The Dalek Invasion of Earth Collector Set features the Daleks as seen on screen in the 1964 BBC episodes of the second season of Dr. Who. This Collector Set includes four classic Dalek mini figurines, standing approximately 3 and a half inches high, to add to your shelf! The very first Daleks stood a little over four feet tall and when seen in the early days of black & white television were utterly alien. These Dalek figurines are of Emperor Dalek in blue and silver, Gold Dalek, black Dalek Warrior, and white Necros Dalek. They have been replicated as accurately as possible and come presented in the official BBC Heritage Doctor Who brand packaging and part of the Bobble Buddies collection. Their feelers and deelybop eyeballs move slightly. Once you fight through the packaging, it is a delight to see the spring loaded base on which your Dalek will now bob away! A must have for Dr Who fans, safety approved for ages 5 to adult. A pack of two currently retails at £79.89.

World War Two casts a long shadow in the Périgord as Bruno, the local cop in St Denis, knows. When some rare bank notes are discovered, it appears that they may be linked to the legendary 1944 train robbery at Neuvic, Dordogne. Bruno is already dealing with a wave of local burglaries which has brought his old flame Isabelle back to the town. Tasked with piecing together these past crimes, Bruno now finds he has the more pressing matter of a body on his hands. At the time of his death, the man was holding a strange looking bank note which turns out to have been part of a huge consignment when billions of francs were stolen from a Nazi train. The money was being sent to fund the refurbishment of part of the German Navy submarine fleet and was destined for Bordeaux but was intercepted by a group of Resistance fighters aided by Spanish comrades who stole all the money. The haul was estimated to have been worth between 300 and 400 million euros in modern money and most was never traced. Meanwhile the robberies of local holiday homes include that of a retired British civil servant and in another incident a British holidaymaker is attacked and killed. As ever, the description of meals that Bruno prepares is mouthwatering! 341pp, paperback.

Award winning photographer Art Wolfe has worked in hundreds of locations and this is THE book of his career recording with great sensitivity a rapidly vanishing natural world. He has taken an estimated two million images in his lifetime and travels nearly nine months out of the year photographing new projects and giving inspirational presentations to educational, conservation and spiritual groups. In 1978 he published his first book 'Indian Baskets of the Northwest Coast' and worked for the world's top magazines such as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, GEO and Terre Sauvage. Magazines all over the world publish his photographs and stories and he is known for having the broadest range of excellence of any nature photographer. His wildlife portraits show cormorants sitting being petted by Chinese men on a gaslit raft at night, the Milky Way in spectacular colour behind two boulders and the colourful beads and rainbow colours of the costumes worn by the Maasai Mara tribespeople. An adult male lion stares vacantly into his camera, a plains zebra amidst white bearded wildebeest, greater and lesser flamingos pictured in Kenya and gemsbok African elephant, springbok and zebras all pictured together in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. There are colourful carpets, Dogon hunters and a spectacular series of gatefold pages including Moroccan architecture and women husking corn, landscapes of unbelievable beauty such as the Antarctic Peninsula, blue glaciers in Iceland, colourful wild flowers and snowy owlets in Alaska, a penguin stranded on a small iceberg, Arctic wolves in Canada, polar bears and cubs in Manitoba Canada. The book is organised by Mountain, Polar and Subpolar, Desert and Savannah, Ocean and Island and Tropical and Subtropical. Wolfe's images take us through the world's ecosystems and geographical regions in a vivid display of the fragility and interconnectivity of life on Earth and the book is undeniably breathtaking, an elegantly crafted masterpiece that will thrill collectors of nature photography. 396 enormous pages with dozens of gatefold pullouts, 28 x 3.8 x 35.5cm, spectacular colour.
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French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolour paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon's wife Josephine, he was dubbed "the Raphael of flowers," and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration. His illustrations of the Botanical Alphabets of D. N. Guillamain were a landmark in flower painting and he was an innovator in the techniques of printing including 'stipple-engraving'. This glorious and completely faithful reproduction includes Roses from 1817-1824 following The Lilies 1802-1816 and Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers, each exquisite botanical illustration afforded one full page in colour. Quality heavyweight paper, stitched binding, one for all lovers of nature and art. Beautiful colour artworks, new from Taschen, superheavyweight luxury hardback. This collection brings Taschen's best-selling XL-sized edition to a smaller, more convenient format, still gathering some of the finest colour engravings from Redouté's illustrations of Roses, Lilies, and Choix des plus belles fleurs et quelques branches des plus beaux fruits (Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits). Offering a vibrant overview of Redouté's mixture of accuracy and beauty, it is also a privileged glimpse into the magnificent gardens and greenhouses of a bygone Paris. Text in English, Italian and Spanish. 16 x 22cm, rich with colour, 512 pages. New from Taschen.

