British Interest Titles Spring 2016

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British Interest Titles
Spring 2016
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The Agincourt Companion
A Guide to the Legendary Battle and Warfare in the Medieval World
Anne Curry
Summary
Published to mark the 600th anniversary of this famous victory, The Agincourt Companion tells a wider
story about warfare in the middle ages. Delving into the development and advances in weaponry,
armor and tactics during this period and the impact this had on the battlefield, this is a richly
detailed look at the world of medieval warfare.
Contributor Bio
Anne Curry is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southhampton and one of the
world's leading experts on the battle of Agincourt. She is chair of the Agincourt 600 Committee, an
organization that marked the anniversary with celebrations in 2015. Her previous books include
Andre Deutsch Agincourt: A New History, Caesar's Gallic Wars, and The Hundred Years' War.
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Magna Carta and All That
A Guide to the Magna Carta and Life in England in 1215
Rod Green
Summary
Magna Carta, the Great Charter, was granted at Runnymede on June 15th, 1215 by King John, and
has since become one of the most important and celebrated documents in English history. It
challenged and limited royal authority for the first time, established the Rule of Law in England and
created core principles that are reflected in many constitutional documents around the world today.
Magna Carta and All That reveals the compelling story behind this document, as well as what life was
truly like in England in 1215. Looking at how Magna Carta impacted on the people and the customs
of the day and the key personalities behind the political power struggle of the time, it also explores
the lives of ordinary people, both free men and serfs, in medieval English society. With fascinating
facts and insights, this book gives a richly detailed look at the medieval world and the lasting legacy
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9780233004648 of this crucial document.
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War and Peace
Tie-In Edition to Major New BBC Dramatisation
Leo Tolstoy, Andrew Davies, Louise Maude, Aylmer M...
Summary
Tolstoy’s beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia’s war with
Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. Following the rise and fall of some
of society’s most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever.
Contributor Bio
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8).
Andrew Davies is an Emmy Award-winning novelist and screenplay writer. Louise and Aylmer Maude
were English translators of Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography.
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J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
The Graphic Novel
J. M. Barrie, Stephen White
Summary
In this graphic novel, Stephen White goes back to the very heart of Barrie’s original tale to create a
story that is dark, magical, charming and authentic. The stunning illustrations draw on original,
authentic features from the locations that inspired Barrie to write his tale including Moat Brae House
in Dumfries and the garden where he played as a boy. In choosing the format of a graphic novel for
this retelling, Stephen White has created a new and exciting version of Peter Pan that is like nothing
that has been done before.
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Birlinn Ltd
Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the
9781780272900
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Ship Date: 6/1/16 Stephen White (‘Stref’) is an Edinburgh-based illustrator, writer, and comic book artist. His first
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Set Adrift Upon the World
The Sutherland Clearances
James Hunter
Summary
They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were –
thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were
the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much
of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a
small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions,
intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of
material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to
access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the
Birlinn Ltd Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the
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now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping,
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moving, definitive account of a people’s struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which
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Hardcover James Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Highlands and Islands and
416 Pages was its first Director of the Centre for History. The author of eleven books about the Highlands and
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Martyrs
Glendale and the Revolution in Skye
Roger Hutchinson
Summary
In the 1830s and 1840s the district of Glendale on the island of Skye was swamped by immigrants
cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and overuse of land caused
simmering discontent – not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their
tenants as no more than chattels. This book is a definitive account of what happened when the
powder-keg erupted and a full-scale land-war ensued. Pitched battles with police, factors and bailiffs,
military intervention, arrests, trials, imprisonment and the personal intervention of the Prime Minister
were to have huge consequences for crofters all over the Highlands, who, ultimately, were the victors.
