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Contents 04 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30

History Current Affairs & Economics Science, Philosophy & Psychology Natural History Travel & Transport Language & Literature Literature & Music Art & Architecture Biography Food & Drink Gift & Humour Paperbacks of the Year Fiction Rare Books Classics & Collections 3 for 2 on Walker’s Illustrated Classics Picture Books Young Fiction Children’s Paperbacks of the Year 9+ Fiction Young Adult Fiction Children’s Reference


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history

A Gambling Man

The Seven Ages of Rome

Jenny Uglow

Robert Hughes

A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant world, in which the risks the king took forged the fate of the nation.

The founding of Rome is shrouded in legend. This sweeping history from prize-winning Hughes spans from the 8th century BC to the fashionable city of the 1960s. ISBN: 9780297844648 Hardback

Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.

ISBN: 9780571217335 Hardback

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ISBN: 9780230709423 Hardback

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The Making of Modern Britain

Trotsky

Constantine

Robert Service

Paul Stephenson

Andrew Marr

Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy.

A masterly survey of the life and enduring legacy of the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the later Roman emperors.

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ISBN: 9781849160025 Hardback

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Family Britain, 1951-1957 David Kynaston

Kynaston continues his epic and acclaimed series that started with Austerity Britain; charting Britain’s post-war social history. Steve Orchard, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London ISBN: 9780747583851 Hardback

RRP: £25.00

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Venice

The American Civil War

The Lady in the Tower

Triplex

D-Day

Peter Ackroyd

John Keegan

Alison Weir

Nigel West, Oleg Tsarev

Antony Beevor

In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty.

In his sweeping narrative Keegan highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict, creating a magisterial history of the first modern war.

ISBN: 9780701172855 Hardback

RRP: £25.00

Weir has reassessed the evidence, demolished many romantic myths and popular misconceptions, and rewritten the story of Anne Boleyn’s fall, creating a richly researched and impressively detailed portrait.

Triplex reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring.

Bestselling and prizewinning Beevor turns his attention to the Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day. As with Stalingrad and Berlin, Beevor’s gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.

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Ancient Greece Paul Cartledge

Cartledge uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative themes in Ancient Greek history, providing an ideal concise introduction to the history and culture of this remarkable civilization. ISBN: 9780199233380 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

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The Secret History of Georgian London

Holy Warriors

Dan Cruickshank

Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures of the crusades providing an account of one of the great cultural, political and religious movements in world history in its modern context.

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where tens of thousands of people were dependent in some way on the wages of sin. Cruickshank powerfully argues these women shaped 18th Century London. ISBN: 9781847945372 Hardback

Jonathan Phillips

ISBN: 9780224079372 Hardback

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The Great Cities in History

The Medieval World at War

John Julius Norwich

Matthew Bennett

From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. With their stories told here this volume is nothing less than a portrait of world civilization.

The Medieval World at War brings together for the first time in a single volume authoritative accounts of not only European and Middle Eastern warfare, but also of Central Asian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese conflict.

ISBN: 9780500251546 Hardback

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A History of Christianity Finest Years Sir Max Hastings

By looking at Churchill from the outside in, through the eyes of British soldiers, civilians and newspapers, and also those of Russians and Americans, Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman. ISBN: 9780007263677 Hardback

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The Hammer and the Cross

Russia Against Napoleon

Conquest

Dominic Lieven

Juliet Barker

Robert Ferguson

Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians’ viewpoint how they went from suffering retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to become the new liberators of Europe.

Author of the bestselling Agincourt, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.

ISBN: 9780713996371 Hardback

ISBN: 9781408700839 Hardback

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Ferguson’s familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries and the evidence scattered all over northern Europe, to draw the most convincing modern portrait of the Viking Age to date. ISBN: 9780713997880 Hardback

RRP: £30.00

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Philip Matyszak’s Classical Compendium Philip Matyszak

Writer and historian Matyszak brings together his favourite incidents, wisecracks and curious facts from ancient Greece and Rome. The compendium includes humorous quips by the emperor Augustus and wry observations by the philosopher Socrates.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

From the author of the highly acclaimed A Reformation comes a magisterial global history of Christianity. The storytelling brio of MacCulloch is to the fore. Euan Hirst, Bookseller, South Bridge, Edinburgh ISBN: 9780713998696 Hardback

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Current Affairs & Economics

Commonwealth

Free Radical

Our Choice

Climbing the Bookshelves

Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

Vincent Cable

Al Gore

Shirley Williams

Hardt and Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing a global ethics of freedom for living in mankind’s common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth.

Best known today for his prescience and authority on both domestic and international economic matters, Cable recalls a life of wide variety and great interest - and of ballroom dancing.

Gore proposes solutions to climate change at every level of our lives, from the personal and local to the national and political to the area of international policy and law.

Climbing the Bookshelves is the voice of a strong and passionate woman of luminous intelligence, admirable eloquence and remarkable political experience.

Tony Benn

ISBN: 9780747590989 Paperback

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Letters to My Grandchildren The great diarist and politician draws on his wisdom and experience in a personal note of advise to the future generations. ISBN: 9780091931261 Hardback

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Superfreakonomics Steven D Levit, Stephen J. Dubner

Freedom for Sale

Strange Days Indeed

Crude World

Getting Our Way

Hot, Flat, & Crowded

John Kampfner

Francis Wheen

Peter Maass

Christopher Meyer

Thomas L. Friedman

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From the acclaimed author of Blair’s Wars comes a devastating new insight into how the power and democratic values of the West are under threat.

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ISBN: 9780743275408 Hardback

The nostalgic whiff of the seventies evokes memories of loons and disco, Abba and Fawlty Towers. However, beneath the long hair it was really a theme park of mass paranoia.

Getting Our Way recounts nine stories from Britain’s diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats themselves are at the centre of the narrative.

RRP: £18.99

ISBN: 9780007244270 Hardback

Peter Maass connects the dots and shows how our relationship to oil is so deadly. Crude World is a magnificent piece of reportage that reveals the price others pay for the lives we lead.

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ISBN: 9781846142468 Hardback

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Friedman’s phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today - our hot, flat and crowded world.

Carrying on from where Freakonomics left off expect more quirky and challenging economic explanations for the big issues of the world today. Euan Hirst, Bookseller, South Bridge, Edinburgh ISBN: 9780713999907 Hardback

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The Big Questions

What the Dog Saw

Steven E. Landsburg

Malcolm Gladwell

Julian Baggini

The Big Questions challenges readers to re-evaluate their most fundamental beliefs and reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.

