IPM Spring 2021 Trade Catalog

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SPRING 2021

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Casemate IPM Welcome to the Casemate IPM Spring 2021 Catalog When Casemate closed its offices in March 2020 I never dreamed that we’d still be working from home when launching the Spring 2021 catalog. Yet here we are, operating in separate home offices, connected virtually, and working together diligently to bring the best books to you. As we continue to navigate the “new normal” I am grateful to and inspired by the commitment and enthusiasm of the Casemate Team to present our client publishers’ titles to the US market.

This Spring 2021 list is a real cracker and testament to the creativity of our publishers. From crafts to COVID, space to soccer, British history to Bengali poetry, there is a wide range of titles with something to suit readers of every age and taste.

We welcome the photography publisher Editions Hemeria (page 11) to our list of client publishers. They launch in the US with Mediterranean Planet, a sumptuous volume of underwater photography documenting the natural history and biodiversity of underwater ecosystems.

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Canbury Press **

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Classics Illustrated Comics

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Columba Books

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Currach Books

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Editions Hemeria

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Eland Publishing

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Fernhurst Books **

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Formac Publishing Ltd. **

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Frontline Books

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Gaudium **

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George F Thompson Publishing

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Gill Books

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Global Collective Publishers

22

Gremese International**

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Green Bean Books

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Histria Kids**

25

Kasva Press

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The Liffey Press

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Liberties Press

28

Lorimer** 28

Thank you for your ongoing support of Casemate IPM and our client publishers.

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Medina Publishing

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Messenger Publications

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Neem Tree Press

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The O’Brien Press**

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Pen & Sword

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Penguin Random House South Africa

48

Polaris** 50 Polygon** 51

Table of Contents Addison & Highsmith**

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Protea Boekhuis

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Salmon Poetry

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Schreiber Publishing

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Air World 2

Sandstone Press

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Anomie Publishing** 4

White Owl

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Arden 4

Wordwell Books

59

Banovallum 5

Y Lolfa

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Bartleby Press 5 Bauhan Publishing

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Publishers marked above with ** are not available from Casemate IPM in Canada

Birlinn **

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Our front cover is taken from Fringed With Mud and Pearls (Image Credit: Stuart Polson), featured on page 7.

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Addison & Highsmith Addison & Highsmith • Air World

The Oar of Odysseus

The Crossing

Richard M. Bank

$32.99 • Hardback • 286 pages • 6x9 Illustrated • April 2021 • FIC027200 978-1-59-211089-6 Addison & Highsmith

Ashby Jones

$29.99 • Hardback • 200 pages 6x9 • April 2021 • FIC009100 978-1-59-211088-9 Addison & Highsmith

Penelope Bauer sips on a margarita, celebrating her acceptance into the graduate Classics program at Boston University, unaware that she will soon become the central player in a bold scheme to save Western Civilization from itself. Of course, like any intelligent young woman in the dark days of 2018, she sees the symptoms of decay all around her, and the waning of the original values of ancient Greece. The good life for most Americans has become synonymous with the individual drive for wealth and status, acquisitiveness displacing the quest for the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, justice, and the like. Indeed, the small liberal arts college from which she will graduate in a week, has fallen victim to the money grubbing paws of a shady for-profit educational corporation.

Penny’s decision to pursue the Classics reflects her growing realization that liberal education may be human kind’s last best hope.

Irish-born Johnny Flynn, a former British soldier, is banished from his homeland and sent to America on a ship so riddled with disease that he realizes the voyage was meant to murder him. When he survives the trip, the captain forces him to walk the plank into the Hudson River. Miraculously, Johnny is rescued by a rumrunning Irish gang, the Swamp Angels, and given a job running whisky in Hell’s Kitchen just as Prohibition makes liquor a hugely profitable, dangerous business.

Fighting for his life and livelihood amid the denizens of the Manhattan piers, Johnny is plagued by the memory of his lost lover, Nora, whose father, the famed Irish revolutionary, James Connolly, met his death through a firing squad that included a reluctant gunman named Johnny Flynn. Nora’s last words to him, when she learned of his betrayal and left him, “I love you, Johnny Flynn”, echo in his heart, leaving him pulsing with guilt, yearning, and the hope that she might yet forgive him.

Dying Art

Dragon Rapide

Joe Kilgore

De Havilland's Classic Biplane Airliner

$29.99 • Hardback • 260 pages 6x9 • May 2021 • FIC022000 978-1-59-211091-9 Addison & Highsmith

Colin Higgs Jo Hillman

Brig Ellis is a new age private investigator with old school values. When he gets a call from an old flame seeking protection for her husband, he agrees to help. Seems the hubby is an artist whose star is ascending. What Brig doesn’t know, until he makes contact with the couple, is that the artist paints with the cremated ashes of human remains.

While the painter’s profile is rising, so too is the number of people less than thrilled with what he is doing—and some of them are determined to stop him one way or another.

Ellis soon finds himself in the middle of multiple bizarre events that could be chalked up as accidental mayhem. Of course, they could also be escalating murder attempts. From wild art house happenings in the warehouse district to glittering soirees in the manicured mansions of the upper crust, things get more and more dangerous. A tornado in far west Texas threatens to level everything and everyone in its path. A sojourn to Havana, Cuba turns deadly.

An art show in Chicago becomes a nightmare when a Molotov cocktail sets a gallery ablaze. The violence keeps increasing exponentially, as do the suspects.

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$42.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6x9.25 • 200 black and white illustrations • Currently Available TRA002040 • 978-1-52-678474-2 Air World

The DH.89 Dragon Rapide flew for the first time in 1934. From its appearance on the drawing board the aircraft flew within a few months, announcing its arrival by competing in air races and entering commercial service. The prototype was the first of more than 700 aircraft, a huge number for a biplane commercial airliner design.

In 1939 Rapides were requisitioned by the military who were so pleased with this reliable aircraft that they ordered 500 new ones to be built as trainers, and named the Dominie, for both the RAF and Royal Navy.When peace returned there were huge numbers of surplus aircraft available but at this point, instead of being scrapped, they were bought up by airlines.

It is the story of this remarkable aircraft that is revealed in this unrivaled collection of archive images, the majority of which, having been drawn from private collections, have not been published before.

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The Dangers of Automation in Airliners Accidents Waiting to Happen Jack J Hersch $32.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6x9.25 16 black and white illustrations Currently Available • TRA002040 978-1-52-677314-2 Jack J Hersch lives in New York, NY

Automation in aviation can be a lifesaver, expertly guiding a plane and its passengers through stormy weather to a safe landing. Or it can be a murderer, crashing an aircraft and killing all on board in the mistaken belief that it is doing the right thing.

Aviation automation has been pushed to its limits, with pilots increasingly relying on it.

Can automation account for every possible eventuality?

And what of the pilots? They began flight training with their hands on the throttle and yoke, and feet on the rudder pedals. Then they reached the pinnacle of their careers – airline pilot – and suddenly they were going hours without touching the controls other than for a few minutes on takeoff and landing. Are their skills eroding? Is their training sufficient to meet the demands of today’s planes?The Dangers of Automation in Airliners delves deeply into these questions.

The future of safe air travel depends on automation. This book tells its story.

Boeing 737

Lockheed Constellation

The World's Most Controversial Commercial Jetliner

A History

Graham M Simons $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.5x9.5 200 color illustrations • Currently Available TRA002040 • 978-1-52-678723-1

Initially envisioned in 1964, the first 737-100 made its first flight in April 1967 and entered airline service in February 1968 with Lufthansa.

The 737 series went on to become one of the highest-selling commercial jetliners in history and has been in production in its core form since 1967; the 10,000th example was rolled out on 13 March 2018.

There is, however, a very different side to the convoluted story of the 737’s development, one that demonstrates a transition of power from a primarily engineering structure to one of accountancy, number-driven powerbase that saw corners cut, and the previous extremely high safety methodology compromised. The result was the 737 MAX. Having entered service in 2017, this model was grounded worldwide in March 2019 following two devastating crashes.

In this revealing insight into the Boeing 737, the renowned aviation historian Graham M. Simons examines its design, development and service over the decades since 1967. He also explores the darker side of the 737’s history, laying bare the politics, power-struggles, changes of management ideology and battles with Airbus that culminated in the 737 MAX debacle that has threatened Boeing’s very survival.

Graham M Simons $42.95 • Hardback • 256 pages • 6.5x9.5 175 color illustrations • March 2021 TRA002010 • 978-1-52-675886-6

Lockheed had been working on the L-044 Excalibur, a four-engine, pressurized airliner, since 1937. In 1939, Trans World Airlines, at the instigation of major stockholder Howard Hughes, requested a 40-passenger transcontinental aircraft with a range of 3,500 miles, well beyond the capabilities of the Excalibur design. TWA’s requirements led to the L-049 Constellation, designed by Lockheed engineers including Kelly Johnson and Hall Hibbard.

The Constellation was used as a civil airliner and as a military and civilian air transport, seeing service in the Berlin and the Biafran airlifts. Three of them served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the Second World War, TWA’s transatlantic service began on 6 February 1946 with a New York-Paris flight in a Constellation. Then, on 17 June 1947, Pan Am opened the first-ever scheduled round-the-world service with their L-749 Clipper America.

In this revealing insight into the Lockheed Constellation, the renowned aviation historian Graham M. Simons examines its design, development and service, both military and civil. In doing so, he reveals the story of a design which, as the first pressurized airliner in widespread use, helped to usher in affordable and comfortable air travel around the world.

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Anomie Birlinn •Publishing BC Books • Arden Caroline Walker – Janet

A Ridiculous Man Donald Trump and the Verdict of History

Caroline Walker Hettie Judah

Norman Abjorensen

$36 • Hardback • 152 pages 8.25x10.25 • 80 illustrations Currently Available ART016010 978-1-91-022126-6 Anomie Publishing

$14.95 • Paperback • 148 pages • 5x8 Currently Available • BIO011000 978-1-92-245402-7 Arden

Scotland-born, London-based artist Caroline Walker is celebrated for her paintings exploring the lives of women, from those living luxury lifestyles to those fleeing oppression. In this publication, which was produced to accompany Walker’s first exhibition with Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, in Fall 2020, the artist turns her attention closer to home, presenting a series of paintings in which the focus is the artist’s own mother, Janet, as she goes about her daily tasks: cooking, cleaning, tidying, and tending the garden of the Fife home where the artist spent her childhood.

The election of Donald Trump as the 45th US president in 2016 was a pivotal moment in history for America and for the world. A celebrity rather than a politician, Trump promised to turn politics on its head – and he did. Is he an aberration or does he represent a continuity of forces already in play? Who was he, where did he come from, and what did he do? These are questions future historians will ask as they grapple with the meaning of Trump, the implications of his presidency and his place in history.

The publication features a newly commissioned essay and an interview with the artist by critic and author Hettie Judah. The essay opens by comparing Walker’s works to the Dutch Golden Age, encouraging consideration of everyday domestic scenes. Judah then leads the reader through Walker’s latest series of works, exploring the daily routines and household chores that have filled Walker’s mother’s days for the past forty years,

Summoning Magna Carta

Climate Change The Facts 2020

The Struggle to Claim the Anglosphere's Ancient Birthright

Jennifer Marohasy $30 • Paperback • 400 pages • 6x9 June 2021 • SCI092000 978-1-92-598494-1 Arden

Zachary Gorman

On 24 September 2019, the 17-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit saying, "People are suffering.

People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction." A day earlier, however, the climate policy foundation Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) sent the UN their World Climate Declaration, signed by 800 prominent scientists including Nobel Laureate Professor Ivar Giaever and Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore, stating that there is no climate emergency: "You’re tired of alarmism and failed predictions of climate models that can’t predict the past, let alone the future. You distrust the business leaders, politicians and scientists of the climate industrial complex – you just want The Facts."

This book contains original research and new theories of climate and will arm you with these facts. Leading scientists are contributors, including former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Center Dr. Roy Spencer, and lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report Professor Emeritus of Meteorology Richard Lindzen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many more.

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$25 • Paperback • 270 pages • 6x9 June 2021 • POL010000 978-1-92-245401-0 Arden

The story of Magna Carta is the essential prologue to the story of Western democracy. It is a foundation stone in the political culture and legal system of Australia and other countries that share a common law heritage. This book combines a most readable general history of the influence of Magna Carta in the emergence of Western democracy since 1215 with beginning and concluding observations on the Great Charter’s relevance to Australia, the European settlement of which began as that of a penal colony. Magna Carta was soon, however, to provide a sound basis for the ‘British right’ to colonial self-government. This is the tale of the importance of history and culture in securing rights, and how the Great Charter is far more pivotal to our present freedom than a face-value reading of the document would allow.

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Life After Covid-19

Southern Dreams, Jewish Deeds and the Challenge of Looking Back while Moving Forward

Lessons from Past Pandemics

Janice Rothschild Blumberg $24.50 • Paperback • 288 pages • 6x9 May 2021 • BIO007000 978-0-93-543763-8 Bartleby Press

From growing up in Georgia during the Depression to traveling the world with an astrophysicist, Janice Rothschild Blumberg has lived many distinct, memorable lives, each worthy of their very own individual memoir.

After WWII, Janice married Jacob Rothschild and became an outspoken proponent of the civil rights movement, working closely with Martin Luther King. In 1973, Janice married David M. Blumberg, President of B’nai B’rith International, taking her to formal dinners at the White House.

Well into her ninth decade, Janice Blumberg continues to amaze. She may have thought it would be near the end of her memorable experiences, yet she happily continues to learn, staying open to what life brings her way and ready for what’s next.

Before Us Lies the Timber The Segregated High School of Montgomery County, Maryland 1927-1960 Warrick S. Hill $22.50 • Paperback • pages • 7x9.25 Currently Available • BIO002010 978-0-93-543762-1 Bartleby Press

In 1927, Rockville Colored High School became the first high school in the county for African-American boys and girls eager to continue their education.

Finally, these students had a school of their own and could see the hope and opportunity that a secondary education offered. The first class chose as their motto “Before Us Lies the Timber—Let Us Build,” reflecting their dreams for the future.

Due to economic circumstances, only nine of the original forty students finished. Yet, over the next 29 years, the population of black county residents able to earn a high school education became so large that, twice, new schools had to be built to accommodate them.

Each graduating class is given its own chapter, recreating, year by year, the trials, challenges, and accomplishments of these unique students attending the high school they loved. The histories chronicled in this book will help you not only to learn what African-Americans in Montgomery County went through, but will keep their memories alive for future generations.

Bob Gordon $22.99 • Hardback • 200 pages 6.5x9.4 • Currently Available SOC057000 • 978-1-91-165877-1 Banovallum

Life After COVID-19 investigates past epidemics and their aftermath, seeking to draw parallels with the world of today and examine how the world could look when this new contagion has finally receded.

Author Bob Gordon starts by studying the Black Death, and traces its periodic reemergence over the course of several centuries; then how Napoleon’s imperial ambitions were laid waste by yellow fever; ‘King Cholera,' the bane of the 19th century; and the Spanish influenza pandemic that ravaged a world already reeling after four years of conflict.

The final chapters look at the current pandemic, its etiology and symptomatology. The current state of the search for therapeutics and vaccines is examined, while the aftershocks of COVID-19 are considered in a variety of fields – including the impact on retailers, the entertainment industry, airline travel, education and more.

The Little Red House that Jack Built Russell Jack Smith $14.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 5.5x8.5 • Currently Available ARC003000 • 978-0-91-015546-5 Bartleby Press

In the early 1950’s, Russell “Jack” Smith was already a veteran of the still-fledgling CIA. Jack was later to become the legendary Deputy Director of Intelligence. But at that time, he and his wife Rosemary were renting a house in McLean, Virginia, back then a bucolic land of winding roads and gentle hills.

A friend and neighbor suggested that the Smiths buy an adjacent piece of land and build a home of their own. This begins an true-life escapade unlike any espionage tale or spy novel, but reads like one. Despite the more everyday subject, Jack Smith deftly narrates the strategies, the daily occurrences, the material costs, and other details involved with building one’s own home. Its style is just what you would expect from the author of many novels including The Singapore Chance, Lodestone and The Secret War as well a popular memoir, The Unknown CIA. We learn that - except for the costs - building a home all those years ago is not very different than from today. But, of course, ultimately, Jack’s story is a tale about an adventure of discovery, not how to lay a subfloor.

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ArdenPublishing Bauhan Girl as Birch Poems Rebecca Kaiser Gibson $17 • Paperback 80 pages • 6.5x8.5 April 2021 • POE005010 978-0-87-233333-8 Rebecca Kaiser Gibson lives in Marlborough, NH

In Girl as Birch, Gibson mimics the flexible motion of a birch in strong wind, as it relates to the options seemingly available to her, growing up as a girl. The poems imitate in form the experiences they evoke. The leitmotifs of red, birches, mirrors, walls enclosing gardens, labyrinths as metaphors for constraint, recur throughout the book.

Without being a manifesto, Girl as Birch explores female gender roles with both pliant and uprising imagery and action. Restriction and rebellion, silence and speech, appearance and artifice, passion and repression, the past and being present, buffet and embolden the speaker of these poems.

Adjustment Disorder A Collection of Maladjusted Essays Patrick Mondaca $19.95 • Paperback 180 pages • 6x9 • March 2021 • BIO008000 978-0-87-233327-7 Patrick Mondaca lives in Clinton, CT

In this memoir, written within a collection of essays, Patrick Mondaca deftly threads together stories of his wartime service in Iraq, his pre-war experience, and his postwar efforts to readjust to civilian life. From small-town Connecticut to Baghdad, to Darfur and New York City, Mondaca considers the effects of war on the soldier—what it does to one’s psyche, identity, and morality. While he is just one of millions who have returned from this country’s ongoing armed conflicts, his moving essays offer a glimpse into the experience of veterans struggling to find their way back to their prior lives and the loved ones trying to understand them. The collection speaks deeply and thoughtfully to many issues of our times.

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DM Me, Mother Darling

The Schoolmaster

Poems

Padma Hejmadi

Alexa Doran

$19.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 5.5x8.5 March 2021 FIC029000 978-0-87-233339-0

$17 • Paperback 80 pages • 6.5x8.5 April 2021 • POE005010 978-0-87-233330-7 Alexa Doran lives in Tallahassee, FL

DM Me, Mother Darling pulses with the confusion, elation, and shattering fear of 21st century parenthood. Through the eyes of Peter Pan’s Mother Darling and Doran’s own experience navigating modern motherhood, the struggles so often fought in silence come careening forward, electric as the light that defines them. Through a tangle of casinos, Lizzo, and gravel parking lots, Doran takes readers to a narcotized Neverland where the mire of grief and the desperation of joy burn with the same endless flame.

A Friend of the Work My Correspondence with May Sarton Joan Jansen Linda Matys O'Connell $22.50 • Paperback 160 pages • 6x9 • May 2021 • BIO007000 978-0-87-233336-9 • Joan Jansen lives in Peterborough, NH ; Linda Matys O'Connell lives in Springfield, MA

In 1969, Joan Jansen was a 34-year-old mom living in suburban Long Island when she first encountered May Sarton’s Plant Dreaming Deep.

Enthralled, Jansen felt compelled to pen a fan letter to the popular and prolific poet, novelist, and memoirist. What followed was a gig as Sarton’s manuscript typist and a cache of 52 revelatory personal letters and other memorabilia published now for the first time. Jansen and Sarton enjoyed a close friendship of more than 20 years ending with Sarton’s death in 1995. In her periodic letters, Sarton shares intimate details of her daily life and sounds many of the themes notable throughout her career.

& Other Stories

This is a new edition of Birthday Deathday & Other Stories by Padma Perera. Additional material now provides more oral history from the first four decades just before and after India’s independence, 1940s–1980s. The story “Doctor Salaam” was included in Salman Rushdie’s Mirrorwork, an anthology of the best Indian fiction in English during the fifty years after India’s Independence.

A Roomful of Elephants A Memoir Patrick Forbes $22.50 • Paperback 172 pages • 6x9 May 2021 • BIO018000 • 978-0-87-233342-0

In this entertaining autobiography, the Rev. Patrick Forbes looks back at an exceptionally varied ministry in the Church of England—from being the idiot curate to parish priest, to religious programs producer, to a BBC Radio 2’s “Pause For Thought” contributor, to co-founder of the Holy Fools UK, all while asking challenging questions about the future direction of the church. Sometimes known as “Partick Frobes, the well-known clerical error”, Forbes often finds and points out the humor and not-so-funny “elephants in the room”, after his 55 years in the church. He may be the only ordained minister in the Church of England to have been blessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury as the front end of a pantomime horse.

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Arden Birlinn Midges

The Burns Supper Companion

Alasdair Roberts Tim Kirby $7.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 4.35x6.15 b/w line drawings throughout May 2021 • NAT017000 978-1-78-027638-0

Nancy Marshall $11.95 • Paperback 144 pages • 4.35x7 March 2022 • CKB029000 978-1-78-027631-1

Whether resident or tourist, noone is spared from the bloodlust of Scotland’s most savage insect ...

The midge does not like sunlight and thrives in the wet, so the Scottish summertime brings perfect climatic conditions for this ruthless wee beastie.

This fascinating and amusing anthology of anecdotes and information about the minuscule marauder ranges from the eighteenth century to the present, covering such topics as Bonnie Prince Charlie, Queen Victoria, kilts and camping. It also includes a section on remedies and repellents, so locals and visitors can tray and enjoy the pleasures of Scotland without the pain. And if the new midge-eating machines are as good as claimed, midges may soon be a thing of the past.

The Fresh and the Salt The Story of the Solway Ann Lingard $34.95 • Hardback 336 pages • 6.3x9.45 8pp color plates, maps • Currently Available SCI019000 • 978-1-78-027693-9

Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly influenced by their waters and shores.

The Solway Firth – the crooked finger of water that both unites and divides Scotland and England – is a beautiful yet unpredictable place and one of the least-industrialized natural large estuaries in Europe. Its history, geology and turbulent character have long affected the way its inhabitants, both human and non-human, have learnt to live along and within its ever-changing margins.

In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns’s death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celebrate his extraordinary life and to give thanks for his friendship. Over the years the informal theme from that evening has developed into the ritual known as Burns Night, celebrated every year on 25 January by countless people across the world.

This best-selling book is the essential guide for anyone intending to hold or attend a Burns Night of any size. In addition to setting out the order of events for the evening, the Burns Supper Companion also offers fascinating insights into the traditions surrounding Burns Night and includes a biography of the poet, poems, songs and quotations, sample speeches and even a recipe for haggis.

The Unremembered Places Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories Patrick Baker $21.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 5.3x8.05 8pp color plates; maps • Currently Available SCI019000 • 978-1-78-027637-3

From the high mountain passes of an ancient droving route to a desolate moorland graveyard, Patrick Baker makes a series of journeys on foot and by paddle. Along the way, he encounters Neolithic settlements, bizarre World War Two structures, evidence of illicit whisky production, sacred wells and Viking burial grounds.

Combining a rich fusion of travelogue and historical narrative, he threads themes of geology, natural and social history, literature, and industry from the places he visits, discovering connections between people and place more powerful than can be imagined.

Fringed With Mud & Pearls An English Island Odyssey Ian Crofton $29.95 • Hardback 288 pages • 6.15x9.2 16pp color plates • June 2021 • TRV010000 978-1-78-027665-6

Greece has its sun-soaked Cyclades and Dodecanese; Scotland its Northern Isles and rain-drenched Hebrides and Ireland the Arans and Skelligs. And what has England got? The isles of Canvey, Sheppey, Wight and Dogs, Mersea, Brownsea, Two Tree and Rat. But there are also wilder, rockier places. These islands possess their own peculiar stories: the Barbary slavers who once occupied Lundy; the ex-major who seized a wartime fort in the North Sea and declared himself Prince of Sealand; the wrecked munitions ship off the Isle of Sheppey that one day might unleash an unimaginable cataclysm, and much more.

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Birlinn Arden The Well of the Heads

In Search of Angels

Historical Tales of the Scottish Clans

Travels to the Edge of the World

Stuart McHardy

Alistair Moffat

$13.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.1x7.7 • Currently Available HIS015090 • 978-1-78-027697-7

$30 • Hardback • 320 pages 6.4x9.45 • b/w line drawings; maps Currently Available • HIS018000 978-1-78-027672-4

The origins of the Scottish clans go back over a thousand years, and for centuries these extended networks of families dominated life in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The warriors of the clan, fiercely loyal to each other and to their chief, were well known for their extraordinary courage and military skills.

Retold by one of Scotland’s most acclaimed storytellers, these stories illustrate the drama and the dynamism of a society which lived close to nature, had little in the way of material wealth but which boasted a remarkable treasure house of stories that were passed down over generations.

Riders on the Storm

Scottish Home Rule

Moscow Calling

The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being

The Answer to Scotland’s Constitutional Question

Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent

Alastair McIntosh

Ben Thomson Menzies Campbell

$14.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 5.05x7.7 Currently Available • NAT011000 978-1-78-027639-7

Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global warming will be permanent, indeed catastrophic, without a massive shift in human behaviour.

Writer, scholar and broadcaster Alastair McIntosh sums up the present knowledge and shows that conventional solutions are not enough.

In rejecting the blind alleys of climate change denial, exaggeration and false optimism, he offers a scintillating discussion of ways forward.

Weaving together science, politics, psychology and spirituality, this guide examines what it takes to make us riders on the storm.

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Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. These ‘white martyrs’ sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the world where they could fast, pray and move closer to an understanding of God: places where they could see angels. Columba, who founded the famous monastery at Iona, was the most well-known of these courageous men who rowed their curraghs towards danger and uncertainty in a pagan land, but the many others are now largely forgotten by history.

In this book, Alistair Moffat journeys from the island of Eileach an Naoimh at the mouth of the Firth of Lorne to Lismore, Iona and then north to Applecross, searching for traces of these extraordinary men.

