New titles are traditionally thin on the ground in December. Next month's highlights are listed above those of November.
FICTION
Krondor Tear of the Gods - Raymond Feist, £6.99
No 3 in the bestselling new Krondor series inspired by the popular computer
game Return to Krondor
Last Judgement - Iain Pears, £6.99
No 4 in the
crime series featuring art dealer Jonathan Argyll. (UK edition - we've been
selling the US one)
In Cuba I was a German Shepherd - Ana Menedez, £6.99
A novel about exile, to appeal to Isabel Allende and Amy Tan readers.
HUMOUR
Still More Christmas Crackers - John Julius Norwich, £7.99
Secret Thoughts of Babies/Cats/Dogs/Men/Women - Steve Appleby, £2.99 each
Roadkill of Middle Earth - John Carnell, £7.99
Humorous send-up of Tolkien, along the lines of Terry Jones’s Pressed
Fairies.
Pantomime Book - Paul Harris, £12.95
The only
book of pantomime jokes and sketches in captivity. Foreword by Roy Hudd.
OTHER NON-FICTION
Delia’s How to Cook Part 3 - Delia Smith,
£18.99
With 120 new recipes.
Weakest Link Quiz Book Bumper Edition, £7.99
They don’t know what’s wrong (Does your illness baffle
the doctors?) - Dr James Le Fanu, £7.99
A collection of
bizarre Mystery Syndromes and reader-recommended cures from the popular
Telegraph medical columnist.
Origami Paper Airplanes and Origami Paper Animals, £6.95 ea
What Colour is Your Parachute - Richard Bolles, 14.99
The practical manual for career-changers, now in its 32nd year.
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche,
£9.99
10th anniversary edition of this spiritual book on living and
dying with dignity and respect
Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon,£7.99
Reissue of the political classic
More humorous books this month from, amongst others, John Mortimer, Ben Elton, Terry Pratchett, Peter Tinniswood and Stephen Fry. Sebastian Faulks, Ian Rankin and John Grisham have paperbacks out. Non-fiction topics range from foot-and-mouth disease to the role of women under Islam and we'll also be offering the Guardian Year, a Radio Times guide to films, Real Ale Pubs and card games and tricks - and for hardy types, the Night Sky and a popular annual camping guide.
FICTION
HARDBACK
Dead Famous - Ben Elton, £14.99 at The Book Case
A whodunnit that satirises the “Big Brother” phenomenon from the
popular alternative comedian.
Rumpole Rests His Case - John Mortimer, £14.99 at
The Book Case
Six brand-new stories about the redoubtable legal gent.
PAPERBACK
On Green Dolphin Street - Sebastian Faulks, £11.00
at The Book Case
A novel about America during the Cold War and one solitary
woman.
Number9dream - David Mitchell, £6.99
Booker-shortlisted novel set in Japan about a young man’s search for
his father.
The Bay of Angels - Anita Brookner, £6.99
Set in
London and Nice, this is her 20th novel. “Not everyone needs conventional
relationships to be happy.”
Cape Breton Road - D. R. MacDonald, £6.99
Love
story with violent undercurrents; a young car thief returns penniless to Nova
Scotia.
A Painted House - John Grisham, £6.99
A young
boy’s childhood in rural Arkansas.
The Falls - Ian Rankin, £6.99
A student has gone
missing in Edinburgh - and she’s the daughter of influential bankers.
Merrick - Anne Rice, £5.99
Sequel to The
Vampire Armand. Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo.
The Truth - Terry Pratchett, £5.99
The man in
the cowboy hat’s 25th Discworld novel. Many people want Discworld’s
first newspaper editor dead.
Nanny Oggy’s Cookbook - Terry Pratchett, £7.99
An almanac of information with some of the best recipes from
Discworld’s famous witch.
The Star’s Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry, £5.99
Thriller-cum-love story from the popular comic actor and author.
Touch of Daniel - Peter Tinniswood,
£9.99
New edition of the Northern deadpan comic classic of the
'60s, "where the men say nowt if they can help it and the women carp endlessly
without ever getting anywhere. Introduced by David Nobbs.
Flying under Bridges - Sandy Toksvig, £6.99
Inge
and Eve went to school together, but now have nothing in common - until one of
them becomes a killer.
Alexander 3: The Ends of the Earth - Valerio Massimo
Manfredi, £9.99
Final book in the Alexander trilogy, in which
Alexander continues through Asia towards India.
Alexander 2: The Sands of Ammon - Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
£5.99
Second book now in mass-market format.
The Radiance of the King - Camara Laye, £7.99
Reissue of this African classic with introduction by Toni Morrison.
The Third Witch - Rebecca Reisert, £6.99
Historical fiction about a wise-woman and her two companions, at the time
of Macbeth.
Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories, £7.99
From
the author of Mr Nice, an anthology of stories from drug users, abusers,
smugglers, traffickers and prisoners. It’s listed as fiction ...
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Austen: Biography - Carol Shields, £6.99
By
the award-winning novelist
COOKERY
Moosewood Restaurant New Classics - Clarkson Potter,
£18.99
400 recipes from the famous restaurant
HISTORY
Soldier Sahibs - Charles Allen, £9.99
Now in
paperback, a colourful narrative history of mid-19th century wars on the
North-West frontier.
The Great Game: on secret service in High Asia - Peter
Hopkirk, £9.99
Reissue of the classic on the secret war waged
between Britain and Russia in mid-Asia in the Victorian period.
The Riddle and the Knight - Giles Milton, £6.99
Investigates the 14th-century journey of Sir John Mandeville, who claimed
to have visited Jerusalem, India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo.
Spoken, Broken and Bloody English: the story of Bernard Shaw,
Linguaphone and Eliza Doolittle - Jan Marsh, £14.95
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Linguaphone, this illustrated book
includes a CD with a recording of George Bernard Shaw in 1927 with observations
on how English should be spoken.
HUMOUR
Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman (aged 55 3/4) - Sue
Townsend, £14.99
A collection of her humorous non-fiction
writings for the last ten years.
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Dating & Sex - Joshua H. Piven, £9.99
MIND-BODY-SPIRIT
Conamara Blues - John O’Donohue,
£5.99
from the author of Anam Cara
Black Holes and Energy Pirates - Jesse Jean Reeder,
£10.99
How to reverse the process of undermining your own inner
resources.
New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty
Edwards, £14.99
A new edition of the world’s most
widely-used drawing instruction book
Rune Cards - Ralph Blum, £12.99
Little
Book of Runes - Ralph Blum, £5.99
An introduction to the use
of runes for self-counselling and consultation
Troublesome Things: a history of fairies and fairy stories -
Diane Purkiss, £8.99
A history of fairies and stories about
fairies.
POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa - Alex Garland et
al, £7.99
Collection of writings on the Sudan by seven well-known
figures; part of a Sudan Awareness Campaign, Nov. 2001-Jan. 2002
Out of Control - Rachael Porter, £12.99
From
Farming Press, the story behind the Foot & Mouth outbreak
The Fall of the Imam - Nawal El-Sadawi, £7.95
The role of women in Muslim society
250 Ways to Make Britain Better, eds. Iain Dale & Jo
Philips, £9.99
An irreverent collection of assorted
celebrities’ ideas
PHILOSOPHY
I Think Therefore I Laugh - John Allen Paulos, £6.99
A light-hearted introduction to the fundamental problems of modern
philosophy.