At the heart of the rising was a man named John MacPherson of Lower Milovaig in Glendale, a
Birlinn Ltd courageous, charismatic and articulate crofter who was twice imprisoned for leading a rebellion
9781780273228 against a system which kept all but the wealthiest in a state of bitter servitude. MacPherson quickly
Pub Date: 1/1/16 became known as ‘the Glendale Martyr’. Martyrs tells the story of John MacPherson, his comrades, his
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Hardcover Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist, who has written for, amongst others, the
West Highland Free Press, the Scotsman, Guardian, Herald and the Literary Review. He has written a
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number of bestselling books, including Polly: the True Story behind Whisky Galore, The Soap Man, which
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was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and Calum’s Road (2007), which was
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Scotland's Last Frontier
A Journey Along the Highland Line
Alistair Moffat, James Naughtie
Summary
The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognized by Agricola in
the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it
divides the country both geologically and culturally, signalling the border between highland and
lowland, Celtic and English-speaking, crofting and farming. In Scotland’s Last Frontier best-selling
author Alistair Moffat makes a journey of the imagination, tracing the route of the Line from the
River Clyde through Perthshire and the north-east. In addition to exploring the huge importance of
the Line over almost two thousand years, he also shows how it continues to influence life and
attitudes in 21st-century Scotland. The result is a fascinating book, full of history and anecdote.
Birlinn Ltd
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Pub Date: 1/1/16 Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival
Ship Date: 1/1/16 Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, he now runs the Borders and Lennoxlove
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also the Chancellor of the University of Stirling.
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Scotland
A History from Earliest Times
Alistair Moffat
Summary
From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the
history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation’s history such as the
Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite Risings, Moffat also features other episodes in history that
are perhaps less well documented. From prehistoric timber halls to inventions and literature, Moffat’s
tale explores the drama of battle, change, loss and invention interspersed with the lives of ordinary
Scottish folk, the men and women who defined a nation.
Contributor Bio
Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival
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9781780272801 Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, he now runs the Borders Book Festival and
Pub Date: 1/1/16 the DNA testing company, BritainsDNA (www.britainsdna.com). He is the author of a number of highly
Ship Date: 1/1/16 acclaimed books and is currently Rector of St Andrews University.
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Boris Becker's Wimbledon
My Life and Career at the All England Club
Boris Becker, Chris Bowers, Novak Djokovic
Summary
Of the many illustrious champions in tennis, there are few whose names are as synonymous with
Wimbledon as Boris Becker, who, in 2015, celebrated the 30th anniversary of his remarkable entry
into the sport’s pantheon of greats. Boris’s story is almost without parallel in tennis, from astonishing
teenage talent, to champion, to a renowned television commentator, manager, and now coach to one
Blink Publishing of the world’s greatest contemporary players, Novak Djokovic. In this wonderful new book, Boris
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shares his unique story, tracing his career through the many changes in the sport but which has, at
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$39.95/$47.95 Can. frankly about his own career, reflecting on what it was like to play in the era of McEnroe, Connors,
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Hardcover equipment, the tactics, the personalities, the technology, and the commerce.
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Biography & Autobiography Boris Becker is one of the most celebrated tennis players of the modern era. A six times Grand
/ Sports Slam Champion and former World Number One, Boris became the youngest-ever winner of the
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Wimbledon Championships in 1984, and went on to win the competition in 1985 and 1989. He
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Novak Djokovic.
7 Miles Out
Carol Morley
Summary
In 1977, Carol Morley (fictionalized as "Ann") was 11 years old and living in Stockport when her dad
drove her to school one morning, then drove home and killed himself. Trapped in a house with her
emotionally distant mother, Ann starts drinking at 12, drops out of school at 16, and spends her
teens trying to explore her emerging sexuality as well as coming to terms with her father's death. In
a Manchester of the hedonistic 1980s, Ann finds the perfect playground for her self-destruction and
promiscuity, hiding behind heavy drinking and drugs, ambitionless and empty, trying to come to
terms with why her father wanted to end his life. Told mainly from Ann's (Carol's) perspective, this
story reveals the often devastating consequences of family secrets, the lies we tell each other and
ourselves, and a young woman's struggle to find a place she belongs, finally finding a place at
Blink Publishing Central St Martins in London to study fine art and film and achieving international acclaim. Though
9781910536155 names and some events have been changed, this is Carol's compelling and inspirational true story.