$14.95 • Paperback • 176 pages • 5.3x8.45 Maps; Diagrams • Currently Available POL022000 • 978-1-78-027694-6

Every debate about the Scottish constitution should include the topic of Scottish Home Rule.

Home Rule is not widely understood being seen by many Unionists as the slippery slope to Independence and by Independence supporters as a Unionist proposal to retain sovereignty over Scotland. It is however a strong proposal in its own right with a separate history from Independence and a more likely steppingstone to Federalism.

This book is a much-needed statement for the merits of Scottish Home Rule as the best solution for Scotland.

Angus Roxburgh $14.95 • Paperback 384 pages • 5.1x7.8 May 2021 BIO026000 • 978-1-78-027718-9

In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has met four successive Russian presidents, been jinxed by a Siberian shaman, and been arrested by Chechen thugs. During the Cold War he was wooed by the KGB, who then decided he would make a lousy spy and expelled him from the country.

In Moscow Calling, Roxburgh presents his Russia – a quirky, crazy, beautiful, tumultuous world that in four decades has changed completely, and yet in some ways not at all. From the dark, fearful days of communism, to his frustrating work as a media consultant to Putin’s Kremlin, his memoir offers a unique, fascinating and at times hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ever, is of global political significance.

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Canbury Press • Classics Illustrated Comics • Columba Books Bauhan Publishing • Banovallum Dishing the Dirt

Redface

The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners

How I Learnt to Live With Social Anxiety

Nick Duerden

Russell Norris

$15 • Paperback • 256 pages 5.1x7.8 • Currently Available SOC045000 978-1-91-245446-4 Canbury Press

$14.99 • Paperback 288 pages • 5.1x7.8 February 2021 • SEL036000 978-1-91-245450-1 Canbury Press

Based on dozens of interviews, Dishing the Dirt tells the real story of house cleaners for the first time. We hear from the eastern Europeans who mop up family homes and from south Asians who wipe down mansions. We talk to joyful cleaners and to slave laborers, to women who dust nude for men, gay cleaners, and to butlers running the homes of millionaires.

As a teenager, Russell’s face would burn bright red for the smallest of reasons. When he entered his twenties he started blushing for no reason at all. He had a rare form of extreme blushing called idiopathic craniofacial erythema. It sent out all the wrong signals. And the blushing triggered something worse: Social Anxiety Disorder.

Up to one in 10 people suffer from this irrational fear of other people. From university to his first days at work, the phobia took over Russell’s life. By turns innocent and wry, dark but optimistic, this heartwarming story tells how a mental health condition gripped one man’s life. And how he found his own way forwards in a world made for others. It’s ideal for anyone struggling with blushing or social anxiety, for their friends and family, and for anyone curious about what it’s like to travel from the edge of human experience back to the center.

What’s their story? And how do they see their clients?

Nineteen EightyFour George Orwell Tony Evans Real Reads •$6.95 Paperback 64 pages • 5.1x7.8 30 color • March 2021 CGN006000 • 978-1-91-109110-3 Classics Illustrated Comics

Winston Smith lives in a nightmare world where the Thought Police spy on everyone and children are taught to betray their parents. Even the smallest sign of disagreement with the Party results in torture, imprisonment, or death. Big Brother oversees everything – but who is he?

Winston tries hard to keep his thoughts and fears to himself. But then he meets Julia, a strong-minded young woman who is willing to run the terrible risk of their being found together.

Will kindly Mr. Charrington keep their secret?

Can Winston and Julia find happiness despite the dangers that threaten them?

Animal Farm

Holistic Healing

George Orwell Tony Evans Real Reads •$6.95 Paperback 64 pages • 5.1x7.8 30 color • March 2021 CGN006000 978-1-91-109111-0 Classics Illustrated Comics

When the animals get rid of Mr. Jones and take over the farm, they are excited by their new freedom. But can they run the farm with tools that are designed for humans? Will they be able to harvest the food that they need for the winter?

The farmers decide to band together to win back the farm for Mr. Jones. Will the animals be able to fight them off? Can life on Animal Farm be as wonderful as they had all hoped for – or will new dangers threaten their happiness?

A Christian Approach Pat Collins

Columba Books

$19.99 • Paperback 200 pages • 8.4x5.3 Currently Available SEL032000 978-1-78-218375-4

Healing is one of the most beautiful gifts in God’s treasure chest of blessing. Not only did Jesus heal, he passed on the same ability to those who believe in him. This timely book describes how the gift of healing has been rediscovered in recent years. It examines its holistic and evangelistic nature by drawing on the best insights of medicine, psychology and biblical spirituality.

At a time when people are increasingly aware of the importance of mental health, it describes the nature and dynamics of inner healing, e.g., of low self-esteem, the father and mother wound, as well as such things as anxiety, depression and the effects of traumatic experiences.

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Arden Currach Books The Enchanted Lake

The Halloween House

Classic Irish Fairy Tales Sinéad De Valera Alexis Sierra $26.99 • Hardback 150 pages • 5.9x9 • Fully Illustrated Currently Available • JUV022000 978-1-78-218923-7

Mark Joyce

Sinéad de Valera’s The Enchanted Lake weaves a world of magic like no other. From witches and mermaids to giants and princes, this new version, full of beautiful and colorful illustrations by the artist Alexis Sierra, brings together eight of her classic Irish fairy tales. Set in the Erin of Old, these timeless tales are brimming with ancient charm, captivating characters and magical locales. The Enchanted Lake will transport the reader to a world of wonder and enchantment that will invite them back again and again.

Once Upon a Reader Raising Your Children With a Love of Books Lorraine Levis

$26.99 • Hardback • 120 pages • 8.8x9.2 Currently Available • JUV022000 978-1-78-218922-0

We are lucky in Ireland to have a treasure house of legends and tales but many of the strange and odd stories have been lost over time. This book seeks to shine a light on some of them.

Some good examples would be how Queen Medb was killed by a lump of cheese or how mad King Sweeney was turned into a bird. There is the tale of the epic race between Iron-bones and the Bodach. In this book you will find out how the ancients divided the year into four, and how a bardic poem could kill ten rats as well as influence Shakespeare.

$22.99 • Hardback • 100 pages • 7.6x9.2 Fully illustrated • Currently Available JUV018000 • 978-1-78-218924-4

Do you dare enter The Halloween House? From witches, werewolves, ghouls and ghosts, all are assembled in its moldy rooms to offer thrills and shivers - and quite a lot of laughs. Thirty-one tales crammed with ghostly fun dare you to book a seat on the Fright Flight, enter the The Witches’ Broomstick Race, fight vampires with fearless Gran Helsing, and ride with The Phantom Highwayman. Listen for the whistle of The Devil’s Locomotive as you set sail on midnight waters with The Ghost Pirates. And if you should be tempted by A Shortcut Through the Graveyard, we guarantee, you will only do it once!

Fears, Phobias & Fantasies

A Memoir of Kevin Barry

Understanding Mental Illness and Mental Health

$24.99 • Hardback 300 pages • 6.5x9 Currently Available • BIO006000 978-1-78-218926-8

We all want to raise children who love to read but finding the right books is key! Once Upon a Reader is a roadmap for anyone who wants to help a new generation – from prenatal babies to young adults – foster a love of reading.

Ex-bookseller and children’s book expert Lorraine Levis shows us how to talk about books with young people of all ages and how to help them find books that speak to them and the world they live in. Find out how to pick the perfect book for any child or young adult, how to balance reading and screen time, how to know when your child is ready for more advanced themes, how you can use books to help develop your relationship with the children in your life, and much more!

Riley Cain

Yours 'Til Hell Freezes Síofra O'Donovan

$22.99 • Hardback 200 pages • 5.9x8.8 Currently Available • LAN013000 978-1-78-218920-6

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Mythical Irish Wonders

Thirty-one Putrid Poems and Rotten Rhymes for October

Yours 'Till Hell Freezes is an intimate portrait of the young rebel martyr Kevin Barry, written by one of his closest descendants. Síofra’s life was enriched by Kevin Barry’s belongings – his shillelagh, his letters in brown ink, his Belvedere cap, his memorial cards, his copy books, secret British correspondence and letters to and from eminent figures about him. Kevin Barry was the first person to be hanged by the British after the 1916 Rising, at 18 years old during the War of Independence. Although Kevin was young, he had a full life. This book brings new life to Kevin Barry, using material from family papers and the public domain. The poignant descriptions of his final hours is gripping and chilling in detail.

Patricia Casey $26.99 • Paperback • 250 pages • 8.4x5.3 Currently Available • PSY036000 978-1-78-218921-3

Written by well-known psychiatrist Patricia Casey, this book is aimed at the general public. Since mental health problems are common, and range in severity from transient stress reactions to those that impact seriously on day to day living, a book that helps people understand these conditions is required reading. There is also concern about the medicalization of day-to-day problems of living and this too is explored critically.

Case vignettes and tips on how family and friends can help will make this accessible to the non-medical reader and to those who either suffer with mental health problems or who are caring for somebody who does.

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Editions Hemeria • Eland Publishing Arena Sport Mediterranean Planet Laurent Ballesta $89 • Hardback 304 pages • 9.6x11.8 Fully illustrated January 2021 PHO011000 • 978-2-49-095210-6 • Editions Hemeria

André Carrara, Regards André Carrara Isabelle-Cecile Le Mee $69.95 • Hardback • 144 pages 9.4x12.6 • Fully illustrated January 2021 • PHO011000 978-2-49-095214-4 • Editions Hemeria

Accompanied by minimal textual content, the photographs of rare creatures never before illustrated exhibiting unusual behavior tell the story with each page turned of natural history and lived history. From the extraordinary biodiversity of the coral reefs to the seascapes far beneath the surface, Laurent Ballesta has embarked on an excursion into these otherworldly ecosystems that actually exist on Earth and make up the Mediterranean Planet.

This book also conforms with the longstanding tradition of works that pay tribute to the marine world by offering unique insights into an ecosystem that has not yet unveiled all its secrets. After several deep-sea diving expeditions spanning the globe under the "Gombessa" flag, the Gombessa V "Mediterranean Planet" campaign is Laurent's last at the helm. A world first, this expedition meant Laurent Ballesta and three other divers would cohabitate for 28 days inside a 5-m2 pressurized module designed for both saturation diving and deep sport diving, from Carqueiranne to Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime to Antibes, and finally from Antibes to Monaco.

How best to tell the life story of a fashion photographer? What was the common thread composing his career? How does his body of work and progression tie into the history of fashion photography?

Regards spans 4 decades of the extraordinary professional career of a photographer whose discretion and elegance are reflected in this dedicated retrospective: a tribute to womanhood, to women in all their diversity, showcasing their timelessness, universality, sophistication, boldness, seductiveness, provocativeness and even at times their inaccessibility. A hymn exalting their beauty. This one-of-a-kind book, offering numerous iconic images, also delicately narrates how perception of this femininity has evolved over the years. But above all else, this book tells the story of a man’s love for women, who have always left him fascinated, amazed, overwhelmed and inspired. This work is a confession of love for what women represent to him, a testimonial to how they move the photographer, who has never ceased to admire them with passion.

Somebody Else

Borderlines

Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91

A Journey in Thailand and Burma

Charles Nicholl

Charles Nicholl

Eland Classics •$19.95 • Paperback 344 pages • 5.5x8.5 • June 2021 BIO007000 • 978-1-78-060169-4 Eland Publishing

Eland Classics •$19.95 • Paperback 256 pages • 5.5x8.5 • June 2021 TRV010000 • 978-1-78-060168-7 Eland Publishing

Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and in the dog days of August 1880 he disembarked in Aden, on the coast of Yemen, a lean twenty-five-year-old Frenchman carrying only a brown suitcase fastened with four leather straps and a touch of fever. The subsequent period, ‘the lost years’, is the subject of this biographical quest.

In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way.

When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand, on the night train north with his tales of Kachin jade and Shan opium, it leads to a journey along the banks of the Mekong, into the Golden Triangle, and then across the border into Burma, in the company of the book’s Thai heroine, Kitai.

Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud’s life as a trader, explorer, and gun-runner. We catch his trail in Somalia, in the alleys of Djibouti, up in the highlands of Ethiopia, in the souks of Cairo with twenty pounds of gold strapped around his waist, and escorting a camel-train of Remington rifles across the Danakil desert.

Often alarming but also sensual, it is beautifully told and a reminder that adventures still exist – among shaman spirit-summoners, in rebel hideouts, or in opium dens – for those prepared to cross borders, real, imaginary, or imposed.

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Fernhurst z Books Underwater Photography for Compact Camera Users

Ultimate Skiing Adventures 100 Epic Experiences in the Snow Alf Alderson

A Step-by-Step Guide to Taking Professional Quality Underwater Photos With a Point-and-Shoot Camera

Ultimate Adventures, Vol. 6 •$24.95 Paperback • 208 pages • 7.75x10 107 Halftones, color Currently Available • SPO039000 978-1-91-262122-4

Maria Munn $25.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 6x8.25 • 246 Halftones, color • January 2021 • PHO023130 978-1-11-834555-9 •

This is a step-by-step guide to taking professional quality underwater photos with a point-and-shoot camera.

Modern compact cameras are capable of capturing fantastic underwater images – and this book shows you how. Easy-to-follow techniques are accompanied by hundreds of photographs that show you how it is done and the results you can achieve.

There is advice for both beginners and more advanced compact camera users, covering topics such as what camera to buy and how to look after it, how to master settings for different cameras and how to compose great underwater photographs.

Ultimate Skiing Adventures takes you on a skiing voyage around the planet’s biggest, best and most unusual ski destinations – from the huge mega-resorts of the French Alps to sailing along Iceland’s north coast in search of great snow, there are exciting adventures that will appeal to everyone from novice to expert.

And it’s not just about skiing – the contents cover avalanche rescue techniques, snow science, road trips, the work of ski patrollers and resorts so remote and obscure that you may never have heard of them.

The book is divided into chapters on Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Scandinavia and the Rest of the World. Discover where you will ski next – in reality or in your imagination.

Dinghy Sailing Start to Finish

Essential Boat Electrics

From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving your Sailing Skills

Carry out electrical jobs onboard properly & safely Pat Manley Oliver Balham

Barry Pickthall Boating Start to Finish, Vol. 1 •$24.95 Paperback • 184 pages • 6x7.75 217 Halftones, color; 142 Illustrations, color January 2021 • SPO036000 978-1-91-262107-1

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail, advanced sailing and the basics of racing. It includes advice on choosing a dinghy, essential gear, sailing maneuvers, tides, wind and weather, all taken from the courses delivered by the UK’s biggest sailing school, the UKSA. This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to sailing straightforward advice, and showing experienced sailors how to take their sailing to the next level with tips on how to sail faster and safer. It covers single-handed and double-handed dinghies and catamarans.

This book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your sailing skills.

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Boat Maintenance Guides, Vol. 2 $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages 6.75x9.5 200 Halftones, color; 70 Illustrations, color May 2021 • TEC007000 978-1-91-217729-5

Electricity is vital onboard most boats: to keep their systems running and to provide the crew with the services they expect. Much of it will be professionally fitted and many yachtsmen will have little knowledge about the finer detail of electric circuits. But, given the importance of electrical power, some understanding of it is likely to be useful: either for use when required away from the marina or for you to repair and upgrade your systems.

This book is written to provide that understanding and to allow you to undertake electrical jobs onboard yourself, properly and safely. It removes the mystique of boat electrics and gives you the confidence to tackle the jobs when you need to.

Included are the minimum formulae and theory required, focussing more on the practical – using simple language and clear illustrations. There are tutorials, from using a multimeter and wiring a circuit, to troubleshooting electrical faults, all using easy-to-follow photo sequences.

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Fernhurst Books BC Books Racing Rules Companion 2021-2024 Bryan Willis

The Rules in Practice 2021-2024

Practical Companions, Vol. 13 •$13.60 Spiralbound • 24 pages • 3.25x8.75 40 Diagrams • Currently Available SPO036000 • 978-1-91-262124-8

The Guide to the Rules of Sailing Around the Race Course

Bryan Willis’ Racing Rules Companion is the invaluable pocket reference guide to the essentials of the racing rules, updated for the latest 2021-2024 Racing Rules of Sailing.

Every racing sailor should have a copy! It will build their knowledge and make them more confident on the race course.

The book summarizes the basic principles, definitions and rules and then covers every aspect of the race, with sections on starts, mark rounding, obstructions, signals, and dispute resolution. Color diagrams throughout ensure the concepts are easily understood.

Splash-proof and spiral bound, this little companion stands up to frequent use and serves as a great aide-memoir that will fit into your pocket or kit bag.

Written by the acknowledged rules expert, Bryan Willis who is also author of the best-selling rules guide, Rules in Practice 2021-2024.

Weather at Sea A Cruising Skipper's Guide to the Weather Simon Rowell Skipper's Library, Vol. 4 $24.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 6.75x9.5 • 32 Halftones, color; 70 Charts; 68 Illustrations, color Currently Available • SPO036000 978-1-91-262108-8

The weather affects everyone at sea, whether you are pottering along the coast, motoring from port to port or sailing to another continent. This book explains the basic principles that govern the weather from a practical, on the water, sailor’s point of view. It goes through global, regional and then local weather patterns so you understand what is happening, how this might change and why.

Armed with this knowledge and understanding you will be more confident to make decisions about when and when not to venture out to sea and what to expect if things change while you are out there.

Bryan Willis $27.95 • Paperback • 160 pages 6.75x8.25 • 90 Diagrams Currently Available • SPO036000 978-1-91-262123-1

Rules in Practice has been the best-selling guide to the racing rules for the last 40 years. Now, in its 10th edition, it has been updated for (and contains in full) the 2021-2024 Racing Rules of Sailing and features a brand new chapter on the luffing rules and how they are being applied. The latest rule changes are also described, along with their impact on you as a sailor.

With over 20 new scenarios, reflecting the courses we now sail, it is as up-to-date and relevant as the first edition was in 1985.

Unlike other rules guides which take you through the rules in order, this book tackles the subject from the sailors’ point of view. It takes you around the race course, from start to finish, through the key situations that occur repeatedly showing, from the point of view of each boat in turn, what you may, must, or cannot do.

Mastering Navigation at Sea De-Mystifying Navigation for the Cruising Skipper Paul Boissier Skipper's Library, Vol. 5 •$24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6.75x9.5 • 73 Halftones, color; 65 Charts; 47 Illustrations, color • Currently Available • TRA008000 • 978-1-91-262109-5

A lot of people are drawn to the sea, and for good reason – it’s the world’s last wild and largely unspoiled wilderness. But to properly enjoy the sea, and to do so safely, you must have the skills, knowledge and confidence to plan thoroughly and stay one step ahead of the game.

This book is thoughtfully written to help yachtsmen do just that. It’s not another RYA Course Handbook; it’s written by a mariner for other mariners. It’s well-informed, easy to read and honest about the author’s triumphs and disasters over a lifetime’s navigating.

Sail Away How to Escape the Rat Race and Live the Dream Nicola Rodriguez Skipper's Library, Vol. 2 $25.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 6.75x9.5 145 Halftones, color; 12 Maps Currently Available • SPO036000 978-1-91-217723-3

You long to escape the daily grind, buy a boat and sail away. This book will inspire your dreams and show you how to turn them into a reality.

Written by a yachting journalist who has sailed away for 8 years, together with the contributions of 100 other blue-water cruisers, there are tales a plenty of what it is like to do it from around the world – west, east, north and south.

There is also practical advice on everything from choosing a boat to crossing oceans. You’ll be guided through each step of the preparation before casting off on your adventure of a lifetime.

There’s information on everything the would-be blue-water sailor needs to consider, including safety, communications, children, and budgeting.

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Formac Ltd. z •Publishing z The Nova Scotia Bucket List

Grandma's Cookies, Cakes, Pies, and Sweets

25 Unforgettable Experiences, Adventures and Destinations Selected by Nova Scotia's Best Travel Writers

The Best of Canada's East Coast Alice Burdick $24.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 8x10 February 2021 • CKB004000 978-1-45-950639-8

Dale Dunlop Alison Scott $24.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 6.75x8.25 • February 2021 TRV006010 • 978-1-45-950633-6

Dale Dunlop and Alison Scott's long-established bestseller, Exploring Nova Scotia, is a bible for people who like to get out and explore the province. In this new book the authors have selected 25 of the very best the province has to offer for their "Bucket List" picks. They offer guidance on what each has to offer — and point to how to make a visit to a well-known attraction an experience of a lifetime.

There's something for everyone in this collection: from adrenaline junkies looking to ride the tidal bore, to history buffs interested in the hunt for treasure on Oak Island, or golfers looking for guidance about when to play the great Cape Breton courses. Each entry in this book is supported with Dale and Alison's color photos. This is the book to use to plan unforgettable one-of-a-kind experiences and travel adventures.

Treats, old and new!

Delicious desserts, simply made with tasty ingredients, many of us remember fondly from our youth. Our mothers and grandmothers baked cookies, pies, cakes and desserts using recipes passed down through generations.

Some lucky cooks have treasured heirloom recipes, preserved and handed down to them, but many have been lost or forgotten along the way.

Among the recipes in this book are a few traditional classics that remain favorites — like blueberry grunt and Scottish shortbread. But most of these recipes are almost forgotten, yet they offer tempting and delicious ideas that home cooks will want to try. Recipes like old-fashioned molasses candy, sweet black cherry pudding and Acadian lemon buttermilk pie.

Now all these delicious dishes are ready for revival. They will bring back many happy memories of treats from the past that taste as good as they always did — or better

The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

Black Loyalists in New Brunswick

A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom

The Lives of Eight African Americans in Colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834

Allan Bartley

Stephen Davidson

$24.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6x9 February 2021 • HIS006020 978-1-45-950613-8 Allan Bartley lives in Ottawa, Ontario

$22.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 6x9 February 2021 • HIS006010 978-1-45-950616-9

The Ku Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, the Klan found fertile ground for its message of racism and discrimination targeting African Canadians, Jews and Catholics.

Historian Allan Bartley traces the role of the Klan in Canadian political life in the turbulent years of the 1920s and 1930s, after which its membership waned. But in the 1970s, as he relates, small extremist right-wing groups emerged in urban Canada, and sought to revive the Klan as a readily identifiable identity for hatred and racism.

The Ku Klux Klan in Canada tells the little-known story of how Canadians adopted the image and ideology of the Klan to express the racism that has played so large a role in Canadian society for the past hundred years — right up to the present.

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Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred formerly enslaved African Americans who had been granted their freedom in exchange for joining the British during the war.

In the colony that soon became New Brunswick, slavery was still legal. Many African American Loyalists had to become indentured laborers to survive in this new situation. Many others took up the opportunity offered them in 1791 to move yet again, this time to Sierra Leone in Africa where many Black Loyalists established a new colony on the coast of Africa where they lived free of slavery.

The stories of New Brunswick's Black Loyalists are captured in the brief biographies of eight individuals — men, women and youths presented by author Stephen Davidson. Through their experiences a picture emerges of the narrow limits to the freedom which the Black Loyalists were able to experience in a predominantly white and highly racist colony.

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Birlinn Frontline Books Lawmen of the Wild West

Outlaws of the Wild West

Terry C Treadwell

Terry C Treadwell

$34.95 • Hardback • 248 pages 6x9.25 • 100 black and white illustrations May 2021 • HIS036040 978-1-52-678233-5

$34.95 • Hardback • 248 pages 6x9.25 • 100 black and white illustrations May 2021 • HIS036040 978-1-52-678237-3

Without doubt it was one of the toughest jobs. Faced with ruthless criminal, trigger-happy gunslingers and assorted desperados, the lawmen of the Old West tried, and sometimes died, in their efforts to bring some semblance of order to their towns and communities.

The requirements needed to be a peace officer in the Wild West were often determined only by the individual’s skill with a gun, and their courage. At times judgment was needed with only seconds to determine it, and that also meant that there was the odd occasion where justice and law never quite meant the same thing. The expression ‘justice without law’ was never truer than in the formative years of the West.

The ‘Wild West,' or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always law-abiding lawmen, and saloon madams, is as much the product of fiction writers and film makers as reality.

When it comes to the Wild West, it is important to separate fact from fiction.

Of the known recorded killings by the various outlaws and gunfighters, Billy the Kid killed four men, not the twenty that some writers attributed to him. A notorious gunslinger, John Wesley Hardin was said to have killed twenty-seven men, but was only charged with one murder. Wild Bill Hickok killed three men, two of them in Abilene while he was City Marshal, and one in Springfield, Missouri, for which he was tried and acquitted. Clay Allison, however, was thought to have killed at least fifteen men in his time as a gunfighter, while some of the outlaw gangs, such as the Rufus Buck Gang and the Evans Gang, were particularly violent and ruthless.

Titanic 'Iceberg Ahead'

Victoria's Railway King

The Story of the Disaster

By Some of Those Who Were There

Sir Edward Watkin, One of the Victorian Era’s Greatest Entrepreneurs and Visionaries

James W Bancroft $34.95 • Hardback • 240 pages 6x9.25 • 32 black and white illustrations May 2021 • HIS057000 978-1-52-677206-0

On 10 April 1912, people from all walks of life began embarking on Titanic, then the largest ship afloat, for what was to be the trip of a lifetime on the ship’s maiden voyage across the north Atlantic. Many were looking forward to starting new lives in the United States.

Much has been written about the Titanic disaster, and it has been the subject matter for several films. The author is well-known for his depth of research and his attention to detail, and in a new style of format, he has selected fifty people involved in the disaster, and by using their specific eyewitness accounts he has managed to make the confusing situation much clearer, making it possible for the reader to experience the dreadful events as they unfolded. The book also includes biographical tributes to the fifty people, who came from all walks of life and geographical regions, telling who they were, their experiences during the disaster, and what happened to those who were fortunate enough to survive.