In What the Dog Saw Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story.

ISBN: 9781439148211 Hardback

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Another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy from the master of the genre. This time focusing on famous sayings, proverbs and pieces of homespun wisdom. ISBN: 9781847081117 Hardback

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Science, philosopHy & psychology

We Need to Talk About Kelvin

How to Make a Tornado

Marcus Chown

Covering everything from what it’s like to die, to exploding trousers and recycled urine, the latest title in the brilliant and bestselling New Scientist series is a reminder that science is intensely creative and often very amusing.

With Chown as your guide, cutting-edge science is made clear and meaningful by a falling leaf, or a rose, or a starry night sky. ISBN: 9780571244010 Hardback

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New Scientist

ISBN: 9781846682872 Paperback

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The Greatest Show on Earth The Math Book

Secrets of the Universe

Boyle

The Age of Wonder

Clifford A. Pickover

Paul Murdin

Michael Hunter

Richard Holmes

This is an accessible, fascinating book that unravels the mysteries and beauty of mathematics. It covers 250 milestones in mathematical history, from the millennia old magic squares to the discovery of pi.

This beautifully designed introduction to astronomy and its history reveals the compelling story of mankind’s quest through the ages to unlock the scientific secrets of our universe.

Prize-winning Holmes explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of the 18th century in his groundbreaking and acclaimed The Age of Wonder.

ISBN: 9781402757969 Hardback

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Navigating Boyle’s voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers, this title presents an account that gives us the man rather than the myth, the troubled introvert as well as the public campaigner.

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Ten Technologies to Save the Planet Chris Goodall

In this fascinating book, Chris Goodall profiles ten technologies to watch, explaining how they work and telling the stories of the inventors and entrepreneurs driving them forward.

Richard Dawkins

Dawkins unpicks and lays out the evidence for evolution in simple but authoritative terms. The beauty, complexity and diversity of life in all its wonder. Euan Hirst, Bookseller, South Bridge, Edinburgh ISBN: 9780593061732 Hardback

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To Sea and Back Richard Shelton

To Sea and Back is the story of Richard Shelton’s lifelong passion for the sea and his attempt to solve the perennial enigmas of the salmon’s secret life. ISBN: 9781843547846 Hardback

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The Bedside Book of Beasts

The Plot

The Weather Book

The Nature Book

Madeleine Bunting

Diana Craig

Marianne Taylor

Graeme Gibson

In tracing the history of a remote acre on the edge of the North York moors Bunting deftly balances the emotional and the political, and shows what contested, layered places we inhabit.

The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jampacked with enlightening facts, practical diagrams and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form.

The Nature Book is a great guide to the natural world, both for the beginner and those who want to relearn the most important and interesting facts about our fascinating environment.

The companion volume to the bestselling The Bedside Book of Birds is as beautifully produced as its predecessor and will appeal to wildlife enthusiasts the world over.

ISBN: 9781847080851 Hardback

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Collins Bird Guide

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Lars Svensson,

Expanded and revised, this new edition is vital for the committed or casual birdwatcher. Heavily illustrated and convincingly comprehensive. Marcus Gipps, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London ISBN: 9780007267262 Hardback

RRP: £25.00

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A Short History of the Honey Bee

Last Chance to See

The Poetry of Birds

Leviathan

Mark Carwardine, Stephen Fry

Simon Armitage

Philip Hoare

E. Readicker-Henderson

Mark Carwardine and Britain’s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, follow in their great friend Douglas Adams’ footsteps, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth.

In this wonderful anthology poet Simon Armitage and bird watching enthusiast Tim Dee gather together the best of the past and the present, including well known poems but also many overlooked gems.

Roger Deakin

ISBN: 9780007290727 Hardback

ISBN: 9780670916412 Hardback

The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey from his childhood to his fascination with MobyDick and his excursions whale-watching.

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Only seven of the 16,000 species of bee are responsible for creating honey. Combining gorgeous photography and E. Readicker-Henderson’s engaging text, A Short History of the Honey Bee follows the journey from flower to hive to honey throughout history. ISBN: 9780881929423 Hardback

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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm Collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which Roger Deakin filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life, now in paperback. ISBN: 9780141039022 Paperback


Travel & Transport

Blood, Iron & Gold

Lancaster

Christian Wolmar

Leo McKinstry

Presents the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world’s railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale.

A comprehensive history of Britain’s greatest bomber plane from the author of the bestselling Spitfire.

ISBN: 9781848871700 Hardback

ISBN: 9780719523533 Hardback

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Somerville’s Travels From the Cairngorms in Scotland to Penwith on the Cornish coast, this title tells the story of each region. It features personal observations, anecdotes and stories that capture the atmosphere of each region.

Nine Lives

Contact!

William Dalrymple

Jan Morris

A completely original, informed, well-crafted and beautifully written book about modern India. ISBN: 9781408800614 Hardback

In Contact! Morris turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and through the decades.

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In Search of England Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Blue Skies and Black Olives

A Week At The Airport

The Snow Tourist

Alain de Botton

Charlie English

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

John Humphrys

Sir Ranulph Fiennes takes a journey around his eccentric family tree, and reveals how he came to be described by the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’.

John Humphrys’ funny and engaging memoir of building a home in Greece with his son Christopher.

Alain de Botton takes readers on a journey through the days and nights of the UK’s largest airport.

English talks about the quest for the world’s purest snowfall that takes readers from carrot-nosed snowmen in frosty gardens to the most perilous peaks on earth.

ISBN: 9780340925027 Hardback

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The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe - an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. ISBN: 9780141015729 Paperback

Roy Hattersley

Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and its character. Gareth Hardy, Oxford ISBN: 9781408700969 Hardback

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language & Literature half price

Travels with a Typewriter

Samuel Johnson

William Golding

Michael Frayn

David Nokes

John Carey

An entertaining collection of Michael Frayn’s travel writing from the sixties and seventies, including pieces on Germany, Cuba, Israel, Japan and Russia.

This major new biography of Samuel Johnson chronicles the man thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds and his rise to celebrity; it follows Johnson as the author of the famous Dictionary, a friend to the king and companion of Reynolds, Goldsmith and Garrick.

