Icon Books catalogue July - December 2008

ICON AN D W IZA RD BOOKS JULY – DECEMBER 2008

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Back to school for grown-ups

Democracy versus Big Business

Match Wits with the Kids

A rollercoaster year in the life of the Cambridge Boat Race crew

Supercapitalism

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The Last Amateurs

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The older generation more ‘hip’ than ‘hip replacement’ Groovy Old Men

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Wizard Books’ catalogue for autumn 2008.

Icon prides itself on producing non-fiction

Nick Baker charts the rise and rise of the

of the highest quality. This season sees

bright old things. It’s not just Bill Nighy or

the publication of some of our finest

Paul Smith any more – Groovy Old Men

books ever.

are here to stay. Shakespeare on Toast

Quantum is Manjit Kumar’s grand, authoritative and brilliantly gripping history of the birth of quantum theory.

Fiery, emotional arguments, the pain and upheaval of the early 20th century

brings the Bard back to the masses – if you’ve seen Shakespeare in Love or Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, or been to the Globe and want to know more, here’s how.

and the most challenging, revolutionary

These books feature alongside further

physics the history of science has ever

Introducing titles published in our much-

seen all combine to create one of the key

admired new look, as well as a bevy of

science reads of 2008.

great paperbacks, from Anthony O’Hear’s

Mark de Rond’s The Last Amateurs is a first-hand, blood, sweat and tears account of a year with the Cambridge Boat Race crew as they prepare to do battle with Oxford. As each student fights for a coveted rowing Blue, de Rond explores

magisterial The Great Books to Maryanne Wolf’s critically-acclaimed Proust and the Squid. There’s also a section on a new project, www.ihatethisbook.com – one in which we’re keen to have your involvement.

masculinity, the will to win and the unique

We’d love to hear what you think, so do

Oxbridge background of this world-

please get in touch – our contact details

famous but curiously old-fashioned race.

are inside the back page.

PS. Booksellers please note – Icon has a new ISBN prefix: 978-184831

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Dramatic and superbly-written history of the most important 20th-century scientific revolution and the ferocious debate at its heart.

Without quantum theory our world would not exist.

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Yet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself.

In this tour-de-force of science history, Manjit Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the 20th century.

Quantum

Quantum theory is weird. In 1905 Albert Einstein

Einstein, Bohr and the Great

suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying

Debate about the Nature of Reality

200 years of experiments. Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Erwin Schrödinger’s infamous

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dead-or-alive cat are similarly strange. As Niels Bohr said,

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if you weren’t shocked by quantum theory, you didn’t

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really understand it.

480 pages In 1925 the quantum pioneers nearly all hailed from

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upper-middle-class academic families; most were

is the editor of Prometheus,

German; and their average age was 24. Their irrational,

a journal that covers the arts,

romantic spirit, formed in reaction to the mechanised

sciences and humanities, and

slaughter of the First World War, inspired their will to test

has written for the Guardian, the

science to its limits.

TES and the Irish Times. He is the co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason, an adapted chapter of which Michael Frayn described as ‘the clearest account I’ve read yet of the development of quantum mechanics.’ He lives in north London with his wife and

Kumar’s centrepiece is the fierce battle between Einstein and Bohr about the nature of reality and the soul of science. ‘Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved’, lamented the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. After nearly 80 years, Einstein has been vindicated.

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Praise for Manjit Kumar’s work: ‘I would greatly have benefited from Science and the Retreat from Reason if only I could have seen it before I edited The Faber Book of Science.’ John Carey ‘Prometheus is a fabulous magazine with a unique and welcome mix of subjects and formats … a much needed alternative.’ Steven Pinker

Brideshead Revisited meets Fight Club in this thrilling, first-hand account of a year in the life of Cambridge University’s Boat Race squad.

Founded in 1828, the Cambridge University Boat Club

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has one objective: to beat Oxford in the Boat Race. This annual affair is one of sharp contrasts: a private match between two of the world’s oldest universities, it is still

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followed by millions worldwide; an occasion marked by tribal rivalry, it also harbours deep mutual respect; quintessentially British, it is contested by amateurs who

The Last Amateurs To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew ISBN 978-184831-015-5 UK £17.99 Canada $36.00 Royal format hardback 304 pages

Mark de Rond described by the Financial Times

are nevertheless world-class sportsmen; it is all about taking part and yet the pain of losing is unimaginable.

A Cambridge don in his late thirties, Mark de Rond spent a year living the blood, sweat and tears of the 39 students risking all for a chance to race Oxford, seeing in them everything he is not. This intense and deeply personal account reinforces the great traditions of Oxbridge, yet gives them a human face. For despite their brilliance, these individuals are flawed too.

So what does it take to row in the coveted Blue Boat?

De Rond delves into the

as ‘Cambridge’s secret weapon

depths of what it means to

for the Boat Race’, is an Oxford-

be a man and the primeval

educated Cambridge don. His

desire to compete. Told

work has also featured in Time,

chronologically and driven

the Economist, The Times, The

by the pursuit of the final

Week, and on BBC Radio 4.

victory, the result is truly

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compelling – and a sports

is widely considered to be

book like no other.

Britain’s greatest Olympian, having won a gold medal in rowing at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000, as well as an additional bronze medal in 1988.

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Mark de Rond gets under the skin of the Cambridge Boat Race squad as they prepare to do battle, once again, on the Thames with Oxford.

A very personal look at ‘the beautiful game’ and its greats by one of football’s most respected ambassadors.

Bob Wilson’s Life in The Beautiful Game sees the Arsenal

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legend and veteran BBC presenter take a long and personal look back at a sport that has kept him busy in one form or another for over half a century. During his career, he has

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played alongside or against, coached, interviewed, become friends with, or at least met pretty much every great name the game of football has ever produced. Needless to say,

Life in The Beautiful Game ISBN 978-184831-018-6 UK £14.99 Canada $30.00 Demy format hardback 320 pages

he has picked up some pretty good stories along the way.

From Busby to Beckham, Garrincha to Gazza, Puskás to Pelé, no one escapes Wilson’s entertaining dissection of the game.

Discover why the great Bill Shankly once locked him in a room at the Liverpool training ground and wouldn’t let him out, why the legendary Brian Clough once insisted on getting him drunk before an interview, and what really happened in that infamous Arsenal and Man Utd tunnel

Bob Wilson

punch-up between Vieira and Keane.

was awarded an OBE in 2007

It’s clearly a sport he loves,

for services to football and

and there is no question

to his charity, the Willow

that reading his book will

Foundation, which he founded

leave you remembering

in memory of his daughter,

why football acquired the

Anna, who died of cancer

moniker ‘The Beautiful

aged 31, and which receives

Game’.

royalties from the sale of his books.