Geoff Scargill $39.95 • Hardback • 216 pages 6x9.25 • 16 pages b&w plates May 2021 • BIO003000 978-1-52-679277-8

The accomplishments and initiatives, both social and economic, of Edward Watkin are almost too many to relate. Though generally known for his large-scale railway projects, becoming chairman of nine different British railway companies as well as developing railways in Canada, the USA, Greece, India and the Belgian Congo, he was also responsible for a stream of remarkable projects in the nineteenth century which helped shape people’s lives inside and outside Britain.

Little, though, is known about Watkin’s personal life, which is explored here through the surviving diaries he kept. The author, who is the chair of The Watkin Society, which aims to promote Watkin’s life and achievements, has delved into the mind of one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding individuals.

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zGaudium •z Why Political Democracy Must Go

All Rise!

The Libertarian Way with Judge Jim Gray Judge James P. Gray (Ret.) Congressman Tom Campbell

The Origins of Socialism in the United States John Reed Dr. A.K. Brackob

$29.99 • Hardback • 220 pages 6x9 • Currently Available POL042050 • 978-1-59-211080-3

$29.99 • Hardback • 128 pages 6x9 • Illustrated • May 2021 POL005000 978-1-59-211099-5

Why Political Democracy Must Go is an insightful analysis of the origins of the socialist movement in the United States, written by famed journalist John Reed, one of the most distinguished American writers on the subject. Although one of socialism’s fiercest proponents, Reed argues that socialism cannot be achieved through democratic means.

Originally published in 1919 in serial form, Why Political Democracy Must Go provides critical historical insight on the evolution of socialist thought in the United States. Today, when there is renewed interest in socialism on the American political scene, this notable series of essays reveals the underpinnings of socialist thought. Reed’s analysis will be of interest to those on all sides of the political spectrum.

The Invisible Walls of Dannemora

Lucrezia Borgia

Vlad III Dracula

Daughter of Pope Alexander VI

The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula

Ferdinand Gregorovius Samantha Morris

Inside the Infamous Clinton Correctional Facility

$29.99 • Paperback • 312 pages • 9x6 Illustrated • January 2021 • HIS037020 978-1-59-211040-7

Michael H Blaine $24.99 • Paperback • 188 pages • 6x9 Illustrated • May 2021 • SOC004000 978-1-59-211046-9

The Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, in 2015 became the site of one of the most famous prison breaks in modern American history. However, the conditions that made possible the escape and the massive manhunt that ensued had been developing for many years.

This new book is the first look inside at what it was like to work at the Clinton Correctional Facility, its effects on those who spent time there on both sides of the bars, revealing why nobody escapes the Invisible Walls of Dannemora.

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What do Libertarians believe that sets them apart from other political parties? How do Libertarian values, approaches and principles result in more successful “pursuits of happiness” than the approaches of other political parties? And how does Judge Jim Gray dare to say that the Libertarians are the only political party in the mainstream of American political thought today? All Rise! The Libertarian Way with Judge Jim Gray will answer all of these questions and more – to your complete satisfaction!

How did Judge Gray, a former Congressional candidate and member of the Finance Committee of the Republican Party of Orange County, California lean into Libertarianism in only 13 seconds? See how he has been an involved and passionate member of the Libertarian Party ever since that decision, and travel with him through his subsequent campaigns as a Libertarian for US Senate in 2004, Vice President in 2012 and President in 2020.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821-1891) was one of the preeminent scholars of the Italian Renaissance. His biography of Lucrezia Borgia reveals the atmosphere of the Renaissance, painting a portrait of Lucrezia and her relationships with her father Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, her brother Cesare, her mother Vanozza, her father’s mistress, Giulia Farnese, her husband Duke Alfonso D’Este of Ferrara, and many others, including important artists and writers of the time. All are vividly portrayed against the colorful background of Renaissance Italy. Gregorovius separates myth from documented fact and his book remains a key reference work on the life and times of the Borgia princess.

Dr. Kurt Treptow Octavian Ion Penda $29.99 • Paperback • 296 pages • 6x9 • b&w illustrations • April 2021 • HIS010010 978-1-59-211038-4

The fifteenth century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval history. Already during his own lifetime, his true story became obscured by a veil of myths. As a result, he has been portrayed both as a bloody tyrant — who degenerated down throughout the centuries into the fictional vampire of the same name created by Bram Stoker at the end of the nineteenth century — and as a national and Christian hero who bravely fought to defend his native land and all of Europe against the invading Turkish infidels.

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Birlinn Publishing George F Thompson

Nowhere in Place

Violins and Hope

Visual/Language

Where Photography and Meditation Meet

From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall

The Ledger Drawings of Dwayne Wilcox

Christopher Jordan Hank Lazer

Daniel Levin Franz Welser-Möst

Dwayne Wilcox Karen Miller Nearburg

$39.95 • Hardback • 144 pages • 9.5x9 93 color photographs • June 2021 • PHO011010 978-1-93-808685-4 Christopher Jordan lives in Tuscaloosa, AL; Hank Lazer lives in Tuscaloosa, AL

$40 • Hardback • 136 pages • 12x10 75 color photographs • June 2021 • PHO011000 978-1-93-808686-1 • Daniel Levin lives in Cleveland, OH

$40 • Hardback • 136 pages • 11x9 53 color ledger drawings and 6–10 historic illustrations May 2021 • ART016030 • 978-1-93-808684-7 Dwayne Wilcox lives in Rapid City, SD; Karen Miller Nearburg lives in Dallas, TX

Photography and meditation are known to facilitate reflection and introspection. They teach us to see both the outer world and the mysterious landscape within. In Nowhere in Place, photographer Christopher Jordan explores the meeting place between meditation and photography and how this mirroring of outer and inner worlds plays upon both the surface of his consciousness and the sensor of his digital camera.

The book starts in Tuscaloosa, where Jordan lives.

For many, T-town is a place of Southern charms and Alabama football, but, for Jordan, it becomes a visual play of textures, colors, and abstract planes with nary a person in sight. The pictures reveal a placeless solitude within the frame of his camera. The book moves west to Boulder, another college town, where his contemplative eye continues to fix upon unusual shapes, colors, and textures while intersecting with an occasional figure. The book reaches full bloom in India, where the interplay between inner and outer landscapes knows no bounds, as his camera reveals a kaleidoscopic interplay of people, places, and things.

Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli master luthier, began a project years ago that may be one of the most creative, effective, and magnificent approaches to education on the topic of the Holocaust. Trained by three of the most revered Cremona, Italian luthiers of the twentieth century, Weinstein’s vision was to restore violins that survived the concentration camps and the ghettos, even when their owners often did not.

To date, more than seventy violins have been restored to their highest playable condition.

Following restoration, these hauntingly beautiful instruments have been used in performances by symphonies in Berlin, Cleveland, Istanbul, London, Quebec, Paris, San Francisco, and many other cities across the world.

In Violins and Hope, Daniel Levin has made the most compelling and beautiful series of photographs documenting Weinstein’s collection of violins, his workshop in Tel Aviv, and his processes for restoration. This book is not a document of place, as much as it is a document of the ethereal. For what Weinstein has done with these lost violins has been to transform tragic loss into triumph in the most insightful and powerful way imaginable.

Plains Indian ledger art grew out of the Native tradition of recording and chronicling through art important exploits by warriors and chiefs, among them images of war and hunting, that would adorn tipis and animal hides. These were seen as historical markers. But Native life on the Great Plains underwent tremendous change following the American Civil War, when the American conquest of the West was in full gear. In just a few decades, access to the hides of diminishing herds of bison, deer, antelope, and elk became more difficult and eventually impossible with reservation life. Native people creatively turned to the easily available ledger books of settlers, traders, and military men as their new canvases.

Dwayne Wilcox, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, became interested in ledger art at an early age. He was influenced by the work of Lakota ledger artists, but he always sought to defy stereotypical notions of Native life and history and create his own artistic vision.

Dwayne eventually focused on humor as his way to comment on the objectification of Native Americans. Skilled as an artist beyond measure, Dwayne’s ledger art drawings win major prizes and are sought by museums and collectors who see in him a true artist.

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zGill • z Books The Secret Scientist

The Head of Ned Belly

Jason Byrne Oisín McGann

Jason Byrne Oisín McGann

The Accidental Adventures of Onion O'Brien, Vol. 3 $17.95 • Hardback 224 pages • 5.3x8.5 Currently Available JUV001000 • 978-0-71-717901-5

Onion and the gang are at it again. This time they’ve stumbled across a Russian scientist at an old folks’ home whose crazy experiments are causing all kinds of confusion in Ballinalud.

Suddenly there are old people acting strangely all over suburbia, power cuts and People in Black (PIBs) menacing the locals. Not even The Ferg and Judge, the local guards, can figure it out. It’s up to the Five Os to solve the mystery, preferably before dinnertime.

The Secret Scientist is the third accidental adventure for Onion O’Brien and his gang of friends, the Five O's. This hilarious story from the zany brain of one of Ireland’s greatest funny men will be adored by all kids with a zest for fun.

Mary Robinson A Voice for Fairness Kathi Burke John Burke

Onion O’Brien is in trouble, again. This time he and the rest of the Five O’s are trying to stop the destruction of the Valley, the local wasteland where they hang out. But Mayor Ronald Bump has other ideas – he wants to build new apartments there, so he sets local guards The Ferg and Judge on the children.

As if things aren’t bad enough, there’s a new teacher in their school acting very suspiciously.

The Five O’s can find out his secret if they manage to win the school talent contest. There’s only one problem – they are completely talentless.

Then there’s the discovery of the head of Ned Belly, and the local legend that claims he can reveal where his treasure is hidden…

Welcome to the next book in your Little Library.

When your collection is complete you’ll have a Little Library – and big knowledge!

Discover the first female president of Ireland, Mary Robinson!

Mary Robinson grew up with four brothers – something which gave her an interest in women’s rights from a young age! She was a brilliant student and worked hard, becoming the youngest professor of law in Ireland. From law to politics, the presidency to the United Nations, Mary has spent her life fighting for equality, human rights and climate justice.

Get ready to be inspired …

Kathleen Watkins Margaret Anne Suggs $19.95 • Hardback • 32 pages • 8.7x10.4 Currently Available • JUV001000 978-0-71-718379-1

Join Pigín on an unexpected trip – all the way to London!

Pigín is enjoying a wonderful summer party at the fairies’ place behind Howth Castle when he holds one balloon too many, and up into the air he goes!

Pigín enjoys visiting the sights in London: a trip to Buckingham Palace, a ride on the River Thames and even a go around the London Eye. What a wonderful time he has! But when he sees Nanakit waiting for him at Dublin airport he realizes there’s no place like home.

The Dead Zoo

The Great Irish Farm Book

Peter Donnelly

Darragh McCullough Sally Caulwell

$19.95 Hardback 32 pages • 11x9.3 • Currently Available JUV002160 • 978-0-71-718972-4

The Little Library, Vol. 5 •$12.95 • Hardback 32 pages • 7.4x9.7 • Currently Available JNF038060 • 978-0-71-718993-9

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The Accidental Adventures of Onion O'Brien, Vol. 2 $17.95 • Paperback 224 pages • 5.3x8.5 • Currently Available JUV001000 • 978-0-71-718952-6

Pigín's Unexpected Adventure

Mr. Gray is a very serious man. And he is in charge of a very old, very serious museum filled to the brim with stuffed animals.

Mr. Gray does not like people. He does not like children. In fact, he is most at home with things that are stuffed.

So when a real live mouse decides to move into the Dead Zoo, Mr. Gray is determined that she must go. That is, until he needs her help…

Another instant classic from the creator of the award-winning President picture book series.

$34.95 • Hardback 96 pages • 10.9x14.8 • Currently Available JNF033000 • 978-0-71-718896-3

Everything your child needs to know about Irish farms!

Did you know that there are almost 2,000,000 pigs in Ireland?

And that sheep have rectangular pupils, which means they have amazing vision?

And that hens are pregnant for 21 days, but a horse can be pregnant for up to 345 days?

From the farmer’s day to the changing of the seasons, from animals and crops to machinery and technology, and from ancient times to the modern day, The Great Irish Farm Book will take you on a fascinating journey through life on an Irish farm.

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Birlinn Gill Books That Place We Call Home A Journey Through the Place Names of Ireland John Creedon $27.95 • Hardback • 272 pages 10.8x9.4 • Currently Available HIS052000 • 978-0-71-718985-4

John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in West Cork to traveling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names, peeling back the layers of meaning behind them to reveal stories about the nature of the land of Erin and the people who walked it before us.

Travel the highways, byways and boreens of Ireland with John and become absorbed in the place names such as ‘The Land of Robins’, ‘Patrick’s Bed’, ‘The Eagles Nest’, ‘Hidden Treasure’ and ‘The Valley of the Crazy’. All hold clues to help uncover our past and make sense of that place we call home, feeding both mind and soul along the way.

That Place We Call Home is an absorbing non-fiction debut from one of Ireland’s broadcasting national treasures.

Wildwoods The Magic of Ireland’s Native Woodlands Richard Nairn $19.95 • Paperback • 304 pages 5.3x8.5 • Currently Available NAT034000 • 978-0-71-719021-8

Richard Nairn has spent a lifetime studying – and learning from – nature.

When an opportunity arose for him to buy a small woodland filled with mature native trees beside a fast-flowing river, he set about understanding all its moods and seasons, discovering its wildlife secrets and learning how to manage it properly.

Wildwoods is a fascinating account of his journey over a typical year. Along the way, he uncovers the ancient roles of trees in Irish life, he examines lost skills such as coppicing and he explores new uses of woodlands for forest schools, foraging and rewilding. Ultimately, Wildwoods inspires all of us to pay attention to what nature can teach us.

"A book to inspire anyone who wants Ireland to grow more Irish trees." Michael Viney

The Friendship Fairies Go to School

Waterford Whispers News 2020

Lucy Kennedy Phillip Cullen

Colm Williamson

$17.95 • Hardback • 160 pages 6.1x8.5 • Currently Available JUV037000 • 978-0-71-718967-0

Lucy Kennedy’s Friendship Fairies are back with brand new adventures!

Summer is over and it’s time for Emme, Holly and Jess to go back to school. Emme is nervous about her new school, Belle-Spell Castle. She doesn’t know anyone and misses her sisters. Holly and Jess still have a lot to learn at the Magic Manor, but lessons are getting harder.

Will Emme ever make new friends? Will Holly ever stop using silly disguises?

And will Jess ever learn to listen? But most importantly, will the friendship fairies get to meet the unicorns and dragon and join the party at Sir Prize’s castle?

Beautifully illustrated, this will appeal to all small children trying to make friends.

This charming, beautifully told story reunites children’s favorite Lucy Kennedy with superb illustrator Phillip Cullen for another wonderful adventure that kids will adore.

$23.50 • Paperback • 144 pages 6.9x9.6 • January 2021 • HUM006000 978-0-71-718891-8

Waterford Whispers News 2020 is the eighth annual from Ireland’s leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year, including the latest on COVID-19, Donald Trump and all the goings-on at Leinster House. Read all about the big news stories of 2020, Waterford Whispers style!

Packed with brilliant satire, sharp wit and insightful social commentary, Ireland’s answer to The Onion is now a worldwide phenomenon and a must-read in an era when the news has never been more unpredictable.

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Gill Books z With Hope in Your Heart The Seán Cox Story

My Unexpected Journey to Self Belief Rory O'Connor Dermot Crowe

Martina Cox Susan Keogh

$23.50 • Paperback 288 pages • 6.1x9.2 • Currently Available BIO005000 • 978-0-71-718995-3

$23.50 • Paperback 320 pages • 6.1x9.2 • Currently Available BIO026000 • 978-0-71-719010-2

Life as we know it can change in an instant, in the blink of an eye. And it did for Martina Cox and her family in 2018. On an ordinary day in April of that year, Seán Cox traveled to Anfield to watch his beloved Liverpool play. But he never made it to the match. A vicious, unprovoked attack left him with a severe brain injury, unable to walk or talk.

Here, Martina tells their remarkable story. It is a story of inner strength and determination. By not taking no for an answer and with the help of their family, their community, the Liverpool spirit, and tens of thousands of people across the world who were touched by Seán’s story, they have achieved what was thought to be impossible.

Are You There God?, It's Me Ellen Ellen Coyne $27.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6.1x9.2 Currently Available • BIO026000 978-0-71-718894-9

Nobody thought Rory O’Connor would make it – written off as ‘thick’ at school he struggled to find a career he felt he could succeed in. When a hot tip led to a win on the horses it was the beginning of a dangerous spiral into a gambling addiction that gnawed away at his self-esteem even further.

How did the man who thought he had nothing to live for go on to become a stand-up comedian selling out venues around Ireland and reaching 800,000 people through his social media platforms? This is Rory’s Story, told with his trademark humor.

A Light that Never Goes Out A Memoir Keelin Shanley $23.50 • Hardback 304 pages • 5.3x8.5 Currently Available BIO026000 • 978-0-71-718947-2

When journalist Keelin Shanley passed away in February aged 51, it was hard to grasp that someone so filled with life was gone. But a light so bright never really goes out, especially since, in her last few months, Keelin wrote a fantastic record of her life.

Charting the twists and turns of both a remarkable career as an investigative journalist and a lengthy battle with cancer, in A Light That Never Goes Out Keelin reveals with real honesty what it’s like to keep living your life and career while dealing with the challenges of cancer treatment.

Crowded House

One for Everyone

The Definitive Story Behind the Gruesome Murder of Patricia O’Connor

More Poems I Love

Frank Greaney

Is it possible to be young, progressive, and a Catholic? Ellen Coyne is about to find out…

‘You know, this isn’t a Catholic country anymore,’ someone proudly declared in a Dublin pub where Ellen Coyne was celebrating the repeal of the Eighth Amendment. About to turn 30, like many her age, Ellen had left the Church a long time ago, but she had never stopped believing in and talking to God. Now, she suddenly realized she wasn’t quite ready for this statement to be true, however much of a contradiction it seemed to present with some of her most strongly held views.

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Rory's Story

$23.50 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6.1x9.2 Currently Available • TRU002000 978-0-71-719026-3

In June 2017, a woman out picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains stumbled upon something in a ditch that would set in motion a chain of events that horrified the nation. It was the first of fifteen dismembered body parts belonging to retired hospital worker Patricia O’Connor.

In this nuanced and meticulous account of a deeply disturbing crime, journalist Frank Greaney, who covered every day of the shocking trial and conducted exclusive follow-up interviews with other members of Patricia’s family, uncovers the story behind the gruesome murder of Patricia O’Connor, and looks at who Patricia really was.

Kathleen Watkins $19.95 • Hardback 144 pages • 5.1x7.8 Currently Available POE001000 • 978-0-71-719023-2

Kathleen Watkins returns to charm us all once again with a wonderful selection of poetry. These are the verses that have comforted and consoled her over the past year, that she has reached for again and again. The poems offer solace in a difficult time, bringing the reader away from our own world and into a place filled with beautiful words and images.

Featuring poems by Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott, Carole Ann Duffy and W.B. Yeats, this is the perfect collection for anyone with an appreciation of the written word.

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GillzBooks •z The Joy of Food Rory O'Connell $41.95 • Hardback 362 pages • 6.7x9.5 Currently Available CKB077000 978-0-71-718984-7

This is the book Rory O’Connell was born to write. Not only a collection of good things to eat, showcasing the best of Irish seasonal produce from Rustic Chicken, Swiss Chard and Tarragon Tart to Blackberry and Sweet Geranium Posset, The Joy of Food is also a celebration of everything Rory is passionate about: first-rate ingredients, simple and respectful cooking techniques and the absolute pleasure that comes from enjoying and sharing the result.

Accompanying the recipes are Rory’s charming original illustrations and personal essays in praise of everything from hazelnuts to the humble hen.

The Joy of Food is, quite simply, a book for every food lover’s home.

A Dictionary of Hiberno English Terence Dolan Blindboy Boatclub $27.95 • Hardback • 388 pages • 6.1x9.2 Currently Available • REF008000 978-0-71-719020-1

The Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference book on Hiberno-English – the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. It connects the spoken and the written language, and is a unique national dictionary that bears witness to Irish history, struggles and the creative identities found in Ireland.

Reflecting the social, political, religious and financial changes of people’s ever-evolving lives, it contains words and expressions not usually seen in a dictionary, such as ‘kibosh’, ‘smithereens’, ‘Peggy’s Leg’, ‘hames’, ‘yoke’, ‘blaa’, ‘banjax’ and ‘lubán’. It is a celebration of an irrepressible gift for the creative, expressive and reckless manipulation of the English language!

Neven Maguire's Midweek Meals Simple Recipes for Easy Everyday Eating Neven Maguire $31.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 7.4x9.7 Currently Available • CKB070000 978-0-71-718978-6

Even if you like to cook, getting dinner on the table Monday to Friday can be a daily drag. But not any longer! Neven Maguire’s fantastic new book will inspire you to create real, fast and delicious family food – all ready to eat in jig time.

Chapters include ‘Low and Slow’ for when you have time to plan ahead, ‘Cupboard’s Bare’ for when you don’t; ‘One-Pan Dinners’ for quick and easy soups and stir fries and ‘Supermarket Sweep’ for when you can pick up an ingredient or two on your way home. This family-friendly, modern cookbook is packed with easy, everyday dinners to inspire you Monday to Friday!

The Daly Dish Diary Gina Daly Karol Daly

978-0-71-719022-5

Get your weight loss goals on track with this inspirational planner from the people who brought you the phenomenal cookbook, The Daly Dish. This stylish food diary will allow you to chart your weekly progress as you log details of your meals and weight, alongside motivational quotes, new recipes and cooking tips from a pair who know what they’re talking about, having lost almost 10 stone between them.

Full of practical advice for setting targets, maintaining focus and achieving results, this handbag-friendly planner will help you stay on course to a healthier you.

Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today Professor Luke O'Neill $34.95 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6.7x9.4 Currently Available • SCI086000 978-0-71-718639-6

In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O’Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life’s biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them: Covering topics from global pandemics to gender, addiction to euthanasia, Luke’s trademark easy wit and clever pop-culture references deconstruct the science to make complex questions accessible. Arriving at science’s definitive answers to some of the most controversial topics human beings have to grapple with.

$17.95 • Paperback 160 pages • 5.3x8.5 February 2021 • REF035000

Saving the State Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar Stephen Collins Ciara Meehan $34.95 • Hardback • 400 pages • 6.1x9.2 Currently Available • HIS018000 978-0-71-718973-1

Told through the lens of its leaders and Taoisigh, Saving the State is the fascinating story of the wilderness years and the achievements in government, the defeats and crises, the partnerships and the leadership upheavals that have shaped Fine Gael over the decades.

From the special place in the party’s pantheon of heroes occupied by Michael Collins to the dark era of the Blueshirts, and from its role as the founders of the state to its claim to be the defenders of the state, the ways that members perceive their own history is also explored.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how Fine Gael came to be the party it is today and the role that it played in shaping modern Ireland.

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Global Collective Gremese International GlobalPublishers Collective• Publishers The Long Tale of Tears and Smiles

Alone on the Aisle

Dr. Rana Bitar M.D.

$11.99 • Paperback • 56 pages • 5x8 January 2021 • POE009000 978-1-73-440198-1 Global Collective Publishers

Biman Saha

$18.99 • Paperback • 288 pages 5x8 • March 2021 • BIO017000 978-1-73-440196-7 Global Collective Publishers

The Long Tale Of Tears And Smiles explores an immigrant oncologist’s journey of triumphs and struggles, from growing up in Syria, to the tragic death of her brother, to her experiences as a young immigrant medical student and trainee in the USA. Walk through her anguish witnessing the civil war in Syria and its devastation; see her become a practitioner, watching the field of oncology evolves throughout the years.

This narrative-driven case study interweaves the stories of the patients Bitar has cared for with her own life stories; it reflects on how her patients’ lives and the stories of their survival or death inspired and changed her life starting and raising a family. Each patient’s approach to illness and end-of-life is as unique as they are, and each person’s journey contains unexpected lessons.

In the space between life and death, Bitar’s profession thrives; and in that space, she can search for the meaning of her existence.

Foundations of Classical Ballet

Harry & Bunnie New Magical Star I'm Bunnie

New, complete and unabridged translation of the 3rd edition

Philippe Osbourne Harry & Bunnie, Vol. 1 •$9.99 • Paperback 128 pages • 5.5x8.2 • Currently Available CGN006000 • 978-8-87-301788-2 Gremese International

Agrippina Vaganova

This is the first book of a series for kids (age 7-11) from the cartoon Harry & Bunnie, an animated series (now on Netflix) of a young wannabe magician named Harry, who invents tricks to impress his friends, and Bunnie, the stage rabbit who always ends up stealing Harry’s limelight by having control of their wrangles for the Magic Wand. Harry elaborates crazy plans to take his wand back, but always fails. The TV show is a non-dialogue slapstick comedy with 78 episodes.

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Biman Saha’s collection of poems, Alone on the Aisle, vividly captures the heart of Bengali life and culture, where the Bengal terrain represents the canvas upon which he paints man’s drama, his despairs and his hopes. The landscapes so beautifully created here express a reverence for the homeland, a longing for times past. And yet, while Mr. Saha’s poems radiate a rich nostalgia, they are by no means naïve to the striking contrasts and realities of life.

In this first bilingual edition, non-Bengali readers are now able to experience Biman Saha’s inspired use of the Bengali language and lyricism in English.

This adept and articulate translation offers us the opportunity to inhabit the emotional and intellectual landscapes Mr. Saha has created through his poetry, and in turn gain a closer glimpse into the Bengali culture and psyche.

$26 • Paperback • 256 pages • 5x7.8 Currently Available • MUS002000 978-8-87-301789-9 • Gremese International

This is the most respected and most widely-read Russian ballet manual in the world, written in 1938 by Agrippina Vaganova (Russia’s most influential ballet teacher of all time) and published in its final version in U.S.S.R. in 1948.

The book is presented – for the first time in English! – in its complete, unabridged, original form.

This Russian ballet techniques reference manual is the basis for all other classical ballet textbooks.