The first authorised biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780571240890 Hardback

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature Dinah Birch

The seventh edition of this classic ensures that it retains its status as the most authoritative, informative, and accessible guide to literature available and available at a fantastic half price!

H.W. Fowler

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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition One of today’s leading experts on the English language, David Crystal, reassesses Fowler’s seminal text offering a modern perspective in notes on some 300 entries. RRP: £14.99

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Talking About Detective Fiction P.D. James

As the Queen of the crime fiction genre, PD James has accumulated many thoughts and observations about this much-loved and enduring form of literature, resulting in a wonderful and rather special book about detective fiction. Zool Verjee, Bookseller, Broad Street, Oxford

To the Moon Carol Ann Duffy

The new Poet Laureate edits this anthology of poems related to and inspired by the moon. ISBN: 9780330461313 Hardback

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Howards End is on the Landing

Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks

Shakespeare

Susan Hill

John Curran

In pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time.

A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories.

ISBN: 9781846682650 Hardback

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This exquisitely illustrated and updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship.

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Bill Bryson

ISBN: 9780007325238 Hardback

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot

From the recently voted nation’s favourite poet, one of his most popular works reinvigorated for a new generation by the fantastic illustrations of Axel Scheffler. ISBN: 9780571240616 Hardback

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literature & music

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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

The Complete Fairy Tales

Once Again to Zelda

Changing My Mind

Charles Perrault

Marlene Wagman-Geller

Zadie Smith

A delicious compendium of literary feuds, slights, spleen and venom, drawn from the Guardian newspaper column Writers on Writers.

Elizabeth Knowles

A vast treasury of wit and wisdom spanning the centuries and providing the ultimate answer to the question Who said that?

Perrault’s classic fairy tales in a scintillating new translation, including the less familiar verse tales, with illustrations by Gustave Dore.

ISBN: 9780711229297 Hardback

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This engaging collection of essays reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy.

Gary Dexter

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ISBN: 9780199236831 Hardback

This ‘behind the scenes’ book traces the relationships immortalized in the dedications to fifty novels that are an intrinsic part of literary and popular culture.

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Music

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Charles Dickens Journeying Boy

Opera for Everybody

Harmony & Discord

Darren Henley, Tim Lihoreau

John Evans, Andrew Mellor

Susie Gilbert

Julian Shuckburgh

Covering everything from composer biographies to explanations of the ten most famous operas, Classic Ephemera contains everything you need to know about classical music, and more besides.

This book presents a selection of Britten’s early diaries that offer the reader an insight into this brilliant composer and complex man.

Traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums, through two world wars, and via Sadler’s Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond.

Based on ten years of research and containing the first-ever chronology of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions, Shuckburgh’s vivid biography is an impassioned portrait of the man who composed some of the most sublime music ever written.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde’s Stories for All Ages

Michael Slater

Classic Ephemera

Selected and presented by one of Wilde’s biggest fans, Stephen Fry, the book includes his introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they mean so much to him and why they should mean a lot to you, too.

This work of scholarship explores the personal and emotional life, the public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity of Charles Dickens. Richly illustrated with many unfamiliar images, this is an extremely readable biography of Dickens, remembered by one of his friends as “the cheerfullest man of his age”. Zool Verjee, Bookseller, Broad Street, Oxford

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Moctezuma Colin McEwan, Leonardo Lopez Lujan

Moctezuma and the Aztecs

Through the Lens

Elisenda Vila Llonch

Through the Lens is a cornucopia of National Geographic’s best photographs created since 1890 when the Society first started commissioning photographers, now in a smaller gift edition.

Accompanying a major exhibition at the British Museum, this catalogue brings together key works of art, exploring the dramatic events surrounding the Spanish assault on the Aztec Empire.

This informative and beautifully illustrated little book explores the world of the Aztecs. It looks at their origins, the structure of their society, religious beliefs military prowess, and their art and architecture.

ISBN: 9780714125855 Paperback

ISBN: 9780714125893 Hardback

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John Piper, Myfanwy Piper

The Secret Lives of Buildings

Frances Spalding

Edward Hollis

ISBN: 9781426205262 Hardback

The story of John and Myfanwy Piper, as they produced work which placed them centre stage in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century, naturally becomes the story of British art in the 1930s.

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 9780199567614 Hardback

Edward Hollis tells the stories of thirteen buildings, beginning with the ‘once upon a time’ when they first appeared, through the years of appropriation, ruin and renovation, and ending with a temporary ‘ever after’.

National Geographic

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ISBN: 9781846271274 Hardback

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Photobox Roberto Koch

An incredible survey of photography, Photobox collates 250 photographs from 200 of the world’s most eminent photographers from past masters to up-and-coming greats. Gareth Hardy, Oxford ISBN: 9780500543849 Hardback

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Vermeer and His World

Turner and the Masters

Magnum Magnum

Serena Cant

David H. Solkin

Brigitte Lardinois

Vermeer and his World begins with a comprehensive introduction to Vermeer and his paintings and continues with an illustrated timeline of Vermeer’s entire oeuvre in chronological order. Individual chapters showcase all 36 works attributed to Vermeer.

This book explores a fascinating aspect of Turner’s career, revealing details of rivalries that shaped his work in often unexpected ways.

A photographic anthology that celebrates the vision, imagination and brilliance of Magnum photographers in over 400 photographs by the acknowledged greats of photography in the 20th century and the rising stars of our time.

A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, it contains over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box.

ISBN: 9780500288306 Paperback

RRP: £14.99

ISBN: 9781849160056 Hardback

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Postcards From Penguin

Coco Chanel Justine Picardie

ISBN: 9780141044668 Paperback

Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. ISBN: 9780007317615 Hardback

RRP: £20.00

Blackwell Price: £16.00

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BIOGRAPHY

Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer

A Life Like Other People’s

The Last Englishman

Life Class

Halfway to Hollywood

Alan Bennett

Roland Chambers

Diana Athill

Michael Palin

Michael Mansfield

Bennett’s A Life Like Other People’s is the core of his collection Untold Stories. It is a poignant memoir of his parents’ marriage and his own childhood.

This is a fascinating, often chilling revision of an English icon through the most formative decade of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780571248124 Hardback

RRP: £20.00

Brings together her four best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanning her very English childhood, her life and loves during World War II, her publishing career, and her reflections on old age. ISBN: 9781847081230 Hardback

The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened and writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael’s life.