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‘A great insight into a great game from a great man’ ArsÈne Wenger

Relive your schooldays and gen up on the topics kids are learning with this enjoyable, easy-reading revision guide for adults.

Who was the first Tudor king? On a directional compass,

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which is more southerly-pointing – south-east or southsouth-west? In grammar, what is a preposition or a conjunction? Who invented the Spinning Jenny? How do you

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calculate the area of a circle from its diameter? What does photosynthesis do? What’s the French for ‘holiday’?

Match Wits with the Kids

Answering all the questions you’re too afraid to admit you need to ask, Match Wits with the Kids is the essential read for anyone who has forgotten the basics of what we learn

A Little Learning for All the

in school. Covering the classic subjects – Maths, English,

Family

the sciences, History, Geography and languages – Jonathan Green, a highly experienced teacher, provides all the

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learning in a truly enjoyable, vibrant way.

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Including tests to see if you’ve taken it all in, Match Wits

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with the Kids is designed to be a lot of fun – and the ideal

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summer read for anyone feeling threatened by know-it-all children.

Jonathan Green has worked as a teacher for the last thirteen years, four of those as a deputy head teacher. In that time he has also written numerous popular books for children – everything from Sonic the Hedgehog to Doctor Who – and science fiction and fantasy novels for adults. He is also the author of What Is Myrrh Anyway? (page 26)

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Inspired by the success of Le Cahier de Vacances Pour Adultes – a surprise hit in France last summer which sold over 100,000 copies in just a few months.

The rise of an impressive new species of older man, hilariously and perceptively charted by journalist, broadcaster and producer Nick Baker.

Groovy Old Men still move with the times. They’re still

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into sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, still work, and see age as no reason to stop having fun. They were present at the birth of youth culture in the 50s, sighing with relief at

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missing National Service and reeling from the impact of Bill Haley. They’re now part of a new breed of older men who are, as Nick Baker brilliantly argues in this unique,

Groovy Old Men

funny and occasionally touching book, on the march.

A Spotter’s Guide

Groovy Old Men is packed full of interviews with experts

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and archetypes like Professor Laurie Taylor, designer Sir Paul Smith, radical Tariq Ali, veteran writer Ray Gosling, bioethics expert Professor John Harris and Mark Ellen, former member of Ugly Rumours, the band once led by Tony Blair. And lots of ordinary Groovy Old Men too.

A humorous, entertaining and occasionally provocative

Nick Baker was born in 1952 and lives in London with his partner and two teenage sons. He has been

commentary on older male life in the noughties, Nick Baker’s book invents then dissects the Groovy Old Men phenomenon, and peers into the glamorous world of Groovy Old Men of the future.

a teacher, journalist, writer for teenagers, award-winning radio reporter (he’s still a familiar voice on Radio 4) and producer. He runs Testbed, a long established radio and audio independent production company.

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Think Paul Smith, David Bailey, Hanif Kureishi, Bill Nighy, that bloke from up the road ‌ soon Groovy Old Men will be everywhere.

One of golf’s most respected analysts takes a measured look at how to win one of the biggest sporting events in the world.

2008 is Ryder Cup year. This golf match, contested

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every two years by Europe and the USA, will take place at Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, this September.

Approximately a billion people will tune in to watch

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the drama unfold, and if past Ryder Cup clashes are anything to go by, each captain will have to cope with not only the tactical machinations of a golf

The Captain’s Challenge

match, but also a number of scenarios that they

How to Win the Ryder Cup

Recent matches have seen behaviour often step

might not necessarily have signed up for.

outside the confines of that usually reserved for the

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Bruce Critchley played for Great Britain and Ireland against the USA in the Walker Cup and has commentated on top golf tournaments for the last 25 years, first on the BBC and recently as the leading golf commentator on Sky, for whom he will be covering

game of golf – accusations of cheating, and some terrible displays of misguided patriotism from both players and spectators – sometimes spilling over into outright abuse, including one match when a captain’s wife was spat at.

Bruce Critchley has been commentating on the matches, first for the BBC and now for Sky, for the last 25 years, and in this book he analyses the strategic performance of each captain, how they have dealt with the pressures and often bizarre scenarios that accompany the event, and what it takes to control the passion of their side and steer it to an often unlikely victory.

the 2008 Ryder Cup.

Colin Montgomerie has been Europe’s undisputed leading golfer over the last 15

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Gets inside the mind of the men who have to deal with one of the most frightening prospects in sport

A breezy, accessible re-introduction to the greatest writer of plays, who turns out to be responsible for EastEnders, Coronation Street, Friends …

Who’s afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about

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everyone. He wrote too much and what he did write is inaccessible and elitist. Right?

Wrong. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of Shakespeare, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are: modern, thrilling

Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard

and uplifting drama.

Actor and author Ben Crystal brings the bright words and colourful characters of the world’s greatest hack writer brilliantly to life, handing over the key to

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Shakespeare’s plays, unlocking the so-called difficult

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bits and, astonishingly, finding Shakespeare’s own voice

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among the poetry.

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Told in five fascinating Acts, Shakespeare on Toast sweeps the cobwebs from the Bard – from his language, his life, his time – revealing both the man and his work

Ben Crystal is an actor at Shakespeare’s Globe. With David Crystal he co-authored the internationally acclaimed bestseller Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin, 2002) and The Shakespeare

to be relevant, accessible and full of beans.

This is a book for everyone, whether you’re reading Shakespeare for the first time, occasionally find him troublesome, think you know him backwards, or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to …

Miscellany (Penguin, 2005). He

It’s quick, easy and good for you. Just like beans on

lives in London and online at

toast.

www.bencrystal.com

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‘Ben Crystal’s excellent book is an ideal way to gain an understanding of why Shakespeare is so brilliant and so enjoyable.’ Sir Richard Eyre

An indispensable guide to the UK’s most absurd, bizarre and even foolhardy – but curiously British – ‘sports’ imaginable …

From Cheshire’s World Worm-Charming Championships

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to the cricket match played on a sand bank in the Solent every year, there’s a rarely-spoken-of British tradition of holding very strange contests and weird world

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championships in which getting muddy, sick and a little upset are not mere side effects but positively celebrated.

