are almost hard to believe. These men were totally committed to the sport, and irrespective of size, reputation or opposition, never took a step back on the pitch. And largely free from the confines of the commitments the modern professional game demands, many were as lively off the pitch as they were fiery on it.

Anne Hayward $13.99 • Paperback • 176 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 inches • c. 40 color photos • Currently Available • REL070000 • 978-1-78461-832-2

This is Anne Hayward’s second book, based on a pilgrimage she made on foot to Brittany in 2016. As in her first book, A Pilgrimage Around Wales, her writing is aimed at people interested in Christian spirituality and pilgrimage, but the books also focuses on the Church history (in the broadest sense) she discovered and reflected on as she walked. It is intended to appeal to readers of a variety of denominational backgrounds or with a more general affiliation, as well as to those who are interested in Celtic culture and history, or in travel, walking and the outdoors.

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Y Lolfa z Cornish in Your Pocket

Irish in Your Pocket

Cornish Language Basics and Words

Irish Language Basics and Words

Y Lolfa

$7.99 • Paperback • 16 pages • 2.8 x 5.1 inches • December 2020 FOR017000 • 978-1-78461-876-6

$7.99 • Paperback • 16 pages • 2.8 x 5.1 inches • December 2020 FOR017000 • 978-1-78461-874-2

A handy little language aid designed to be carried by Cornish learners at all times. This concertina booklet, contained in protective plastic pouch, offers basic Cornish grammar rules, as well as everyday phrases and a collection of the most commonly used Cornish words.

A handy little language aid designed to be carried by Irish learners at all times. This concertina booklet, contained in protective plastic pouch, offers basic Irish grammar rules, as well as everyday phrases and a collection of the most commonly used Irish words.

Teach Your Cat Manx

Gaelic in Your Pocket

Anne Cakebread Anne Cakebread

Gaelic Language Basics and Words

$10.00 • Paperback • 112 pages 4.1 x 5.8 inches • fully illustrated August 2020 • FOR017000 978-1-78-461831-5

Y Lolfa $7.99 • Paperback • 16 pages 2.8 x 5.1 inches • December 2020 FOR017000 • 978-1-78461-875-9

A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 60+ words and phrases for you to practice your Manx with your furry best friend. Suitable as a first introduction to Manx for learners of all ages: for adults who would like a fun way to pick up a few basic words when visiting the Isle of Man, or for children, who will love the cute pictures. Many of the words and phrases can also be used in non cat-related situations! Anne Cakebread’s first book in this series, Teach Your Dog Welsh, was major UK book retailer W H Smiths’ Book of the Month and is a No.1 bestseller.

A handy little language aid designed to be carried by Scots Gaelic learners at all times. This concertina booklet, contained in protective plastic pouch, offers basic Gaelic grammar rules, as well as everyday phrases and a collection of the most commonly used Gaelic words.

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Y zLolfa •z The Quilt

Nanteos

Valériane Leblond

The Dipping Pool

$8.99 • Hardback • 32 pages • 8.6 x 8.6 inches • fully illustrated • August 2020 JUV016000 • 978-1-78-461808-7

Jane Blank

Children’s picture book by the illustrator of Little Honey Bee, Wales on the Map, Four Branches of the Mabinogi and many more. A beautifully illustrated story about emigration and homesickness. A little girl lives with her parents on a farm near the coast, around the turn of the twentieth century. Times are hard and the family decides to emigrate to the USA, raising the fare by selling all of their possessions except for a black and red quilt lovingly hand-made by the mother. The little girl feels homesick and sad at times, but the memories and love contained in the quilt help her overcome this and adapt to her new life. The book offers a message of hope which is sure to strike a chord with many adult readers: when things look bleak, remember that happy times will return.

$13.99 • Paperback • 304 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • November 2020 FIC014000 • 978-1-78461-877-3

Nanteos: The Dipping Pool is companion to The Shadow of Nanteos, described as “A wonderfully gothic evocation of Wild Wales”. Both prequel and sequel, continuing the story of the infamous Powell family of Nanteos mansion and of the violent, secretive world of eighteenth-century Cardiganshire, it is a visceral, hard-hitting historical novel exploring life in the mansions and mines of the ‘Wild West of Wales’.

Where Crows Would Die

Shelter Me

Mary Griese

$13.99 • Paperback • 368 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • 0 • September 2020 FIC031000 • 978-1-91-263122-3

$13.99 • Paperback • 320 pages 5.1 x 7.7 inches • August 2020 FIC031000 • 978-1-78-461828-5

Thriller with an agricultural background and a female protagonist, set on farms on the Black Mountain in Wales in the 1960s and 1970s.

Rob Gittins

Shelter Me is the third in the ‘Shelter’ series of novels (following Gimme Shelter & Secret Shelter), completing the trilogy and revealing the dramatic conclusion to the gripping story of Ros Gilet. In the earlier novels, Ros Gilet’s family was suddenly propelled into witness protection after violent events in her early childhood. Reaching adulthood, she herself has become a Witness Protection Officer, but the organization her family testified against two decades earlier has eventually tracked down and killed her father and vowed to kill her too. Shelter Me picks up the story, with a case of familicide uncovering links to one of the key figures in the murder case that originally sent Ros into witness protection, a man who has been supposed dead for years. Ros finally discovers the truth behind what happened to her family and a reveals a treacherous case of deception and corruption in the very police force she now works for. As the story draws inexorably to its bloody end, Ros herself contemplates a final, deadly revenge.

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