Dance in Cuba From Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance to the Traditional and Popular Dances Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino $29.90 • Paperback • 224 pages • 7.5x10.2 Currently Available • SOC022000 978-8-87-301787-5 • Gremese International

This book traces Cuban dance from its origins through colonialism and from the Revolution to the present day. Before the advent of Fidel Castro, the world’s greatest actors, dancers and singers came to perform in Cuba. Italian and French-style theaters billed the world’s greatest opera divas, ballets and concerts. After 1959, Castro took over all aspects of the sector and promoted the more authentic Afro-Cuban oral culture, aimed to appeal to all the population. Cubani?a became country, homeland, identity. A magnificent tradition of classical ballet is still vital in Cuba today.

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Green Bean zBooks The Magician's Visit Isaac Leib Peretz Barbara Diamond Goldin $13.99 • Hardback • 32 pages 9.25x8.5 • 50 color illustrations March 2021 • JUV033020 978-1-78-438665-8

Jonah and Rebecca have fallen on hard times and as Passover approaches, they cannot afford any of the things they need to celebrate the festival.

“God will come to our aid,” Jonah insists, even on Seder night as the house is dark and his table empty. When a magician knocks on their door asking to join their Seder, they are unable to oblige, but the stranger is undeterred. “I have brought the Seder with me” he claims, snapping his fingers to produce two lit candlesticks.

At the magician’s command, the house is transformed, and the table is laid with everything Rebecca and Jonah could need for a perfect Seder and a fabulous Passover feast. But is this all a magician’s illusion or could it be the heavenly intervention by the prophet Elijah?

The Magician’s Visit has been adapted from a classic folktale by I. L. Peretz – one of the greatest Yiddish writers of all time. Written by acclaimed children’s author Barbara Diamond Goldin and with beautiful new illustrations by award-winning illustrator Eva Sánchez Gómez, this is a spellbinding retelling of a much-loved tale.

Lenny and Benny Naama Benziman $12.95 • Hardback • 48 pages • 6.5x8.25 Illustrated throughout • April 2021 JUV033020 • 978-1-78-438622-1

Lenny lives on the edge of the forest.

He spends his days tending his roses, drinking cocoa and practicing for jumping competitions. He can jump further than anyone in the forest; not even the flea, frog or squirrel can beat him. Until Benny turns up.

Lenny and Benny have the best time in the world together but when Lenny realizes that Benny can jump further than he can, he accuses him of cheating and lying and refuses to see him ever again.

Time passes and Benny decides to have a party. He invites everybody except Lenny, but the postman accidentally delivers an invitation anyway. Lenny, ready to be friends again, is delighted. However, when he turns up, Benny is enraged, calls him a liar and says he never wants to see him again.

But Lenny and Benny did once have the best time in the world together. Is any argument worth losing such a great friendship over?

Inspired by the midrash about Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza, in which an inter-communal squabble ultimately leads to the destruction of the Second Temple, this is a story about the importance and joy of friendship, the futility of conflict and how destructive an unresolved argument can be.

Benjy's Blanket Miguel Gouveia Raquel Catalina $13.99 • Hardback • 48 pages • 7.3x9.25 Illustrated throughout • April 2021 JUV033020 • 978-1-78-438632-0

When Benjy is born, his grandfather, a tailor, gives him a beautiful handmade blanket to keep him warm in his cot. As Benjy grows, he takes his blanket with him everywhere. He loves it so much that even when it becomes ragged and stained, he will do anything to stop his mother from throwing it out.

He enlists his resourceful grandfather who cuts, measures and sews and turns the blanket into a coat. Benjy wears the coat every day, morning to night, until it grows too tight and his mother threatens again to throw it away. His grandfather turns it into a waistcoat and when that no longer fits, it becomes a handkerchief, and when the handkerchief is torn beyond repair, it is finally turned into a button. But then Joseph loses the button and his grandfather must come up with an even more imaginative solution – one that will ensure the blanket will last forever.

Based on a traditional Jewish story, this is a beautiful tale of the love between a boy and his grandfather, between a boy and his blanket, the inevitable passing of time and the glorious power of imagination.

The Donkey and the Garden Devora Busheri Menacham Halberstadt $12.95 • Paperback • 32 pages 8.25x8.25 • Illustrated throughout April 2021 • JUV033020 978-1-78-438637-5

When Akiva and his wife Rachel walk past a school one morning, Akiva looks in sadly. Unlike the children, he has never learned to read or write.

‘Wouldn’t you like to go inside and learn with them?’ Rachel asks. But Akiva fears the children will laugh at him.

Rachel has an idea. She buys a donkey, plants a garden on its back and insists that she and Akiva take it with them to market. When they arrive, people laugh and point at such an unusual sight. The following morning, when Akiva refuses to join the children at school, Rachel suggests they go back to the market. Once again, the donkey attracts attention and laughter.

On the third morning, Akiva refuses school again and returns to the market with Rachel and the donkey. But this time, nobody laughs or points. Instead, people pick flowers from its back and pluck grapes from its vine. Finally, Akiva realizes what Rachel has been trying to tell him.

This is a beautifully told story, based on Midrash Hagadol, about how Rabbi Akiva overcame his fear of embarrassment to go from humble shepherd to legendary Jewish leader.

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Banovallum Green Bean Books Gottika

Going Rogue (At Hebrew School)

Helaine Becker

Casey Breton

$12.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 5.5x8.5 • 8 pages of illustrations May 2021 • JUV033000 978-1-78-438575-0 Helaine Becker lives in Ontario

12-year-old Dany lives with his father, the scholarly Rob Judah, and his silent mother Rachel in the Stoon ghetto on the outskirts of Gottika.

Under the ruthless Count Pol, the Stoon community are subject to military raids, prejudicial laws and restrictions on their culture and freedom. When Pol marries Dany’s cousin Dalil, stoking further tension between Gottikans and Stoons, life gets harder still. Urged on by Dany, Rob Judah finally runs out of patience. Something must be done.

One night, Rob Judah breaks curfew and goes down to the river. Dany follows and secretly watches as his father invokes illegal Stoon magic to raise a creature, in human form, from the mud. The Gol comes to live with the family and becomes the invincible protector of the Stoons. He foils plots, prevents violence against them, and starts to bring hope and happiness back to Dany’s family. But then Rob Judah is framed for a brutal murder and thrown in Pol’s dungeon. Now it is Dany’s time to act.

Ten-year-old Avery Green loves science. He loves football. He is crazy about Star Wars. But Hebrew school? No, thank you. Avery would rather have his arms sliced off with a lightsaber than sit through one more day of Hebrew School. He’s only asked about a million times why he has to go, but no one in his family has managed to convince him.

And then one day, Rabbi Bob shows up. He is strange, but how strange? And strange how? Piecing together some unusual clues, Avery begins to suspect that this new rabbi might be a Jedi master.

Armed with something more powerful than a lightsaber, he sets out to reveal the surprising truth.

Going Rogue (at Hebrew School) is a hilarious tale about the deep passions of a 10-year-old boy, Judaism, family, big questions and the surprising journey one can have in pursuit of truth and understanding.

Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer Band

The Seventh Handmaiden Judith Pransky

Allison Marks Wayne Marks

$12.99 • Paperback 256 pages • 5.5x8.5 January 2021 YAF024020 • 978-1-78-438589-7

Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought.

When the captain dies and the household is broken up, she becomes the seventh handmaiden to the mysterious Esther, who is being housed at the Royal Palace.

When the king appoints a new prime minister, Darya and Esther are drawn into his murderous conflict with the Judean community.

In a world of discord and uprising, Darya seeks to fix the world around her and protect her friends, while also trying to unravel the mysteries surrounding who she is and how she became a slave. As she grows from childhood to womanhood she grapples with her own identity, her aspirations and desires and begins to understand the true meaning of both slavery and freedom.

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$12.95 • Paperback • 224 pages 5.3x8.5 • Currently Available JUV033020 • 978-1-78-438539-2 Casey Breton lives in USA

$12.99 • Paperback 208 pages • 5.5x8.5 • January 2021 JUV033020 • 978-1-78-438555-2 Allison Marks lives in Ohio

Eleven-year-old Benny Feldman spends his days at Sieberling School obeying his number-one rule for surviving sixth grade: blend into the background, so when he signs up his klezmer band to play in the school talent show, his classmates are shocked.

But, there is a problem. Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer Band is only a figment of Benny's imagination. He loves the traditional klezmer music of Eastern Europe, but how is he going to find other players to join him?.

This fun, feel-good story shows how friends, family, history and culture can all build confidence.

Calling Cobber Sheri Sinykin $24.95 • Paperback 256 pages • 5.5x8.5 Currently Available JUV039030 978-1-78-438507-1 Sheri Sinykin lives in Massachusetts and Arizona

Eleven-year-old Jacob 'Cobber' Stern has the world on his shoulders. He is still grieving for his mother six years after her death; frustrated by his distant workaholic father; abandoned by his best friend Boolkie, who now has to study for his bar mitzvah; and overwhelmed by his sense of responsibility for his ailing almost one-hundredyear-old great-grandfather, Papa-Ben. On top of that, Boolkie is pressuring him to perform his magic act at the school talent show, a terrifying prospect given how badly wrong that went last time Cobber performed at school.

Calling Cobber is about making decisions, answering life’s big questions, and working out how to process the past in order look to the future.

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Histria Kids z Penelope Pine

Orphan Wish Island

Amelia Balkan Evan Balkan

$29.99 • Hardback • 224 pages 6.14x9.21 • February 2021 • JUV013050 978-1-59-211085-8

$24.99 • Hardback 28 pages • 11x8.5 Illustrated • February 2021 JUV051000 978-1-59-211086-5

Penelope Pine is a delightful story that teaches young readers to be happy with who they are! Penelope is a pine tree. She lives in the forest with oaks, poplars, and maples, and enjoys playing with her tree friends. But when autumn rolls around and her friends turn beautiful colors, Penelope the evergreen believes that she doesn’t measure up. But when winter comes and her friends are suddenly very cold without their leaves, Penelope learns that she is perfect just the way she is.

The story was crafted by the daughter and father team of Amelia and Evan Balkan. Amelia, 16, is a junior at Towson High School, in Towson, Maryland.

Her father, Evan, has published seven books of nonfiction and three novels, as well as many essays and short stories. His screenplays have won numerous awards. He teaches writing at the Community College of Baltimore County and Johns Hopkins University. Penelope Pine is illustrated by talented, young Romanian artist, Alexandra Maxim, who lives and works in the Canary Islands in Spain.

Molly A Love Story Dana Brackob Evgeniya Kozhevnikova $24.99 • Hardback • 32 pages • 8.5x10 Illustrated • March 2021 • JNF003060 978-1-59-211100-8

Molly – A Love Story is a true story about a cute little Pit Bull, lost and alone in the world until one day she was rescued and given a home. Molly’s story teaches children about the unconditional love that a dog can bring into the lives of a family. As a cancer survivor, Molly overcame adversity, and her story shows that despite every hardship, true love is everlasting. Children and dog lovers of all ages will be touched by Molly’s story and that of her adopted brother Logan, a Siberian Husky who became her best friend. A portion of the sale of each copy of Molly – A Love Story will go to support animal shelters in the Las Vegas area.

Sarah Anne Carter

Miriam’s parents died in a car crash when she was almost 8 years old. Just as she settles into a new life with her aunt and uncle, they decide to leave to work at an orphanage in Kenya and Miriam has to move in with her Grandma. The night after her 12th birthday, she sees something that can’t be real – glowing writing on the attic door in her room. The message encourages her to open the door and behind it she finds a tropical island where fairies tell her and some other orphans that they have been granted yearly wishes. She can listen to a message from her parents, make a wish and then come back each year to make another one. She will hear a final message from her parents if she comes back every year for six years. The magic only works for the wish if the child is willing to also work for the wish.

Each year, Miriam wishes for something to help her, but along the way, she learns lessons about hard work, friendship, trust, and loyalty. Her parents also get to make a wish for her each year, but she won’t know what they wished until she comes to the island for the final time.

Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets E. A. Allen $29.99 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6x9 March 2021 • YAF001000 978-1-59-211084-1

An unbreakable cipher, a dead priest with expensive shoes, a hermit who has conversations with saints, an angry French girl, a guardian angel with attitude, a murderous master criminal, and a gaggle of angry demons might stop an ordinary fifteen-year-old safe-cracking genius, but not Percy St.-John. He’s out to prove he did not steal a mysterious ancient book that may hold the key to mankind’s greatest hope and greatest danger.

Dana Brackob lives and works in the Las Vegas. She was Molly’s real life mom and wanted to share her story. Pit Bulls are often maligned, but Molly proved that they are one of the most loving types of dogs. The illustrator, Evgeniya Kozhevnikova, is a talented Russian artist living in Tomsk, Siberia. Her other illustrated books include The Life and Times of Fuzzy Wuzzy, also published

by Histria Kids.

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Kasva z • z Press The Best Assassination in the Nation

Murdertown John Guzlowski $14.95 • Paperback • pages • 5.5x8.5 May 2021 • FIC022020 978-1-94-840321-4 John Guzlowski lives in Lynchburg, VA

Joshua Cohen $14.95 • Paperback • pages • 5.5x8.5 March 2021 • FIC022090 978-1-94-840350-4

Benjamin Gold is damaged goods.

After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eye—and not exactly at the top of the profession.

After a long string of jilted wives and small-time scams, Gold isn't expecting the beautiful daughter of his legal hero to show up in his office. Especially not with a crazy theory that her father—recently shot dead—was in fact assassinated by order of Cleveland's biggest tycoon, Clayton Forsythe.

To prove Judith Sorin's case, Gold has to navigate a web of lies, a corrupt legal establishment, disappearing witnesses, surprisingly polite thugs, and the Forsythes—who just happen to be his former in-laws. A tall order for anyone, and Benny Goldstein has never been lucky...

Twenty years ago, kids started turning up dead, chopped into pieces and stuffed into suitcases.

Ten years later, nuns were getting murdered right in their convent and priests were whisked away to keep things quiet.

Unfortunately for Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz, the neighborhood's gone downhill since then…

Retreat

Stars and Crosses

A Love Story

Curtis Urness

John Guzlowski

$14.95 • Paperback • pages • 5.5x8.5 April 2021 • FIC014050 978-1-94-840325-2

$14.95 • Paperback • pages • 5.5x8.5 March 2021 • FIC014050 978-1-94-840323-8 John Guzlowski lives in Lynchburg, VA

Magda was a pretty young war widow on her lunch break. Hans was a soldier on furlough, a Bavarian farm boy Magda found wandering lost in Berlin. After two weeks together, she sent him on his way—back to the nightmare of the Eastern Front.

Nine months later, Magda is trying to survive as her city is bombed to rubble, while Hans is somewhere in the Ukraine, slogging through snow and mud to find his way back to her, struggling to maintain his humanity despite the horrors he has survived and the brutality he has witnessed—and perpetrated.

After losing his job and his marriage, Chic Lucas—born Czes?aw ?ukaszczyk—journeys to Poland, where his grandfather died in Auschwitz and his father came out scarred for life.

Exploring his family's past, Chic becomes increasingly entangled in Poland's rich and tragic history, with its dizzying blend of heroism and complicity. Caught between Jewish friends demanding restitution, Polish farmers barely scraping by, skinheads, lawyers, and two beautiful women, Lucas must find a way to reconcile the irreconcilable and become a peacemaker.

Retreat is a story of the terrible costs of war, of love amid crushing defeat, of complicity—and redemption.

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Kasva Press •zThe • z Liffey Press Becoming a Soulful Parent

Post-Pandemic

A Path to the Wisdom Within

12 Lessons in Crisis Management

Dasee Berkowitz

Jonathan McMahon

$14.95 • Paperback • 182 pages • 5x8 March 2021 • FAM034000 978-1-94-840319-1 • Kasva Press

$22.95 • Paperback • 288 pages 6.1x9.2 • Currently Available BUS027020 • 978-1-91-609987-6 The Liffey Press

This is not a parenting how-to book. It does not offer the usual advice or add to your to-do list, which is already long enough.

Instead, Becoming a Soulful Parent asks questions to help you explore the contours of your inner life, developing your internal compass as you lead your family with love and wisdom.

Combining insights from thousands of years of traditional Jewish wisdom with her own utterly relatable first-person storytelling, author Dasee Berkowitz helps you embrace every moment with your family while leaning into the challenges of parenting with renewed perspective and enthusiasm.

Becoming a Soulful Parent will help you ground your floating anxieties about the state of the world outside, while giving you the tools to reflect on the state of your world. It will help strengthen “muscles” that will be essential for you and your children throughout your lives—muscles like love, listening, empathy, and curiosity.

The National Chronicles of a Dun Laoghaire Yacht Club Donal O'Sullivan $22.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 6.7x9.4 85 color photographs • January 2021 HIS018000 • 978-1-91-609986-9 The Liffey Press

This entertaining work by Donal O’Sullivan tells how the National Yacht Club developed, from its beginnings as a rowing club, comfortably set down in the northeast corner of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, how it nearly went under on a couple of occasions, was threatened with forced migration to a less salubrious part of the Dun Laoghaire Harbour and ultimately grew into one of the finest yacht clubs in Dublin.

Donal has called the work chronicles because he is uneasy about calling it a history. A yacht club, a building, is not something you can easily put a history on, not least this one which lost over 100 years of its records in two disastrous conflagrations

The COVID-19 pandemic swept across Ireland in 2020 as quickly as confidence in the country’s banks had vanished in 2008. In the earlier crisis, only the tough decisions of a small group of regulators and officials kept Ireland from collapse, though the price of salvation was a huge national debt and years of lost opportunities.

As a key insider to the Irish bailout, Jonathan McMahon was at the heart of the response. Battle-hardened by his experiences at the top of UK financial regulation during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jonathan’s advice on how to deal with crises is invaluable as governments grapple with the effects of COVID-19.

What will be the long-term consequences of the current pandemic for society? Just how bad will the economic crisis be?

Jonathan does not have all the answers, but he does have strong and informed views on the actions governments and business leaders must take to make the world safer, fairer, and better prepared for future crises.

Views of Dublin… and Beyond Jean Shouldice $16.95 • Paperback 120 pages • 6x9.2 Currently Available ART016030 • 978-1-91-609988-3 The Liffey Press

Jean Shouldice has painted scenes from all corners of Ireland, but her signature style evolved from architectural impressions of familiar Dublin landmarks and cityscapes – in oil, pen and ink, and watercolor. She has preserved the mood of “Old Dublin” for posterity in many of her works.

Her paintings include views of Howth Harbour, Trinity College Dublin, the Ha’penny Bridge, Custom House, Dublin Bay, O’Connell Street, St Stephen’s Green, Clontarf Castle and many more.

THE SHOp An Anthology of Poetry Hilary Wakeman Hilary Elfick $24.95 • Paperback 328 pages • 8x10 30 b&w drawings January 2021 • POE005020 978-1-91-609989-0 • The Liffey Press

Poet John Wakeman told The Irish Times that he thought “it would be exciting to start a poetry magazine out of the wilds of West Cork in Ireland.” Within a few years THE SHOp became one of Ireland’s most highly-regarded poetry magazines, not only for its contents but for its looks.

When Hilary Wakeman suggested producing an anthology to celebrate THE SHOp’s legacy, it was met with such enthusiasm she knew she had to make it happen. So with the help of her co-editor, the poet Hilary Elfick, together they identified 285 poems from the 840 poets published in THE SHOp during those 15 years. The result is this collection of some of the finest Irish and international poetry ever assembled in one volume.

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z • Lorimer Liberties Press The Language of Illness Dr Fergus Shanahan

Liberties Press

$21.99 • Hardback 224 pages • 6x9 Currently Available MED011000 978-1-91-258915-9

The practice of medicine has advanced dramatically in recent years, but the language used to discuss illness – by medical practitioners, patients and caregivers – has not kept pace. As a result, clinicians and, just as importantly, patients and their relatives and caregivers, are not able to communicate clearly in relation to illness. The upshot is misunderstanding and confusion on all sides.

The Language of Illness, part manifesto, part memoir, and part instruction manual, is an appeal for the use of clearer, more holistic language, by all those involved with, and affected by, illness.

Brevity is the Soul

Abusive Intimate Partners Going Free

Wit from Locked-Down Ireland

Don Hennessy

Kevin Gildea

$16.99 • Paperback 224 pages • 5x9 Currently Available • FAM001030 978-1-91-258917-3 • Liberties Press

$11.99 • Paperback 132 pages • 5.3x8.5 April 2021 • FIC016000 • 978-1-91-258919-7 Liberties Press

“Violence remains preventable, not inevitable.”

So says Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, the WHO Regional Director for Europe. Dr. Kluge has called for more action to be taken in every country that has seen a surge in domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic. If steps are not taken, the world could see 31 million cases of gender-based violence, he warned. This stark warning is an indictment of our failure to reduce the level of male intimate abuse.

It is vital that all agencies recognize that we need to change our position from one of support to one of protection. The protection that Hennessy promotes is not that of the physical refuge alone, but the mental safeguard which will allow each target woman to follow her own intuition.

While Ireland was in lockdown in Spring and Summer 2020, we scratched our heads and wondered what to do to help lift people's spirits.

We decided to join forces with Irish Pensions & Finance and run a competition celebrating Irish people's love of a good story – and a good laugh.

There were only two requirements: make it funny, and make it (fairly) short. We were overwhelmed by the response: we received hundreds of entries, from all over the island and points beyond, by people from all walks of life. There were only three winners – but we decided to gather the best stories into a book. And here they are – from the sublime to the ridiculous. Think Graham Norton's Big Red Chair to Samuel Beckett's dark humor – and all points in between.

Smart Cities in Canada - Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada Was Cool Greg Marquis $22.95 • Paperback • 168 pages • 6x9 February 2021 • HIS054000 978-1-45-941541-6 Greg Marquis lives in Quispamsis, NB Lorimer

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of their popularity, they headed to Canada.

They staged a "bed-in for peace" at an upscale downtown Montreal hotel, three months later they were back in Canada with Eric Clapton and other friends to play a concert festival in Toronto.

Recounting the story of these events, historian Greg Marquis offers a unique portrayal of Canadian society in the late Sixties.

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How He Wins

Independent Experts Analyze Often-Controversial Schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto's Failed Sidewalk Labs Waterfront Scheme Mariana Valverde Alexandra Flynn $22.95 • Paperback • 128 pages • 6x9 February 2021 • POL002000 978-1-45-941544-7 Mariana Valverde lives in Toronto, ON ; Alexandra Flynn lives in Vancouver, BC Lorimer

In this collection, experts from across the country investigate what this new approach means for the problems cities face, and expose the larger issues about urban planning and democracy raised by smart city technology.

Oil's Deep State How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa Kevin Taft $22.95 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6x9 Currently Available • POL064000 978-1-45-941307-8 Lorimer

Kevin Taft, a former leader of the opposition in Alberta, brings a fresh perspective through the insight he gained as an elected politician who had an insider's eyewitness view of the role of the oil industry. Taft views global warming and weakened democracy as two symptoms of the same problem — the loss of democratic institutions to corporate influence and control. He sees citizen engagement and direct action by the public as the only response that can unravel big oil's deep state.

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z Medina Publishing • Messenger Publications Bye-Bye Germs

Spirituality and the Senses

Be a Handwashing Superhero!

Living Life to the Full

Katie Laird Sarah Younie

Catherine McCann $6.95 • Paperback • 48 pages 4.7x7.1 • 20 color photos Currently Available REL062000 • 978-1-78-812292-4 Messenger Publications

A Germ's Journey •$9.99 Paperback • 32 pages • 8.2x10.2 Illustrated • March 2021 JNF024020 • 978-1-91-148748-7 Medina Publishing

Jess and her brother Joe were playing with their toys when Jess felt a tickle in her throat. The little tickle turned into a bigger tickle. And the bigger tickle turned into a giant cough and sneeze! Can they stop the germs from spreading? Join them on their journey and learn how to become a handwashing superhero!

De Montfort University's Dr. Katie Laird (microbiologist) and Professor Sarah Younie (educationalist) have teamed up with author/illustrator Jules Marriner and put together a brand new entertaining, educational book to help keep everyone safe.

Bye-Bye Germs is part of a 'A Germ's Journey' series. More activities and information can be found on www.germsjourney.com.

You Have the Words of Eternal Life

2020/2021

Reflections on the weekday readings for the liturgical year

Martin Hogan $18.95 • Paperback • 240 pages • 5.5x8.3 Currently Available • REL055000 978-1-78-812280-1 Messenger Publications

Many people feel drawn to basing their prayer on the Scriptures, in particular the gospels. These short reflections attempt to listen to the gospel text on its own terms while showing how it can continue to speak to our church and our world today. The book will appeal to priests in parishes who may wish to prepare a short homily for the weekday Mass, as well as to parishioners who wish to prayerfully reflect on the weekday gospel readings, as well as Lectio Divina groups in parishes.

We rarely focus on our senses and thus miss out on how they can enhance our lives at both micro and macro levels; what they can offer us in daily life, as well as during life’s special moments. It is up to each individual to become more consciously aware of and use each sense in more deliberate yet sensitive ways. Everyone can benefit by focussing daily on one or more of the senses even if only for a short period. Ideally it should become a daily practice.

The book offers a short chapter on the anatomy of our senses, and closes on another perspective: the part inner sensing plays in relation to religious faith as well as noticing how tactile Jesus was in his healing ministry.

Inspiring Faith Communities

Wandering Wicklow with Father Browne

A Programme of Evangelisation Michael Hurley $16 • Paperback • 120 pages • 5.5x8.3 Currently Available • REL012110 978-1-78-812269-6 • Messenger Publications

The great value of this book is that it helps people to explore together how they can live life more fully and with authentic freedom.

This book has three distinct parts: Part one outlines three convictions that guide its direction and the program it describes.

Part two outlines a program that gives flesh and reality to its three underpinning convictions.

Part three consists of a scripture passage for each day for the duration of the program.