REFERENCE
Troublesome Words - Bill Bryson, £16.99
New
edition of the entertaining English usage guide
The Guardian Year 2001, £12.99
50th anniversary
edition, with free copy of The Bedside Years 1951-2001 thrown in (but
not available separately)
Radio Times Guide to Films, ed. K. Fane-Saunders,
£19.99
Updated edition with 300+ new movies
Real Ale Pub Guide 2002 - Graham Titcombe, £9.99
Newly-researched directory to keepers of the best from independent and
micro-breweries.
Gem Card Tricks, £4.99
Gem Family and
Party Games, £4.99
SCIENCE
How to Build a Time Machine - Paul Davies, £9.99
The well-known physicist argues that time travel is possible.
85 Ways to Tie a Tie: the science and aesthetics of knots -
Thomas Fink & Yong Mao, £5.99
Two physicists and a branch of
mathematics called Knot Theory.
It Ain’t Necessarily So - Richard Lewontin,
£9.99
Provocative essays on science and biology, with a new
chapter on GM food
SPORTS AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Flame of Adventure - Simon Yates, £16.99
Experiences at the margins from the mountaineer and traveller. He was Joe
Simpson’s climbing partner in Touching the Void, and gave an
entertaining illustrated talk at Calder High a few years ago.
Cricket and All That - Henry Blofeld, £16.99
Amusing history of cricket from the sixteenth century on.
Times Night Sky 2002, £4.99
The annual booklet
of star charts.
Good Camps Guide to Britain and Ireland (Alan Rogers), £8.99
Staying Off the Beaten Track in England and Wales 2002 - ed. Jan Bowmer, £10.00
Of major local interest this month will be Elaine Feinstein’s biography of Ted Hughes and the paperback edition of Juliet Barker’s biography of William Wordsworth. The latter, priced at £9.99, will however be an abridged edition - so you might prefer to buy the hardback. We have a limited number of signed copies.
Two illustrated books on Yorkshire by Sir Bernard Ingham will no doubt be popular in his native town!
There will also be lots of humorous books, for early Christmas shoppers.
FICTION
HARDBACK
Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende, £14.99 at The
Book Case
A sweeping family saga set in late nineteenth-century Chile, with
characters from Daughters of Fortune and The House of Spirits.
Last Hero - Terry Pratchett, £15.99 at The Book
Case
New Discworld novel, illustrated in full colour throughout by Paul
Kidby.
PAPERBACK
Death in Holy Orders - P. D. James, £7.99 at the
Book Case
The body of a student is found on the shore near an Anglican
theological college on a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast. Dalgliesh
investigates. Reviews have been enthusiastic.
The Constant Gardener - John le Carre,
£6.99
Diplomat and gardener Justin Quayle sets out to track down his
wife’s killers and uncovers frightening truths about an unscrupulous
international pharmaceutical conglomerate.
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan, £6.99
A mother-daughter relationship, ranging between pre-war China and modern
San Francisco.
The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin,
£6.99
After eight years, a new novel about the growing relationship
between a late-night radio broadcaster and a young, troubled listener.
The Peppered Moth - Margaret Drabble, £6.99
Spans four generations of one family, from Bessie living in a Yorkshire
mining town in 1905 to her granddaughter listening to a lecture on genetic
inheritance.
Games at Twilight - Anita Desai, £6.99
Short
stories set in Bombay and other Indian cities.
The Telling - Ursula Le Guin, £9.99
The
long-awaited new novel in the Hainish cycle which includes The Dispossessed,
Left Hand of Darkness and City of Illusions.
Gardener to the King - Frederic Richaud, £6.99
Debut novel set in 1674 in the court of Louis XIV. While the Sun
King’s reign spirals into a regime of fear, the head gardener at
Versailles pursues his own struggle to make the gardens and orchards a perfect
work of art. Translated from the French
Les Liaisons Culinaires - Andreas Stakais, £5.99
Two Greek men compete for the same woman with tempting meals.
Independent People - Halldor Laxness, £7.99
First mass-market edition of this funny, sardonic tale of a sheep farmer
and his daughter by a Nobel prizewinner.
Where were you, Robert? - Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
£6.99
A 15-year-old boy learns to time-travel and becomes an
artist’s apprentice in 17th-century Amsterdam.
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Ted Hughes: the life of a poet - Elaine Feinstein,
£20
A biography of former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, and an
exploration of his marriage to Sylvia Plath. The author argues that they were
both flawed geniuses and that the truth about the failure of their marriage
must incorporate her fragility and his recklessness.
Wordsworth: a life - Juliet Barker, £9.99
Now in
(abridged) paperback, the great poet as public icon and family man, by
acclaimed local author.
Dear Tom - Tom Courtenay (paperback £7.99, audio
£8.99: 2 cass, 2h30m)
In this exchange of letters between his mother
and himself, the Northern-born actor portrays his life in the heady 1960s.
Yorkshire Lad - Brian Turner, £12.99
A memoir
with recipes, from his father’s transport cafe to his chairmanship of the
Academy of Culinary Arts.
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris - Ian Kershaw, £10.99
Vivid biography shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography and Samuel Johnson
Prizes.
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis - Ian Kersham, £10.99.
Completes the biography.
Fear and Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson,
£9.99
Correspondence covering 1968-1976, including his feelings
on his famous road novel.
The Assassin’s Cloak - ed. Alan Taylor, £14.99
An anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, on a day-to-day basis.
HISTORY
History of Britain, Volume 2 - Simon Schama, £25.00
Covers the period 1603-1776 and continues this extremely successful and
wide-ranging popular history. TV tie-in.
Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Villages,
£11.99
Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles,
£11.99
From Dalesman, these two photographic books covering
different aspects of Yorkshire history.
Redcoat - Richard Holmes, £20.00
The British
soldier 1700-1900, with humour, anecdotes and historical analysis. Illustrated.
Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek - Barry
Cunliffe, £12.99
An account of the journey of the first literate
man in the ancient world to visit Britain and reach the southerly limits of the
Arctic sea ice.
HUMOUR (in no particular order)
Unstoppable If ... - Steve Bell, £9.99
Political
cartoons from The Guardian.
Darwin Awards 1, £5.99 and Darwin
Awards 2: They Never Learn! - Wendy Northcutt, £9.99
True
stories of how dumb humans have met their maker.
Cartoon Classics: Nicholas Bentley, £8.99
Cartoon Classics: Henry Bateman, £8.99
Series of
classic cartoonists.
Private Eye Productions:
Better Latte than
Never, £4.99
Coffee shop etiquette to Tantric Yoga.
(It’s grim up North London).
Private Eye Annual 2001 - ed.
Ian Hislop, £8.99
St Albion Parish News 4: More Vicar,
anyone? £4.99
Little Book of Dumb Britain,
£1.99
Basil Brush: My Story - Basil Brush and Andrew Crofts,
£12.99, 3-hour audio 8.99,
The highs and lows of the ebullient
fox’s media career.
A Local Book for Local People, £8.99
Official
paperback tie-in to the League of Gentlemen’s BBC black comedy.