RRP: £25.00

ISBN: 9780297844402 Hardback

Mansfield dissects many of his difficult and challenging cases, revealing his motivations, meticulous approach to forensic science, cross examination techniques, the political dimensions and emotional reactions with clarity, subtlety and charm.

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99

ISBN: 9780571222612 Hardback

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It’s a Don’s Life

Journey of a Lifetime

Life Stories

Keynes

Letters of Ted Hughes

Mary Beard

Alan Whicker

Sir David Attenborough

Robert Skidelsky

Ted Hughes

A selection of columns from Beard’s blog on the TLS website; which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain.

The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career.

ISBN: 9781846682513 Paperback

ISBN: 9780007292493 Hardback

RRP: £20.00

In the financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard and consulted and cited as to why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Here Skidelsky looks at the enduring legacy of the great economist.

This selection of letters begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives.

RRP: £8.99

This is Sir David looking at the wildlife that has captured his imagination, a fascinating narrative trip around the world in search of the plants and animals he loved best, ranging from sloth and salamander to the duck-billed platypus.

Blackwell Price: £16.00 Published November

ISBN: 9780007338832 Hardback

RRP: £20.00

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The Letters of T.S.Eliot: Volume 2: 1923 - 1925 T.S. Eliot

Covering the most important time of one of our most important writers, this opens a window on to his life outside poetry. Marcus Gipps, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London ISBN: 9780571140817 Hardback

ISBN: 9780571221394 Paperback

RRP: £35.00

RRP: £14.99

Blackwell Price: £30.00

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Published November

ISBN: 9781846142581 Hardback

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FOOd & drink

Terre a Terre

River Cottage Everyday

The Fat Duck Cookbook

The Science of the Oven

Amanda Powley, Phil Taylor

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Heston Blumenthal

Herve This

Includes over 100 recipes from the repertoire that has made Terre a Terre the most talked about vegetarian restaurant in Britain.

The most accessible, recipe-led River Cottage book yet, with 200 fantastic new recipes that present Hugh’s philosophy to his widest audience so far.

ISBN: 9781906650049 Hardback

ISBN: 9780747598404 Hardback

In this beautiful, smaller format edition of the bestselling Big Fat Duck Cookbook, we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal and The Fat Duck.

RRP: £20.00

RRP: £25.00

ISBN: 9780747597377 Hardback

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With trademark clarity and wit, Herve This launches a wry investigation into the chemical art of cooking. Unravelling the science behind common culinary technique and practice, the author breaks food down to its molecular components.

RRP: £35.00

Blackwell Price: £30.00

New Larousse Gastronomique The world’s classic culinary reference book is known for its authoritative and comprehensive collection of recipes. Here it is brought up to date for 2009 in an attractive edition containing over 900 new photographs. ISBN: 9780600620426 Hardback

ISBN: 9780231147064 Hardback

RRP: £60.00

RRP: £15.95

Blackwell Price: £40.00

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GARDENING

Tender Nigel Slater

Slater returns with a companion to his bestselling (and brilliant) Kitchen Diaries. This time around he focuses on British vegetables. A beautiful book. Marcus Gipps, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London ISBN: 9780007248490 Hardback

RRP: £30.00

Blackwell Price: £25.00

The Vegetarian Option

The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook

The Ivington Diaries

Bulb

Monty Don

Anna Pavord

For the first time Simon Hopkinson focuses entirely on cooking mouthwatering recipes without meat or fish. Not written exclusively for vegetarians, this is a fresh source of inspiration for all genuine food lovers.

Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers

Monty Don’s intimate record in his own words and photographs of the garden he has created from scratch over the past fifteen years.

In this guide to more exquisite bulbous plants than most gardeners will ever grow in their lifetime, Anna Pavord brings each bulb to life with beautiful description, anecdote and historical tale.

Monty Don

ISBN: 9781845334154 Hardback

ISBN: 9781844007400 Hardback

ISBN: 9780297856382 Hardback

ISBN: 9780718153496 Hardback

Simon Hopkinson

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A celebration of the real, classic food of Italy; the traditional, regional food the authors love to eat when they are in Italy, and the food they love to cook at their restaurant and also at home. RRP: £30.00

Blackwell Price: £25.00

ISBN: 9781408802496 Hardback

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Extraordinary Gardens of the World Monty Don presents in a lavish format some of the most extraordinary gardens he visited in his successful BBC television series Around The World In 80 Gardens. RRP: £30.00

Blackwell Price: £25.00 Published November


gift & humour

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Baboon Metaphysics Following the success of its prequel How to Avoid Huge Ships, Baboon Metaphysics proudly presents a further selection of the finest short-listed candidates for the most bizarre book title over previous years.

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Simon’s Cat

The Hell of it All

The QI Book of the Dead

Shouting at the Telly

Simon Tofield

Charlie Brooker

John Mitchinson, John Lloyd

John Grindrod

Fans from all over the world have fallen for this adorable but anarchic feline who will do just about anything to be fed.

In his latest laugh-out-loud collection of misanthropic scribblings, hideous Q-list celebrity failure Charlie Brooker tackles everything from the misery of nightclubs to the death of Michael Jackson.

In The QI Book of the Dead you will meet hundreds of Dead People, some wellknown, others completely obscure, organised into 42 short chapters that play merry hell with the usual classifications.

ISBN: 9780571229574 Hardback

ISBN: 9780571244904 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

RRP: £16.99

A book of funny and heartfelt rants and raves on everything from soaps to sitcoms, sci-fi to reality shows, HBO to QVC. A host of comedians and writers wrestle with weighty issues such as what does Howards’ Way tell us about the eighties?

ISBN: 9781847674814 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9781845134983 Hardback

RRP: £9.99

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ISBN: 9780571248025 Paperback

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Faces of Humph

Butterfly Brain

Humphrey Lyttelton

Barry Cryer

When Humphrey Lyttelton died in June 2008 he left behind him an amazing record of his life in the form of cartoons and drawings. Poignant, fascinating and highly enjoyable, this little book is a hand-drawn memory of his life.

In this completely new, organically grown book, old Baz recalls, reminisces, recounts and other words beginning with ‘R’, on a trip down Memory Lane, pausing only for tea and macaroons at the Stannah Stairlift Cafe.