Welcome to the wacky nation …

Wacky Nation

James and Sally – creators of www.wackynation.com –

50 Unbelievable Days Out at

present 50 of the oddest contests you’d never imagined

Britain’s Craziest Contests

existed. With a strong practical, get-involved-if-you-dare streak, Wacky Nation charts these unusual days out, with

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ratings for Spectator Fun, Pain Factor, Training Required,

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Chance of Becoming World Champion and more. There

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are tips on winning or simply remaining unscathed,

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based on the intrepid authors’ own experiences,

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alongside numerous absurdly comic anecdotes.

James Bamber and Sally Raynes

Keen to chase a Double Gloucester down a hill?

Desperate to learn the fine arts of skiting and gurning?

are the creators of

Harbour a strong desire to hold the World Nettle-Eating

www.wackynation.com.

title? Wacky Nation is here to help.

Between them, they hold the World Russian Egg Roulette title, and won silver in 2006’s World Snail Racing Championships.

In the same year, Sally claimed

A sports-book-gone-wrong fortified with a strong dose of Monty Python, Wacky Nation is both the potential start of some oddly British family fun and a sneak armchair look into the twisted world of bizarre British life.

second place for World Nettle Eating (women’s event), having devoured 30 feet of nettles. They live in Tiverton, Devon.

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Motto of the Shin-kicking Association of Great Britain: ‘If it ain’t broke, yer not kickin’ hard enough.’

A unique true crime history – from medieval society to Jamie Bulger – of children who kill and how adults have tried to make sense of them.

The extraordinary and horrifying crime of murder by

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children of other children commands widespread public interest, but has this always been so? Focusing on the earliest recorded cases, up to and including the tragic

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killing of James Bulger, this fascinating investigation goes beyond the notoriety of the crimes to explore the reallife stories of the children who committed them and the

The Devil’s Children

adult world in which they took place.

A History of Childhood and

As well as asking what has changed in the treatment

Murder

and punishment of these children, and in how they

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have been viewed by the Church, the courts and the medical profession, it also reveals how these unusual crimes were as pivotal then as they are now in wider deliberations about childhood, morality and the troubling boundaries between innocence and experience.

The intriguing story of these crimes is deftly woven

Loretta Loach

together with the keen insights of social history and a

has an extensive background

groundbreaking depiction of how the legal and medical

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cultures used such cases to rethink human agency and

in history, politics and current

responsibility.

affairs, as well as a PhD in History.

The most recent historical drama documentary she has worked on was Queen Victoria’s Empire for Channel Four. She has appeared on Radio 4’s All In the Mind and has written for the Guardian, the Observer and the New Statesman.

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An incisive, calm and objective history of children who kill and the way society has treated them.

Turned off by pseudo-science, moral panics, conspiracy theories or 1,001 ways to ‘discover the inner you’? Sceptics of the world, unite!

We live in a supposedly rational age, yet crazy ideas are

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increasingly mainstream. New Age peddlers claim to cure Aids with vitamin tablets. Media gatekeepers stoke panic and regurgitate corporate press releases in the

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name of ‘balance’. Wild-eyed men in sandwich boards tell us that it’s all the Israelis’ fault. When searching for information about the death of his sister in Burundi,

Don’t Get Fooled Again The Sceptic’s Guide to Life

Richard Wilson was asked ‘But do you think there really is such a thing as the truth about what happened?’

Postmodernist relativism, too, has planted deep roots.

Even the term ‘sceptic’ has been appropriated by cranks

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and conspiracy theorists bent on rewriting history and debunking sound science.

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There are plenty of people offering to help, from smiling

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high-street Scientologists offering ‘Free Personality Testing’ to friendly financiers suggesting we consolidate

Richard Wilson read Philosophy at University College London. His first book, Titanic Express, recounts his search for the truth about the death of his sister Charlotte, who

all our existing loans into one easy monthly payment. We can buy ourselves a skinny latté 24 hours a day. But who can we trust?

User-friendly, enjoyable and shot through with polemic, Richard Wilson’s book cuts through this miasma of nonsense and searches for a positive solution.

was killed in Burundi in 2000. He now works for a human rights

There really is only one way out – get sceptical, now!

organisation and lives in London with his wife, Heleen.

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Praise for Titanic Express:

‘Incredibly moving’ Ziauddin Sardar, Independent ‘An astonishing chronicle’ Bronwen Maddox, The Times ‘I have watched in growing admiration how, with dogged persistence, Richard Wilson has conducted a singular crusade, not just to bring his sister’s murderers to justice, but to understand who they were and why they killed her.’ Jon Swain, Sunday Times

Capitalism should be made to serve democracy, and not the other way around, argues Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of Labour.

Supercapitalism – turbocharged, Web-based, able to

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find and make almost anything just about anywhere – is working wonderfully well to create wealth. But democracy, charged with caring for all citizens, is failing under its

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influence.

Robert Reich explains how widening inequalities,

Supercapitalism

heightened job insecurity and global warming are the logical outcomes of supercapitalism. He shows that

The Battle for Democracy in an

companies, fighting harder than ever to be competitive,

Age of Big Business

have become more deeply involved in politics, and how the tools used to temper society’s problems –

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taxation, education, trade unions – have withered as supercapitalism has burgeoned.

Demy format paperback with

Supercapitalism sets out a clear course to a vibrant

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capitalism and a concurrent, equally vibrant democracy.

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Business and politics must be kept distinct: to debate whether Wal-Mart, Google,

Robert Reich

Microsoft or Nike are good or

is Professor of Public Policy at the

evil is to miss the point.

University of California, Berkeley.

Important, timely, authoritative

Secretary of Labour under

and thrilling, Supercapitalism

President Clinton, he is now a

is a tour de force of modern

prolific journalist who has written

popular political writing, and

in The New Yorker, the New York

is essential reading for anyone

Times, the Washington Post and,

concerned that government

in the UK, most recently in

and big business are too-

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‘Supercapitalism is a grand debunking of the conventional wisdom in the style of John Kenneth Galbraith … Reich documents in lurid detail the explosive growth of corporate lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions since the 1970s. Today’s presidential candidates should study his message carefully.’ New York Times

The story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the supernatural beliefs from which it arose.

In July 1518 a terrifying and mysterious plague struck

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the medieval city of Strasbourg. Hundreds of men and women danced wildly, day after day, in the punishing summer heat. They did not want to dance, but could not

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stop. Throughout August and early September more and more were seized by the same terrible compulsion.

A Time to Dance, A Time to Die The Extraordinary Story of The Dancing Plague of 1518

By the time the epidemic subsided, heat and exhaustion had claimed an untold number of lives, leaving thousands bewildered and bereaved, and an enduring enigma for future generations.

