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1		Three Courses and a Dessert
				Literature
		William Clarke
		Nonsuch 2005 448 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880722
		Published Price £6.00		Sale Price £1.99
	William Clarke (1800-1838) is best known for The Boys' Own Book, but he also published collections of humorous short stories, of which this is the most successful, due in part to its illustrator - George Cruikshank. The 'three courses' are West Country, Irish and legal stories; the 'festal afterpiece' a miscellany of shorter pieces and verses.
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2		Madame Tussaud
		A Life and a Time		Biography
		Teresa Ransom
		Sutton 2003 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0750927658
		Published Price £18.99		Sale Price £4.99
	The wax modelling skills of Madame Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) made her a popular sensation in 19th century Britain: but who was the woman behind the name? Teresa Ransom's absorbing biography tells the story of the brave and imaginative young artisan, who, despite working for the French royal family, managed to survive the revolution by making likenesses of its victims' severed heads, and who fled a disastrous marriage to finally make her reputation and fortune by exhibiting her work in London.
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3		'Ask Mamma'
		or, The Richest Commoner in England		Literature
		Robert S Surtees
		Nonsuch 2005 544 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880021
		Published Price £6.00		Sale Price £1.99
	Famous for his writings on horses and hunting, Robert Surtees here offers a narrative that revels in the absudities of life as it follows the romantic exploits of Emma Wilding ('Mamma'), a seamstress made good, and her son Fine Billy, whose adventures in polite country society culminate in the Hit-im and Hold-im shire hunt ball. Illustrated by John Leech. First published in 1858.
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4		Thai Art and Culture
		Historic Manuscripts from Western Collections		Art
		Henry Ginsburg
		British Library 2000 138 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0712346201 290x262mm
		Published Price £25.00		Sale Price £7.99
	This richly illustrated study surveys historic Thai manuscripts currently held in Western collections, examining the evolution and colourful imagery of Thai Buddhist iconography and a diversity of non-religious texts.
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5		War of the Unknown Warriors
		Memories of Britain 1939-45		Sale War & Militaria
		David Souden
		National Trust 2005 192 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0707803888 247x188mm
		Published Price £17.99		Sale Price £2.99
	This history of Britain in the Second World War focuses on the country's historic houses, drawing on recollections of life in wartime to recover hidden histories in familiar places. It is a celebration of life on the Home Front in houses and estates now in the care of the National Trust, such as Chartwell in Kent, Churchill's country home, given to the Trust as a memorial to the nation's struggle, and many other great houses given over to military use, as hospitals or as evacuees' billets.
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6		Period-Style Flowers
		Flower Arranging Projects Inspired by the Past		Crafts & Hobbies
		Sarah Pepper
		National Trust 1999 144 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0707803748 245x178mm
		Published Price £14.99		Sale Price £4.99
	In this practical, illustrated handbook, Sarah Pepper presents projects based on the floral arrangements of the past, from fragrant Elizabethan tussie mussies, to Edwardian fireplace displays. For each of five periods - Elizabethan, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian - the book sketches the social and stylistic history, the flowers favoured and how they were displayed. The projects cover all types of arrangements including bridal flowers and Christmas wreaths, and are designed for all levels of skill.
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7		Buttons and Trimmings
		from Snowshill		Crafts & Hobbies
		Althea Mackenzie
		National Trust 2005 94 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 070780387X 180x180mm
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £2.99
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8		Raiders
		Great Exploits of the Second World War		Sale War & Militaria
		John Laffin
		Sutton 2003 182 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0750932082
		Published Price £7.99		Sale Price £2.99
	During World War II a number of daring raids were carried out by Allied and Axis forces against targets carefully selected for their strategic or propaganda values. Raiders relates to over 20 such operations with the emphasis on attacks mounted by the British. 16pp b&w plates
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9		The Atlantic Telegraph
				History
		WH Russell
		Nonsuch 2005 128 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1845880749
		Published Price £16.00		Sale Price £4.99
	After several attempts, on 27 July 1866 the great transatlantic telegraph cable was hauled ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland. The 1,686 nautical mile cable that was to revolutionize communications between Europe and America was brought across the Atlantic by Brunel's Great Eastern. The journalist William Howard Russell was on board the Great Eastern during the 1865 attempt to lay the cable, recording how this remarkable feat of engineering was achieved. This edition adds a postscript to Russell's account, outlining the events of the following year.