In an easy to read style, this book will provide possibilities for individuals and parishes, in their search for authentic freedom and community.

Francis Browne SJ

Robert O'Byrne

$24.95 • Hardback • 120 pages • 7.4x9.7 100 b/w photos, 20 color photos Currently Available • PHO011000 978-1-78-812268-9 Robert O'Byrne lives in Meath, New Brunswick Messenger Publications

Ireland’s finest photographer in the 20th century, Fr Frank Browne repeatedly visited County Wicklow across almost half a century.

Over that time, he had the opportunity to capture images of this part of the country as it underwent change and yet, somehow, retained its essential character.

While his eye was able to spot the timeless beauty of this rural idyll, Fr Browne also noted the modern and innovative.

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Messenger zPublications To Love and To Serve

The Art of Spiritual Direction

Exploring the Ignatian Tradition

A Guide to Ignatian Practice

Brian O'Leary SJ

Jos Moons SJ

$24.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.5x8.3 • Currently Available REL109000 • 978-1-78-812264-1

Brian O’Leary, an Irish Jesuit, has been researching and writing on Ignatian spirituality since the 1970s. Over that period he has authored five books, the last of which (God Ever Greater, 2018) was a selection of his lectures and talks. His new offering, To Love and To Serve, is also a selection – this time of essays that have appeared in spirituality journals in a number of countries. Since these are not easily accessible, O’Leary made the decision to gather together the best of his work in this genre into one book, so making that work more widely available. The essays vary considerably in content, purpose, and style. Some are short and aimed at a popular readership, others tend to be more academic or written with practitioners of Ignatian spirituality in mind. All are eminently readable and display great clarity of style.

This is a concrete, practical book about spiritual accompaniment.

While there may be no shortage of books on this matter, most of these books remain somewhat abstract in the way they highlight the beauty of this ministry and point out its pitfalls. This book instead resembles a toolbox with a user’s manual.

In six chapters, the author presents the following tools: ‘there is no rush’, ‘listening by following’, ‘searching for the soul’, ‘going deeper’, ‘evaluating’, and ‘accompanying towards spiritual maturity’. By means of examples and case studies, he demonstrates how these tools may be used to good effect. Two introductory chapters discuss the choice for a practice-oriented book and the core values of an Ignatian approach to spiritual accompaniment. A final chapter specifically focuses on vocational discernment.

We Remember Maynooth

Pathways to a Decision

A College across Four Centuries

with Ignatius of Loyola Jim Maher SJ

Salvador Ryan John-Paul Sheridan

$16 • Paperback 120 pages • 5.5x8.3 Currently Available • REL109000 978-1-78-812270-2

$69.95 • Hardback • 500 pages • 6.7x9.5 200 color/bw photos • Currently Available REL108020 • 978-1-78-812263-4

Founded in 1795, Maynooth College has a singular place in the history of the Irish Church, and indeed the Catholic Church globally. Its beginning was as a small seminary of thirty students and ten professors, most of whom were fleeing the ravages of the French Revolution.

It has been the subject of riots in the streets of London and has played host to kings and popes.

Its buildings have created one of the loveliest of university campuses and its chapel is among the highest free- standing structures in Ireland.

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$24.95 • Paperback • 160 pages 5.5x8.3 • Currently Available REL109000 • 978-1-78-812119-4 J

Since Fr Jorge Bergoglio S.J. became Pope, many people have wondered what Jesuits are. Are they Catholics? How are they different to other religious orders?

Ignatius of Loyola, the cofounder of the Jesuits, developed a spirituality which has helped countless numbers of people since the sixteenth century. This book presents some of Ignatius’ key insights which inspire Jesuits and others all over the world. For those associated with the Jesuits or those who want to find out more about their spirituality, this basic introduction will be helpful. Ignatius emphasizes how God is always close to us. God speaks individually to us through our feelings, desires, thoughts and actions in unexpected place and at unexpected times.

Living Words Readings and Reflections on Inspiring Faith Communities Michael Hurley $6.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 5.5x8.3 Currently Available • REL012110 978-1-78-812296-2

A collection of readings and reflections for participants in the Inspiring Faith Communities program.

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Neem zTree • z Press Silverwing Kenneth Steven Ishy Walters $13.95 • Paperback • 100 pages • 5x7.8 Illustrated • July 2021 • JUV039030 978-1-91-110733-0

The Three Hares: The Gold Monkey Key David Ross Scott Lauder

A beautiful story about ten-year-old Douglas who has recently lost his mother to cancer. The boy and his father haven't been able to communicate since her death, and the house is a place of sadness. One day, Douglas finds an injured Greylag goose and so begins their mission to nurse the bird, and themselves, back to health. As father and son work together and start talking again, they discover much more about Douglas' mother than they ever knew before and connect with each other on a deeper level. This story deals with bereavement, school bullies, father-son connection, and the enormously healing power of nature and art. Illustrated with gorgeous drawings throughout, this is a story that will stay with you even after you close the book. Information on the Greylag goose at the back of the book is a bonus!

The Three Hares, Vol. 2 •$19.50 Paperback • 256 pages • 5x7.8 June 2021 • JUV001000 978-1-91-110707-1

Cows Can't Jump

Ashjaar lil-Naas alGhaa’ibeen

Philip Bowne $19.50 • Paperback • 276 pages 5x7.8 • March 2021 • FIC019000 978-1-91-110735-4

From debut novelist Philip Bowne, winner of the Spotlight First Novel prize, comes this explosive coming-of-age odyssey that catapults 18-year-old Billy Reed across Europe. Billy has just left school and is desperate to escape middle England. It’s 2016, and as a gravedigger, he’s working the ultimate dead-end job.

To make matters worse, he’s a virgin, and there’s no hope of him meeting a girl any time soon. The only women at work are in coffins.

Billy’s home life isn’t any better. In the evenings, he observes his dysfunctional family: his grandad is engaged to a woman half his age, his dad’s become obsessed with boxing, and he suspects his mum is having an affair.

All the while, celebrities are dropping like flies and Britain is waiting for the EU referendum. Everything is changing, and Billy hates it.

Billy’s life gets a jump start when he falls in love with Eva, an older girl from Switzerland, that’s passionate about Russian literature, Gary Numan, windfarms and chai tea. To Billy’s despair, Eva travels back to her home in Switzerland at the end of summer. But he won’t give up on her that easily.

He gambles everything for a chance to be with Eva again.

Sanjeev's dog Jigsaw is missing in the middle of winter in New Jersey. But this tragedy is dwarfed by what happens to him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Has he really entered the 6th Century and become the slave to monks traveling the Silk Road to Byzantium - and might they just be murderers?

Trouble is even if he figures out how to get out of this, he’s got other problems: someone, or something, is coming after him. Part of the answer might be Sara, a girl who contacts him on the net and keeps talking about the Immortals. But who or what are The Three Hares and how can they stop the darkness about to engulf the world?

Ahlam Bsharat $13.50 • Paperback • 90 pages • 5x7.8 Currently Available • FIC019000 978-1-91-110721-7

Text in Arabic 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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ThezO’Brien Press •z Chasing Ghosts An Arctic Adventure

The Kidds of Summerhill

Nicola Pierce

Ann Murtagh

$12.99 • Paperback • 5.1x7.7 Currently Available • YAF024000 978-1-78-849017-7

$12.99 • Paperback • 5.1x7.7 May 2021 • YAF024000 978-1-78-849231-7

An enthralling novel of two intertwining stories based on real events in 19th Century Ireland and the Canadian Arctic.

In the spring of 1945 a mother dies, leaving four children to fend for themselves in a Dublin tenement.

Nancy, the oldest, lives in dread of the family being split up. The power to send them all to industrial schools such as Artane and Goldenbridge lies with the ‘Cruelty Men.' Their spy, the Pig Farmer, lives next door and holds a long term grudge against the family.

Thankfully Nancy has loyal friends in Summerhill and the Diamond, among them Lilly, her brother Charlie Weaver, a Dublin newsboy, and their ma, Maggie. Through work, Nancy becomes friendly with Karla, a Jewish refugee from Prague.

When Nancy takes action to help a friend out of trouble little does she know she is heading straight for it herself. Faced with an agonizing choice, she is forced to ask herself: How far am I prepared to go to keep my family together?

Two ships Arctic-bound, HMS Erebus and Terror, leave London in 1845, captained by the aging Sir John Franklin. How long they’ll be gone depends on the ice. Meanwhile, second-in-command, Francis Crozier, worries about their inexperienced crew.

In Derry, little Weesy Coppin dies of a fever but, as far as her sister Ann and brother William are concerned, her spirit returns to haunt them. While an anxious world waits for news of the Artic explorers, the Coppin family try to understand what is going in their home. But, then, one night, all is revealed when the truth literally steps out of the shadows.

Eoin Madden

Making a Stand

Gerard Siggins

Land War Novel

Rugby Spirit, Vol. 8 •$12.99 Paperback • 5.1x7.7 November 2021 • YAF059000 978-1-78-849235-5

Brian Gallagher

Sequel to Gaelic Spirit. Book 8 in the acclaimed Rugby Spirit series.

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$12.99 • Paperback • 5.1x7.7 May 2021 • YAF024000 978-1-78-849195-2

Making a Stand explores the challenges faced by a range of characters against the backdrop of Land League agitation, evictions and boycotting in 1880’s Ireland. The story is told through the eyes of three Irish children: Clara Parkinson, Molly O’Hara, and Aidan Daly, whose contrasting circumstances result in differing responses to the unfolding turmoil.

Despite their differing backgrounds, Clara, Aidan, and Molly become friends – a friendship that in the tinderbox climate of the Land War brings real physical dangers. Meanwhile Molly has to grapple with her divided loyalties when her father takes part in evictions with the Royal Irish Constabulary.

Interspersed with time-slip elements from the present day, with student Garret Byrne exploring his family’s past, the story is set during the pivotal period of late 1880 to early 1881, a time when the face of Ireland was changing forever, with dramatic – and sometimes shocking – consequences for our cast of characters.

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The O’BrienzPress The One With The Waggly Tail

My Little Album of Ireland

Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood

Juliette Saumande Tarsila Krüse

Sarah Webb Steve McCarthy

$19.99 • Hardback • pages • 8.45x10.3 Fully illustrated • November 2021 JNF058000 • 978-1-78-849219-5

$24.99 • Hardback • 64 pages 8.65x11 • Currently Available JNF042000 • 978-1-78-849151-8

A new, beautifully illustrated collection of favorite nursery rhymes from the team that brought you Sally Go Round the Stars (short-listed, Irish Book Awards) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea (winner, Irish Book Awards). It includes favorite international, British and Irish rhymes, as well as special Irish favorites. Includes: • It's a Long Way to Tipperary • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive • Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush • The Wild Swans at Coole • Lámh, Lámh Eile • Polly Put the Kettle on • Hot Cross Buns! and many, many more!

My Little Album of Ireland takes the youngest of readers on a fun filled tour of the Emerald Isle. Along the way, they will build up their vocabulary in English and Irish.

Packed with delightful illustrations and words!

Flossie McFluff

A Galway Fairytale

An Irish Fairy

Caitriona Sweeney

Eoin O'Brien Audrey Dowling

$18.99 • Hardback • 32 pages 8.45x10.25 • Fully illustrated July 2021 • JUV012030 978-1-78-849224-9

$12.99 • Paperback • 8.05x10.1 June 2021 • JUV012030 978-1-78-849218-8

Sequel to Shamrock Seán. Three stories in rhyme about a little fairy who looks after the forest. In the first tale, she gives some litter louts a scare, then she helps a lonely banshee find some friends, and finally she searches for her lost wand - finally finding it in Shamrock Seán’s house.

A modern take on the Hansel and Gretel fairytale set in modern-day Galway, with locations such as the Spanish Arch, Salmon Weir Bridge and Eyre Square, as Sean and Grainne seek out the perfect present for their mother. To be published initially as a 32-page picture book.

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ThezO’Brien Press •z Scout's Best Day Ever

Finn's First Song

Jennifer Farley

Gerry Daly

$18.99 • Hardback • April 2021 JUV002190 • 978-1-78-849174-7

$18.99 • Hardback • 8.45x10.25 April 2021 • JUV002170 978-1-78-849191-4

A Whaley Big Adventure

Scout, Daisy and Dad are going on holidays. Gran stays at home to mind the cat.

A baby humpback whale and his mother are swimming across the ocean to find his father. But when they come across some great big ships the sonar confuses them and baby whale gets lost. With the help of some new friends, baby whale learns to sing his first song and is reunited with his mother when she hears his singing. They continue their journey to the Irish coast, guided once more by his dad's long magical songs.

“I hate to leave you, cat, but I need to keep an eye on them” Cat indifferent. Says nothing.

Scout promises to send cat a postcard from every place he visits on his travels around Ireland.

But which will be the BEST. DAY. EVER?

Icebound in the Arctic

The Bloodied Field Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition

Michael Foley $22.99 • Paperback • 5.1x7.7 30 Halftones, black and white Currently Available • POL045000 978-1-78-849196-9

Michael Smith

On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park.

Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster.

Updated with new information and photographs.

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$22.99 • Paperback • 6.1x8.9 June 2021 • BIO023000 978-1-78-849232-4

Francis Crozier was a major figure in the epic quests of nineteenth-century Polar exploration - navigating the North West Passage, reaching the North Pole and mapping Antarctica. His remarkable story embraces six daring voyages to the world's most hostile regions and extraordinary feats of endurance, tragedy, and failed romance. The groundbreaking expeditions with legendary explorers like Parry, Ross and Franklin lifted the veil from the frozen wastes and were crucial to the exploits of Amundsen, Scott, and Shackleton.

Crozier's personal tragedy was an unhappy love affair with Franklin's niece which drove him back to the ice one last time as second-in-command on Franklin's North West Pasage expedition in 1845. All 129 men vanished on the ice. Crozier took command when the ships were crushed and the expedition was on the brink of disaster. For several years Crozier led a courageous battle trying to lead his men to safety. According to legend, Crozier was the last to die. But Crozier never received recognition for his great feats and became another of exploration's Irish unsung heroes.

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The O’Brien z • z Press Our Wild World From the Birds and the Bees to Our Boglands and Ice Caps Eanna Ní Lamhna $22.99 • Paperback • 6.1x8.9 May 2021 • NAT011000 978-1-78-849233-1

This new book from the author of Wild Dublin aims to make learning about how the world really works accessible for all readers. In the simplest terms, Eanna Ni Lamhna demystifies concepts like biodiversity, pollination, greenhouse gases and global warming/climate change.

Irish Thatched Cottages Emma Byrne O'Brien Irish Heritage •$18.99 Hardback • 5.1x7.7 • May 2021 ARC003000 • 978-1-78-849225-6

A celebration of Irish thatch.

The picturesque, whitewashed thatched cottage is an iconic emblem of Ireland.

The tradition reaches back in history to the ancient crannóg and one-roomed laborers’ cottages. Beautiful examples of this still-living craft can be found all over the island, from bustling urban centers and quiet country roads to the wild coasts of the west.

Since moving into a thatched cottage several years ago, Emma Byrne has become fascinated by thatched houses and the craft behind them. Armed with a camera, a notebook, and a Sat Nav, she took to the roads, traveling the length and breadth of this island to capture the variety and beauty of Ireland’s thatch. This beautiful new addition to the O'Brien Heritage series is a celebration of the unique beauty and wonder of Irish thatch.

Thrills and Spills Celebrating Irish Jump Racing Pat Healy Donn McClean $39.99 • Hardback • 208 pages 8.5x9.85 • April 2021 • SPO021000 978-1-78-849135-8

For four decades Healy Racing has photographed the world of Irish horse racing.

Delving into an archive of thousands of images, photographer Pat Healy and sports journalist Donn McClean selected over 200 golden Irish jump-racing moments. Their book captures the last decade of thrills and spills (2011–2020) – the sheer spectacle that is the Irish horse-racing scene.

The sport’s biggest personalities, and their horses, are celebrated through the lens: JP McManus, Michael O’Leary and Gigginstown House Stud, Rich and Susannah Ricci, Willie, Patrick and Danny Mullins, Gordon Elliott, Jessica Harrington, Jonjo O’Neill, Henry de Bromhead, Nina and Paul Carberry, Ted, Ruby and Katie Walsh, Barry Geraghty, Davy Russell, AP McCoy, Paul Townend, Jack Kennedy, Rachel Blackmore, Bryan Cooper, Robbie Power, Jamie Codd, Lisa O’Neill and so many more.

For every leap of victory and fist pump, there is a crunching fall or a win that almost was: Healy Racing has captured it all.

Great Moments in Gaelic Football $22 • Paperback • 224 pages 8.5x9.85 • 176 Halftones, color Currently Available • SPO040000 978-1-78-849198-3

Gaelic football is Ireland's native sport.

Fast, physical, athletic and driven by local and national rivalries, it is a unique part of our heritage. Ray McManus and his team at Sportsfile are as passionate as all true sports fans, and have been taking photographs for over forty years. They have been at All Ireland finals, of course, but also at club matches throughout the land.

With reminiscences from photographers and players alike, this book is a look back over the decades at the legendary players, matches and moments that have contributed to the narrative of one of the world's most exciting sports.

A must for Gaelic Football fans wherever they are.

First published in 2016, this edition is updated to include many great matches and Dublin's historic Five in a Row.

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The O'Brien Press • Pen z & Sword History Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors

Sharing Your Family History Online

A Guide for Family Historians

A Guide for Family Historians

Stephen Wade

Chris Paton

Tracing Your Ancestors •$26.95 • Paperback 144 pages • 6x9.25 33 black and white illustrations Currently Available • REF013000 978-1-52-677852-9 Pen & Sword History

Tracing Your Ancestors •$26.95 • Paperback 144 pages • 6x9.25 40 black and white illustrations March 2021 • REF013000 • 978-1-52-678029-4 Pen & Sword History

In Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors, crime historian Stephen Wade attempts to provide information and guidance to family and social history researchers in this difficult area of criminal records. His book covers the span of time from medieval to modern, and includes some Scottish and Irish sources.

The sources explained range broadly from central calendars of prisoners, court records and jail returns, through to memoirs and periodicals.

Felting

Dark Blue

Lynn HugginsCooper

Shane Carthy

Interpreting How Your Ancestors Dressed Jayne Shrimpton Tracing Your Ancestors •$29.95 • Paperback 200 pages • 6x9.25 20 color & 75 black and white illustrations January 2021 • REF013000 • 978-1-52-676026-5 Pen & Sword History

Studying dress history teaches us much about the past. In this skillfully illustrated, accessible and authoritative book, Jayne Shrimpton demonstrates how fashion and clothes represent the everyday experiences of earlier generations, illuminating the world in which they lived.

As Britain evolved during the 1800s from a slowpaced agrarian society into an urban-industrial nation, dress was transformed. Traditional rural styles declined and modern city modes, new workwear and holiday gear developed. Women sewed at home, while shopping advanced, novel textiles and mass-produced goods bringing affordable fashion to ordinary people.

A Quarter Glass of Milk

$18.99 • Paperback 5.1x7.7 • March 2021 SPO015000 978-1-78-849150-1 The O-Brien Press

Heritage Crafts and Skills $16.95 • Paperback 176 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations January 2021 CRA060000 • 978-1-52-672464-9 Pen & Sword History

This book offers a journey through the history of the ancient craft of felting from the earliest times. This book looks at the rise and fall of felting through history and into the industrial era, including its importance to the hat-making industry.

The second part of the book brings us to the modern - and some might say, golden era of artisanal felting with interviews from felters and textile artists generously sharing their creative process.

Finally, if you are inspired to try this fascinating craft, there are step by step instructions for both wet and needle felting, and a useful list of resources to get you started on your own felt-making journey.

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In Sharing Your Family History Online, genealogist and best-selling author Chris Paton will explore the many ways in which we can present our research and encourage collaboration online.

He will detail the many organizations and social media applications that can permit cooperation, describe the software platforms on which we can collate our stories, and illustrate the many ways in which we can publish our stories online.

Fashion and Family History

Shane Carthy writes frankly and eloquently about his journey over the last five years. He details, without over-dramatizing, the downward spiral which, days after producing a man-of-thematch display in Dublin’s 2014 Leinster under-21 final win over Meath, saw him wake up in St Patrick’s Mental Hospital.

Carthy also explains what ultimately brought him back to where he is now, just turned 24 and more determined than ever to revive his football career with Dublin.

The Rawness of Grief and the Power of the Mountains Moire O'Sullivan $19.99 • Paperback • 6.1x8.9 • April 2021 SEL010000 • 978-1-78-849227-0 The O-Brien Press

When mountain runner Moire O’Sullivan’s husband, Pete, took his own life, she was left with a stark choice: to weep forever over the glass of milk that had just spilt or to get on with the quarter that was still remaining.

A Quarter Glass of Milk details the twelve months after Pete’s passing. It charts the profound lows of being a recently widowed single mother who has lost her best friend and confidant. It also reveals how she resolves to stay strong for the sake of her children, ensuring they feel loved despite losing their father.

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Pen & Sword z • z History Jane Austen's Cousin

Jane Austen's Best Friend

The Outlandish Countess de Feuillide

The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd

Geri Walton

Zöe Wheddon

$34.95 • Hardback • 152 pages 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations May 2021 • BIO007000 978-1-52-673463-1 Geri Walton lives in California

$34.95 • Hardback 224 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations April 2021 • BIO007000 978-1-52-676381-5

Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who inspired their imaginations and regaled them with stories of life in London and Paris where she hobnobbed with French nobility and wore the latest fashions. One of these impressionable younger cousins would find Eliza’s stories so fascinating that she would incorporate elements of Eliza’s life into some of the most famous novels in English literature. This cousin was Jane Austen.

Read about the perseverance and courage of the real person behind several fictional characters in Jane Austen’s writings and novels and the deeper connection Eliza had to the Austen family.

Dickens and Christmas Lucinda Hawksley $26.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO007000 978-1-52-678037-9

Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today – and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically to “strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor man’s child”, and it began the Victorians’ obsession with Christmas.

All fans of Jane Austen everywhere believe themselves to be best friends with the beloved author and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. Jane Austen’s Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd offers a unique insight into Jane’s private inner circle. Through this heartwarming examination of an important and often overlooked person in Jane’s world, we uncover the life-changing force of their friendship.

Each chapter details the fascinating facts and friendship-forming qualities that tied Jane and Martha together. Within these pages we will relive their shared interests, the hits and misses of their romantic love lives, their passion for shopping and fashion, their family histories, their lucky breaks and their girly chats. This book offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the shared lives of a fascinating pair and the chance to deepen our own bonds in ‘love and friendship’ with them both.

The Author Who Outsold Dickens

Ian Fleming's Inspiration The Truth Behind the Books

The Life and Work of W H Ainsworth Stephen Carver $29.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • March 2021 BIO007000 • 978-1-52-676644-1

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 – 1882) is probably the most successful 19th Century writer that most people haven’t heard of. Journalist, essayist, poet and, most of all, historical novelist, Ainsworth was a member of the early-Victorian publishing elite, and Charles Dickens’s only serious commercial rival until the late-1840s.

In his heyday, Ainsworth commanded a massive audience until a moral panic about the supposedly pernicious effects on working class youth of the criminal romances on which his reputation was built effectively destroyed his reputation as a serious literary novelist.

Edward Abel Smith $26.95 • Paperback 232 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO007000 978-1-52-679198-6

James Bond is possibly the most well known fictional characters in history. What most people don’t know is that almost all of the characters, plots and gadgets come from the real life experiences of Bond’s creator - Commander Ian Fleming.

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.

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Pen & Sword History/Maritime z John Keats

Edward Elgar

Poetry, Life and Landscapes

Music, Life and Landscapes

Suzie Grogan

Christopher Grogan

$34.95 • Hardback 224 pages • 6x9.25 8pp. color and integrated black & white and illustrations March 2021 • BIO007000 978-1-52-673937-7

$42.95 • Hardback 264 pages • 6x9.25 8pp. color and integrated black & white and illustrations Currently Available • BIO004000 978-1-52-676462-1

Apart from his long association with Hampstead, North London, he has not previously been known as a poet of ‘place’ in the way we associate Wordsworth with the Lake District. Yet Keats was acutely aware of and influenced by his surroundings.

Suzie Grogan takes the reader on a journey through Keats’s life and landscapes, introducing us to his best and most influential work. In many ways a personal journey following a lifetime of study, the reader is offered opportunities to reflect on the impact of poetry and landscape on all our lives. The book is aimed at anyone wanting to know more about the places Keats visited, the times he lived through and the influences they may have had on his poetry. Utilizing primary sources such as Keats’s letters to friends and family and the very latest biographical and academic work.

More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an ‘icon of locality,' his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar’s complex interaction with his physical environment, explores how it is that such associations are formed and whether it is any sense true that Elgar alchemized landscape into music.

Written with the non-specialist in mind, yet drawing on the rich resources of post-millennial scholarship on Elgar, as well as geographical studies of place, the book also includes many new insights relating to such aspects of Elgar’s output as his use of landscape typology in The Apostles, and his encounter with Modernism in the late chamber music. It also calls on the resources of contemporary social commentary, poetry and, especially, English landscape art to place Elgar and his thought in the broader cultural milieu of his time.

The 50 Greatest Explorers in History Michelle Rosenberg $29.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO023000 978-1-52-673100-5

The 50 Greatest Explorers in History brings to life the pioneers in aviation flying thousands of miles with the most basic of maps in open cockpits, exposed to the elements and the unrelenting smell of petrol fumes. They travel by steamboat, on horseback, by rickshaw, motorbike, train, swim with piranhas, and embark into black nothingness in new spacecraft.

Going where in many cases, no man or woman had ever gone before, some women featured in this books were often denied respect, acknowledgment, or recognition and they determined to break the ‘men's club’ mentality of global exploration from which they were excluded.