Drawing on fresh evidence, John Waller’s account of

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the bizarre events of 1518 explains why Strasbourg’s

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dancing plague took place. In doing so it leads us

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into a largely vanished world, evoking the sights,

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sounds, aromas, diseases and hardships, the fervent

256 pages

supernaturalism and the desperate hedonism of the late medieval world.

John Waller

At the same time, the extraordinary story this book tells

is an historian of medicine

offers rich insights into how people behave when driven

at Michigan State University.

beyond the limits of endurance. Above all, this is an

Educated at the universities of

exploration into the strangest capabilities of the human

Oxford and London, he is the

mind and the extremes to which fear and irrationality

author of several other books,

can lead us.

including The Real Oliver Twist (Icon, 2005), The Discovery of the Germ (Icon, 2002) and Fabulous Science (OUP, 2002). He lives with his wife and daughter in Michigan.

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Praise for The Real Oliver Twist: ‘A compelling history of workhouse children in the industrial revolution’ Guardian ‘Waller writes with passion and flair which commands the reader’s attention.’

Times Literary Supplement ‘History approaching its best … combines a gripping story with a historian’s attention to detail and context. ’ The Australian

A hugely enjoyable, festive excursion through the history, science, music, culture and traditions of everyone’s favourite winter holiday.

Why is Christmas celebrated on 25 December? Why is

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turkey the traditional festive meat? Why are stockings hung up on Christmas Eve? What is figgy pudding? Who were the three kings? And did Coca-Cola really invent

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Father Christmas as we’re all told?

Just like the perfect Christmas stocking, What is Myrrh

What is Myrrh Anyway?

Anyway? contains all manner of delightful surprises and delicious morsels of information. Jonathan Green uncovers the truth behind such familiar festive traditions

Everything You Always Wanted to

as carol-singing and cards, and demystifies the origins of

Know About Christmas

Christmas.

ISBN 978-184831-027-8

If you’ve ever wondered how to cook the perfect roast

UK £5.99

turkey, what mince pies should really taste like, or why

Canada $10.99

you are forced to endure the cross-dressing antics of a

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traditional pantomime every year, then simply open this

208 pages

Christmas cracker of a book and discover the answers to all those questions you’ve been too afraid – or

Jonathan Green

embarrassed – to ask.

has worked as a teacher for the last thirteen years, four of those as a deputy head teacher.

In that time he has also written numerous popular books for children – everything from Sonic the Hedgehog to Doctor Who – and science fiction and fantasy novels for adults. He is also the author of Match Wits with the Kids (page 8).

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Who was Good King Wenceslas?

What the hell is a Yule log? When, and why, was Christmas cancelled?

What is Twelfth Night, and couldn’t Shakespeare have stuck with just that title? Do we have to eat sprouts with Christmas dinner?

The third book in Icon’s increasingly-admired 365 series, revelling in the highs and lows of the world since the last year of the Second World War. The world since 1945 often seems to represent the lighter

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half of the 20th century. Rapid recovery from the ravages of war; the rise of popular culture; the phenomenal growth in affluence, health and quality of life; the communications

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revolution – in the West at least, the story is a good one.

But the years between 1945 and 2007 – those covered in this book – are far from being post-war. They are also,

Best of Times, Worst of Times 365 Great Stories from Modern History

sadly, no strangers to famine, disease, violent political and social upheaval, terrorism, discrimination and environmental catastrophe.

Gerard Cheshire’s book picks up where its predecessors left off. Featuring a historical story for every single day

ISBN 978-184831-017-9

of the year, this volume reports the facts of the modern

UK £17.99

world but leaves the reader in no doubt – the end of

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history is a long way off yet.

Royal format hardback 464 pages

18 March 1965: A cosmonaut, and not an astronaut, becomes the first person to conduct a ‘space walk’

Gerard Cheshire

14 May 1948: The first Jewish state in 2,000 years comes

has written a number of

into being

books on British and world history over a career spanning

21 September 1995: The ‘Hindu Milk Miracle’ causes mass

fifteen years, including British

hysteria in India

History and World History (both Flametree Publishing). He is a graduate of UCL and holds a postgraduate degree from Bath

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25 November 1984: Bob Geldof and Midge Ure assemble musicians to record ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’ under the collective name Band Aid

Spa University College. He is

13 December 2006: The Chinese Yangtze river dolphin, the

based in Bath, England.

Baiji, is declared ‘functionally extinct’

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Read about the Japanese soldier found on 24 January 1972 having survived alone on Guam since the end of World War II; the death of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock on 11 August 1956; the release of the first draft of the Human Genome Project on 14 April 2003 and much, much more ‌

The thrilling, warts-engine-oil-and-all autobiography of the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared.

A surreal tale of a poverty-stricken Dundalk kid’s rise to

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become the only racing driver the great Ayrton Senna ever feared – and how it all went wrong from there.

For a brief moment Tommy Byrne was arguably the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali rolled into one. A racer,

Crashed and Byrned The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw

a thief, a raconteur.

This is the story of his improbable escape, his rapid rise and his spectacular and bizarre fall from grace. Peppered with dark humour and a cast of ridiculous characters,

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it is the antithesis of a fairytale – and it’s all true. Hold

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on tight, the tale of Tommy Byrne is quite a ride – from

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fending for himself as the runt of a big Catholic litter in

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the ‘60s, running the gauntlet of the sectarian violence

228 pages

of the ’70s, troubling Ayrton Senna and making it to F1 in

Tommy Byrne was the 1980 Double British Formula Ford 1600 champion, the

the ‘80s, resorting to drugs in the aftermath and driving for a deluded billionaire madman and then gun-toting Mexicans in the ‘90s.

1981 British Formula Ford 2000

It’s raw, passionate, and – with Byrne’s ability to tell it

champion and also the European

like it is – not for the faint-hearted.

Formula Ford 2000 champion.

In 1982 – having also become British F3 champion – he entered F1, but by the following year had disappeared without trace.

Mark Hughes is one of sport’s top journalists.

His books on F1 include Icon’s bestselling, critically-acclaimed Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story.

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‘Forget Senna and Schuey.

Tommy Byrne was the best of them all.’

Eddie Jordan

The comprehensive collection of sport’s strangest terms as encountered by BBC presenter and football legend Bob Wilson.

Have you ever flashed at a googly in the corridor of

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uncertainty while on a sticky dog? Maybe you’ve seen someone hit a mulligan out of the screws to grab a birdie at Amen Corner, or had to deal with a falling leaf

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from God while trying to survive the Group of Death?