ISBN: 9781906779627 Hardback

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Have I Got News for You Guide to Modern Britain

This Mitchell and Webb Book

Ringing Church Bells to Ward Off Thunderstorms

Nick Martin

David Mitchell, Robert Webb

Packed with unhelpful cynicism, this guide will help you understand exactly how the most ingenious, resilient and resourceful people on earth became the Twittering, touchy-feely, fameobsessed, flu-fearing wimps that they are today.

Dive into the bizarre yet strangely familiar world of Mitchell and Webb - the wittiest men on television, radio, or anywhere else.

and Other Curiosities from the Original Notes and Queries

ISBN: 9781846075469 Hardback

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 9780007280193 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

Blackwell Price: £14.99

A host of vexing questions are addressed in this wideranging miscellany drawn from the Victorian Notes and Queries, first published in 1849. The result is a plum pudding of a book answering questions from how to handle Ivan the Terrible to seventeenthcentury mince pies.

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain John O’Farrell

O’Farrell combines his trademark humour and wit with a fascinating history of Britain since 1945. There may be some mockery involved. Marcus Gipps, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London ISBN: 9780385616225 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

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ISBN: 9780956204608 Hardback

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fiction

Last Night in Twisted River

Invisible

The Lost Art of Gratitude

The Complaints

Paul Auster

Alexander McCall Smith

Ian Rankin

John Irving

20 year old Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people’s problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children.

There’s a cop called Jamie Breck, and he’s dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. But as Fox takes on the job, he learns that there’s more to Breck than anyone thinks.

ISBN: 9781408700631 Hardback

ISBN: 9780752889511 Hardback

RRP: £17.99

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Blackwell Price: £14.99

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The incredible new novel from John Irving, reminiscent of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. ISBN: 9781408801840 Hardback

RRP: £19.99

Blackwell Price: £15.99

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest Stieg Larsson

The final part in Larsson’s amazing Millennium Trilogy that has taken Europe by storm. ISBN: 9781906694166 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

Blackwell Price: £14.99

ISBN: 9780571249312 Hardback

RRP: £16.99

Blackwell Price: £13.99 Published November

The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood

The long awaited novel from the queen of modern dystopia, in the vein of Oryx and Crake, The Year of The Flood tackles current climate change debates with Atwood’s usual unflinching style. Susannah Hobbs, Oxford ISBN: 9780747585169 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

Blackwell Price: £14.99

Generation A

A Week in December

Summertime

The Humbling

The Unseen Academicals

Douglas Coupland

Sebastian Faulks

J.M. Coetzee

Philip Roth

Terry Pratchett

Mirroring the structure of Coupland’s 1991 debut novel, Generation X, in the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung.

London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters. Here Faulks returns with another master class in character led fiction.

Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth, Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task.

Pratchett returns with a Discworld take on football fashion and worthiness. And pies and bananas – ook!

ISBN: 9780434019830 Hardback

ISBN: 9780091794453 Hardback

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Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings in Everyman and Exit Ghost, and the bitterly ironic retrospect on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth has written another in his haunting group of late novels.

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ISBN: 9781846553189 Hardback

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ISBN: 9780224087933 Hardback

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fiction

Ordinary Thunderstorms

The People’s Train

Transition

The Winter Ghosts

Lustrum

William Boyd

Thomas Keneally

Iain Banks

Kate Mosse

Robert Harris

Boyd’s electric follow-up to prize-winning Restless is a heart-in-mouth conspiracy novel about the fragility of social identity, the scandal of big business, and the secrets that lie hidden in the filthy underbelly of every city.

From the author of Schindler’s Ark, comes the dramatic story of a Russian revolutionary’s exile in Australia and his return to fight alongside Lenin in 1917.

A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe requires a firm hand and a guiding light, but does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius?

From the bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre - a compelling story of ghosts and remembrance. A gorgeous illustrated novel that is perfect to curl up with on long winter nights. ISBN: 9781409112273 Hardback

From the discovery of a child’s mutilated body, through judicial execution and a scandalous trial, to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob, “Lustrum” is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power.

ISBN: 9780316731072 Hardback

RRP: £14.99

ISBN: 9780091801007 Hardback

ISBN: 9781408802472 Paperback

RRP: £11.99

ISBN: 9780340951859 Hardback

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Wolf Hall Her Fearful Symmetry

The Monster in the Box

The Burning Land

Juliet, Naked

Rumpole at Christmas

Audrey Niffenegger

Ruth Rendell

Bernard Cornwell

Nick Hornby

John Mortimer

With London’s Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of James and Dickens, Her Fearful Symmetry is a delicious and deadly twenty-firstcentury ghost story about Niffenegger’s familiar themes of love, loss and identity.

As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case, Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford’s career, even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife.

The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.

Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe is not enough to hold them together any more.

Includes seven Christmas stories in which the call of justice leads Rumpole as far afield as a health farm in Norfolk and as near to home as a pantomime at the Tufnell Park Empire.

ISBN: 9780091931483 Hardback

ISBN: 9780670915651 Hardback

RRP: £14.99

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ISBN: 9780224085618 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

ISBN: 9780007219742 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

Blackwell Price: £14.99

ISBN: 9780670917914 Hardback

Hilary Mantel

This year’s Booker winner truly deserved the recognition. An intricate and absorbing historical novel, from a previously underrated author. Glenn Collins, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London. ISBN: 9780007230181 Hardback

RRP: £18.99

Blackwell Price: £14.99

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RARE BOOKS Life & Times of Michael K

The Unconsoled

J.M. Coetzee

The First Edition, 1985. In fine condition, in its original dustjacket. Signed by the author. £35.00

Kazuo Ishiguro

First Edition, 1983. A nice copy in an equally nice dustjacket with just a little fading. Signed by the author. £265.00

Something to Treasure Rare Books can be a most thoughtful and special festive gift for your loved ones. Begin a collection of some of the most exceptional books available. We have selected a range of affordable rare books as an introduction to our wider catalogue. Browse our collection online or visit instore to view our full range of rare books. Blackwell Rare Books 2nd Floor 48-51 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BQ Tel: Email:

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Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

Tiresias and Other Poems

Thomas Gray

The First Edition, 1885. A very good copy, ownership inscription on the titlepage, just a touch of rubbing to the original cloth binding. £85.00

1938. The Limited Editions Club edition superbly illustrated by Agnes MillerParker, one of 1,500 copies signed by her. A very good copy. £300.00

Alfred, Lord Tennyson


RARE BOOKS The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Domestic Oracle; or, a complete system of modern cookery and family economy.