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10		Alexander the Corrector
		The Tormented Genius Who Unwrote the Bible		Biography History
		Julia Keay
		HarperCollins 2004 270 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 000713195X
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £2.99
	The Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures was the monumental achievement of Aberdeen-born proof-reader Alexander Cruden (1699-1770), who spent twelve years and vast sums of money on its 2.5 million words. Despite his three confinements in asylums, Julia Keay doubts the widespread belief that Cruden was mad, and has at last uncovered the harrowing and sometimes comic story of his involvement in a scandal, too shocking to reveal at the time, which destroyed the career of a remarkable, enigmatic man.
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11		Hamlet in Pieces
		Shakespeare Reworked: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson		Literature
		Andy Lavender
		Continuum 2001 260 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0826414613
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £9.99
	Theatre critic Andy Lavender focuses on Hamlet, 'Shakespeare's biggest, best, most evidently Shakespearean play' and examines in depth three unorthodox versions of it that were presented, on arthouse stages, during the 1990s. Lavender explores each play's relation to Hamlet and how it was created for the theatre by one of three great modern theatre directors: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook; Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage and Hamlet: a monologue, directed by Robert Wilson.
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12		Balloons at War
		Gas Bags, Flying Bombs and Cold War Secrets		Sale War & Militaria
		John Christopher
		Tempus 2004 224 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0752429957
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £7.99
	Even before he got his first balloon aloft in 1783, Joseph Montgolfier was thinking in terms of using it to launch a surprise attack on the English holding Gibraltar; in 2003 plans for anthrax-carrying balloons were discovered in Afghanistan. From Bonaparte's balloon corps to the present day, this illustrated history traces the military applications of balloons - in reconnaissance and surveillance, as barrage, or for dropping bombs - and describes their use in conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and the Cold War.
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13		Independent Force: The War Diary of the Daylight Squadrons of the
		Independent Air Force, June-November 1918		Sale War & Militaria
		Keith Rennles
		Grub Street 2002 218 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 190230490X 248x175mm
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £6.99
	The Independent Air Force was formed in June 1918, two months after the official formation of the Royal Air Force. Conceived as a strategic bomber force, dedicated to attacking Germany's war production, vital industries, railways and aerodromes, the IAF was the forerunner of the Second World War's Bomber Command. Based on a mass of documentary evidence, this book presents a day-to-day record of the IAF's achievements and the tremendous but sadly often futile contribution of its personnel.
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14		Stronghold Britain
		Four Thousand Years of British Fortification		British Isles
		Geoffrey Williams
		Sutton 2003 264 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0750935197 265x195mm
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £4.99
	Geoffrey Williams's informal style makes for a lively history of fortifications and the threats they were designed to meet, from hillforts to the nuclear command bunker at Troy Hill. As well as the richly illustrated history of the development of fortification, particularly during the medieval period, the book provides details of 95 sites such as the Neolithic causeway camp at Knap Hill, South Cadbury Castle (could it have been Arthur's Camelot?) and Dover Castle, with information and directions for visitors.
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15		The SS
		A History 1919-45		Sale War & Militaria
		Robert Lewis Koehl
		Tempus 2004 288 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0752425595
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Originally designed as an elite corps of politically aware soldiers whose primary aim was to prevent the undermining of the Nazi Party, the SS grew into one of the most feared secret police forces of the 20th century. Koehl documents its development, from the origins of Nazism in the 'social and political maelstrom' of 1919-1924 and the inception of the SS in 1925 to its disbandment in 1945. He reveals both the inner workings of the SS and its paramount contribution to both the military strategy of the Waffen SS and the Holocaust.
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