The world of sport has its own language, wonderfully

Bob Wilson’s Ultimate Collection of Peculiar Sporting Lingo

rich in strange words and phrases whose origins often stretch back centuries. For the first time, veteran BBC presenter and football legend Bob Wilson has pulled together his widely acclaimed and hugely successful books of the last two years (Googlies, Nutmegs & Bogeys and Rucks, Pucks & Sliders) and added a considerable

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amount of new material, to create the most

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comprehensive guide to peculiar sporting terminology

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ever compiled.

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Discover the fascinating true meanings, heritage and evolution of all the great sporting terms in this brilliantly-

Bob Wilson is the veteran presenterC90 of nine M100 Y0 K20 World Cups, Grandstand, Football Focus, Sportsnight and Match

illustrated guide, published at the height of the British sporting summer with Wimbledon, The Open golf tournament, the cricket Test series with South Africa and Euro 2008 all competing for fans’ attention.

of the Day, and was goalkeeper for Scotland and Arsenal. His Willow Foundation charity, set up in memory of his daughter Anna, who died of cancer aged 31, receives royalties from the sale of his books.

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Praise for Bob’s previous books: ‘An engaging romp through sport’s more colourful terminology ... buy it to be entertained’ Independent ‘The daddy of male loo-reading books … Bob Wilson’s compendium should be sent out by right to every lad when he reaches the age of assent.’

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An unashamedly nerdy tour through science fiction’s most brilliant inventions, from Buck Rogers’ jetpack to Vanilla Sky’s cryonics.

In full colour throughout, Future Proof charts from

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prototype to realisation the real-life technical evolution of 50 of the most popular science-fiction inventions.

Co-written by Nick Sagan, son of science fiction legend and astronomer Carl Sagan, the book details the history, the reality and the tech spec of science fiction’s

Future Proof The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined ISBN 978-184831-004-9 UK £10.99 216 x 171mm paperback, full colour throughout 160 pages

Nick Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and the author of the

most brilliant crime-figthing, space-travelling, remote controlled, light-speed, artificially intelligent inventions.

Highlights include: Buck Rogers’ jetpack · The Jetsons’ flying cars · Star Trek’s transporters · The Six Million-Dollar Man’s cyborg · Sleeper’s Orgasmatron · 2001’s artificial intelligence · Lost in Space’s remote controlled robots · Vanilla Sky’s cryonics · Star Wars’ warp drives · Back to the Future’s time travel · Total Recall’s Terraforming · Doctor Who’s robot pets · Galactic Patrol’s Cybernetics · A Fall of Moondust’s space tourism · Stargate’s wormholes · Brave New World’s Hypnopedia

bestselling science fiction novels Idlewild, Edenborn and Everfree.

Mark Frary is a science journalist whose work has appeared in The Times and many other newspapers and magazines.

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‘If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run ... the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.’ Arthur C. Clarke

A lavish, full-colour addition to any golfer’s coffee table, featuring commentator Bruce Critchley and five-time Open champion Peter Thomson.

‘The real test of a course: is it going to live?’ This was

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the maxim of arguably the greatest-ever golf-course architect – Harry Shapland Colt. Having designed or influenced the layout of many of the world’s most

new title

famous courses – Muirfield, Pine Valley, Wentworth – Colt’s creations provide an enduring, pulse-racing test for today’s golfer.

Creating Classics

Creating Classics tells the fascinating story of this golf

The Golf Courses of Harry Colt

visionary. From Colt’s early years at Rye and Sunningdale

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to his partnerships with the other great architects of the early 20th century, the book embraces the phenomenal designs that emerged from this Golden Age of course construction.

colour throughout

For golfers passionate about challenging courses

464 pages

steeped in character, Peter Pugh’s spectacular book lets players discover the rich heritage of their favourite

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golfing turf. Colt’s definitive 18 holes, as chosen by golf’s

is a businessman, company

most distinguished commentator Bruce Critchley, and a

historian and former golf

foreword from five-time Open champion Peter Thomson,

addict, with memberships

accompany stunning photographs and wonderful

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personal tales.

Worlington (two of Colt’s courses). His other books include The Magic of a Name, a three-volume history of Rolls-

This book will enlighten all lovers of the game about a special group of courses with unparalleled pedigree and a common bond – Harry Colt.

Royce, and two titles in Icon’s famous Introducing series, on Margaret Thatcher and John Maynard Keynes.

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Royal County Down; St George’s Hill; Royal Portrush – names synonymous with the finest golf has to offer anywhere in the world – are all courses touched by Harry Colt’s genius.

The much-imitated but never-bettered graphic guides to big thinkers and ideas

In autumn 2007, to celebrate the series’ fifteenth birthday, we re-published six of the best Introducing titles in a new,

september

cheaper, pocket-sized format with a stunning new cover look.

bestsellers

The positive response to these editions was phenomenal and

new editions

we have subsequently decided to give six further titles the new treatment. Introducing is simply for anyone interested in mankind’s most exciting ideas.

Published in September ...

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cleverer by design

Chaos 978-1-84831-013-1

Nietzsche 978-1-84831-009-4

Jung 978-1-84831-010-0

Buddha 978-1-84831-011-7

Logic ISBN: 978-1-84831-012-4

Ethics 978-1-84831-008-7

Get to know the Introducing series online at introducingbooks.com, or at myspace.com/introducingbooks All Introducing compact edition titles: UK ÂŁ6.99 Canada $10.99 A format paperback, 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout Territory: World Foreign rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

Available now ...

Postmodernism 978-1840468-49-6

Quantum 978-1840468-50-2

Freud 978-1840468-51-9 (Not available in North America)

Psychology 978-1840468-52-6

Philosophy 978-1840468-53-3

Mind & Brain 978-1840468-54-0

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Introducing retains the stylish black look and larger format familiar to fans for the vast majority of its backlist. See the website – introducingbooks.com – for more details on individual titles.