Massive - Ali G, £12.00
The gansta rapper’s
Guide to Life.
Iron Tonic - Edward Gorey, £5.99
Another macabre
offering from the late artist.
Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Pages 1985-1995 - Bill Watterson,
£9.99
A reprint of the exhibition catalogue from a recent US festival
of cartoon art, with the rough drawing and notes opposite the finished strip.
Far Side Rarely Seen Desk Calendar 2002 - Gary Larson,
£9.99
Far Side Rarely Seen Wall Calendar 2002 - Gary
Larson, £8.99
Some you haven’t seen for a while, and
certainly not in a calendar.
Far Side Last Impressions Calendar 2002
- Gary Larson, £10.99
The 17th and Final Last Ever Far Side
Off the Wall Calendar.
Box of Bennetts: Selected Non-Fiction - Alan Bennett,
£29.99 (cassettes)
Including Lady in the Van, Telling Tales,
Diaries 1980-1990 and Alan Bennett at the BBC.
Slightly Foxed but Still Desirable - Ronald Searle,
£18.99
The wicked world of book collecting.
The Complete Freak Brothers - Gilbert Shelton,
£22.99
For those who remember the ‘60s, all the b&w
comics + coloured covers and other artwork.
ART
Arcadian Cipher - Peter Blake, £7.99
The art
historian examines the Holy Blood Holy Grail theme from the point of view of
geometric themes in the works of Poussin and Leonardo.
Secret Knowledge - David Hockney, £35.00
BBC
tie-in on the scientific techniques used by the Old Masters.
PICTORIAL
Earth from the Air: 365 Days - Yann Arthus-Bertrand,
£24.95
Visually stunning daybook of photographs.
Midsummer Snowballs - Andy Goldsworthy,
£18.95
The artist put 13 huge snowballs into the city of London on
midsummer’s day and chronicled the results in over 100 colour photographs.
COOKERY
Rick Stein’s Seafood, £25.00
A comprehensive
guide to seafood cookery
POETRY
Too Black, Too Strong - Benjamin Zephaniah, £7.95
First book of poems in 5 years forcefully addresses the problems of black
Britain.
Poems on the Underground - ed. Gerard Benson et al,
£14.99
Tenth edition, and now up to 300 titles.
101 Poems to Keep You Sane - ed. Daisy Goodwin,
£9.99
A self-help anthology, to coincide with National Poetry Day.
Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems - ed. Wendy Cope, £6.99
POLITICS
An American Addiction - Noam Chomsky, £10 (audio)
Drugs, guerillas and counterinsurgency in US intervention in Colombia.
Anticapitalism: a guide to the movement - intro. George
Monbiot, £10
A host of writers on a host of issues from
immigration to pharmaceutical patents.
Campaign against Cruelty: an activist’s handbook - Alex
Bourke & Ronny Worsey, £4.99
Among Insurgents -
Walking through Burma - Shelby Tucker, £8.99 and
Burma:
the Curse of Independence - Shelby Tucker, £13.99
The first
of these books describes how the 53-year-old author fell into the hands of the
Kachin Independence Army when crossing Burma on foot. Both books deal with the
long-running Burmese civil war and the drugs trade.
Emergence - Steven Johnson, £14.99
The connected
lives of ants, brains, cities and software. Order arrives from the bottom up.
REFERENCE
Guardian Media Guide 2002 - Steve Peak, £15.00 :
10th edition
Whitaker’s Concise Almanac, £20
Good Beer Guide 2002 - Roger Protz,
£12.99
Good Pub Guide 2002 - Alistair Aird, £14.99
Which? Good Food Guide 2002 - ed. Jim Ainsworth,
£15.99
Halliwell’s Film & Video Guide 2002 -
ed. John Walker, £19.99
Movie & Video Guide 2002 -
Leonard Maltin, £8.99
The Annotated Alice - Lewis
Carroll and Martin Gardner, £9.99
Reissue of the 1960s classic
with hundreds of newer discoveries and an arresting cover.
TRAVEL
New editions include Lonely Planet’s SE Asia on a Shoestring, £12.99 and new Rough Guides to Australia, India and Thailand.
MYSTERIES AND SUPERNATURAL
Unearthly Disclosure - Timothy Good, £6.99
Alien
abductions, mutants and government paranoia from the popular writer on
extraterrestrials and UFOs.
In Fairyland: an anthology, £9.99
Witch:
the Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca - Candace Savage, £12.99
Colour illustrated books from the British Museum Press
Way of the Wizards - Tom Cross, £20
The ways and
secrets of wizards in a lavishly illustrated book.
AOB
Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking, £20.00
Brings us up-to-date with advances in scientific thinking. Illustrated
throughout. His first full-length book since Brief History of Time
Return of the Urban Warrior - Barefoot Doctor,
£12.99
More on how to live well in the fast, furious 21st
century.
Honest John’s Mystery Motors, £9.99
Identifying many unidentified historic cars sent in to the Daily
Telegraph’s feature!
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Nation's Favourite Children's Poems, £9.99
The
latest addition to this bestselling poetry series bringing together the
nation's best-loved children's poems, from "The Owl and the Pussycat" to
Michael Rosen's "Chocolate Cake"
Dreadful Acts - Philip Ardagh, £4.99
The second
book in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy sees him continuing his hilarious adventures,
such as narrowly avoiding an explosion, getting involved with a gang of
murderous escaped convicts, and falling in love with a girl with a face like a
camel!
Trials of Death - Darren Shan, £3.99
The fifth
title in the compelling and chilling saga of Darren Shan - but the second part
in a new trilogy, following Darren's initiation into the vampire clan.
Dr Seuss On The Loose! - Dr Seuss, £3.99
A
charming miniature gift book which brings together some of Dr Seuss's favourite
characters in a delightful compilation of verse
A Redwall Winter's Tale - Brian Jacques, £10.99
A colour illustrated gift book, telling a cosy winter story of Redwall
characters, including mole clowns, juggling otters and flying squirrels. With
songs and rhymes incorporated into the story.
SEPTEMBER 2001
FICTION - HARDBACK
Literary giants and megaselling horror-spinners are out in force this month!
The Sweetest Dream - Doris Lessing (£14.99 at The
Book Case)
The 1960s and their legacy, from male and female perspectives.
Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul (£13.99 at The Book
Case)
From pre-partition India to postwar London, a young Indian immigrant
in search of identity. Many of Naipaul’s books are being reissued in
paperback.
Fury - Salman Rushdie (£13.99 at The Book Case)
Set in prosperous but spiritually barren third-millennium New York.
According to Queeney - Beryl Bainbridge (£14.99 at
The Book Case)
A fictionalised account of the life of Dr. Johnson.
An Atonement - Ian McEwan,, (£14.99 at The Book
Case),
Love, war, class, childhood, England and the possibility of
absolution. His best yet, say publishers.
The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer (£14.99 at The Book
Case)
A girl from a privileged background gets involved with an Arab
mechanic. Author is a Nobel prize-winner.
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho (£9.99 at The
Book Case)
A backpacker arrives in a small mountain village, carrying a
notebook and eleven gold bars.
Black House - Stephen King & Peter Straub
(£15.99 at The Book Case)
A small American town in held in the grip
of evil.