Robert Burton

New edition, 1837. A good copy, two volumes in half black calf, cloth sides, bookplate. The classic of medicine, philosophy, psychology, literature, and much else. £120.00

Alexander Murray

[1826.] A good copy, illustrated with 9 plates, some foxing. In polished calf. Four old manuscript recipes loosely inserted. £450.00

The Pilgrim’s Progress

Whistle Down the Wind

John Bunyan

Mary Hayley Bell

1902. Illustrated with 8 full-page woodcuts printed on Japon paper by Victor Burnand. A very good copy in calf leather. £60.00

First Edition, 1958. A very good copy of this scarce work, made into an excellent film of the same name. £185.00

The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang

1890. The First Edition and one of only 113 numbered copies, illustrated by Ford and Speed. A good copy in early red morocco, gilt lettered on the backstrip and with gilt patterned endpapers. £400.00

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The Tiger Who Came to Tea Gift Set

Michael Foreman’s Treasure Island

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

New and Collected Poems for Children

Jingle Jangle Jungle Dominoes!

Judith Kerr

Robert Louis Stevenson,

David Benedictus

Carol Ann Duffy

Axel Scheffler (Illus)

This beautiful gift set includes a hardback copy of the book and a china tea set. Read the classic story and enjoy your very own tiger tea party!

A sequel to A A Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh stories. It takes you back to the Hundred Acre Wood for new adventures.

ISBN: 9780007171057 Gift set

This is the book that brought pirates into the popular imagination, now brought stunningly to life by hugely popular illustrator Michael Foreman.

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9781843651178 Hardback

This stellar edition of Duffy’s poems brings together work from her four award-winning collections for children, and sprinkles in a generous helping of new poems to match.

Lets children count along with the animals as they dance to the jungle rhythms. Contains 28 sturdy, double-sided dominoes that include animals on one side and numbers on the other.

ISBN: 9780571219681 Hardback

ISBN: 9780230743991 Board Book

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ISBN: 9781405247443 Hardback

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Blackwell Price: £9.99

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A Pop-Up Book of Nursery Rhymes Matthew Reinhart

Marcus Gipps, Bookseller, Charing Cross, London

Dr Drake’s Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology

ISBN: 9781847386656 Hardback

Ernest Drake

One of the greatest paper engineers in the world brings his talent to bear on some of our favourite nursery rhymes.

RRP: £14.99

Blackwell Price: £11.99

This lavish volume from the pen of eminent dragonologist Dr. Ernest Drake is the definitive guide to the world of dragonology. ISBN: 9781840116441 Hardback

RRP: £14.99

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Alice in Wonderland

The Incredible Book Eating Boy

The Way Back Home Gift Set

The Lion, The Unicorn and Me

Step into the magical world of Wonderland in this gloriously illustrated picture book retelling of Lewis Carroll’s enduring classic from the fabulous Emma Chichester Clark.

Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers

Jeanette Winterson

Roll up, roll up! Meet the Incredible Book Eating Boy! See his fantastic feats leap off the page in this stunning pop-up edition.

Fly to the moon and back in this star-spangled adventure and contact your own alien with an intergalactic walkie-talkie!

ISBN: 9780007316137 Hardback

ISBN: 9780007320912 Hardback

ISBN: 9780007323258 Gift set

RRP: £14.99

RRP: £10.99

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In Jeanette Winterson’s beautifully evocative retelling of the story of the very first Christmas, the humble donkey is chosen amongst all the other animals, including the kingly lion and the proud unicorn.

Lewis Carroll

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99

Published November

ISBN: 9781407109060 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

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The Wind in the Willows

The Secret Garden

The Jungle Book

Classic Poetry

Moby-Dick

Kenneth Grahame

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Rudyard Kipling

Michael Rosen

Herman Melville

The adventures of the amiable Mole, the dapper Water Rat and the marvellous Badger as they endeavour to keep the wayward Toad out of trouble.

When orphan Mary Lennox arrives from India to live with her uncle, everyone at Misselthwaite Manor thinks her a most disagreeable child. Then Mary discovers a secret garden and the magic begins…!

First published over a century ago, this title presents three stories about the man-cub Mowgli.

This title includes over eighty of the most memorable poems written in the English language, from William Blake’s The Tyger to Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky selected by the former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen.

Haunted by prophesies of his own death, Captain Ahab hunts the vast waters of the Pacific in search of the great white whale that has become his obsession.

ISBN: 9781406317428 Paperback

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 9781406304787 Paperback

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ISBN: 9781406318036 Paperback

ISBN: 9781406317435 Paperback

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3 for 2 on walker’s illustrated classics

ISBN: 9781406317442 Paperback

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Pinocchio

Classic Fairy Tales

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver

A Christmas Carol

Carlo Collodi

Berlie Doherty, June Ray

Jonathan Swift

Charles Dickens

RRP: £9.99

Hans Christian Anderson

This superb new translation by award-winning translator Emma Rose is matched by Sara Fanelli’s playful illustrations in this witty version of Carlo Collodi’s classic story of the wooden boy.

The twelve stories in this collection are among the best-loved and most enchanting fairy stories of all. These are classic tales that have enthralled children all over the world for hundreds of years.

This magnificent edition of Jonathan Swift’s classic adventure story contains all four of Gulliver’s extraordinary voyages.

Dickens’ ghostly tale of Ebenezer Scrooge has become as much a part of Christmas as trees and stockings, plum pudding and mistletoe. This lavish, unabridged new edition resonates with the true spirit of Christmas.

Alice Through the Looking-Glass

Here, magnificently illustrated, are thirteen of Hans Christian Andersen’s finest stories including such beloved tales as The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid.

ISBN: 9781406317473 Paperback

ISBN: 9781406317459 Paperback

ISBN: 9781406317466 Paperback

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Published December

ISBN: 9781406317480 Paperback

RRP: £9.99 Published November

ISBN: 9781406305791 Paperback

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ISBN: 9781406316230 Paperback

Lewis Carroll ISBN: 9781406305777 Paperback

RRP: £9.99

The fabulous illustrated classics from Walker are delight to readers of all ages. Timeless storytelling is combined with an array of gorgeous illustrations, making this series the beginnings of a library for every nursey and playroom! Katharine Fry, Oxford

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picture books

This is My Book

Jack Frost

Ernest

The Nutcracker

Tollins

Mick Inkpen

Kazuno Kohara

Catherine Rayner

John Cech

Conn Iggulden

A brand-new book and new characters from the bestselling and awardwinning author Mick Inkpen, creator of Kipper and Wibbly Pig.