Aesthetics

978-1840467-90-1

Anthropology

978-1840466-63-8

Aristotle

978-1840467-59-8

Artificial Intelligence

978-1840468-41-0

Barthes

978-1840467-16-1

Buddha

978-1840466-33-1

Camus

978-1840468-47-2

Chaos

978-1840465-81-5

Chomsky

978-1840465-89-1

Consciousness

978-1840466-65-2

Critical Theory

978-1840465-88-4

Cultural Studies

978-1840465-87-7

Darwin

978-1840467-15-4

Derrida

978-1840466-66-9

Descartes

978-1840467-19-2

Eastern Philosophy

978-1840467-86-4

Einstein

978-1840466-67-6

Empiricism

978-1840465-45-7

Ethics

978-1840465-80-8

Evolution

978-1840466-34-8

Evolutionary Psychology 978-1840466-68-3

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Existentialism

978-1840467-17-8

Feminism

978-1840466-49-2

Foucault

978-1840465-91-4

Fractal Geometry

978-1840467-13-0

Freud

978-1840465-78-5

Genetics

978-1840466-36-2

Hegel

978-1840467-85-7

Heidegger

978-1840467-12-3

Hinduism

978-1840466-26-3

Islam

978-1840465-82-2

Jung

978-1840465-79-2

Kafka

978-1840467-87-1

Kant

978-1840466-64-5

Kierkegaard

978-1840467-58-1

Lacan

978-1840466-69-0

Linguistics

978-1840466-35-5

Logic

978-1840465-85-3

Machiavelli

978-1840468-44-1

Marx

978-1840467-14-7

Marxism

978-1840464-62-7

Mathematics

978-1840466-37-9

Media Studies

978-1840467-18-5

Melanie Klein

978-1840467-11-6

Mind and Brain

978-1840466-38-6

Modernism

978-1840465-93-8

Newton

978-1840468-42-7

Nietzsche

978-1840466-27-0

Philosophy

978-1840465-76-1

Plato

978-1840466-60-7

Political Philosophy

978-1840467-60-4

Postmodernism

978-1840465-75-4

Psychoanalysis

978-1840467-56-7

Psychology

978-1840465-86-0

Psychotherapy

978-1840467-88-8

Quantum Theory

978-1840465-77-8

Relativity

978-1840467-57-4

Romanticism

978-1840466-71-3

Rousseau

978-1840467-89-5

Sartre

978-1840466-72-0

Semiotics

978-1840465-84-6

Sociology

978-1840465-83-9

Stephen Hawking

978-1840466-39-3

The Enlightenment

978-1840467-09-3

The Universe

978-1840467-61-1

Time

978-1840465-92-1

Wittgenstein

978-1840466-41-6

All Introducing standard format titles: UK ÂŁ9.99 Canada $17.00 USA $12.95 210 x 140mm paperback 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout Territory: World Foreign rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Urgent and compelling, this is the essential read on the USA in 2008 from the authors of the bestselling Why Do People Hate America?

Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies’ Why Do People

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Hate America? explored the question that emerged from the infernal destruction of 9/11.

It found answers in the ways that the US engages with the rest of the world: the hamburger syndrome of the lone hyperpower.

Will America Change?

Will America Change? updates the analysis to show how this led to the doctrine of pre-emptive response in Afghanistan and Iraq, and then turns its attention

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to the major question of today – the American way of

UK £8.99

disengagement.

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From Vietnam to the end of the Cold War to Iraq, the US has embraced militarism and used its power to make the world secure for American interests. The problem of America has become more acute, more invasive and more

Ziauddin Sardar is a prominent journalist and author. Prolific and polymathic, he is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and the Observer, and a familiar television

resented around the world.

As America debates how to extract itself from the Iraq quagmire, will it seek real change or more of the same? In a year of decision, can America help to make the world a safer place?

and radio personality.

Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist and former producer of religious programmes for the BBC.

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Praise for Why Do People Hate America?:

‘Carefully documents the impact America, culturally and as an aggressive yet insular force, has on all our lives.’ John Pilger, New Statesman

Proust and the Squid has sold over 25,000 hardbacks in the US and was in Publishers Weekly’s ‘Best Books of 2007’.

How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the

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amazing achievements of humankind.

‘We were never born to read,’ says Maryanne Wolf. ‘No specific genes ever dictated reading’s development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago.

And with this invention, we changed the very organisation

Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.’

In Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf explores our brains’ near-miraculous ability to arrange and rearrange

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themselves in response to external circumstances. Wolf, a

UK £8.99

world expert on the reading brain, brings both a personal

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passion and a deft style to this incredible story.

320 pages

A pop science masterpiece on a subject that anyone who loves reading will be sure to find fascinating.

Maryanne Wolf teaches at Tufts University and is Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research in Boston, USA. She teaches and lectures all over the world and is a renowned expert on the reading brain.

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‘As booksellers, we don’t need to be convinced of the importance of reading, but Maryanne Wolf’s sage book goes far beyond what even we imagined. Wolf … is not content to discuss the cultural significance of reading; she asserts with convincing evidence that this activity has radically changed the very organization of the human brain.’ www.barnesandnoble.com

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‘A pathbreaking look at the reading brain’ Publishers Weekly, Books of the year

Lightly abridged by Kate Agnew, Dickens’ captivating history of England for children is now published in an excellent-value paperback.

Written just after David Copperfield, at the same time as

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Bleak House, and in the engaging and conversational style typical of his most celebrated fiction, Dickens’ history of England for children is an undiscovered treasure-trove of a book.

Dickens’ loveable theatricality, witty observations and

A Child’s History of England

compelling narrative give children access to one of England’s greatest writers, and to some of the most powerful stories from its past. For adults it offers an engaging reminder of the English history we ought to know.

ISBN 978-184831-024-7 UK £9.99

Interesting, informative and accessible, A Child’s History

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of England takes its reader on a fascinating journey, from

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Ancient England and the Romans to Victoria’s reign and

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Dickens’ own lifetime. Full of sensational plots, gallant heroes and brutal villains, high adventure and terrible tragedy, it will appeal to anyone who enjoys a good story

Charles Dickens’

and some horrible history!

memorable characters and strong narrative style mean that his work has been loved for the last 150 years – and none of his books has ever gone out of print.

Kate Agnew reviews for Guardian Education, has judged the Smarties Award and the Whitbread Prize, and has contributed to the Cambridge Charles Dickens

Guide to Children’s Books.

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Who was Hereward the Wake? How was it that Thomas Beckett was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral? Thrilling history from England’s finest novelist.

Why does time seem to speed up as we age?

Or slow down in emergencies? Steve Taylor offers practical suggestions to make time for all of us.

Why does time fly when we’re having fun, or drag when

July Psychology / Self-help New in Paperback

we’re bored or anxious?

Steve Taylor examines these questions, setting out five basic laws of psychological time. The result is an astounding insight into why our perception of time changes – and how we can take charge of time in our

Making Time

own lives.

Why Time Seems to Pass at

Using evidence from modern physics and his own

Different Speeds and How to

research into unusual experiences of time, Taylor argues

Control It

that our normal sense of time is an illusion created by our minds. He cites numerous examples of situations in

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which time passes slowly – exploring childhood, drugs

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and hypnosis, accidents and emergencies, meditation,

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‘spiritual’ experiences, sportspeople who are ‘in the

272 pages

Zone’ and some of the world’s indigenous peoples.