Once - James Herbert (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Love, lust and darkest horror.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass
- Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (£9.99 each)
Beautiful new editions from Bloomsbury, aimed at adults.
PAPERBACK
Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (£7.99)
Booker
Prizewinner. Iris Chase remembers her sister’s mysterious death ten days
after the war ended.
The Laying On of Hands - Alan Bennett (£6.99)
A
memorial service is held for a young man who has died abroad in mysterious
circumstances. Also available on cassette.
Justification of Johann Gutenberg - Blake Morrison
(£6.99)
Debut novel evoking the colourful, plague-ridden world of
15th-century Europe.
Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark (£5.99)
Black
comedy about Lord Lucan’s disappearance.
A Desert in Bohemia - Jill Paton Walsh (£6.99)
Exile and survival in Eastern Europe from the Nazis to the fall of
Communism.
Something Special - Iris Murdoch (£5.99)
Her
only short story (80 pages), previously unpublished in the West.
Shattered - Dick Francis (£6.99)
A jockey dies
in a steeplechase, and a stolen videotape must be found.
The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara 1: Ilse Witch - Terry Brooks
(£6.99)
First of a new 5-part saga; the mutilated body of an elf
is found floating in the sea.
The Rising Sun - Douglas Galbraith (£6.99)
Historical fiction: a young Scot becomes the unofficial chronicler of
seventeenth-century emigrants bound for Panama.
My Uncle Silas - H. E. Bates, ill. Edward Ardizzone
(£6.99)
To coincide with ITV’s new series starring Albert
Finney.
NON-FICTION
Coming Up from the Streets - Tessa Swithinbank
(£12.00)
The story of Big Issue.
Talking Dirty Laundry with the Queen of Clean - Linda Cobb
(£6.99)
Banish washday blues with savvy tips ...
Audience with an Elephant - Byron Rogers (£12.99)
Writings “on the strange side of England” from this popular
Telegraph and Guardian writer.
onetree - Peter Toaig & Garry Olson
(£19.95)
Photographic record of how an aged oak in Cheshire was
felled and every last part of it distributed to designers and craftspeople;
they were asked to produce an object that demonstrated the beasuty and
diversity of wood.
We'Moon Diary 2002 (£14.99)
Gaia Rhythms for
Womyn Priestessing the Planet. Always one of our bestsellers.
TV & RADIO TIE-INS
Blue Planet (£25.00)
Tie-in to major BBC natural history series.
Archers Encyclopaedia - Joanna Toye (£15.99)
To
coincide with the programme's 50th anniversary, information and anecdotes on
every character and place that has ever appeared in it.
Happy Days with the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver
(£20.00)
A new collection of recipes to tie in with the new BBC2
series.
Hello Culture - Matthew Collings (£20.00)
From
Rimbaud to The Sex Pistols. Channel 4 tie-in.
Cancer - Jeffrey Tobias (£14.99)
BBC tie-in,
demystifying the disease and its treatments.
FILM, THEATRE & WRITING
Time Out Film Guide - ed. John
Pym (£14.99)
Tenth edition.
Backing into the Limelight - Alexander Games
(£20.00)
The first serious critical biography of Alan Bennett.
Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge - Paul Allen
(£20.00)
The full and authorised biography.
I’d Go Back Tomorrow: 30 Years of the Mikron Theatre Company
- Mike Lucas (£15.00)
The story of the canal-boat-based
theatre company, well-known in Hebden Bridge.
Film: the Critics’ Choice - Geoff Andrew
(£25.00)
“150 masterpieces selected and defined by the
experts”.
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, 2002 (£10.99)
On Writing: A Memoir - Stephen King (£6.99)
How
he does it!
CURRENT AFFAIRS
The Dressing Station: a Surgeon’s Odyssey
- Jonathan Kaplan (£15.99)
From NHS and Australian flying
doctor service, Kaplan went to Kurdistan and Burma as a battlefield surgeon.
A Mad World, My Masters - John Simpson (£7.99)
The BBC foreign correspondent’s journeys to the world’s trouble
spots.
Soul and Soil: dispatches of a Celtic ecowarrior - Alastair
McIntosh (£16.99)
What individuals can do to stand up against
global capitalism.
REFERENCE
HDRA Encyclopaedia of Organic Gardening - ed.
Pauline Pears (£25.00)
Major reference work from the Henry
Doubleday Research Association.
Food for Free - Richard Mabey (£14.99)
Revised
edition of this guide to finding food in the wild, with photographic
illustrations.
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2002 (£9.99)
People on People: Oxford Dictionary of Biographical
Quotations (£17.99)
Famous people on other famous people.
Concise Oxford Dictionary (£17.99)
Tenth
edition, with over 240,000 words.
Encyclopaedia of Games (£14.99)
“Rules and
strategies for more than 250 Indoor and Outdoor Games”. We’re often
asked for something like this, so here it is!
And new editions of a number of Philips world atlases.
SPORT
Manchester United’s 100 Greatest Players -
David Meek (£14.99)
As chosen by the fans.
The Official MU Quiz Book (£6.99)
David Batty - David Batty (£17.99)
The combative
Leeds and England midfielder reveals all.
HUMOUR
Telling Tales - Alan Bennett (£6.99)
Recollections of early childhood in Leeds.
Darwin Awards 2 - Wendy Northcutt (£12.99)
Beryl Cook: Bumper Edition (£12.99)
Over 300
colour pictures.
HISTORY
London: the Biography - Peter Ackroyd
(£12.99)
The book on the city from the Druids to the
Millennium, including childhood, suicide, Cockney speech and drinking.
Immortal Dinner - Penelope Hughes-Hallet
(£7.99)
The meal in 1817 London at which Haydon entertained
Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb. One of Radio 4’s Top Five Books.
Women in Purple: Rulers of Byzantium - Judith Herrin
(£20.00)
The dramatic lives of three Byzantine empresses: Irene,
Euphrosyne and Theodora.
The Corset: a cultural history - Valerie Steele
(£29.95)
The controversial history of the corset with lots of colour
illustrations.
Heaven: a History - Colleen McDannell & Bernhard Lang
(£9.99)
Updated to include contemporary views, this is an
illustrated tour of heaven as pictured by believers and in popular culture
through the ages.
The Coldest March - Susan Solomon (£19.95)
Senior US scientist argues that Scott and his companions were not bunglers,
but competent men defeated by unprecedentedly bad weather conditions.
The Yorkist Age - Paul Murray Kendall (£5.99)
Daily life during the Wars of the Roses.
Nelson and his Captains - Ludovic Kennedy (£4.99)
PSYCHOLOGY
Friends and Enemies - Dorothy Rowe
(£8.99)
The respected psychologist on why we need enemies as well
as friends.
Night Falls Fast: understanding suicide - Kay Redfield Jamison
(£7.99)
A penetrating analysis of the third biggest killer of the
young in the Western world.
The Skilled Helper - Gerard Egan (£25.95)
Seventh edition of this substantial counselling classic.
TRAVEL
A savvy alternative to the popular Lonely Planet and Rough
Guides is Footprint, publisher of the South American Handbook since
1924. The 2002 edition of this (£21.99) and their India Handbook
(£15.99) come out this month.