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Carol Morley has written and directed a number of films. These include I'm Not Here, Gold Plaque
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winner at the Chicago International Film Festival; her BAFTA-nominated The Alcohol Years, about her
256 Pages wild days on the Manchester music scene; and the critically acclaimed Film Four and BFI backed
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Dreams of a Life, about the life of 38 year old Joyce Vincent who was found in her London flat three
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years after she died.
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An English Boy in New York
T.S Easton
Summary
As All-UK Knitting champion, 17-year-old Ben Fletcher has won himself a paid trip to New York, and to
the U.S. National KnitFair. Unfortunately, his new girlfriend Megan is unable to join him, which means
Ben has the dubious pleasure of being accompanied by his family and his third-choice-friend Gex.
The other problem is, Ben's not really sure he wants to be known as a teenage knitting genius any
more. His idea for a knitable hoodie could make him millions . . . or turn him into a laughing stock
forever.
Contributor Bio
T.S. Easton is an experienced author of fiction for all ages, and is the author of more than a dozen
books, including Boys Don't Knit. He works as a Production Manager for Hachette Children's Books.
Bonnier Publishing Fiction
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The Madness
Alison Rattle
Summary
Sixteen-year-old Marnie lives in the idyllic coastal village of Clevedon. Despite being crippled by a
childhood exposure to polio, she seems set to follow in her mother's footsteps, and become a
"dipper", escorting fragile female bathers into the sea. Her life is simple and safe. But then she
meets Noah. Charming, handsome, son-of-the-local-Lord, Noah. She quickly develops a passion for
him - a passion which consumes her. As Marnie's infatuation turns to fixation she starts to lose her
grip on reality, and a harrowing and dangerous obsession develops that seems certain to end in
tragedy. Set in the early Victorian era when propriety, modesty and repression were the rule, this is a
taut psychological drama in which the breakdown of a young woman's emotional state will have a
devastating impact on all those around her.
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Pub Date: 4/1/16 Alison Rattle is the author of The Quietness.
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The Beloved
Alison Rattle
Summary
Alice Angel has known only a life of restriction and punishments as she strays from the path of
Victorian proprietary that her mother has set for her. After a chance encounter with a charming
stranger, and a final incident with her family that sees her condemned to the madhouse, Alice sees a
chance to run. She escapes to join the Agapemonites in their Abode of Love, where ex-Reverend
Henry Prince rules a colony of women as their Beloved. Prince ignites a passion in Alice, and thinks
she might be free at last. But as Alice becomes drawn into the strange religious sect, she may in fact
be more trapped than ever.
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Alison Rattle is the author of The Quietness.
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The Bard in Brief
Shakespeare in Quotations
Hannah Manktelow
Summary
Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist in the English language, but none of his manuscripts survive.
Less than half his plays were printed before he died, in editions known as quartos from their
relatively small size. Most of his plays appeared in the First Folio, a large, handsome volume printed
seven years after Shakespeare's death. What we know of his dramas comes from these sources.
This new introduction to Shakespeare's work contains specially chosen extracts from each of his
British Library Publishing plays and major poems, including collaborative and apocryphal work. Each quotation is accompanied
9780712356336 by a full-page reproduction of an early printed edition, along with brief notes about the context and
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Trade Paperback Hannah Manktelow is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham and the British Library. She is
researching provincial performances of Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare in Ten Acts
Gordon McMullan, Zoe Wilcox
Summary
Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, it is difficult to imagine a time when he was not
considered a genius. But those 400 years have seen his plays banished and bowdlerized, faked and
forged, traded and translated, re-mixed and re-cast. Shakespeare’s story is not one of a steady rise
to fame; it is a tale of set-backs and sea-changes that have made him the cultural icon he is today.