Steve Taylor

Making Time shows us, on a practical level, how to

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control our sense of time, effectively increasing the

development at the University

length and quality of our lives. But perhaps most

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importantly, it shows us how we can reclaim what is

College, and is a part-time house

ultimately the only thing that we have: the present.

husband. He is the author of The Fall (O Books) and lives in Manchester with his wife and two young children.

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‘It is possible to alter our perceptions in order to make time pass quickly or slowly, just as we wish, and Taylor shows how it can be done.’

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‘Using both psychological and physical science Taylor explores these ideas in an entirely accessible and engaging way, leading the reader calmly through a tangle of theory and philosophy.

Time you read it.’ The Crack

A captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as dark, powerful, erotic and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller.

Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote: great

August Literature New in Paperback

literature can be read by anyone, with a little help.

Anthony O’Hear leads the way.

We begin with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature.

After Greek tragedy, Plato, and Virgil’s Aeneid comes

The Great Books

Ovid, whose encyclopaedic Metamorphoses is an inexhaustible source for European art and literature.

From The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe’s Faust: A journey

Via St Augustine we reach Dante, the author of The

through 2,500 years of the West’s

Divine Comedy, a sublime, terrifying tour through Hell,

classic literature

Purgatory and an ecstatic vision of Paradise. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Pascal, Racine and

ISBN 978-184831-006-3

finally Goethe complete the cast list. In each case O’Hear

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patiently draws out themes, focuses on key passages

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and explains why they are important.

B format paperback 480 pages with a 16-page colour

Personal, passionate, painstakingly researched and

plate section

beautifully illustrated, this is a grand work of reference.

Anthony O’Hear is Weston Professor of Philosophy

But it is also a narrative history shot through with a love of literature, and a deeply-held belief in its power to shape everyone’s world.

at the University of Buckingham, Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and Editor of the journal Philosophy. His journalism has featured notably in the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Express, and he is often on Radio 4’s Today programme and Radio 3’s Night Waves.

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‘This is a book for everyone who always wanted to read these great works but, somehow, has never quite found the time. Choice extracts from these literary masterpieces, illustrated by paintings and pictures of artefacts spur you on to read the complete original texts.’

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‘This is the best introduction to the classics of Western literature that I have ever read. It will be invaluable for all, and should be required reading in sixth forms across the country.’ Chris Woodhead, former chief inspector of schools

Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda.

In August 1914 Britain’s first act of war was not to mobilise its army or the Grand Fleet. It was to cut cables preventing German propaganda from reaching American newspapers. This war of words would quickly become as vicious as the slaughter on the Western Front.

July History new in paperback

For a century, Britain and Germany had been closer than any other two countries. Germany was Britain’s biggest export market, and vice versa. Germans adopted English dress, customs and manners. German thinking on race, national identity, eugenics and racial supremacy also had its roots in British thinkers like Darwin, Huxley and Galton.

Best of Enemies Britain and Germany: Truth and Lies in Two World Wars

Even as late as the Nazi era, Hess, Himmler, Goering and Hitler himself remained passionate Anglophiles.

During the First World War, however, Germany, Britain

978-184831-003-2

and the USA spent billions on clandestine propaganda to

UK £8.99

blacken each other’s reputations. This gargantuan effort

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gave birth to the PR industry itself – later seized upon by

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Nazi propagandist Goebbels to devastating effect.

368 pages Richard Milton’s expertly written popular history gives a

Richard Milton is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who also works as

fresh perspective on this tumultuous, painful love-hate relationship, and is also a brilliant study of propaganda itself – now more than ever a vital weapon of war.

a PR consultant. His other books include The Facts of Life (Fourth Estate, 1992) and Forbidden Science (Fourth Estate, 1994).

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The unputdownable sequel to 365 – highly addictive, bite-size chunks of history.

It’s strange sometimes to think that even the biggest events of world history happened on a particular day – a rainy February 25th, a sweltering July 2nd, your father’s birthday …

W.B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick present a leap year of historical stories by turns amazing, horrifying, touching

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and tearful. Spanning the history of man’s life on earth

History

and every corner of the inhabited world, they paint a picture of infinite richness and minute, enthralling detail.

new in paperback

Read about the first-ever tanks going into combat on the Somme, Pushkin’s death in a duel, Nietzsche’s dramatic breakdown in Turin, Jesse Owens humiliating the Nazis at the Olympic Games and much, much more.

It’s the ideal book for anyone hooked on history.

A Leap Year of Great Stories from History ISBN 978-184831-005-6

16 January 1920: Prohibition is born

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14 February 270: St Valentine’s martyrdom gives birth to a romantic tradition

448 pages

W.B. Marsh

5 July 1946: The bikini swimsuit makes its debut at a Paris fashion show 22 December 1849: Dostoyevsky is led out for a pretend execution

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was born in New York, and now lives in London.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a book in possession of a good reputation must be in want of a good kicking.

Despise Pride and Prejudice? Tired of Tolstoy? Find Amis, both father and son, hugely overrated? Just don’t get why people go on about Margaret Atwood?

If you love reading you will know that just because everyone else seems to think certain classics are simply, inescapably brilliant, it doesn’t make it so.

Not everyone thinks Dickens is England’s greatest storyteller, or Virginia Woolf the writer who has most penetratingly reached the heart of what it means to be a woman. And was everyone really so touched by Captain Corelli’s Mandolin?

While there’s all sorts of places to talk about the books you love, what about those you hate? ihatethisbook.com is the new site where anyone can vent their true feelings towards the classics you’re supposed to love. You can include any book, modern, ancient, fiction or otherwise, and let off some steam about what it is that so riles you, or just vote on other people’s choices. Sign up for updates to see if others agree. ihatethisbook.com is just the start of the project – Icon plans to publish a book collecting the best of the reviews and comments in 2009.

Check it out now and don’t hold back!

ihatethisbook.com PS. You can also talk about the books you do love on the site, too, if you really must ...

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FF1 ISBN: 3-87-3

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FF5 ISBN: 3-97-2

FF7 ISBN: 4-17-7

FF8 ISBN: 4-29-0

FF9 ISBN: 4-30-6

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Illustrated here are just a selection of titles – see our stocklist on page 59 for the full list.