Good Hotel Guide, Great Britain & Ireland, 2002 - Adam Raphael (£15.99)
CHILDREN
Jacqueline Wilson Diary 2002 (£4.99)
A
week-to-week diary featuring drawings and quotations from the bestselling books
and twelve diary entries from some well known characters.
Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman (£6.99)
The final
instalment in the “His Dark Materials” trilogy. For all those who are
dying to learn the fate of Will and Lyra, hoping for the return of Iorek
Byrnison, longing to know the truth about Dust, this book has the answers.
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
(£4.99)
Twig, the young sky pirate captain, is the only person who can
save Sanctaphrax from impending doom. But first he has to once again venture
into the Deepwoods and beyond, where he and his crew almost lost their lives.
The Curse of the Gloamglozer - Paul Stewart and Chris
Riddell (£9.99 at The Book Case)
Fourth adventure in the
bestselling “Edge Chronicles” series for children who have read the
Harry Potter books and want another world to explore.
Compass Murphy - Stephen Potts (£4.99)
An epic
adventure story, set on land, at sea, and amidst the arctic ice, which is also
a physical and emotional voyage of discovery, based on a boy’s journey to
the far north in search of his missing father.
Ricky Ricotta’s Giant Robot - Dave Pilkey
(£3.99)
From the creator of Captain Underpants, meet Ricky Ricotta.
He’s an ordinary mouse with ordinary problems. Then, one day, a giant
flying robot enters his life. The evil Dr Stinky has created the robot to try
to destroy Squeakville. But the robot doesnt want to harm the mice, and he
tries to escape his conniving creator.
Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah (£4.99)
Abandoned in London by parents desperate to avoid political problems, back
home in Ethiopia, Alem wakes up to find himself alone and in the care of social
services.
Calling A Dead Man - Gillian Cross
(£6.99)
Thriller from a Carnegie Medal Winning Author, following two
girls on the trail of murder in the heart of Russia. For 12-yr-olds upwards.
Big Bad Bunny - Alan Durant
(£4.99)
Picture book about a loveable rogue, who gets his
comeuppance, but not a thrashing, when Wise Old Bunny finally outwits him
Horris Henry’s Revenge - Francesca Simon
(£3.99)
New title in the increasingly popular series.
AUGUST 2001
FICTION
HARDBACK
Adam and Eve & Pinch Me
- Ruth Rendell (£14.99 at The Book Case)
A handsome
ne-er-do-well falls foul of one of his mistresses.
Fallen Angels - Tracy
Chevalier (£11.99 at The Book Case)
By the author of Girl with a
Pearl Earring, the story of the twentieth century told through the lives and
fortunes of two families.
Someone to Watch Over Me
- Paul Wilson (£11.99 at The Book Case)
The dark secrets of a
Lancashire town: a drily written mystery.
PAPERBACK
In the Shape of a Boar - Lawrence Norfolk
(£6.99)
Greek partisans hunt an SS officer in the last days
of World War II, witnessed by a young Romanian Jew.
Turlough - Brian Keenan
(£6.99)
A picaresque novel based around the life of the blind
harpist Turlough O’Callaghan.
Little Green Man - Simon
Armitage (£11.99 at The Book Case)
First novel, about male
friendship, from the Huddersfield poet.
Piranha To Scurfy & Other
Stories - Ruth Rendell (£5.99)
A collection of short crime
stories from the macabre to the mysterious.
The Shape of Snakes -
Minette Walters (£6.99)
In the strike-paralysed Britain of 1978,
a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Seventh crime novel from this
best-selling author.
Super Cannes - J. G.
Ballard (£6.99)
Crime in a high-tech Mediterranean business park:
a blend of thriller and fantastic imaginings.
Whispers in the Sand -
Barbara Erskine (£5.99)
A suspense novel set in Egypt, from the
author of Lady of Hay.
From the Corner of his
Eye - Dean Koontz (£6.99)
His latest thriller about a boy
with no eyes who regains his “sight”.
What Looks Like Crazy on an
Ordinary Day - Pearl Cleage (£6.99)
Oprah recommendation
about two sisters.
Parrot’s Theorem -
Denis Guedj (£6.99)
French bestseller about a parrot who teaches a
boy the history of maths, in the tradition of Sophie’s World.
Running Away from Richard
- Chris Manby (£5.99)
“Chick Lit” - Lizzie has just
graduated from drama school.
NON-FICTION
POPULAR ANNUAL PUBLICATIONS:
The Writers Handbook 2002 - Barry Turner (£12.99)
Millers Antiques Price Guide - Elizabeth Norfolk (£22.99)
Rothmans Football Year Book - Glenda & Jack Rollin (£18.99)
Collins Road Atlas to Britain and Ireland (£7.99 & £9.99)
Discworld Thieves Guild Diary (£10.99)
The Good Website Guide 2002 (£3.99)
HARDBACK
A House Unlocked -
Penelope Lively (£14.99)
The novelist tells the story of the
twentieth century through the things in her grandparents’ house.
Bon Appetit - Peter Mayle
(£15.99)
“Travels with a knife, fork and corkscrew through
France” by the author of A Year in Provence.
African Village - Margo
Russell (£18.99)
An English family spend 10 weeks living and
working as part of a clan homestead in rural Swaziland. Channel 4 tie-in.
The Forgiveness of Nature
- Graham Harvey (£17.99)
A book about grass and grassland,
from the Agricultural Story Editor of The Archers.
A Guide to Dry Stone
Walling - Andy Radford (£14.99)
History, development and
advice on building and repair, from Crowood Press.
My Father’s Keeper -
Stephen Lebert (£16.99)
Interviews with the children of prominent
Nazis.
Napoleon and Wellington: the long dual - Andrew Roberts (£25.00)
Botham’s Century -
Ian Botham (£18.99)
100 colourful portraits of cricketing
characters.
PAPERBACK
The Boys are Back in Town
- Simon Carr (£5.99)
Single parenthood from a male
perspective; recently serialised on Radio 4.
E=mc2 - David Bodanis
(£6.99)
The story of the best-known scientific equation ever.
The Penguin TV Companion
- Jeff Evans (£12.99)
Guide to British TV from plots and
characters to actors, producers, directors and writers.
Something New under the
Sun - J. R. McNeill (£8.99)
Environmental history of the
twentieth century.
The Yellow Cross - Rene Weis (£7.99)
“The
story of the last Cathars, 1290-1329”. An addition to The Book Case’s
Cathar shelf.
The Pattern on the Stone
- W. Daniel Hillis (£6.99)
The simple ideas that make
computers work.
The Rough Guide to Manchester United 2001-2 - Andy Mitten (£5.99)
DICTIONARIES: new, the Encarta Concise Dictionary, £17.99, the Collins Concise Dictionary, £16.99, and the New Penguin English Dictionary in paperback at £9.99.
CALENDARS: as always we have our major calendar deliveries in August, with glorious selections from Pomegranate, Tushita, Tidemark, etc.
On CD: Alan Bennett’s Lady in the Van, Clothes They Stood Up In (£12.99 each) and Englishman Abroad (£8.99 CD, £6.99 tape)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS:
The Obvious Elephant - Bruce Robinson
(£4.99)
From the author of the (grown-up!) book Withnail
and I, this picture book tells the story of how a little boy called Eric
names the elephant who suddenly appears in the village square.