If you lived in a house in the woods and all your friends were hibernating you’d probably hate winter, just like this little boy. But one day a strange spiky figure appears and transforms the boy’s world into a winter wonderland!

Ernest is a rather large moose with a rather large problem. He is so big he can’t fit inside his book. Luckily Ernest is also a very determined moose…

Cech bases his version on E.T.A. Hoffman’s original, which features not only the story familiar to all ballet lovers, but other wondrous adventures. Lavishly and elegantly packaged, this book belongs under every child’s tree.

It’s Peter Pan with attitude as Conn Iggulden, creator of the phenomenal bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys, introduces an explosive and magical new fictional world.

ISBN: 9780340989623 Hardback

RRP: £10.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

ISBN: 9780230705401 Hardback

ISBN: 9780230529199 Hardback

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ISBN: 9781402755620 Hardback

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ISBN: 9780007303991 Hardback

RRP: £14.99

Blackwell Price: £11.99

The Rabbit Problem Emily Gravett

This adorable novelty book is full of fantastic, humorous, mathematical and rabbit-related adventures. Twelve months that start with one rabbit problem and end with a rabbit explosion! Natalia De La Ossa, Bookseller, Broad Street, Oxford ISBN: 9780230704237 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99

One Night in the Zoo Judith Kerr

A wonderful new counting book from Judith Kerr, the bestselling author of the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea. ISBN: 9780007321124 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £10.99

Who Wants to be a Poodle? I Don’t!

What’s in the Witch’s Kitchen?

Starlight Sailor

Tabby McTat

James Mayhew

Julia Donaldson

Lauren Child

Nick Sharratt

Trixie Twinkle Toes may look like a prancing poodley poodle. But, on the inside, she’s a dazzlingly daring dog ready to make a big splash.

Suitable for very young children, this title contains hilarious rhymes that feature things that range from frogspawn, popcorn, lollipops and rabbit plops.

Award-winning artist Jackie Morris’ dream-like illustrations provide an enchanting interpretation of James Mayhew’s lyrical poem.

ISBN: 9780141384900 Hardback

ISBN: 9781406322279 Hardback

RRP: £10.99

RRP: £10.99

RRP: £9.99

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Another helping from the fabulous team of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, who brought us the Gruffalo. Tabby McTat the busker’s cat is separated from his owner Fred; will they ever find each other again?

Blackwell Price: £8.99

Blackwell Price: £7.99

Published November

ISBN: 9781846861857 Hardback

ISBN: 9781407109244 Hardback

RRP: £10.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

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Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson

This is the story in which Moomintroll finds a big hat - a magical Hobgoblin hat, no less! ISBN: 9780141328607 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

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What’s for Dinner, Mr Gum?

Journey to the Ice Age

More Milly-Molly-Mandy

Astrosaurs

Rex Stone

Joyce Lankester Brisley

Steve Cole

Andy Stanton

It’s Christmas Eve in Dinosaur Cove and Jamie and Tom are off to their secret dino world. But the Jurassic jungle has disappeared and been replaced with snow!

Lets you join Milly-MollyMandy and her friends on their adventures, picnics in the summer, sledging in the winter and fun all year round!

ISBN: 9780192729279 Paperback

RRP: £9.99

Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he’s an Astrosaur. In this ‘Megabookasaurus’ follow Teggs and the rest of the crew of the DSS Sauropod on three of their most dangerous missions.

Not everyone’s too happy about Mr Gum’s new dinnertime arrangements and soon the town of Lamonic Bibber is gearing up for war. Can Polly and her friends save the town from being torn apart?

RRP: £6.99

ISBN: 9780230743816 Hardback

Blackwell Price: £7.99

ISBN: 9781405248242 Paperback

ISBN: 9780385616843 Paperback

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Dear Hound Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog

The Far From Great Escape

Daisy and the Trouble with Christmas

Iggy and Me

Philip Ardagh

Kes Gray

Split your sides laughing as Greg Heffley struggles with all the trials and tribulations of school, family and friends that come with being everyone’s favourite wimpy kid.

Jeremy Strong

Daisy has been extremely excited about Christmas and especially the chance to be in the school Christmas play. But, as ever with Daisy, things don’t go quite according to plan!

ISBN: 9780141327655 Hardback

RRP: £7.99

When the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness and a ship runs aground - flattening The Rusty Dolphin - it’s hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown…

Iggy and Me is a series of family stories featuring the mishaps and shenanigans of the irrepressible 5-yearold Iggy as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo.

ISBN: 9780571242344 Paperback

RRP: £4.99

Jeff Kinney

RRP: £7.99

Blackwell Price: £5.99

Streaker, the hundred-milean-hour dog, is brilliant at many things but most of all she’s brilliant at getting into trouble. ISBN: 9780141327242 Hardback

Blackwell Price: £5.99

Jenny Valentine

Jill Murphy

Murphy has again produced a modern classic with the story of lost deerhound puppy, Alfie. Katharine Fry, Oxford ISBN: 9780141383989 Hardback

RRP: £9.99

Blackwell Price: £7.99

ISBN: 9780007283620 Paperback

RRP: £4.99

ISBN: 9781862304970 Paperback

RRP: £4.99

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3 for 2 on over 100 children’s paperbacks available online and in selected stores


9+ fiction

Running Wild Michael Morpurgo,

An epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of Kaspar and Born to Run. ISBN: 9780007267019 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools G.P. Taylor

Asterix & Obelix’s Birthday: The Golden Book

RRP: £10.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

ISBN: 9780192720856 Hardback

Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo

ISBN: 9780571227006 Hardback

ISBN: 9781444000276 Hardback

Blackwell Price: £11.99

Henry Chancellor

Tom is back at the Scatterhorn Museum, looking forward to spending some time there while his parents are away on one of their adventures. But an unexpected visitor throws everything into disarray…

Airship, villains and a ghost from the past make this GP Taylor’s most gripping adventure yet. Dare you read it? RRP: £14.99

The Hidden World

A collection of 12 new stories - all linked by the theme of Asterix’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

RRP: £10.99

The Death-Defying Pepper Roux Geraldine McCaughrean

This riot of a story is a wonderful adventure, and Pepper is an unforgettable character who stays with you long after his story has been told. ISBN: 9780192756022 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

Crocodile Tears Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider returns for his eighth adventure, which takes him to Africa and the murky world of genetically modified farming... Marcus Gipps, Bookseller, Charing Cross Road, London ISBN: 9781406310481 Hardback

RRP: £14.99

Blackwell Price: £11.99 Published November

Boom!