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The Spanish Flu Epidemic and its Influence on History

How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World

Jaime Breitnauer $19.95 • Paperback • 160 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • SOC057000 978-1-52-676642-7

In Budapest, a lone woman dies quietly on a bench in the late afternoon sun, while in South Africa, a group of men plunge to their death in the blackness of a mine shaft elevator. In London, a loving father takes his daughter’s life while in Austria a man grieves for his unborn baby trapped inside his dead wife’s body...

This is not some post-apocalyptic future, but the reality of Spanish flu, which claimed the lives of around 100-million people globally between 1918 and 1920. Often overshadowed by the tragedy of the Great War, this book walks us through the lives of some of the victims.

Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century Nick Collins $42.95 • Hardback • 320 pages • 6x9.25 40 black and white illustrations & maps April 2021 • HIS057000 • 978-1-52-678662-3 Pen & Sword Maritime

The Indian subcontinent was the original major player in maritime trade, linking oceans and regions. Global maritime trade declined with the fall of Mediterranean empires and the 'dark age' in Europe but revived with Indian Ocean and Asian maritime networks.

This history is a broadly based and exciting account of human interaction at multiple levels, for general readers, specialists and practitioners.

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Pen & Sword History z How to Survive in Ancient Rome L J Trafford $26.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 6x9.25 • 30 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS002020 978-1-52-675786-9

Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome 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.

Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York Her Life and Times Revealed Patrick Ottaway $60 • Hardback • 336 pages • 6.5x9.5 100 color illustrations • May 2021 HIS002020 • 978-1-52-671097-0

The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just outside the center of York. Fifty years old when she died in the early third century, Julia Velva was probably from a wealthy family able to afford a fine monument. Patrick Ottaway uses the tombstone as the starting point to investigate what the world she lived in was like.

Drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries and scientific techniques, the author describes the development of Roman York’s legionary fortress, civilian town and surrounding landscape. He also looks at manufacturing and trade, and considers the structure of local society along with the latest analytical evidence for people of different ethnic backgrounds. Aspects of daily life discussed include literacy, costume, cosmetics and diet. There are also chapters dedicated to the abundant York evidence for religion and burial customs. This book presents a picture of what one would have found on the edge of a great Empire at a time when York itself was at the height of its importance.

Greek Mythology Gods and Heroes Brought to Life Robert Garland $24.95 • Paperback • 232 pages 6x9.25 • 35 integrated black and white illustrations January 2021 • SOC011000 978-1-52-677654-9 Robert Garland lives in New York, NY

Greek mythology isn’t the equivalent of the Bible or the Qur’an. There is no standardized version of any myth. Myths aren’t sacred. Whether you happen to be Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides or any other Greek, or even you or me, every myth is yours to tell and interpret any way you like.

Greek mythology is very much alive and well in the contemporary world.

There are many narrative versions of the myths currently available, but this book will do something very different: it will give the characters the chance to tell their stories in their own words. In so doing, it will give both gods and humans the opportunity to reflect upon their life stories and, in places, justify their actions. In this way they will come across as real people, just as they are, say, in the plays of the dramatists.

Burying the Dead An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries Lorraine Evans $39.95 • Hardback • 216 pages 6x9.25 • 32 black and white illustrations January 2021 • SOC003000 978-1-52-670667-6

Deep in the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington Wold, there lies a rather unusual burial ground, an Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery. Twelve skeletons were unearthed by archaeologists, ten without skulls, later examination of the skeletons revealed that their owners were all subjected to judicial execution by decapitation, one of which required several blows.

Similar fates have befallen other wretched souls, the undignified burial of suicides - in the Middle Ages, the most profound of sins - and the desecration of their bodies, go largely unrecorded. While plague pits, vast cemeteries where victims of the Black Death were tossed into the ground, their bodies festering one on top of another, are only today betraying their secrets.

Burying the Dead explores how these attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone continual change. By studying the development of society’s funerary spaces, the author reveals how we continue to reinforce our relationships with the dead.

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Pen & Sword z History Mary Queen of Scots' Secretary

Charles I's Executioners

William Maitland - Politician, Reformer and Conspirator Robert Stedall $49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6x9.25 20 color illustrations • March 2021 BIO006000 • 978-1-52-678779-8

Maitland was the most able politician and diplomat during the lifetime of Mary Queen of Scots. It was he who masterminded the Scottish Reformation by breaking the ‘Auld Alliance’ with France, which presaged Scotland’s lasting union with England.

Although he gained English support to defeat French troops defending Mary’s Scottish throne, he backed her return to Scotland, as the widowed Queen of France.

The Extraordinary Life of a Georgian Courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott, her Family, and Friends Joanne Major Sarah Murden $29.95 • Paperback • 264 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO022000 978-1-52-679641-7

Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner during the French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales' child, notorious courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an amazing life.

The authors of this engaging and, at times, scandalous book intersperse the story of Grace's tumultuous life with anecdotes of her fascinating family, from those who knew Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and who helped to abolish slavery, to those who were, like Grace, mistresses of great men.

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Civil War, Regicide and the Republic James Hobson $39.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6x9.25 20 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS015040 978-1-52-676184-2

On an icy winter’s day in January 1649, Charles I, King of England, was executed. The killers of the king were soldiers, lawyers, Puritans, Republicans and some simply opportunists, all brought together under one infamous banner. While the events surrounding Charles I and Cromwell are well-trodden, the lives of the other fifty-eight men – their backgrounds, ideals and motives – has been sorely neglected.

Their stories are a powerful tale of revenge and a clash of beliefs; their fates determined by that one decision. When Charles II was restored he enacted a deadly wave of retribution against the men who had secured his father’s fate.

The Elder Sons of George III Kings, Princes, and a Grand Old Duke Catherine Curzon $39.95 • Hardback • 200 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • January 2021 HIS015050 • 978-1-47-387247-9

For nearly 60 years, King George III reigned over a tumultuous kingdom. His health and realm were in turmoil, while family life held challenges of its own. From the corpulent Prinny and the Grand Old Duke of York, to a king who battled the Lords and the disciplinarian Duke of Kent, this is the story of the elder sons of George III. Born over the course of half a decade of upheaval, George, Frederick, William, and Edward defined an era. Their scandals intrigued the nation and their efforts to build lives away from the shadow of their impossibly pious parents led them down diverse paths. Whether devoting their lives to the military or to pleasure, every moment was captured in the full glare of the spotlight.

Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain Mike Rendell $29.95 • Paperback 216 pages • 6x9.25 30 black and white illustrations - integrated and 8 page monoplates Currently Available • HIS015000 978-1-52-675562-9

Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reigns of Georges I-IV. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior, and the ways in which these attitudes were often determined by those in positions of power and authority. It also explores our ancestors’ ingenious, surprising, bizarre and often entertaining solutions to the challenges associated with maintaining a healthy sex life.

The Daughters of George III Sisters and Princesses Catherine Curzon $24.95 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • April 2021 BIO022000 • 978-1-52-676304-4

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.

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Pen & Sword z • z History Plantagenet Princes The Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Douglas Boyd $34.95 • Hardback • 232 pages 6x9.25 • 20 black and white illustrations April 2021 • HIS015020 978-1-52-674306-0

Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307 David Pilling $49.95 • Hardback • 224 pages 6x9.25 • 30 black and white illustrations April 2021 • HIS015020 978-1-52-677641-9

When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the Scottish border, including half of France. Henry’s grandmother Empress Mathilda of Germany had taught him that ruling is like falconry: show the hawk the reward, but take it away at the last moment, to keep the bird eager to please. To sons and vassals alike, Henry promised everything but gave nothing, keeping the three adult princes hating him and the other siblings all their lives.

Plantagenet Princes traces the lives and infamous webs of mistrust and intrigue among them.

The late 13th century witnessed the conquest of Wales after two hundred years of conflict between Welsh princes and the English crown. In 1282 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the only native Prince of Wales to be formally acknowledged by a King of England, was slain by English forces. His brother Dafydd continued the fight, but was eventually captured and executed. Further revolts followed under Rhys ap Maredudd, a former crown ally, and Madog ap Llywelyn, a kinsman of the defeated lords of Gwynedd.

The Welsh wars were a massive undertaking for the crown, and required the mobilization of all resources. Edward’s willingness to direct the combined power of the English state and church against the Prince of Wales, to an unprecedented degree, resulted in a victory that had eluded all of his predecessors.

The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family

Richard III in the North

The Despensers

M J Trow

Kathryn Warner

$42.95 • Hardback • 192 pages 6x9.25 • 25 color and 50 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO014000 978-1-52-677717-1

$42.95 • Hardback • 264 pages 6x9.25 • 20 color illustrations January 2021 • HIS015020 978-1-52-674493-7

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king’s chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence, and Hugh the Younger’s greed and tyranny brought down a king for the first time in English history and almost destroyed his own family.

The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family tells the story of the ups and downs of this fascinating family from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, when three Despenser lords were beheaded and two fell in battle. We begin with Hugh, Chief Justiciar of England, who died rebelling against King Henry III and his son in 1265, and end with Thomas Despenser, summarily beheaded in 1400 after attempting to free a deposed Richard II, and Thomas’s posthumous daughter Isabella, a countess twice over and the grandmother of Richard III’s queen.

Richard III was not born in the North; neither did he die there, but this detailed look at his life, tracing his steps over the thirty-three years that he lived, focuses on the area that he loved and made his own. As Lord of the North, he had castles at Middleham and Sheriff Hutton, Penrith and Sandal. He fought the Scots along the northern border and on their own territory. His son was born at Middleham and was invested as Prince of Wales at York Minster, where Richard planned to set up a college of 100 priests.

His white boar device can be found in obscure corners of churches and castles; his laws, framed in the single parliament of his short reign, gave rights to the people who served him and loved him north of the Trent.

And when he felt threatened or outnumbered by his enemies during the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses, it was to the men of the North that he turned for support and advice. They became his knights of the body; members of the Council of the North which outlived Richard by a 150 years.

The North was his home. It was the place he loved.

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Pen & Sword z History Discovering Robin Hood The Life of Joseph Ritson - Gentleman, Scholar and Revolutionary

The History of Sweets

Humane Reformer and Politician

Paul Chrystal

Stephen Hart $49.95 • Hardback 352 pages • 6x9.25 16 black and white illustrations • March 2021 BIO010000 • 978-1-52-678372-1

Stephen Basdeo $39.95 • Hardback • 264 pages • 6x9.25 Integrated black and white illustrations May 2021 • BIO006000 • 978-1-52-677781-2

The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-onTees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people.

The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research in the late eighteenth century ensured the survival of the Robin Hood legend. He traveled all over the country looking for ancient manuscripts which told of the life and deeds of England’s most famous outlaw. Without his efforts, the legend of Robin Hood might have gone the way of other medieval outlaws such as Adam Bell — famous in their day but not so much now.

The Life of Richard Cadbury

James Chuter Ede (1882-1965) served the longest term of office as Home Secretary in the last 200 years, three weeks more than Theresa May. He is the only senior member of Attlee's legendary 1945 cabinet not yet to have found a biographer.

His contribution to that government - and in Robert Harris's words, 'We still live in the society shaped by Clement Attlee' - although largely unsung, was immense.

Royal Seals Images of Power and Majesty Paul Dryburgh

Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier Diane Wordsworth $39.95 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • January 2021 BIO003000 • 978-1-52-676825-4

In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer’s shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product..

In 1861, the now floundering firm was taken over by two of his sons, Richard and George, who turned things around and continued to grow the company into the organization we see today.

There is a lot of information available about George Cadbury, but the only previously published biography of Richard is now out of print. The Life of Richard Cadbury is a brand-new biography hoping to put that straight.

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James Chuter Ede

Images of the The National Archives •$49.95 • Hardback 168 pages • 6.5x9.5 50 color illustrations Currently Available • HIS015000 978-1-52-672953-8

Royal Seals is an introduction to the seals of the kings and queens of England, Scotland and latterly the United Kingdom, as well as the Church and nobility.

Ranging from Medieval times to modern day, it uses images of impressive wax seals held at The National Archives to show the historical importance of these beautiful works of art.

Included are features on the great seals of famous monarchs like Richard III, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and twentieth-century monarchs, as well as insights on the role of seals in treaties and foreign policy.

With ecclesiastical seals and those of the nobility and lower orders included, this is a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated guide.

$29.95 • Paperback 144 pages • 6x9.25 32 color illustrations March 2021 CKB041000 978-1-52-677885-7

We all know our sweets. We all remember sweets – objects of pure delight and the endless cause of squabbles, fights even, hoarding and swapping; a chance to gorge, suck, crunch and chew. But they’re by no means just a nostalgic thing of days past, and it’s not only children who love and devour sweets – gobstoppers, bulls eyes, licorice, seaside rock, bubble gum and the like; grown-ups of all ages are partial to a good humbug, or a lemon sherbet or two – in the car, (annoyingly) at the cinema or while out walking – wherever and whenever, the sweet is there, the sweet delivers and the sweet rarely disappoints.

Prime Ministers of the 20th Century Mark Dunton Images of the The National Archives $29.95 • Paperback • 88 pages • 7.5x9.5 Illustrated • May 2021 • BIO011000 978-1-52-672949-1

This book gives an overview of each of the British Prime Ministers of the 20th century, summarizing their premierships, their policies, and the key events. It is lavishly illustrated with images of documents from The National Archives which give a fresh dimension to the study of the Prime Minister’s role, providing insights into their personalities and the pressures that Prime Ministers are subject to. Handwritten comments

by Prime Ministers enable the reader to connect with the individual and how they felt at the time.

There are dramatic episodes and examples of forthright reactions, but flashes of humor too.

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z • z History Pen & Sword The King Arthur Mysteries

The History of Jerusalem

Arthur's Britain and Early Medieval World

Its Origins to the Early Middle Ages

Timothy Venning

Alan J Potter

$42.95 • Hardback • 312 pages 6x9.25 • 16 black and white illustrations March 2021 • SOC022000 978-1-52-678390-5

$34.95 • Hardback • 256 pages 6x9.25 22 black and white maps & diagrams Currently Available • HIS002000 978-1-52-678329-5

An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian phenomenon - the imaginary and historical world of the great British warlord and one of the huge historical mysteries of early and medieval Britain. The Arthurian story, based on fact and fiction, is central to Britain's 'creation myth' and the concept of Britain's heroic past.

Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world, with evidence of an original settlement dating back more than 4,000 years. Vitally important was the constant supply of water provided by the Gihon Spring, in a land that normally only experienced rainfall from November to March. Since then this Middle Eastern city has been attacked and devastated on numerous occasions.

The History of Jerusalem: Its Origins to the Early Middle Ages is the first of its kind to examine in detail the rich history of Jerusalem during antiquity up to the year 630 CE. This in-depth account goes further than other volumes in terms of the breadth and scale of events covered, and it will appeal to those looking for an unbiased, but critical appraisal of the colorful history of Jerusalem and the surrounding areas.

This is a deeply researched and scholarly but essentially accessible history and analysis for general readers and specialists and based on an impressive array of sources including Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, rare medieval English, French and German sources, and archaeology - essential for modern historical research in early history. Modern and contemporary historiography is covered including 'debunking' treatments. The study surveys King Arthur in fact and fiction, his family, knights, and the legends that have grown up around them and developed to the enduring interest from history, literature to TV and film.

Climate Change An Archaeological Study How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Responded to Global Warming John D Grainger $42.95 • Hardback • 224 pages 6x9.25 100 color & black and white illustrations Currently Available • SCI092000 978-1-52-678654-8

Global warming is among the most urgent problems facing the world today.

Yet many commentators, and even some scientists, discuss it with reference only to the changing climate of the last century or so. John Grainger takes a longer view and draws on the archaeological evidence to show how our ancestors faced up to the ending of the last Ice Age, arguably a more dramatic climate change crisis than the present one. Ranging from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic, the author shows how human ingenuity and resourcefulness allowed them to adapt to the changing conditions in a variety of ways as the ice sheets retreated and water levels rose. Different strategies, from big game hunting on the ice, nomadic hunter gathering, sedentary foraging and finally farming, were developed in various regions in response to local conditions as early man colonized the changing world. The human response to climate change was not to try to stop it, but to embrace technology and innovation to cope with it.

The Forgotten Slave Trade The White European Slaves of Islam Simon Webb $39.95 • Hardback • 208 pages 6x9.25 20 black and white illustrations Currently Available • HIS010000 978-1-52-676926-8

Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade, which saw black Africans snatched from their homes, taken across the Atlantic Ocean and then sold into slavery. However, a century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa where they were sold to the highest bidder. This is the forgotten slave trade; one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world.

Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean.

Reading this book will forever change how you view the slave trade.

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Pen & Sword z History Sister Sleuths

Following Nellie Bly

Female Detectives in Britain

Her RecordBreaking Race Around the World

Nell Darby Trailblazing Women$29.95 • Paperback 216 pages • 6x9.25 20 black and white illustrations • March 2021 • HIS058000 978-1-52-678025-6

The 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective.

To divorce, you needed proof of adultery - and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning secrets and finding evidence. Whereas previously, women had been informal snoops within their communities, now they were getting paid for it.

Over the course of the next century, women became increasingly confident in gaining work as private detectives, moving from largely unrecognized helpers to the police, to becoming owners of their own detective agencies.

Rosemary J Brown Trailblazing Women •$34.95 • Hardback 184 pages • 6x9.25 20 black and white illustrations • May 2021 BIO022000 • 978-1-52-676140-8

Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a ‘man’s world’ to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in 72 days, and became a global celebrity. Although best known for her record-breaking journey, even more importantly Nellie Bly pioneered investigative journalism and paved the way for women in the newsroom.

Adventurer, journalist and author, Rosemary J Brown, set off 125 years later to retrace Nellie Bly’s footsteps.

The Fearless Victorian Adventurer Jacki Hill-Murphy Trailblazing Women •$39.95 • Hardback 176 pages • 6x9.25 25 black and white illustrations • April 2021 BIO022000 • 978-1-52-676324-2

Isabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad.'Transformed by distant lands, she crossed raging floods, rode elephants, cows and yak, clung to her horse's neck as it clambered down cliff paths, slept on simple mats on the bare ground, unable to change out of wet clothes or get out of the searing heat.

Her travels and the books she wrote about them show courage and tenacity, fueled by a restless spirit and a love of nature.

Seeking Sanctuary

Broadmoor Revealed

Heroes of the RNLI

A History of Refugees in Britain

Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

The Storm Warriors

Jane Marchese Robinson

Mark Stevens

$29.95 • Paperback 208 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • Currently Available • HIS015000 978-1-52-673961-2

$29.95 • Paperback 192 pages • 6x9.25 20 black and white illustrations Currently Available • MED039000 978-1-52-679647-9

Seeking Sanctuary explores the history of people looking for refuge in this country. It starts with those Protestant refugees fleeing oppression and persecution from Catholic Spain who ruled the Netherlands in the 16th century. It traces successive waves of peoples in the context of why they fled. At various times this was due to religious persecution, political upheaval, war and ethnic cleansing.

Glimpse what went on behind the walls of England's first Criminal Lunatic Asylum!

Mark Stevens reveals what life was like for the criminally insane over one hundred years ago.

From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the lost lives of patients whose mental illnesses led them to become involved in crime.

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The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird

Martyn R Beardsley $32.95 • Paperback 272 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • January 2021 HIS015050 • 978-1-52-672576-9

Whenever vessels have foundered off the coasts of Britain, there have always been those willing to give their all to save those in peril. But in 1823, Sir William Hillary decided that this admirable but impromptu approach was not enough. He believed that many more lives could be saved by the establishment of a national, organized rescue service. His idea was realized the following year with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Using information gleaned from archives, contemporary newspaper accounts and genealogical records, this book looks not just at the details of the rescues, but into the people behind them.

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Pen & Sword Historyz••Pen z & Sword Military The Adventures of a Victorian Con Woman

A Century of Female Revolution

The Life and Crimes of Mrs Gordon Baillie

From Peterloo to Parliament

Mick Davis David Lassman

Glynis Cooper $29.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 6x9.25 25 black and white illustrations January 2021 HIS058000 978-1-52-673921-6

$39.95 • Hardback • 264 pages 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO022000 978-1-52-676486-7

Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as Annie, was born in the direst poverty in 1848.

Illegitimate and illiterate, her beauty and intelligence nevertheless enabled her to overcome her circumstances and become a charming and wealthy socialite living a life of luxury while raising money for worthy causes and charitable works.

Behind her supposed perfect and contented life, however, lay one of the most notorious and compulsive swindlers of the Victorian Age. During her life she used more than 40 aliases, produced four children and spent her way through millions in ill-gotten wealth. But at the turn of the twentieth century, her notoriety was such that she took refuge in America and disappeared from history.

Jean, Lady Hamilton, 1861–1941 Diaries of A Soldier's Wife Celia Lee $49.95 • Hardback 400 pages • 6x9.25 18 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO022000 978-1-52-678658-6

Jean, Lady Hamilton’s diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London, for fifty years.

The story begins with the young couples’ wedding, a dazzling bride, Jean Muir, marrying a star-struck Major Ian Hamilton. The daughter of the millionaire businessman Sir John Muir, Jean had all the money whilst Hamilton was penniless.

Winston Churchill iwas like family in the Hamiltons’ home, he used to go there and practice his speeches, and painted alongside Jean to whom he sold his first painting.

The 100 years from 1819-1919 were the most remarkable in the history of womankind. In 1819 women had no rights, no status, no options, no votes. By 1919 they had achieved full legal rights and status; the doors of education, equality and professions had been thrown open to them; they had proved that they could do any job a man could do, and most importantly they had achieved universal suffrage.

Women became involved in reform groups, Chartism, trade unions, politics, education, career opportunities and the right to vote, although they encountered fierce hostility and opposition from both men and their own sex. Perseverance paid off. Women finally gained their equal opportunities, winning the right to vote as a reward for their major contribution to the Great War.

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu

Unmarried Women of the Country Estate Four Stories from 17th-20th Century

Scientist and Feminist Jo Willett $49.95 • Hardback • 288 pages • 6x9.25 30 black and white illustrations • May 2021 BIO022000 • 978-1-52-677938-0

300 years ago, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador. She also knew that by inoculating - making her daughter the first person protected in the West - she would face opposition from doctors, politicians and clerics. Her courageous action eventually led to the eradication of smallpox and the prevention of millions of deaths.

Charlotte Furness $24.95 • Paperback • 192 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • May 2021 HIS058000 • 978-1-52-675759-3

As the fight for women’s rights continues, and while 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.

This book is unique in that it brings the stories of real historical women to light – some of which have never been written about before, while also offering an introduction to the history of marriage and societal expectations of women.

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Pen & SwordzTrue • z Crime/ Transport London's Armed Police

Facing the Yorkshire Ripper

Up Close and Personal

The Art of Survival

Stephen Smith

Mo Lea

$49.95 • Paperback 312 pages • 6.5x9.5 • 100 color illustrations Currently Available • HIS027000 978-1-39-900496-1 Stephen Smith lives in New York, NY

$39.95 • Hardback 176 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • BIO038000 978-1-52-677757-7

Come on a journey with veteran firearms officer, Stephen Smith as he goes behind the scenes of the Met’s Specialist Firearms Unit, CO19.

This book covers events from the controversial shooting of Azelle Rodney in 2005 and Mark Duggan in 2011, right up to the outrageous terrorists attacks on Westminster, London Bridge and Borough Market.

London’s Armed Police is a must have for anyone with an interest in modern policing or police firearms matters.

Mo Lea was followed home and attacked by Peter Sutcliffe, who hit her over the head repeatedly with a hammer. She was stabbed with a screwdriver leaving her with life threatening injuries. The book reveals how Mo has wrestled with the past, struggling to come to terms with the well-trodden, morbid narrative. She has written a new, fresh perspective for the present day.

Her writing offers an alternative account, one which repositions her as a survivor with a success story. While sympathy has its place for the victims, this book gives insight into processes of recovery and success.

The Racetrack Gangs

Classic Car Gallery

Four Decades of Doping, Intimidation and Violent Crime

A Journey Through Motoring History

Dick Kirby

Lance Cole $52.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 11.5x9.75 250 color and black and white images January 2021 • TRA001010 • 978-1-52-674911-6

$29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • TRU003000 978-1-52-677872-7

Between the two World Wars, there was a dramatic upsurge of violence as rival criminal gangs vied for rich pickings from bookmakers at racetracks throughout England.

With ready access to cash, ‘bookies’ were a magnet for mobsters’ blackmailing demands.

Refusal to pay resulted in severe punishment.

Their justified fears spawned a ready ‘protection’ market .

This well researched and gripping account describes the vicious dramas played out in the 1920s and 1930s.

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250 color and black and white images populate an odyssey across a landscape of cars in an interesting format that pitches multimillion dollar cars alongside more humble names. Seen on the move and static, Lance Cole’s photographs capture the essence of metal sculpture, light falling upon paint and form, and the design hallmarks of old cars prior to the age of digital design authoritarianism when so many cars look similar.

If you love patina, paint, and leather, all captured across vintage, veteran, and classic metal, then Classic Car Gallery is a rare memento of the cars of yesteryear seen in the celebration of their today.

Undercover Policing and the Corrupt Secret Society Within Garry Rogers Keith Potter $49.95 • Hardback • 328 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations Currently Available • TRU003000 978-1-52-677539-9

Garry Rogers played a key role in one of the UK’s most successful undercover policing operations, targeting the football hooliganism which blighted the game.

But after five years at the cutting edge of covert operations, and with a new, inexperienced and ultimately corrupt officer in charge of the unit, Garry found himself dangerously exposed to violent criminals living just minutes from his family home. And when he turned to the force for support he was met with a wall of silence.

Boat Trains - The English Channel and Ocean Liner Specials History, Development and Operation Martyn Pring $70 • Hardback • 384 pages • 6.5x9.5 119 color and 118 b&w photographs, illustrations, maps and posters.

Currently Available • TRA004010 978-1-52-676192-7

While some railway operations were dedicated to emigrant traffic, continental and ocean liner boat trains were also synonymous with the most glamorous travel services ever choreographed by shipping lines and railway companies working closely in tandem. This well illustrated book explores the many functions of boat train travel.