ISBN prefix: 978-184046 All Fighting Fantasy titles: UK £4.99 (Sorcery! £5.99, Warlock special edition £8.99) Canada $10.00 A format paperback – various extents with frequent illustrations Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Foreign rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

FF1 25th Anniversary Edition ISBN: 8-37-3

FF24 ISBN: 5-66-2 FF25 ISBN: 7-32-1 FF26 ISBN: 7-65-9

FF27 ISBN: 8-02-1 FF28 ISBN: 8-07-6 FF29 ISBN: 8-38-0

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8-33-5

Rucks, Pucks and Sliders

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8-25-0

Do Animals Have Rights?

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6-23-2

The Captain’s Challenge

Don’t Get Fooled Again

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The Grand Prix Companion

Great Composers

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6-79-9

The Top 100 Formula One Drivers

£5.99

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8-61-8

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How Big Is Your Brain?

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HBK 0-26-1

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7-96-3

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8-94-6

£12.99

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7-38-3

Between You and I

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Making Time

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0-01-8

Forty-fied

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8-80-9

Match Wits with the Kids

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Groovy Old Men

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7-93-2

I Hate The Office

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8-24-3

Nobel Lectures

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8-34-2

Man Who Ate Bluebottles

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£12.99

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£9.99

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8-74-8

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8-64-9

Number Freaking

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The Armchair Naturalist

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8-82-3

Places to Hide

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The Intellectual

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7-21-5

The Z to Z of Great Britain

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Walking in on Mum and Dad

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Unstrange Minds

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What is Myrrh Anyway?

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7-49-9

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HISTORY Best of Times, Worst of Times 365: Great Stories from History

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6-75-1

366: More Great Stories from History

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HBK 0-21-6

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5-72-3

Man Who Ran the Moon

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8-36-6

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£12.99

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8-72-4

Real Oliver Twist

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7-27-7

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A Time to Dance, A Time to Die Best of Enemies Enchantress of Nations

£12.99

The Devil’s Children

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8-01-4

The Father of Forensics

£12.99

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8-63-2

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The Truth that Sticks

£8.99

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0-13-1

Atom

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8-73-1

Freud

8-51-9

Beyond Coincidence

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6-18-8

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5-41-9

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Kant

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6-71-3

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8-59-5

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7-89-5

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1-65-7

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0-98-8

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1-54-1

Semiotics

5-84-6

The Holocaust

1-21-3

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1-56-5

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Machiavelli

8-44-1

Baudrillard

0-87-2

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7-60-4

Sociology

5-83-9

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1-55-8 Religion

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1-57-2

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6-33-1

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1-66-4

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6-26-3

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5-82-2

Freud

5-78-5

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3-81-1

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5-89-1

Lacan

6-69-0

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6-35-5

Melanie Klein

7-11-6

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5-37-2

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5-87-7

Psychology

5-86-0

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7-18-5

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7-88-8 Literature

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Camus

8-47-2

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8-41-0

Joyce

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Chaos

5-81-5

Kafka

7-87-1

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6-65-2

Shakespeare

2-62-3

Darwin

7-15-4

Einstein

6-67-6

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1-59-6

Feminism

6-49-2

Evolution

6-34-8

Postfeminism

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Evolutionary Psychology

6-68-3

Fractal Geometry

7-13-0

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6-63-8

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6-37-9

LĂŠvi-Strauss

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6-38-6

Newton

8-42-7

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5-77-8

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7-57-4

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3-58-3

Stephen Hawking

6-39-3

Time

5-92-1

The Universe

7-61-1

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FF 1: Warlock of Firetop Mountain (25th ann.)

£8.99

HBK

8-37-3

Joshua Cross

£4.99

PBK

4-66-5

FF 1: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

£5.99

PBK

3-87-3

Joshua Cross: Queen’s Conjuror

£4.99

PBK

6-19-5

FF 2: Citadel of Chaos

£4.99

PBK

3-89-7

The Toxic Toadburger Conspiracy

£5.99

PBK

5-64-8

FF 3: Deathtrap Dungeon

£4.99

PBK

3-88-0

FF 4: Creature of Havoc

£4.99

PBK

3-91-0

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FF 5: City of Thieves

£4.99

PBK

3-97-2

Big Numbers

£4.99

PBK

6-61-4

FF 6: Crypt of the Sorcerer

£4.99

PBK

3-96-5

Big Questions

£6.99

PBK

6-70-6

FF 7: House of Hell

£4.99

PBK

4-17-7

A Child’s History of England

£9.99

PBK 0-24-7

FF 8: Forest of Doom

£4.99

PBK

4-29-0

Darkness Visible

£6.99

PBK

8-48-9

FF 10: Caverns of the Snow Witch

£4.99

PBK

4-32-0

How to Remember (Almost) Everything, Ever!

£5.99

PBK

7-97-0

FF 12: Trial of Champions

£4.99

PBK

4-34-4

Master of the Rings

£5.99

PBK

4-23-8

FF 14: Armies of Death

£4.99

PBK

4-36-8

Mind Your Own Business

£4.99

PBK

7-63-5

FF 16: Return to Firetop Mountain

£4.99

PBK

4-81-8

Scientists Anonymous

£4.99

PBK

8-40-3

FF 17: Island of the Lizard King

£5.99

PBK

4-91-7

The Sex Book

£7.99

PBK

4-72-6

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£4.99

PBK

5-27-3

FF 19: Temple of Terror

£4.99

PBK

5-28-0

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£5.99

PBK

5-51-8

Fear and Trembling

£5.99

PBK

5-26-6

FF 21: Eye of the Dragon

£5.99

PBK

6-42-3

Life and Death

£5.99

PBK

5-67-9

FF 22: Starship Traveller

£4.99

PBK

5-52-5

Love and Longing

£5.99

PBK

5-23-5

FF 23: Freeway Fighter

£4.99

PBK

5-65-5

War and Peace

£5.99

PBK

5-70-9

FF 24: Talisman of Death

£4.99

PBK

5-66-2

FF 25: Sword of the Samurai

£4.99

PBK

7-32-1

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FF 26: Bloodbones

£4.99

PBK

7-65-9

Kidoku

£4.99

PBK

7-50-5

FF 27: Curse of the Mummy

£4.99

PBK

8-02-1

FF 28: Spellbreaker

£4.99

PBK

8-07-6

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FF 29: Howl of the Werewolf

£5.99

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8-38-0

The Forgotten Spell

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7-31-4

The Golem of Brick Lane

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6-98-0

FIGHTING FANTASY: SORCERY! FOOTBALL FANTASY

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4-30-6

FF 11/S! 2: Kharé: Cityport of Traps

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4-33-7

Avon United

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6-22-5

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4-35-1

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6-09-6

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