Hetty Feather

Mr Stink

Mark Haddon

Jacqueline Wilson

David Walliams

From the moment that Jim and Charlie bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know there’s an adventure on its way.

The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel for children by David Walliams - beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake.

ISBN: 9780385616294 Hardback

Set in Victorian times and featuring a brand new feisty heroine, ‘Hetty Feather’, this is a Tracy Beakeresque tale that will thrill young readers. Warm, moving, funny and totally fascinating.

RRP: £10.99

ISBN: 9780385614443 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

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RRP: £12.99

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ISBN: 9780007279050 Hardback

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No Such Thing As Dragons

Ghost Hunter

Philip Reeve

Dazzling entertainment, seamless storytelling - the sixth and final adventure in Torak’s quest to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters in Michelle Paver’s bestselling Chronicles of Darkness series.

This is a dragon story with a brilliant twist from multi award-winning writer, Philip Reeve. ISBN: 9781407114835 Hardback

RRP: £9.99

Blackwell Price: £7.99

Michelle Paver

ISBN: 9781842551752 Hardback

RRP: £10.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99


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The White Horse Trick

The Spook’s Stories

The Enemy

The Graveyard Book

Robert Muchamore

Kate Thompson

Joseph Delaney

Charlie Higson

Neil Gaiman

When Dante joins James and Lauren Adams on a mission to infiltrate Brigands Motorcycle Club, he’s ready to use everything he’s learned to get revenge on the people who killed his family ...

Following on from The New Policeman and The Last of the High Kings, The White Horse Trick travels from the now to far distant futures: from world’s end to world’s beginning.

When the sickness came, every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. Only children under fourteen remain, and they’re fighting to survive. ISBN: 9780141384641 Hardback

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?

ISBN: 9780370329925 Hardback

Ever wondered why the Spook doesn’t trust girls who wear pointy shoes? Or why Grimalkin became the Assassin for the Malkin Witch clan? This collection of stories lets you find out all this and more.

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9780747594802 Paperback

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9780370329963 Hardback

ISBN: 9780340989036 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

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The Bride’s Farewell The Traitor Game

New Moon

Double Cross

Brisingr

Catching Fire

B. R. Collins

Stephenie Meyer

Malorie Blackman

Christopher Paolini

Suzanne Collins

An extraordinary fantasy novel from a brilliant new talent, set partly in a boys’ school and partly in a fierce, dangerous world called Evgard.

The second book in the teen vampire romance series that has proved to be an international publishing phenomenon. ISBN: 9781905654611 Paperback

Tobey wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But he’s offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few ‘deliveries’…

ISBN: 9780747597254 Paperback

RRP: £7.99

ISBN: 9780552559607 Paperback

Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors, Eragon and Saphira escaped. But more awaits them as Eragon finds himself bound by promises he may not be able to keep.

In Suzanne Collins’ terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games, we rejoin Katniss Everdeen as she returns to her district, hoping for a peaceful future.

RRP: £6.99

ISBN: 9780552552127 Paperback

ISBN: 9781407109367 Paperback

RRP: £7.99

RRP: £6.99

RRP: £6.99

Meg Rosoff

Another beautiful and haunting tale from the author of What I Was. Katharine Fry, Oxford ISBN: 9780141383934 Hardback

RRP: £10.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

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The Evolution Revolution

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1001 Children’s Books

Really Really Big Questions

Icky, Sticky Snot and Blood Book

Why Does Ear Wax Taste So Gross?

Explore lands of fire, meet curious creatures, and peer into the future as you follow Darwin on his voyage in search of the origins of species.

Introduces a wonderfully rich world of literature to parents and their children, offering both new titles and much-loved classics.

Stephen Law

Steve Alton

Mitchell Symons

Learn about bogeys, respiration and how blood circulates round the body with this fascinatingly fun pop-up guide.

ISBN: 9781405337199 Hardback

RRP: £20.00

An unusual and fun introduction to philosophy that explores life’s important questions. Mindteasers, optical illusions and thought experiments make this journey unforgettably fun.

ISBN: 9780370329758 Hardback

Did you know that average person spends six months of their life on the loo? This title contains irresistibly funny facts - a sure-fire hit for the playground!

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9780385615709 Hardback

Robert Winston

RRP: £10.99

Blackwell Price: £8.99

ISBN: 9781844036714 Paperback

Blackwell Price: £15.00

ISBN: 9780753417812 Hardback

Blackwell Price: £9.99

RRP: £7.99

Horribly Huge Press-outand-build Book

Shapeshifters

Terry Deary

Retellings of Ovid’s Metamorphoses for a new generation raised in a world of visual fantasy and special effects. With illustrations from Alan Lee.

RRP: £12.99

Gaia Warriors Nicola Davies James Lovelock

This thought provoking book presents the stories of modern heroes in the fight against climate change. A vivid reminder of the ongoing struggle to protect the environment. Natalia De La Ossa, Bookseller, Broad Street, Oxford ISBN: 9781406312348 Paperback

RRP: £9.99

Blackwell Price: £7.99 Published November

The Greatest Intergalactic Guide to Space Ever

Children’s Book of Art

The Brainwaves

An introduction to the world’s most amazing art. From Warhol to Michelangelo, introduce your child to the complete picture of art through the ages.

An outstanding guide to the human body from one of the world’s great illustrators. Explores things from bones to bronchioles, noses to neurons. ISBN: 9781406322224 Hardback

This board book contains 5 press-out-and-build items including a coliseum and gladiators, a dangling dead pirate, an evil executioner and more.

ISBN: 9781405336598 Hardback

RRP: £25.00

ISBN: 9781407108384 Board Book

RRP: £14.99

Blackwell Price: £20.00

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £11.99

Covers big bangs, shooting stars and gas giants, why gravity sucks, what happens if you get too close to a black hole and more. ISBN: 9781405346160 Hardback

RRP: £12.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99 Published November

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The Way We Work David Macaulay

RRP: £14.99

Blackwell Price: £11.99

Blackwell Price: £9.99

Adrian Mitchell

ISBN: 9781845075361 Hardback


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