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A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture Love at First Bite Violet Fenn $34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6x9.25 30 black and white illustrations • May 2021 SOC022000 • 978-1-52-677662-4

Our enduring love of vampires - the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy - has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless killers, vampire stories commonly carry erotic overtones that are missing from other paranormal or horror stories.

Even when monstrous teeth are sinking into pale, helpless throats - especially then - vampires are sexy. But why? In A History Of The Vampire In Popular Culture, author Violet Fenn takes the reader through the history of vampires in ‘fact’ and fiction, their origins in mythology and literature and their enduring appeal on TV and film. We’ll delve into the sexuality - and sexism - of vampire lore, as well as how modern audiences still hunger for a pair of sharp fangs in the middle of the night.

A History of the Undead

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

Mummies, Vampires and Zombies

Angela Youngman

Charlotte Booth $28.95 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6x9.25 30 black and white illustrations • March 2021 SOC022000 • 978-1-52-676906-0

Are you a fan of the undead? Watch lots of Mummy, zombie and vampire movies and TV shows? Have you ever wondered if they could be 'real'?

This book, A History of the Undead, unravels the truth behind these popular reanimated corpses.

Starting with the common representations in Western Media through the decades, we go back in time to find the origins of the myths.

Using a combination of folklore, religion and archaeological studies we find out the reality behind the walking dead. You may be surprised at what you find.

$34.95 • Hardback • 176 pages • 6x9.25 20 black and white illustrations • May 2021 LIT004120 • 978-1-52-678581-7

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone has investigated the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story and the way Alice has been transformed over the years.

This is the Alice of horror films, Halloween, murder and mystery, spectral ghosts, political satire, mental illnesses, weird feasts, Lolita, Tarot, pornography and steampunk. The Beatles based famous songs such as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and I am the Walrus on Alice in Wonderland, while she has even attracted the attention of world-famous artists including Salvador Dali. Take a look at why the Japanese version of Lolita is so different to that of novelist Vladimir Nabokov - yet both are based on Alice.

This is Alice in Wonderland as you have never seen her before: a dark, sometimes menacing, and threatening character.

Was Carroll all that he seemed? The stories of his child friends, nude photographs and sketches affect the way modern audiences look at the writer. Was he just a lonely academic, closet pedophile, brilliant puzzle maker or even Jack the Ripper?

For a book that began life as a simple children’s story, it has resulted in a vast array of dark concepts, ideas and mysteries. So step inside the world of Alice in Wonderland and discover a dark side you never knew existed!

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Penguin Random z • z House South Africa The Land Wars

The Rise and Fall of the ANC Youth League

The Dispossession of the Khoisan and amaXhosa in the Cape Colony

Rebone Tau

John Laband

$12 • Paperback • 188 pages • 5.3x8.2 Currently Available • HIS047000 978-1-77-609370-0

$18.50 • Paperback • 356 pages 6x9.2 • 8 pages of color photographs Currently Available • HIS047000 978-1-77-609499-8

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country’s colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution are based on this loss. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is remarkably sketchy. This book recounts an important part of this history, describing how the Khoisan and Xhosa people were dispossessed and subjugated from the time that Europeans first arrived until the end of the Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1878).

The Land Wars is an epic story, featuring well-known figures such as Ngqika, Lord Charles Somerset and his son, Henry, Andries Stockenström, Hintsa, Harry Smith, Sandile, Maqoma, Bartle Frere and Sarhili, and events such as the arrival of the 1820 Settlers and the Xhosa cattlekilling It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand South Africa’s past and present.

The Accidental Mayor

My Only Story The Hunt For A Serial Paedophile

Herman Mashaba and the Battle for Johannesburg

Deon Wiggett

Michael Beaumont

$18 • Paperback • 224 pages • 6x9.2 June 2021 • BIO026000 978-1-77-609560-5

Deon Wiggett’s series of sensational podcasts shook South Africa in November 2019, when he revealed the identity of the man who raped him as a schoolboy.

Now, in My Only Story, Deon tells the full story of the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of ‘Jimmy,' the once brilliant teacher and later media luminary who led a sinister and predatory double life. Deon’s mission to expose his abuser takes him from the perpetrator’s high-school years at an agricultural school to his eventual arrest in Hartenbos in the Western Cape. Deon follows the trail from the highly regarded Grey College and Paul Roos Gymnasium to media titan Naspers. In the process, he devises a model that anyone can use to identify pedophiles in their midst. In Deon’s own words: "It’s nice to pretend that men don’t rape children, but once you know what to look for, it becomes surprisingly easy to spot them. Once you match a universal pattern with a specific man’s profile, what once was hidden becomes obvious."

My Only Story is a riveting account of one man’s struggle to overcome childhood trauma, to help others who might face the same ordeal, and to bring his abuser to justice.

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What were the origins of the ANC Youth League, where has it gone wrong and how can it once again become an organization that represents and supports South Africa’s youth? For most of its existence, the ANC Youth League has played a powerful role in the politics of the ANC, and therefore of South Africa. In this book, former Youth League member Rebone Tau tells the story of the league, from its formation in Soweto in 1944 to its banning, reconstitution and current standing, highlighting key incidents that led to the organization’s rise and fall. The book explores the radicalizing role played by the league’s early leaders; the formation of the ANC Youth and Students Section in exile, first led by Thabo Mbeki; the return from exile in the 1990s and the leadership of Peter Mokaba; the controversies around the presidency of Julius Malema and his subsequent sacking; and the absence of Youth League leadership in the #FeesMustFall movement and current South African politics. Finally, the book considers the role that the Youth League could play in the future.

$17 • Paperback • 244 pages • 6x9.2 Currently Available • BIO010000 978-1-77-609554-4

In August 2016, well-known South African businessman Herman Mashaba became mayor of Johannesburg, heading a razor-thin DA-led coalition in the city. Three years later, in October 2019, he resigned from the party and from his position as mayor. At the time, Mashaba’s approval rating stood at almost 70 percent and there were calls in overwhelming numbers for him to stay. In this explosive tell-all, his chief of staff, Michael Beaumont, reveals the real story behind these events.

The Accidental Mayor considers the achievements, challenges and controversies of Mashaba’s time in office, and describes what went on behind the scenes in the city and in the multiparty coalition. What was discovered about the previous government’s looting of Johannesburg? How did the ANC take to being in opposition? How challenging was it to work with the EFF? Which party proved the most difficult coalition partner? All these questions and more are explored in detail.

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The Sasol Larger Mindful Eating 78 Recipes to Cook Your Way to Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa Better Health Izelle Hoffman (Revised Edition) Ian Sinclair Phil Hockey

$23.50 • Paperback • 176 pages • 7.9x9.6 80 color photographs • Currently Available CKB039000 • 978-1-43-231052-3

$29 • Paperback • 488 pages • 6.92x9.8 3000 full color illustrations (plates) Currently Available • NAT043000 978-1-77-584730-4

Izelle Hoffman is on a mission to change perceptions about food and to increase awareness of the benefits of eating the right foods and choosing a life of health and wellness. Did you know, for instance, that the humble sweet potato contains anti-inflammatory properties and regulates blood sugar levels? And that raw honey isn’t simply a sweetener – it has anti-fungal and anti-viral properties as well?

This larger edition is based on the updated and expanded fifth edition of the authoritative Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, which has been brought fully up to date by an expert panel of ornithologists, with additional contributions from two new birding experts. Greatly enhanced, this comprehensive, best-selling guide is sure to maintain its place as one of Africa’s most trusted field guides. It offers: • New ‘bird-call’ feature – access calls by scanning barcodes with a free downloadable call app.

• More than 800 new illustrations, including all-new plates for raptors and seabirds.

• Comprehensive coverage of all 989 of southern Africa’s birds, including latest species records.

• Redesigned plates with diagnostic features noted.

• Calendar bars depicting species’ occurrence and breeding periods.

• Fully updated species accounts and distribution maps.

• Fresh input from new contributing authors and illustrators.

• Alphabetical and illustrated quick references to bird groups.

Solomon the Lion Kristina Jones $9 • Hardback • 36 pages • 9.4x9.4 36 illustrations • Currently Available JUV002150 • 978-1-43-231043-1 Kristina Jones lives in New Jersey

Solomon is a young lion who just can’t fall asleep. He tries sleeping in a tree, like a bat, but that’s not quite right. He tries to snooze in a pond with the hippos, but that doesn’t work either. Finally, Solomon realizes that it’s not where you sleep that matters, but who tucks you in at night. In this picture book, fabric art replaces conventional illustrations, while the use of shweshwe fabric plays homage to Africa’s rich tradition of storytelling.

In Mindful Eating, Izelle encourages you to rethink what you put in your body in a fun, healthy way and demonstrates that living a healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean that your diet needs to be boring and restricted, especially where vegetables are concerned. By sharing her recipes for energizing breakfasts, quick weekday meals, sweet baked goodies, classics with a healthy (Izelle-approved) twist, and family favorites, among others, Izelle aims to help you take back control of your well being. Packed with delicious, nutritious, and deceptively simple recipes, Mindful Eating is more than a cookbook, it is an inspirational and motivational guide to leading a healthy lifestyle through good eating.

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z Polaris At the End of the Storm Stories from Liverpool's Historic Title Win James Pearce Oliver Kay $24.95 • Hardback • 352 pages • 6.15x9.2 16pp color plates • Currently Available SPO040000 • 978-1-91-353827-9

As Liverpool ended their 30-year wait to be crowned champions of England, they were followed by their equivalent from the world of sports writing: a team of elite talents, assembled to leave all competition trailing in their wake. This is the story of Liverpool’s title win in the longest season, as told by the writers of The Athletic, with their blend of inside access and expert analysis; great ideas and beautiful writing.

Read the stories behind a unique and historical season from a team of writers every bit as good as the footballers they were following.

Behind the Silver Fern

Behind the Lions

The All Blacks in their Own Words

Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions

Tony Johnson Lynn McConnell

Stephen Jones Nick Cain

$18.95 • Paperback 400 pages • 6.15x9.2 • color throughout January 2021 • SPO056000 978-1-91-353820-0

$18.95 • Paperback 400 pages • 6.15x9.2 • color throughout January 2021 • SPO056000 978-1-91-353817-0

Go behind the scenes with the world’s most successful sports team. This is a complete history of rugby’s most famous yet enigmatic team, the New Zealand All Blacks, told by the men who have had the honor of wearing the iconic black jersey.

Thanks to exhaustive archival research and exclusive new material garnered from a vast array of interviews with players and coaches from across the decades, Behind the Silver Fern unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for the team that has dominated Test match rugby for over a century.

Behind the Lions sees rugby writers from across the Home Nations delve to the heart of what it means to be a Lion, interviewing a vast array of former and current players to uncover the passion, pride and exhilaration experienced when wearing the famous red jersey. It is a tale of heartbreak and ecstasy, humor and poignancy that is at once inspirational, moving and utterly compelling. This is the story of the British & Irish Lions in their own words.

Ken Scotland

Cricket 2.0 Inside the T20 Revolution

The Autobiography

Tim Wigmore Freddie Wilde

Ken Scotland Allan Massie

$21.95 • Paperback 320 pages • 6.15x9.2 color throughout Currently Available SPO054000

$28.95 • Hardback 380 pages • 6.15x9.45 16pp b/w plates • Currently Available BIO016000 • 978-1-91-353803-3

978-1-91-353807-1

A prodigious talent, Ken Scotland played in five Tests for the Lions and won a total of twenty-seven caps for his country before retiring in 1965 with a reputation as one of the finest players ever to play for Scotland well established.

He would continue to play club rugby for several years afterwards while enjoying a successful business career.

At eighty-three he has finally decided to tell his life story. Working with Allan Massie, he has created a rich and powerful testimony to his life and rugby career, throwing new light on his own achievements as well as providing fresh insight the great players of his era. It is as fascinating as it is evocative of a time and a game long past and a must-read for rugby fans of all generations.

Cricket 2.0 is the multi award-winning story of how an old, traditional game was revolutionized by a new format: Twenty20 cricket.

Using exclusive interviews with over 80 leading players and coaches, Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde chronicle this revolution with insight, forensic analysis and storytelling verve. In the process, they reveal how cricket has been transformed, both on and off the field.

Told with vivid clarity and insight, this is the extraordinary and previously misunderstood story of Twenty20, how it is reshaping the sport – and what the future of cricket will look like.

Readers will never watch a T20 game in quite the same way again.

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Thunderbook The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod John Rain $24.95 • Hardback 396 pages • 5.45x8.5 16pp color plates May 2021 • PER004000 • 978-0-95-750766-1

The Bond films have entertained, excited and sometimes irritated cinemagoers for more than fifty years, inspiring awe and adoration around the world for the inimitable 007.

In 007’s world of sexy espionage, there are international criminal organizations to infiltrate, henchmen to outsmart and endless one-liners to crack. This unofficial dossier of Bond’s best moments is an affectionately irreverent take on the spine-tingling highs and jaw-dropping lows of the greatest (and sometimes worst) spy in movie history.

So fire up the Aston Martin DB5, dust off your jetpack and ask Moneypenny to hold your calls – John Rain is taking us on a journey through each of the twenty-four films to date.

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z Polaris Polygon NineteenEighty Four

The Only Gaijin in the Village

The Jura Edition

Iain Maloney

George Orwell Alex Massie

$18.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 5.3x8.45 • Currently Available BIO026000 • 978-1-84-697514-1

$13.95 • Paperback • 368 pages 5.1x7.8 • March 2021 • FIC004000 978-1-84-697576-9

The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother.

Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion.

It is here that he meets and falls in love with Julia. They start a secret, forbidden affair - but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.

In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfill his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the village.

Even after more than a decade living in Japan and learning the language, life in the countryside was a culture shock. Iain’s attempts at amateur farming, basic gardening and DIY are conducted under the watchful eye of his neighbors and wife. But curtain twitching is the least of his problems. The threat of potential missile strikes and earthquakes is nothing compared to the venomous snakes, terrifying centipedes and bees the size of small birds that stalk Iain’s garden.

Told with self-deprecating humor, this memoir gives a fascinating insight into a side of Japan rarely seen and affirms the positive benefits of immigration for the individual and the community. It’s not always easy being the only gaijin in the village.

And My Heart Crumples Like a Coke Can

Agnes Owens

Ali Whitelock

$21.95 • Paperback • 498 pages 5.1x7.8 • Currently Available FIC029000 • 978-1-84-697560-8

$13.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 5.1x7.8 • July 2021 • POE024000 978-1-84-697519-6

This humorous, accessible collection explores a diverse range of themes: death, infidelity, politics, homesickness, racism, humanity as well as every day life. The topics, found within the lines of this book, are portrayed with such humor and warmth they will delight, shock and amuse readers in equal measure. Reading this collection has been described as, ‘feeling like I was at a book festival, stand-up comedy night and therapy session all at once. Every poem is an event.’ Kevin MacNeil, author of The Brilliant & Forever, A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde and The Stornoway Way. Raw, beautiful and completely devoid of pretension, Ali Whitelock’s poems will speak to anyone who’s ever messed up, been confused or wished they’d done things differently.

The Complete Novellas Agnes Owens

This complete collection of Agnes Owens’ five novellas opens with Like Birds in the Wilderness, a portrait of brickie Mac. He’s a straightforward guy with a talent for laying bricks and a liking for the drink who decides to head to the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. A Working Mother is a wildly entertaining cautionary tale: while Betty’s husband Adam broods and drinks (to be matched at times by Betty, just to be sociable) she flirts with their best friend Brendan and tries to avoid the roving hands of her new employer. They’re all driving Betty crazy. In For the Love of Willie Owens takes a sensitive, canny look at wartime teenage pregnancy – as relevant now as ever.

Bad Attitudes and Jen’s Party conclude the collection: both deadly, darkly funny stories about family relationships and love on the dole.

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z Protea Boekhuis • Salmon Poetry • Schreiber Publishing Masked Raiders

The Opportunist

Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1890-1899

The Political Life of Oswald Pirow, 1915–1959

Charles van Onselen

F.A. (Alex) Mouton

$29.50 • Paperback • 264 pages 6x8.7 • 20 b/w • Currently Available HIS047000 • 978-1-48-531160-7 Protea Boekhuis

$28.50 • Paperback • 260 pages 5.4x8.4 • 8 b/w • Currently Available BIO010000 • 978-1-48-531169-0 Schreiber Publishing

Masked Raiders follows the wild exploits of legendary brigands like the McKeone brothers and ‘One Armed Jack’ McLoughlin, who ravaged the subcontinent, from the mining towns of Barberton, Kimberley and Johannesburg, to the borders of Basotholand, Bechuanaland, Mozambique and Rhodesia. With tales of heists, safecracking, illegal gold dealings, prison breaks and hidden roadside treasure, the book reveals the potency of the highveld’s ‘criminal heroes.' Startling insights also reveal how the hidden grammar of brigandage informed political actions of the day, such as the Jameson Raid, and how the movement of bandits across the interior helped shape the borders of what was to become modern South Africa.

Oswald Pirow (1890–1959) served as Minister of Defence under the nationalist Hertzog coalition. He famously prosecuted Nelson Mandela in the Treason Trial. Mouton looks at his life and explores his burning ambition to become prime minister, his ruthless ability to adjust his sails to prevailing political winds and his willingness to take risks to satisfy his political ambitions.

Pathogens Love A Patsy

Dictionary of Jewish Terms

Pandemic and Other Poems

A Guide to the Language of Judaism

Rita Ann Higgins

Ronald L. Eisenberg

$14.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 5.3x8.5 • Currently Available POE005020 • 978-1-91-256190-2 Salmon Poetry

$26.50 • Paperback • 516 pages • 6x9 April 2021 • REF008000 978-0-88-400352-6 Schreiber Publishing

In Pathogens Love A Patsy, Rita Ann Higgins bears witness to a moment in Irish life unlike any seen in a century: the Covid-19 crisis. Many of these pandemic poems, broadcast on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio 1 show, were composed weekly in direct response to the emerging crisis.

At the center of the collection, a devastating sequence celebrates the memory of Hanna Greally, wrongfully incarcerated in an Irish psychiatric hospital for almost two decades. Then, completing an informal triptych, a selection of work written before the emergency marks the point when everything changed.

Rita Ann Higgins’s wry, conversational style serves a serious purpose: to tell it like it is. Together, the poems in Pathogens Love a Patsy form a narrative that spans eighty years, from a past that is still being addressed, to a present moment that is still unfolding.

Judaism is comprised of religious terms and customs, Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish terms as well as terms related to American Jewish life and the State of Israel. All of these facets of Judaism are represented in this new guide, with an easy to read explanation and cross-references.

This dictionary also encompasses the Sabbath and festivals, which form the basis of the Jewish year, and the mitzvot, which detail the prescribed daily activities and the ethical value system that are the essence of traditional Jewish behavior. In addition, it describes the distinctive symbols and customs of Judaism, as well as some terms associated with modern Israel. All of this and much more can be found among the more than 2,500 entries.

This dictionary is designed to be a valuable resource for all Jews who want to be more knowledgeable about the vocabulary of their traditions, as well as for non-Jews who want to gain an understanding of the terminology of Judaism.

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From the author: “Pirow was an intriguing personality. He was ambitious, highly intelligent, cynical, charismatic, competent, energetic, a brilliant orator and an outstanding government minister. The political life of Pirow is the story of a gifted person who through opportunism wrecked a promising career.”

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Sandstone z • z Press The Secret Life of the Otter Gordon Buchanan

Andy Howard

$34.99 • Hardback • 208 pages • 9.6x9.6 July 2021 • NAT019000 • 978-1-91-320741-0

Otters are among Britain’s most popular and endearing wild creatures. Made famous by literary phenomenon Ring of Bright Water, they have taken the place in the hearts of the British people. Previously threatened, their survival is now as assured as that of any wildlife can be.

Andy Howard has been photographing them for more than a decade, especially on the Isle of Mull, Shetland, and Vancouver Island in Canada. His stunning photography will amaze and enlighten.

His story will be reread many times.

Finer Things

The Munros in Winter

David Wharton

277 Summits in 83 Days

$11.99 • Paperback 288 pages • 5.1x7.7 Currently Available FIC014000 978-1-91-224068-5

London: 1963. The lives of a professional shoplifter and a young art student collide.

Delia must atone for a terrible mistake; Tess is desperate to be a real artist. With the threat of the criminal underworld encroaching, only their friendship can save them from disaster.

Along the Amber Route

We Don’t Die of Love

St. Petersburg to Venice

$11.99 • Paperback 256 pages • 5.1x7.7 Currently Available FIC045010 978-1-91-224074-6

C. J. Schüler $24.99 • Hardback 320 pages • 6.5x9.4 • Currently Available HIS010000 • 978-1-91-224091-3

Portable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity. C.J. Schüler follows the historic Amber Route from St Petersburg to Venice through three millennia of history.

Schüler traveled by bus, train and boat for 2,500 kilometers along river valleys, forest paths and Roman roads. His journey traces both the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and his own family’s history. As he explores Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his own family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.

Martin Moran Joy Moran $13.99 • Paperback 256 pages • 5.1x7.7 fully illustrated March 2021 • BIO016000 • 978-1-91-320738-0

The first round of the Munros in winter in a single journey was accomplished by Martin Moran 1984, supported by his new wife, Joy. Martin’s account of the adventure has since become a Scottish outdoor classic. This reissue is awaited by a substantial section of the outdoor/ mountaineering market.

Tell Me Where You Are

Stephen May

She loves you. She respects you. She just can’t stay married to you.

Luke Greenwood is in crisis. His wife of 32 years, Selena, is leaving him for a much younger man.

Then local gangsters set their sights on his café and take an interest in what’s left of his family.

Moira Forsyth $11.99 • Paperback 352 pages • 5.1x7.7 Currently Available FIC045020 978-1-91-224060-9

Maybe the worst thing hadn’t happened yet. You couldn’t know the awful things lined up in the future, looming.

The last thing Frances wants is a phone call from Alec, the husband who left her for her sister thirteen years ago. But Susan has disappeared, abandoning Alec and her daughter Kate, a surly teenager with an explosive secret. Reluctantly, Frances is drawn into her sister’s turbulent life.

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White z Owl 101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space

Yearbook of Astronomy 2021

Mark Thompson

Brian Jones

$24.95 • Paperback • 184 pages 6.5x9.5 • 100 color & black and white illustrations • January 2021 SCI004000 • 978-1-52-676650-2

$32.95 • Paperback • 384 pages 6x8.25 80 color & black and white illustrations Currently Available • SCI004000 978-1-52-677187-2

Did you know a compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun? Or that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate?

Maybe you have not been into space but if you have then you will know that astronauts have feet as soft as babies! 101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space takes you on a wild journey around the Universe bringing you facts galore. Whether you are a space enthusiast or a newcomer you will find plenty of facts in here to keep you amused and entertained.

Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2021 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year’s eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of the planets throughout the year.

The Yearbook of Astronomy made its first appearance way back in 1962, shortly after the dawning of the Space Age. Now well into its sixth decade of production, the Yearbook is rapidly heading for its Diamond Jubilee edition in 2022. It continues to be essential reading for anyone lured and fascinated by the magic of astronomy and who has a desire to extend their knowledge of the Universe and the wonders it plays host to. The Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed an inspiration to amateur and professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the bookshelves of all stargazers and watchers of the Universe.

The Architecture Lover's Guide to Paris

The Golf Lover's Guide to England

Ruby Boukabou

City Guides •$26.95 • Paperback 248 pages • 5.6x7.6 • 120 color illustrations • Currently Available SPO016000 • 978-1-52-675632-9

Michael Whitehead

$26.95 • Paperback • 200 pages 5.6x7.6 • 64 color illustrations May 2021 • TRV009050 978-1-52-677997-7

Unlock the secrets of Paris’s charm with this handy visual guidebook. Learn the history of the city’s most famous landmarks, grasp their fascinating details and discover dozens of lesser known architectural gems. Whether you are a Paris regular or visiting for the first time, this guide will help you understand how the city acquired its unique and beautiful design palette and recommend ways to experience it more fully with self-guided walking tours and suggestions of some of the best hotels, restaurants, cafés, churches, parks and more. You’ll also discover ancient Roman baths, seventeenth century mansions, Art Deco theaters, contemporary cultural complexes and find out where to kick back, cocktail or mock-tail in hand, with a panoramic view over the capital. Written by Ruby Boukabou, author of The Art Lover’s Guide to Paris, and part-time Parisian, this book is the perfect companion for anybody intrigued by Paris’s seductive magic.

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Blessed with a rich and varied landscape, England has a prolific collection of coastal links and inland courses created by some of golf’s most cherished craftsmen; Sunningdale (Park Jr. & Holt), Walton Heath (Fowler), St Enodoc (Braid), Alwoodley and Moortown (MacKenzie) to name just a few.

This guide offers a golfer everything they would require to enjoy a great round of golf at the best courses England has to offer. All the information you need is right here - par scores, yardage, green-fee price indicators, booking procedure, history of each club and how best to play the course.

England is where golf’s greatest artists have gifted us moments to treasure for eternity. A young Ballesteros lifting the claret jug at Royal Lytham & St Annes, Bobby Jones storming to victory at Hoylake on his way to the grand slam, and who can ever forget Nicklaus and Jacklin bringing their titanic Ryder Cup battle to a close with a famous handshake at Royal Birkdale.

Sharing a border with its spiritual home, England is undoubtedly golf's exquisite front garden.

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Paint, Make, Create

Make Your Own Beer

Learn How to Mix Painting with Other Crafts to Create 20 Fun Seasonal Projects

A Guide to All Things Beer and How to Brew it Yourself

Becki Clark Crafts •$19.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 8.5x11 • 150 color illustrations • May 2021 CRA024000 • 978-1-52-679301-0

Paint, Make & Create showcases seasonal, multi-craft projects all woven together by painting. Designed for all abilities, the 20 engaging activities will guide you through the seasons and include working with clay, printing, collaging, sewing and embroidery with a fun and modern painterly twist.