Each performance discussed here holds up a mirror to the era in which it was performed. The first
stage appearance by a woman in 1660 and a black actor playing Othello in 1825 were landmarks for
British Library Publishing society as well as for Shakespeare’s reputation. The book explores productions as diverse as Peter
9780712356312 Brook’s legendary A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mark Rylance’s ‘Original Practices’ Twelfth Night, and a
Pub Date: 7/1/16 Shakespeare forgery staged at Drury Lane in 1796, among many others. The illustrations include the
Ship Date: 7/1/16 only surviving playscript in Shakespeare’s hand, an authentic Shakespeare signature, and rare
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printed editions including the First Folio. These and other treasures from the British Library’s
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Gordon McMullan is a Professor of English at King’s College London and a director of the London
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Shakespeare Centre. Zoe Wilcox is Lead Curator at the British Library for the Shakespeare and
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performance exhibition which this book accompanies.
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Adventures in The Strand
Arthur Conan Doyle & The Strand Magazine
Mike Ashley
Summary
Conan Doyle’s name is synonymous with The Strand magazine, chiefly because of the Sherlock
Holmes stories but also due to many of his other contributions, such as the Professor Challenger
stories, his articles on spiritualism and fairies, and his coverage of the major battles of World War I.
From 1891 until his death in 1930, almost 300 contributions by Doyle were published in The Strand,
including 120 stories, 9 serialized novels, and dozens of other items including poetry and interviews.
It is impossible fully to appreciate Conan Doyle’s artistic development without considering the
context of The Strand, as it published almost all of his most memorable and important stories, but it
also published essays, commentary and other works that have become unjustly forgotten. Doyle’s
British Library Publishing contributions highlight, for example, his abilities as a sportsman, an interest which frequently found
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its way into his fiction. This study charts his outlook and views, examines his shifting reputation
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Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 60 books, and one of the foremost historians of
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Literary Criticism / Mystery Book of Time Travel SF, and Out of this World.
& Detective
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Medieval & Renaissance Interiors
Eva Oledzka
Summary
Illuminated manuscripts are an excellent source of information about the interiors inhabited by
people in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Artists regularly depicted the castles and palaces of
the ruling classes, as well as the houses of ordinary people—merchants, craftsmen and peasants.
This attractive new book is the first to study the subject in such depth, and it uncovers a wealth of
little-known illuminations that help us to learn more about life at home, in workshops and elsewhere.
The author presents manuscript miniatures as illustrations to an account of house interiors which
includes their architectural features (such as windows, doors or fireplaces), furniture and other
British Library Publishing household objects. She concentrates on the social, cultural and stylistic aspects of Gothic domestic
9780712349734 settings and presents them in the context of their Romanesque antecedents and Renaissance
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Hardcover Eva Oledzka is Special Collections and Western Manuscripts reference librarian at the Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford. Her primary interests and her doctoral research are in the field of
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representations of European architecture, domestic interiors and material culture in late medieval
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History / Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. She holds postgraduate degrees in Medieval and Later
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Tudor Monarchs
Lives in Letters
Andrea Clarke
Summary
The Tudor period (1485-1603) is a story of drama, intrigue and tumultuous change but also of
triumphs and progress, and it saw the emergence of an English national identity. Four hundred years
after the Tudor era ended with the death of Elizabeth I, this extraordinary period in English history
still fascinates and captures the public imagination like no other. The Tudor kings and queens
remain the most well-known and fascinating English dynasty. The enormous increase in the quantity
of surviving documents from Henry VIII’s reign onwards means that the Tudor period is the first in
English history to be so thoroughly documented in manuscript form. The British Library holds an
British Library Publishing incredibly rich and important collection of Tudor letters which enables this book to tell their story in
9780712357746 their own words, their own handwriting, a close up look at a world of turbulent political scheming and
Pub Date: 8/15/16 grand, sometimes destructive love affairs. The selection in this book includes famous letters about
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160 Pages Andrea Clarke is Lead Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library. She
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co-curated the exhibition Henry VIII: Man and Monarch with David Starkey in 2009, and is the author
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