Wizard's Magic Box (£6.99)
This box contains
magic tricks, potions, glow-in-the-dark toys, a magic wand and a 32-page
wizard's handbook. A must for all the budding Harry Potters out there!
Red, White and Blue - Robert Leeson
(£4.99)
In this reissue of an old favourite, Wain
writes down three versions of the way he sees his life, in red, white and
blue.
Can You Sue Your Parents? - Paula Danziger
(£3.99)
Lauren's been dumped by her boyfriend and pushed
around by her parents. One day she decides enough is enough so she takes a new
class at school - law for children and young people!
Song Quest - Katherine Roberts (£4.99)
When a
mainlander ship is wrecked and the beautiful Merlee is heard crying across the
waves, the lives of three young novice singers are changed for ever.
At the Crossing-Places - Kevin Crossley-Holland
(£9.99 at The Book Case)
Follow-up to The Seeing
Stone. Arthur de Caldicot sets off for Bruges on a crusade; on the way he
looks into the shining stone Merlin gave him and sees revealed the legends of
King Arthur and his knights.
JULY 2001
FICTION
HARDBACK
The Fourth Hand - John
Irving (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Explores the themes of
loss, grief, love and redemption, and the power of second chances.
The Dying Animal - Philip
Roth (£11.99 at The Book Case)
A 70-year-old lecturer is
obsessed with a female student.
PAPERBACK
The Wrong Boy - Willy
Russell (£6.99)
From the author of Shirley
Valentine, the hilarious locally-based story about a boy from a
“normal” Northern family, consisting of letters mostly written on
public transport, in coach stations and service stations.
Slow Down Arthur, Stick to
Thirty - Harland Miller (£6.99)
Billy returns to his
Yorkshire home town and discovers it’s now the 1980s. This comic and
moving story may be filmed.
Alexander Vol 1: Child of a Dream - Valerio Massimo Manfredi (£5.99) European bestseller about the early years of Alexander the Great. First of a trilogy.
Alexander Vol 2: Sands of
Ammon - Valerio Massimo Manfredi (£10.99)
Alexander’s
quest to conquer Asia, in trade paperback.
The Temple of Optimism -
James Fleming (£6.99)
Eighteenth-century life in rural
Derbyshire, based around the relationships between two men and one woman. Has
been compared with Jane Austen.
Eclipse - John Banville
(£6.99)
A successful actor staggers offstage at the peak of his
career. “A melancholy ghost story”
Gertrude & Claudius -
John Updike (£6.99)
A reworking of the Hamlet story from a
different angle.
We were the Mulvaneys -
Joyce Carol Oates (£6.99)
The rise, fall and redemption of
one American family. An Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection.
The Future Home Makers of
America - Laurie Graham (£9.99)
Encounter in the freezing
fens of 1953 between the girls of USAF Drampton and Kate Pharaoh, a reticent
but proud Englishwoman.
Maya - Jostein Gaarder
(£6.99)
Creation, evolution, consciousness and existence
explored within a fictional framework by the author of Sophie’s World.
Hey Yeah Right Get a Life - Helen Simpson (£6.99)
Humorous short stories about women by award-winning young writer.
The Redemption of Althalus
- David Eddings (£7.99)
Stand-alone fantasy epic
Colony - Rob Grant
(£5.99)
Ten generations after the good ship Willflower
blasts off to colonise the stars, things go badly wrong. A novel by the Red
Dwarf author.
Year of the Griffin -
Diana Wynne Jones (£6.99)
Hilarious sequel to The Dark
Lord of Derkholm. “Harry Potter with A-levels”.
Bleeding Hearts - Ian
Rankin (£5.99)
Second Jack Harvey novel. An American girl
is accidentally killed by a sniper on the steps of a London hotel.
Immaculate Deception -
Iain Pears (£5.99)
Seventh novel in the art mystery
series.
And Stratus are planning a mass republishing of many old favourites such as Rudyard Kipling, Richard Gordon, Nicholas Freeling and Georgette Heyer. Ask for details!
NON-FICTION
HARDBACK:
Two Men in a Trench -
Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver (£18.99)
Two archaeologists visit
the sites of six major British battles. TV tie-in.
The Mummy Congress -
Heather Pringle (£15.99)
The science and history of
mummification.
The Map that Changed the
World - Simon Winchester (£12.99)
The story of William Smith
who struggled against adversity to produce the first geological map of
Britain.
Left Book Club Anthology
- Paul Laity (£20.00)
A 65th anniversary anthology from
the Gollancz Left Book Club,including extracts from Orwell, Koestler and
Spender.
PAPERBACK
Lost Boy - Dave Pelzer
(£5.99)
The second of the trilogy about the author’s journey
through the foster care system searching for a family to love him.
Electric Light - Seamus
Heaney (£8.99 inc VAT)
Unabridged reading by the author on single
90-min. cassette.
Dr Johnson’s London
- Liza Picard (£9.99)
A vivid portrait, based on
contemporary documents, of the capital at the heigh of the gin craze.
Restoration London - Liza
Picard (£9.99)
Everyday life in the 1660s, from Slang to
Sex and Wallpaper to Women’s Rights.
Collins Book of English
Verse (£9.99)
Classic verse in A-Z sequence.
Namma: A Tibetan Love Story
- Kate Karko (£7.99)
A western girl who marries a Tibetan,
lives in a tent on the roof of the world and learns her new family’s ideas
on nature and religion.
In the footsteps of Mr
Kurtz - Michela Wrong (£7.99)
A century after
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Michela Kurtz visits the Congo of
Mobuto Sese Seko. Dark comedy, social turmoil and human endurance.
Vital Signs 2001-2002 -
Worldwatch Institute (£12.95)
Annual publication
highlighting key trends often missed by the media and governments.
Available again:
Iron John - Robert Bly (£7.99)
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren - Iona & Peter Opie (£9.99)
PLUS
the AA and O/S-Philips will be producing their new motoring atlases,
Dorling Kindersley continue with their excellent bargain healthcare series from Ayurveda to Reiki at £4.99 each
and the advance guard of the 2002 diaries and calendars arrives on the scene with the Redstone Diary, Peter Rabbit, Flower Fairies and others, with lots more in August!
CHILDREN’S: THE BIG ONE! -
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling (£6.99)
It’s OK, I’m
wearing really big knickers - Louise Rennison (£4.99)
Teenage
novel by the Smarties Prizewinner
and a range of classics reissued, such as Elidor (£5.99) by Alan Garner, Beowulf Dragon Slayer by Rosemary Sutcliffe (£4.99) and In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (£5.99)
JUNE 2001
FICTION - HARDBACK
A Son of War by Melvyn
Bragg (£14.99 at The Book Case):
the moving sequel to the
award-winning The Soldier’s Return.
Siege by Helen Dunmore
(£14.99 at The Book Case):
a story of war and love set
during the siege of Leningrad.
Back When We Were
Grown-ups - Anne Tyler (£13.99 at The Book Case):
first new
novel since Patchwork Planet. Deals with love and loss, identity and
family.
Balzac and the little
Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie (£10.00):
an unusual
attractive novel about two boys who discover bourgeois literature and the
tailor’s attractive daughter in Mao’s China.
PAPERBACK
Prodigal Summer by
Barbara Kingsolver (£7.99):
story of an Appalachian farming
community and the surrounding wilderness.
