The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold but were exported all over the world. After WW2 Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today
- henpecked husbands naughty nurses & randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book's introduction reveals the story behind the company & the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.
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This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity & graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters & title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo & Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm & Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos & corporate identity campaigns of the century including those for major companies such as AT&T Quaker Oats United Airlines & Minolta. His wife & collaborator Elaine joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates as well as an equally impressive series of film titles ranging from Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear & Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Saul Bass's daughter Jennifer & written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass this book contains more than 1 400 illustrations many from the Bass archive & never published before providing an in-depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century. This definitive study is eagerly anticipated by design & film enthusiasts. ...

This collection of essays on Saul Kripke & his philosophy is the first & only collection of essays to examine both published & unpublished writings by Kripke. Its essays written by distinguished philosophers in the field present a broader picture of Kripke's life & work than has previously been available to scholars of his thought. New topics covered in these essays include vacuous names & names in fiction Kripke on logicism & de re attitude toward numbers Kripke on the incoherency of adopting a logic Kripke on colour words & his criticism of the primary versus secondary quality distinction & Kripke's critique of functionalism. These essays not only present Kripke's basic arguments but also engage with the arguments & controversies engendered by his work providing the most comprehensive analysis of his philosophy & writings available. This collection will become a classic in contemporary analytic philosophy. ...

The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes &

Includes:: the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. In the first section of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien completes his fascinating study of The Lord of the Rings. Beginning with Sams rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol & giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire this section ends with versions of the hitherto unpublished Epilogue in which years after the departure of Bilbo & Frodo from the Grey Havens Sam attempts to answer his childrens questions. The second section is an edition of The Notion Club Papers. These mysterious papers discovered in the early years of the twenty-first century report the discussions of an Oxford club in the years 1986-7 in which after a number of topics the centre of interest turns to the legend of Atlantis the strange communications recevied by other members of the club from the past & the violent irruption of the legend into the North-west of Europe. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive & classic style of the black cover A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion & Unfinished Tales.

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Now in its 2nd Edition & with over 70 additional new sausage recipes this book is unashamedly about the good old British Banger. The Sausage Book" provides complete step-by-step instructions enabling the reader to make sausages with complete confidence whether for the supper table or for commercial purposes. Fully updated & with over 100 mouth-watering recipes from the traditional English Breakfast Sausage to more exotic ethnic varieties this is a comprehensive book that can be referred to again & again." ...

Imagine a world in which Rome never fell. Now the Empire stretches across the Atlantic slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf & magnetic railways span the globe. But tensions within & without are about to change the face of the earth. Marcus Novius is caught in a massive explosion at the Coliseum which kills his uncle the emperor.. .making Marcus his heir the new leader of the Roman Empire. Marcus the healer Sulien & Una his sister
- & Marcus own love
- have been together through thick & thin fighting for freedom fighting for their lives fighting for justice & Marcus ascension to Roman throne was supposed to be the start of something magnificent.. . But Marcus is horribly wounded himself in the explosion & Sulien is having problems fighting his way through the terrible devastation to be at his friends
- his emperors
- side. & its not long before Sulien & Una realise life will never be the same again for the Roman Empire is about to face its most dangerous enemy.. .



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The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945 but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years.. . Across Europe landscapes had been ravaged entire cities razed & more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted
- such as the police the media transport local & national government
- were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring economies collapsing & the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In this epic book Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. He outlines the warped morality & the insatiable urge for vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict. He describes the ethnic cleansing & civil wars that tore apart the lives of ordinary people from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean & the establishment of a new world order that finally brought stability to a shattered generation.

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Keith Lowe's Savage Continent" is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed & pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing civil war rape & murder were rife in the days months & years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance " Savage Continent" is a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness & terror. Praise for " Savage Continent": " Deeply harrowing distinctly troubling. Moving measured & provocative. A compelling & plausible picture of a continent physically & morally brutalized by slaughter". (" Dominic Sandbrook" " Sunday Times"). " Excellent". (" Independent"). " Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew & our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind". (" Scotsman"). Keith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War & has often spoken on TV & radio both in Britain & the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed " Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg" 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife & two children." ...

Action & blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it's like to fight a dirty war he's had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms & gun-running nobody does it better but those days are behind him until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn't haven't any choice if he wants his freedom back he'll have to conquer a new battlegroung... ...

The No.1 bestselling novel & Richard & Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder love & lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Jed Rubenfeld Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes pagan statues & classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own -- & a secret message too for those with eyes to read it. Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958 he finds the Docci family their house & the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange even dangerous place & the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate. Before this mysterious & beautiful summer ends Adam will uncover two stories of love revenge & murder separated by 400 years! but is another tragedy about to be added to the villas cursed past? ...