Including a comprehensive guide to getting started with painting, Paint, Make & Create will help you develop an understanding of types of paints, surfaces, color palettes and mixing your own colors while also arming you with the tools and confidence to create your own original pieces. Drawing on author Becki’s vast experience in the creative world, alongside each project's step by step guide are helpful hints and tips, perfect for beginners wanting to experiment with paints.

Your creativity will flourish with each contemporary craft project, from creating painterly table settings for Summer gatherings right through to painting Christmas gifts and decorations.

John Shepherd Make Your Own •$26.95 • Paperback 104 pages • 8.5x10.8 • 120 color illustrations January 2021 • CKB007000 978-1-52-676997-8

Make Your Own Beer is an accessible and practical guide to home brewing, covering all aspects of the process, including equipment and the cost versus benefit of different types, beer styles and flavors, and an understanding of key, quality ingredients. Readers will gain the skills to brew a number of different styles of beers, taking satisfaction not only from the activity, but also from the end result.

Not just a dry step-by-step manual, Make Your Own Beer is a lighthearted, engaging guide for readers interested in brewing their own beer, and those simply interested in learning about the process. Illustrated with 120 photographs beautifully documenting the process in full color.

Make Your Own Indoor Garden How to Fill Your Home with Low Maintenance Greenery Sarah Durber Make Your Own •$26.95 • Paperback 112 pages • 8.5x10.8 • 120 color illustrations May 2021 • GAR010000 • 978-1-52-677458-3

This book aims to cover the most commonly asked questions by new plant owners and will help people who want to have more greenery in their lives but don’t know where to start. It will advise on the best plant for a variety of home conditions so that everyone should be able to find plants that suit their space.

Having and maintaining an indoor garden can be possible for anyone, the book will give you step-by-step guides to creating and designing your own terrariums, cacti & succulent gardens and even kokedamas (Japanese for Moss Ball). It includes descriptions of the equipment needed, and how to find this inexpensively so that the hobby is accessible to everyone. Readers of the book will discover a newfound joy of plants and nature as well as learn a brand-new skill.

The book goes into detail about what may be causing damage to a plant, and how to look after plants so that they last. It also focuses on how plants can improve physical and mental health, to encourage readers to fill their homes with greenery for practical and aesthetic reasons.

The innate human need to be around nature is called Biophilia, and this book will tap into that need without over complicating things, with the focus on low maintenance, good-looking greenery.

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zWhite • z Owl The History of Video Games

Dogs Working Origins and Traditional Tasks

Charlie Fish

Mike Loades

$34.95 • Hardback • 120 pages 8.25x11.5 • 150 color illustrations May 2021 • TEC056000 978-1-52-677897-0

Packed with pictures and stats, this book is for video gamers nostalgic for the good old days of gaming, and young gamers curious about how it all began. If you’ve ever enjoyed a video game, or you just want to see what all the fuss is about, this book is for you.

There are stories about the experimental games of the 1950s and 1960s; the advent of home gaming in the 1970s; the explosion – and implosion – of arcade gaming in the 1980s; the console wars of the 1990s; the growth of online and mobile games in the 2000s; and we get right up to date with the 2010s, including such cultural phenomena as twitch.tv, the Gamergate scandal, and Fortnite.

But rather than telling the whole story from beginning to end, each chapter covers the history of video games from a different angle: platforms and technology, people and personalities, companies and capitalism, gender and representation, culture, community, and finally the games themselves.

Mike Loades experiences what it is like to handle dogs engaged in their traditional tasks. These adventures take him to the Jordanian desert, where he shares the saddle of his camel with a Saluki and to the green hills of Wales, where he works cattle with a Corgi. He mushes Huskies in Alaska, drives carriages with Dalmatians and flies falcons with Spaniels. Each encounter not only highlights the bond between humans and dogs, it also frames that connection in its historical context. He delves into when, where and why they were first bred as the types we recognize today. The fascinating and engaging text is supported by over 250 stunning color photographs of dogs in action. It results in an illuminating journey through many cultures and time periods. This book is a personal and heartfelt tribute to the enduring partnership between humans and dogs.

Simply Sustainable Beauty

Gardening to Eat Connecting People and Plants

30 Recipes to Create Your New Head to Toe ZeroWaste Beauty Routine

Becky Dickinson $42.95 • Hardback • 152 pages 6.5x9.5 • 100 color illustrations April 2021 • GAR025000 978-1-52-675720-3

Emilie Woodger Smith

Embrace a plant-based lifestyle all the way from seed to plate. This inspiring and informative book takes the mystery out of gardening and reveals how to grow an array of fruits and vegetables using simple, organic techniques.

Packed with fresh ideas for turning homegrown produce into delicious, nutritious meals, you'll find heaps of no-nonsense recipes created for real people with busy lives and healthy appetites. No fads, no fuss, no fancy ingredients, just real, honest, ethical food.

With a passion for connecting people and plants, Gardening to Eat brings the garden into the kitchen. For people who love food and love to know where it's come from.

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$49.95 • Hardback • 352 pages 6.5x9.5 • 250 color illustrations Currently Available • PET004010 978-1-52-674230-8 Mike Loades lives in San Francisco, CA

$19.95 • Paperback • 176 pages 8.5x11 • 150 color illustrations May 2021 • HEA003000 978-1-52-679518-2

Simply Sustainable Beauty is a collection of easy to follow recipes for you to create your fresh, head to toe zero waste beauty routine.

Learn how to make everything from exfoliating scrubs to body butter, face wash bars to dry shampoo, Emilie’s amazing natural deodorant recipe and everything in between.

This book is full of simple recipes using sustainable, environmentally friendly ingredients to give you naturally beautiful skin.

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Stan Lee

The Real Hergé

The Real JRR Tolkien

How Marvel Changed The World

The Inspiration Behind Tintin

Adrian Mackinder

Sian Lye

The Man Who Created Middle-Earth

$29.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • May 2021 BIO007000 • 978-1-52-677134-6

$34.95 • Hardback • 216 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • January 2021 CGN007010 • 978-1-52-676390-7

Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World is not just another biography. It is a journey through twentieth century American history, seen through the life of a man who personified the American Dream.

Hergé created only twenty-four Tintin books which have been translated into more than seventy languages and sold 230 million copies worldwide.

This book shows how Stan Lee’s life reflects the evolution of American entertainment, society and popular culture throughout the 1900s and beyond. Along the way, bold questions will be asked. Was Stan Lee himself a superhuman creation, just a mask to protect his true, more complicated secret identity? Just like the vibrant panels of the comics he wrote, Lee’s life, it seems, is never black and white.

Sourced from Lee’s own words, this book also includes brand new and exclusive interviews with Marvel comic book creators, for whom Lee’s work proved an invaluable inspiration. Upbeat, accessible and fun, this book is told with a glint in the eye and a flair for the theatrical that would make Stan Lee proud.

The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin takes an in-depth look at the man behind the cultural phenomenon and the history that helped shape these books.

As well as focussing on the controversies that engulfed Hergé, this biography will also look at his personal life, as well as the relationships and experiences that influenced him.

Jesse Xander $34.95 • Hardback • 136 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • April 2021 BIO007000 • 978-1-52-676515-4

The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle Earth is a comprehensive biography of the linguist and writer; taking the reader from his formative years of home-schooling, through the spires of Oxford, to his romance with his wife-to-be on the brink of war, and onwards into his phenomenal academic success and his creation of the seminal high fantasy world of Middle Earth.

The Real JRR Tolkien delves into his influences, places, friendships, triumphs and tragedies, with particular emphasis on how his remarkable life and loves forged the worlds of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Using contemporary sources and comprehensive research, The Real JRR Tolkien offers a unique insight into the life and times of one of Britain's greatest authors, from cradle to grave to legacy.

This is a bold celebration of the power of storytelling and a fitting tribute to Stan Lee’s enduring legacy. Excelsior!

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White z Owl Liverpool The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives Anton Rippon $26.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • January 2021 SPO040000 • 978-1-52-676778-3

From John Houlding, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool who was the founder of the club in controversial circumstances, to their greatest manager Bill Shankly, and the great players who have worn the famous red shirt throughout its history, the in-depth stories of the characters – players and managers – 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 Life of a Sports Agent The Middleman Luke Sutton $24.95 • Paperback 128 pages • 6x9.25 January 2021 • SPO068000 978-1-52-673699-4

Having been a high profile sports agent for nearly 10 years, with clients such as James Anderson, Sam Quek, Nile Wilson, James Taylor, and Simon Mignolet, Luke Sutton has an incredible insight into the world of sports management across a number of areas. In his new book,The Life of a Sports Agent, Luke reveals stories and personal experiences about the sporting stars he has encountered, both the good and bad, and his very honest opinions about them.

This book also aims to give people a true look into how this mysterious industry works, and highlights the important lessons Luke has learned during his career. The Life of a Sports Agent follows Luke’s 2019 autobiography, Back from the Edge.

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How Money Changed Football From the Premier League to Non-League Philip Woods $39.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 6x9.25 32 black and white illustrations • May 2021 SPO040000 • 978-1-52-679590-8

This book looks at the financial gap in soccer, from the sad day in 2019 when Bury were thrown out the league to how the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City can spend hundreds of millions assembling a team. It focuses in on clubs who are run in the right way, to those that spend more than they earn and end up like Bury. Financial Fair Play has been bought in, but that hasn't stopped unscrupulous owners flouting the rules.

This book does not look to blame people, instead it's here to shed light on how soccer has become a game based around dollar bills instead of those who sing in the stands.

Mercedes Formula One Team The Domination of the Silver Arrow Philip Woods $49.95 • Hardback • 192 pages • 8.5x11 200 color illustrations • May 2021 • TRA001060 978-1-52-679594-6

Mercedes hit the ground running in 2014, creating an engine and chassis that worked in sweet harmony, blowing away the field winning more than 84% of the races. Since the start of 2014 they have won every drivers championship and every constructors championship.

This book celebrates Mercedes achievements with stats, information, interviews and most of all some beautiful images of perhaps that worlds greatest Formula One cars in action. A pictorial history of Mercedes Formula One Grand Prix victories. A chance to relive how two friends who grew up karting together would one day be creating history together.

Picking the Perfect Cricket Team

The Secret Lives of Garden Bees

Benedict Bermange

Jean Vernon

$29.95 • Paperback 136 pages • 6x9.25 15 color illustrations • Currently Available • SPO054000 • 978-1-52-676970-1

Everyone has always loved to rank sportsmen and which cricket fan hasn’t enjoyed picking their own teams and playing imaginary matches, using dice, cards, table-top games or computers?

In this book players are ranked, split according to their roles. Openers, middle-order batsmen, all-rounders, wicket-keepers, fast bowlers and slow bowlers are all selected in the same proportions in which they make up a team.

In a game awash with numbers, every cricket fan knows what 99.94 and 501 relate to. Some of the numbers explored here transcend the game itself and have become part of cricket’s long historical narrative. I guarantee your list would be different, so let the debates begin!

$29.95 • Paperback 192 pages • 6.8x9.6 Currently Available • NAT017000 978-1-52-676651-9

From the common or garden bumblebees that nest in bird boxes, compost heaps, and old mouse holes, to the quirky wool carder bee, a solitary bee that combs the fluff from garden plants to line her brood cells and the amazing leaf-cutter bee that carves chunks out of plant foliage to seal its egg chambers.

This book will reveal the secrets and fascinating lives of the bees that live and breed in your garden, from buzz pollination, to the bee robbers that cheat the plants and steal nectar by stealth.

With a seasonal guide to explore what you are likely to see in your garden, great plants to grow to help them, plus other fascinating information on these secretive creatures, this book is designed to bring alive the world of garden bees before your very eyes.

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Wordwell Books z Dublin Medieval Heritage Pat Dargan $20 • Paperback • 112 pages • 6.1x9.21 March 2021 • HIS018000 978-1-83-804167-0

The City and County of Dublin possesses a rich body of buildings that emerged during the Irish medieval period. This descriptive and highly illustrated work celebrates and explores the history and significance of a selected group of these buildings and their fascinating medieval heritage.

In the Vale of Tralee The Archaeology of the N22 Tralee Bypass Patricia Long Paul O'Keeffe $30 • Paperback • 210 pages 11.7x8.27 • March 2021 • SOC003000 978-1-91-163319-8

The urban area of Tralee is medieval in origin, while the surrounding countryside has a rich and varied cultural heritage dating from prehistoric times. The construction of the N22 Tralee Bypass and the Tralee to Bealagrellagh Link Road provided a rare opportunity to explore this heritage through large-scale archaeological investigation, the results of which are presented in this volume.

The Town in Medieval Ireland In the Light of Recent Archaeological Excavations Christiaan Corlett Michael Potterton $35 • Paperback • 320 pages 8.5x10.98 • March 2021 • SOC003000 978-1-91-629124-9

The Town in Medieval Ireland: In the Light of Recent Archaeological Excavations is the sixth volume in the series Research Papers in Irish Archaeology. Essays by professional archaeologists, historians, geographers and illustrators shine a light on the medieval archaeological heritage of more than twenty of Ireland’s historic urban spaces. Some of the papers provide a fascinating synopsis of the results of excavations and surveys at towns such as Castledermot, Enniscorthy, Inistioge, Navan, New Ross and Wexford.

Others focus on research carried out at a particular site or building within a key medieval town (Carlow, Drogheda, Ferns, Kildare, Kilkenny, Kilmallock and Mullingar). Less-well-known deserted medieval settlements on the shores of Lough Key and Lough Ree (Co. Roscommon) are showcased in two further contributions, while there are also papers on Ardree, Athboy, Athy, Dungarvan and Fethard, and an essay looking at the broader picture of the European Historic Towns Atlas project and archaeology.

Partnership & Participation Community Archaeology in Ireland Christine Baker $40 • Paperback • 238 pages 6.1x9.21 • March 2021 • SOC003000 978-1-91-629121-8

Over the past number of years there has been an increasing desire among communities to engage directly with the archaeology, heritage and traditions of their local area. The term 'community archaeology' is generally understood as the communities of today engaging with the people of the past through a variety of means: excavation, surveys, studies and dissemination.

Projects undertaken under the banner of community archaeology are varied and can include field-walking,building surveys, oral history projects, graveyard surveys, art projects, archive research, geophysical, landscape and topographic surveys, conservation and excavation. This work examines these projects nationwide with a common thread of reconnecting people with their past and encouraging new communities to connect with their localities—thereby creating awareness and ensuring the protection of the archaeological resource.

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Wordwell z Books Clare and the Civil War

Clare and the War of Independence

Joe Power

Joe Power

$25 • Paperback 320 pages • 6.1x9.21 March 2021 HIS018000 978-1-83-804160-1

$24.99 • Paperback 320 pages •6.1x9.21 March 2021 HIS018000 • 978-1-91-613759-2

The Irish Civil War was contested as bitterly in Clare as in any other part of Ireland. The pattern of the war in the country was similar to the military conflict at national level, with a brief conventional phase when the Free State government forces captured all the main cities and towns, which was followed by a longer period of guerrilla warfare. This work examines the nature of that bitter conflict in this historic county.

The IRA Volunteers of County Clare were pioneers of the tactics of guerrilla warfare. In this comprehensively researched and scholarly work, the author tells a story that highlights the particular role of the men and women of Clare in the national conflict, which offers unique insights into the major events, successful ambushes, Black and Tan reprisals and controversial IRA executions during the national struggle for independence.

Fermanagh

Crowdfunding the Revolution

From Plantation to Peace Process

The Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence

Margaret Unwin $25 • Paperback 288 pages • 6.1x9.21 March 2021 HIS018000 978-1-83-804163-2

This extensive work begins with the Ulster Plantation in Fermanagh and deals with all the major historical events over the centuries as experienced in the county. It deals particularly with the recent conflict as endured in Fermanagh and details all of the deaths (114) that occurred there. It examines how the Irish Government cooperated with the British Government on Border security, using official declassified British Government documents and explores the validity or otherwise of claims of ethnic cleansing.

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Greene

Patrick O'Sullivan

$25 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6.1x9.21 March 2021 • HIS018000 • 978-1-91-613758-5

In 1919, the Irish government launches an audacious plan to crowdfund the equivalent of €30,000,000 to fund a counter-state in open defiance of British rule in Ireland. Half the funds are to be raised in Ireland and half in America.

But the funding campaign in America is delayed owing to regulatory obstacles. It is imperative that the domestic funding campaign succeeds.

Without funds, the counter-state government is doomed to failure.

This is the untold history of the fight for the revolutionary government’s funds, the bank inquiry that shook the financial establishment and the first battle in the intelligence war.

Portlaoise An Illustrated History Joe Curtis $20 • Paperback 128 pages • 6.1x9.21 March 2021 HIS018000 978-1-91-613757-8

Around the year 1548, the English built a fort in the Laoghaise (or Leix) region to guard against attacks on the Pale. In 1556 Queen Mary 1 decided on the plantation of the Irish territories, by confiscating their land and giving it to English settlers, calling the area Queen's County and stipulating that Fort Leix (Port Laoghaise) be renamed Mary Burgh.

In this work, author and local historian Joe Curtis explores the visual history of Portlaoise as it developed up to the modern age, covering various aspects of religion, education, health, business and law and order along the way.

A Difficult Birth The Early Years of Northern Ireland, 1920-25 Alan Francis Parkinson $30 • Paperback • 388 pages • 6.1x9.21 March 2021 • HIS015070 • 978-1-83-804162-5

On the eve of the centenary of the foundation of the Northern Ireland state in 2021, this significant work examines the major political developments of this short and momentous period in Irish history. By necessity, it also explores the multi-faceted nature of the communal violence that blighted the North in its early years.

The author concludes by investigating the 1925 findings of the Boundary Commission, as well as assessing the legacy of what was to become Northern Ireland.

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Wordwell Booksz • Y Lolfa Different and the Same

Towards an Independent Wales

A Folk History of Protestants in Independent Ireland

Independence Commission

Deirdre Nuttall

$14.99 • Paperback • 240 pages 5.5x8.5 • Currently Available POL016000 978-1-80-099000-5 Y Lolfa

$29.99 • Hardback 288 pages • 7.5x9.65 March 2021 • HIS018000 978-1-91-613756-1 Wordwell Books

This works explores the folklore, traditions and narratives of the Protestant minority in the Republic of Ireland. With the support of the National Folklore Collection, Deirdre Nuttall investigates the cultural, rather than simply faith-based, aspects of the group, incorporating folk history, custom and belief and identity.

With its own Senedd and legislative powers, Wales is already on a journey towards independence.

This report charts the next steps. It recommends that an independent Wales should seek membership of the European Union and suggests a provisional step might be membership of European Free Trade Area. Arguing that independent countries must establish collaborative arrangements with their neighbors, it recommends that Wales explores a confederal relationship with England and Scotland. It proposes improvements to the operation of the Welsh Government and the civil service, points the way to drawing up a Welsh Constitution, and sets out a framework for a Self-Determination Bill to take the independence process forward.

The Welsh in Liverpool

A Welsh County at War

Saving Rugby Union

A Remarkable History

Essays on Ceredigion at the Time of the First World War

The Price of Professionalism

D Ben Rees $29.99 • Paperback 320 pages • 5.5x8.5 • 109 illustrations August 2021 HIS015000 • 978-1-91-263136-0 Y Lolfa

This volume is the fruit of decades of research by the Rev D Ben Rees into the unique story of the Welsh people living in Liverpool and on the banks of the Mersey. It is a treasury of information about people and events in one of the most interesting cities in relation to Welsh history, its people and language.

Gwyn Jenkins $14.99 • Paperback • 160 pages • 5.5x8.5 June 2021 • HIS015070 • 978-1-78-461969-5 Y Lolfa

A Welsh County at War opens an unusual window on the First World War. This is not a military history of horror in the trenches, but a social and cultural history of life in one county in west Wales during this fraught period. Through detailed historical research in primary and secondary sources, Gwyn Jenkins shows the impact of the Great War on people’s everyday lives, opinions and actions, and although soldiers do of course feature in it, it is through the prism of their relationships with their loved ones back home that we see them.

Ross Reyburn $14.99 • Paperback 208 pages • 5.5x8.5 Currently Available SPO056000 • 978-1-91-263132-2 Y Lolfa

The increased popularity of rugby union as a spectator sport in the 25 years since it turned professional has thrown a smokescreen over the crisis it faces. A highly physical game has been turned into a dangerous sport by misguidedly trying to match the flow of its great rival, rugby league, and there is a worrying drop in male playing numbers in major nations.

The book recounts the history of rugby union’s early decades as a professional sport and praises the best features of the modern game, especially the expansion of women’s rugby. It also provides a template for solving the sport’s injury crisis.

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z Y Lolfa Land of Lead

The Welsh Language in Cardiff

Brian Davies $14.99 • Paperback 144 pages • 5.5x8.5 June 2021 • HIS015060 978-1-78-461966-4

A fascinating volume of history, shedding light on the lead mining industry in Ceredigion which shipped from Aberystwyth, through the story of four generations of interlinked families in north Ceredigion in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Owen John Thomas

A history of the Welsh language in Cardiff, Wales over a thousand years.

Bobby Freeman

Dorian Spencer Davies $7.99 • Paperback 24 pages • 8.3x11 • 21 b/w outlines to color May 2021 • JUV054010 • 978-1-78-461973-2

A collection of beautiful but fun illustrations of Wales' most beautiful coastal scenes to color and treasure, by well-known and much-loved Welsh artist Dorian Spencer Davies, author of Welsh Castles Colouring Book.

A Book of Welsh Country Puddings and Pies

A Book of Welsh Bread Bobby Freeman

Bobby Freeman

$3.99 • Paperback 32 pages • 4.1x5.8 Currently Available • CKB011000 978-1-78-461890-2

One in a series of little books of traditional Welsh recipes by noted cook, TV presenter, journalist, and food historian Bobby Freeman. A new edition of this volume, first published in 1988, offering a collection of recipes for traditional Welsh cawl, soups and other savory dishes, with black and white illustrations.

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A history of survival

$14.99 • Paperback • 176 pages • 5.5x8.5 January 2021 • HIS015000 • 978-1-78-461882-7

A Book of Welsh Soups and Savouries

Welsh Coast Colouring Book

$3.99 • Paperback 32 pages • 4.1x5.8 • Currently Available CKB011000 • 978-1-78-461894-0

One in a series of little books of traditional Welsh recipes by noted cook, TV presenter, journalist, and food historian Bobby Freeman, also providing the social and cultural background to the dishes.

Traditional Welsh recipes for fruit, milk and bread puddings and sweet and savory pies are the subject of the new edition of this volume, first published in 1988, with black and white illustrations.

978-1-78-461891-9

$3.99 • Paperback 48 pages • 4.1x5.8 Currently Available CKB011000

One in a series of little books of traditional Welsh recipes by noted cook, TV presenter, journalist, and food historian Bobby Freeman. New edition of this handy little book, including an essential introduction full of information on bread-making, plus 18 useful and interesting recipes for the old traditional wholegrain wheat, barley and rye breads of Wales, adapted for baking today. Black and white illustrations.

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Y zLolfa •z Photographing Pembrokeshire

The Best in Sound, Form and Hue

A Paradise for Pirates

John Squire, Musician and Artist (1833-1909)

Ieuan Morris $14.99 • Paperback • 144 pages 8.3x7.9 • fully illustrated • May 2021 PHO023040 • 978-1-78-461754-7

Photographing Pembrokeshire leads readers through Pembrokeshire locations frequented by pirates, smugglers, wreckers and others who have exploited the coastline from earliest times to the present day. Ieuan Morris’ striking images and fascinating accompanying text in both Welsh and English throw new light on one of Britain’s most stunning regions. People have been relocating to Pembrokeshire since the 12th century, not just from other parts of the UK but from all over the globe. Morris discusses notorious historic events and looks at the linguistic and cultural differences that exist across the north-south demarcation known as the ‘Landsker Line’.

As well as showcasing the county’s natural beauty, Morris considers the impact of migration, tourism and industrial pollution. Can Pembrokeshire and its indigenous population survive as we know them today? This book documents this glorious county as it is now and raises questions about its future. Full-color, illustrated throughout.

John Hugh Thomas $22.99 • Paperback • 340 pages 5.5x8.5 • August 2021 • BIO004000 978-1-78-461968-8

John Squire was a banker and skilled landscape painter whose work was exhibited at the prestigious British Royal Academy, but more importantly also a musician who had great influence on musical life in the West of England and south Wales. This fascinating work of social history, based on extensive primary-source research, places his life and career in its broader cultural and social context to give a history of classical music-making in provincial Victorian Britain. A detailed account of an important and entirely obscured figure, this is an excellent contribution to the history of amateur music-making, its increasing professionalization and the formation of British tastes outside London during the Victorian period.

Weatherman Walking

Shelter Me

The Welsh Coast

Shelter, Vol. 3 •$26.99 • Hardback 368 pages • 5.1x7.7 Currently Available • FIC031000 978-1-78-461924-4

Derek Brockway Julia Foot $14.99 • Paperback • 144 pages 4.8x8.3 • fully illustrated • May 2021 SPO050000 • 978-1-91-263121-6

Wales is known for its stunning scenery and is a very popular destination for walkers, and its breathtaking coastline is one of its greatest assets. This book contains 15 guided walks along the Wales Coast Path, as undertaken by BBC Wales’ beloved weatherman Derek Brockway in the BBC TV’s 12th series of Weatherman Walking. Each walk includes an OS route map and directions, but also presents lots of interesting information about landmarks or sights to look out for, as well as about unusual local activities or people that Derek came across in the related episode. The walks are between 4 and 9 miles long and cover a good geographical spread of the coastal path around Wales.

This full-color book includes hundreds of beautiful location photographs, and will appeal to tourists looking for interesting parts of the Welsh coast to explore.

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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