The Biographer’s
Tale by A. S. Byatt (£6.99):
witty novel about a
researcher who turns from post-structural criticism to an obsession with a
biographer.
Bettany’s Book by
Thomas Keneally (£6.99):
A welcome new novel set in
Australia and the Sudan during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Love, etc. by Julian
Barnes (£6.99):
return of the characters from Talking
It Over; explores contemporary love and its betrayals.
The Best a Man Can Get by
John O’Farrell (£6.99):
humorous first novel by the
author of Things Can Only Get Better. The precarious double life of an
advertising copywriter.
Ice Cream by Helen
Dunmore (£6.99):
short story collection from the Orange
Prize-winner.
Slammerkin by Emma
Donoghue (£7.99):
historical novel based on the true story
of a girl hanged for murder in 1763, from the author of Stirfry and
Hood.
The Inn at Lake Devine by
Elinor Lipman (£5.99):
comic romantic novel about a
woman’s obsession with an anti-semitic hotel in Vermont.
The Binding Chair by
Kathryn Harrison (£6.99):
a ruthless and spell-binding
novel set in Shanghai and Australia.
The Glass Palace by
Amitav Ghosh (£6.99):
exotic epic saga set in
British-occupied Burma, from the author of the wonderful historic
reconstruction In an Antique Land.
Foucault’s Pendulum
by Umberto Eco (£6.99):
reissue of this crazy, inventive
and erudite novel about three friends who, for fun, reconstruct the secret of
the Templars.
Sushi for Beginners by
Marian Keyes (£6.99):
bestseller about three women
struggling to cope with the stresses of the modern world.
Wild by Esther Freud
(£6.99):
two single-parent families live together in a
converted bakery in the 1970s. From the author of Hideous Kinky.
The Dark-Eyed Girls by
Judith Lennox (£5.99):
three women friends in the 1960s
and 1970s.
The Grail Quest -
Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell (£5.99):
the first in a
new historical fiction series about a medieval archer.
My Summer of Love by
Helen Cross (£9.99):
two teenage girls descend into a
world of wild romance, obsession and violence in the long hot summer of 1984.
Set in Yorkshire.
How the Dead Live by
Will Self (£6.99):
portrait of a 65-year-old woman dying
in a London hospital and contemplating the other world.
Last Precinct by Patricia
Cornwell (£6.99):
the eleventh Kay Scarpetta novel.
Ode to a Banker by
Lindsey Davis (£5.99):
the 12th Falco novel explores Roman
publishing and banking.
In addition, Harper Collins are reissuing “science fiction and fantasy classics” such as Huxley’s Brave New World and T. H. White’s Once and Future King, and Penguin are republishing How Green is My Valley, and Ambrose Bierce’s Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary.
NON-FICTION - HARDBACK:
Two major new historical titles from popular historians:
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir (£20.00).
Marie Antoinette by
Antonia Fraser (£25)
plus her Mary Queen of
Scots in paperback at £12.99.
The Extinction Club by
Robert Twigger (£12.99):
how a rare species of Chinese
deer was saved by a Basque priest and an eccentric Englishman.
Good Housekeeping Organic Handbook by Claire Clifton (£19.99).
Yorkshire from the Air (£22.50).
Sacred Earth, Sacred
Stones - Brian Leigh Molyneaux (£20.00):
highly
illustrated world survey of sacred sites.
If I Don’t Know by
Wendy Cope (£10.99):
a new book of poetry ending with a
long and moving narrative "The Teacher’s Tale". Also on audiocassette at
£8.99
On Sledge and Horseback to
Outcast Siberian Lepers - Kate Marsden (£9.99):
what a
title! The story of a formidable Victorian lady who undertook the journey from
1890-1892.
PAPERBACK
Bad Blood by Lorna
Sage (£7.99):
now in paperback, a literary memoir from the
prize-winning literary critic.
Stonepicker by Frieda
Hughes (£7.95):
a second book of poetry, published by
Bloodaxe.
Geisha by Lesley Downer
(£7.95):
the real secret history of the Geisha.
Guinness Book of British Hit
Singles (£14.99):
14th edition, with a new look.
Superfoods for Babies and Children by Annabel Karmel (£14.99)
Paddling to Jerusalem by
David Aaronovitch (£7.99):
canoeing the waterways and
canals of England on the eve of the Millennium.
Pilgrim Snail: Busking to
Santiago by Ben Nimmo (£7.99):
when the girl he loved
was killed by armed robbers in Belize, the author decided to commemorate her by
walking from Canterbury to Santiago de Compostela, taking his trombone to busk
for charity.
Ordinary Men by
Christopher R. Browning (£8.99):
study of a Nazi
extermination squad
The Girl in the Picture
by Denise Chong (£7.99):
autobiography of the Vietnamese child,
the picture of whom running, burned by napalm, from her burning village, did
much to turn opinion against the Vietnam war.
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T. E. Carhart (£6.99): true story of the discovery of an antiquated piano workshop in Paris.
PLUS
2002 Calendars and Diaries: Tolkien and Tate Gallery. Latter calendar focuses on Rothko. (Lots more calendars in August)
History: Penguin Classic History series continues with In Flanders Fields by Leon Wolff (£4.99), The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton (£4.99) - on medieval thinking - and Consuming Passions by Philippa Pullar: a witty look at sex and food in history.
Travel: new Rough Guides to Canada, Germany, Goa, Japan and Mallorca, Lonely Planet Guides to England and Central America, amongst other places and Footprint Guides to Edinburgh and Dublin.
Health: four pocket guides to different aspects of The Glucose Revolution by Jennie Brand Miller (£2.99 ea.), an Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Massage by Stuart Mitchell (£18.99) and Yoga: an Illustrated Guide by Howard Kent (£12.99) from Thorson.
Following Element’s collapse, Rider are now publishing revised editions of four titles by Kenneth Meadows: Earth Medicine, Medicine Way, Rune Power and Where Eagles Fly. All deal with the traditional wisdom of the American Indian.
Short Books are producing a series at £4.99 each for readers pressed for time, on topics such as The Hungarian who walked to heaven and The Last Action Hero of the British Empire.
Nostalgia on tape & CD: Dick Barton: Special Agent and Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey in The Nine Tailors, from the BBC.
MAY 2001
FICTION - HARDBACK
On Green Dolphin Street
by Sebastian Faulks (£14.99 at The Book Case):
a new departure
for Faulks, set in Washington, where a young woman leads an apparently carefree
existence against the background of the Cold War.
How to be Good by Nick
Hornby (£14.99 at The Book Case):
Dr. Katie Carr feels she’s
earned an affair, but her husband David suddenly becomes unbearably good.
Thief of Time by Terry
Pratchett (£14.99 at The Book Case):
the Monks of History manage
time by diverting to where it’s needed most. No. 26 in the Discworld
series. Also available on cassettes, 2 hours, read by Tony Robinson,
£9.99)
PAPERBACK
Powerbook by Jeanette
Winterson (£6.99):
about an e-writer who will write to order, as
long as you’re prepared to enter the story as yourself, and leave as
someone else.
Ahab’s Wife by Sena
Jeter Naslund (£7.99):
Una Spenser runs away to sea and
disasters, murders, romance and marriage to Captain Ahab in his pre-Moby Dick
days.
Priestess of Avalon by
Marion Zimmer Bradley (£6.99):
completes the Avalon series.
Glue by Irvine Welsh
(£11.00 at The Book Case):
four young men from an Edinburgh
housing scheme come of age.
Killing the Shadows by
Val McDermid (£6.99):
a killer who has a problem with crime
writers meets an academic psychologist specialising in serial offenders.
Needle in the Groove by
Jeff Noon (£6.99):
a revolution in music remixing technology
launches a bass player into the dark soul of rhythm.
Anil’s Ghost by
Michael Ondaatje (£6.99):
love, family and identity in turbulent
Sri Lanka.
Charlotte by D. M.
Thomas (£5.99):
from Duckworth, “the final journey of Jane
Eyre”.
NON-FICTION - HARDBACK:
Moralities: Sex, Power &
Money in the 21st Century by Joan Smith (£14.99):
argues that
traditional anxieties about sex and private life have been replaced by concern
over torture, arms trading, the environment and the unequal distribution of
wealth.
Good Fiction Guide by
Jane Rogers (£20.00):
from OUP, a new guide to English language
fiction, with reference to 1,100 authors and 34 essays on different genres.
The Picador Book of
Cricket by Ramachundra Guha (£20.00):
an anthology of the
very best of cricket writing.
Nigella Bites by Nigella
Lawson (£20):
More fresh uncomplicated recipes to enjoy.
Henry VIII’s Six
Wives by David Starkey (£14.99):
a textured portrait of Tudor
court life from a woman’s point of view. TV tie-in.
PAPERBACK
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, ed. Adrian Room
(£16.99):
new updated millennium version now in paperback.
New Gardening Year by
Peter McHoy (£14.99):
the Reader’s Digest classic in
paperback.
Landscape Detective by
Richard Muir (£16.99):
illustrated guide to landscape
interpretation, based on a Yorkshire Dales landscape.
Ray Mears’ Outdoor
Survival Handbook (£12.99):
classic guide to survival
techniques.
Seeing Things by Oliver
Postgate (£10.99):
autobiography of the creator of Bagpuss,
Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine.
Ann the Word by Richard
Francis (£7.99):
biography of Ann Lee, the Manchester-born
founder of the Shaker Movement.
Paulo Coelho: Confessions of a
Pilgrim by Juan Arias (£7.99):
interviews with the author of
The Alchemist and Veronika Decides to Die.
Salvation: Black People &
Love by Bell Hooks (£9.99):
the ethic of love in the context
of black lives and popular culture.
The Way It Was by Stanley
Matthews (£6.99):
autobiography of the footballing legend.
O’Keeffe’s
O’Keeffes - The Artist’s Collection by Barbara B. Lynes
(£29.95):
a landmark publication, looking at the artist’s
collection of her own work; with 25 first-time reproductions.
Georgia O’Keeffe by
Lisa M. Messinger (£8.95):
World of Art series.
PLUS
Launch of a new Routledge Classics series with a republication of some of the greatest thinkers of our time, including Derrida, Einstein, Foucault, Fromm, Levi-Strauss, Murdoch, Sartre, and Wittgenstein.
Politics & Ethics: apart from Joan Smith (see above), Verso are issuing No-Nonsense Guides to Fair Trade, Climate Change and Globalisation; Duckworth have Intelligent Persons’ Guides to Ethics (Mary Warnock) and Modern Ireland; and there’s a £3.99 paperback Euro Yes or No by Anthony Browne.
Travel: new Rough Guides to France, Crete, and the Pyrenees and Lonely Planet Canary Islands and Iceland, Greenland and the Faroes. Also: Granta 73: Necessary Journeys, ed. Ian Jack (£8.99)
CHILDREN’S:
My Dad by Anthony
Browne (£4.99):
a lovely tribute to Dads from a child’s
point of view.
The Wind Singer by
William Nicholson (£5.99):
An epic struggle of good against evil
by an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter (Shadowlands,
Gladiator). The book won the Gold Award in the 9-11 category in 2000
Smarties Book Prize.
My Many-Coloured Days by
Dr Seuss (£4.99):
explores moods through colour. Different from
his usual style.
Harry Potter stationery: bookplates (£1.99 per pack) and postcards (£2.99 per pack.)
Following on a fine haul of new books in March, April 2001 promises to be equally rewarding.
Of special interest to us locally are, new in paperback from Faber,
The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-62, edited by Karen Kukil (£15.00) and
Ariel’s Gift (a commentary on Birthday Letters) by Erica Wagner (£7.99)
Faber’s also honouring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in its special issue of Faber Children’s Classics (£4.99 each), to celebrate 75 years of publishing children's books.
The six chosen are Collected Children's Stories by Sylvia Plath, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot, Peacock Pie by Walter de la Mare, and the Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear.
FICTION
Important new hardback fiction includes
On Green
Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks,
Border Crossing by Pat
Barker (a child psychiatrist rescues from drowning a man against whom he has
testified in a child murder case), and
Birthday by Alan Sillitoe
(the Seaton brothers four decades on: a sequel to Saturday Night and Sunday
Morning).
Into paperback are
the Whitbread
Novel Award Winner English Passengers by Matthew Kneale;
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat
(her
new hardback, Five Quarters of the Orange, set in wartime France, is
also out in April);
Ben, in the World - Doris Lessing (sequel to
The Fifth Child);
Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy, reputedly
her last novel;
and Stone Baby by Bradford author Joolz Denby who
appeared at last year’s Festival.
NON-FICTION
Some good non-fiction’s due in April too: of local interest is On Ilkley Moor by Tim Binding (16.00) - an “imaginative history” of Ilkley, including Victorian optimism, the 1950s, and Ilkley’s place between England’s rural heritage and its industrial revolution.
Useful
books include:
Collins Complete DIY Manual - revised & updated,
£24.99;
Miriam Stoppard’s highly illustrated Complete Baby
& Child Care - £15.99;
John Seymour’s Forgotten Arts
and Crafts (a bind-up of his two popular titles Forgotten Arts and
Forgotten Household Crafts), £20.00,
and the AA’s 50
Walks in West Yorkshire, £6.99
Into
paperback are:
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
(the sinking of the Whaleship Essex, £6.99) and Experience by
Martin Amis (£7.99).
Aeons: the search for the beginning of time by Martin Guest is expected to prove exciting (£14.99) and The Worst Case Scenario Travel Handbook (£9.99) is arriving just in time to put you off your holidays.
Children and Gervase Phinn fans will welcome a book of his children's poems It takes one to know one! (£3.99) and audiocassette, £7.99
April also sees Flamingo celebrating the 60s with a range of 60s Classics at £4.99, including Kerouac, Burroughs and Joan Didion,
Penguin continues its bargain Classic History series with Huizinga’s Waning of the Middle Ages (£4.99) and Huxley’s Devils of Loudun (£4.99) among others,
Phoenix Press have a plethora of books on the Russian revolution,
and glorious new photographic books include Caves (Michael Ray Taylor, National Geographic Society and companion to the IMAX film, £25), Water by Hans Silvester and Arthus-Bertrand’s Earth from the Air photographs as a postcard book (£6.95).