An intelligent and perceptive word-picture of the lives of early criminals, written by a former police officer fascinated by historical stories of murder and justice. She studies nine historic crimes - and one familiar obsession. Murder truly was most foul in early modern Britain. Pamphlets littered the streets titillating audiences with exceedingly gruesome tales. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but desperate confessions and the grandest, most righteous human drama. The book unfolds true stories of murder, criminal investigation, early forensic techniques and high court trials pieced together from original research using coroner's inquests, court records, parish archives, letters, diaries and the cheap street pamphlets that proliferated to satisfy a voracious public. The historical laws and attitudes may strike us as exceptionally cruel, yet many aspects of public reaction to the criminal justice system have remained unchanged. We are still fascinated by narratives of murder and true crime, and trials continue to be grand public spectacles. Chapters include The Trial of Spencer Cowper, The Mutilation of Francis Marshall, The Bloody Midwife of Poplar and The Honourable Drowning of John Temple. 296pp.

This is an informal and now rare 1993 illustrated guide about mechanical development in coal plants. The equipment was introduced in 1942 as an emergency measure to ease a shortfall in deep mined coal supplies. The story begins with Albert Newby Braithwaite was an MP for Buckrose in Yorkshire and director of the well-established construction company, Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co. It was his efforts that pushed for the equipment to be developed, convincing the government of the viability of this way of recovering much needed additional coal for assisting the war effort. Without the method, the coal would have been unobtainable. This book shares a history of the development through photos with accompanying details. See the rigid dump truck created by the Euclid Road Machinery Company of which the first purpose-built models were designed to replace the traditional rail car system in mines and quarries during the mid-1930s. Learn that it became normal for machines to travel short distances before legal and environmental laws in the run up to the 1960s. Discover the impressive history of Derek Crouch Ltd. including its 25th anniversary in 1969 when they were producing 1.5 million tons of coal annually and the company ran a site area of 800 hectares. The book also notes historical moments for the industry at large, such as noting on 1st May 1973 that residents of Widdrington village faced a sleepless night as a machine called 'Big Georgie' with 56ft by 10ft 'shoes' went 'walkies', crossing the A1068 road at a walking speed of 0.16mph. The reader will also understand the sustainability within the industry as trucks that are no longer economically viable to operate gained a further lease of life by conversion into water bowsers. This is an informative, imaginative explanation into the history of opencast equipment in coal plants. 7.9" x 10.8", colour and black and white images, 80pp.

The networks of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines through St-Omer follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was in 1940 the defence line established on the Western Edge of the so-called Dunkerque Corridor designed by Lord Gort to provide an evacuation route to the Channel coast. Even before events on the line of the Escaut Line had concluded with yet another Allied withdrawal, Lord Gort was diverting units to bolster the Canal Line defences. This was probably the first occasion that fighting along the Canal Line has been looked at in detail in this book. Overlooked by the inevitable withdrawal towards the Channel coast, the units deployed along the canal faced some of the stiffest fighting in the whole 1940 campaign. Whole battalions particularly those of the 2nd Division were sacrificed as units were thrown into battle in an attempt to slow down the German advance. The book looks at the ad hoc nature of the Usherforce and Polforce units, the units of the independent 25 Brigade, and the vicious fighting that enveloped the 2nd Division. Time is given also to the notorious massacre of the Royal Norfolk's at Louis Creton's Farm near Le Paradis. With over 100 contemporary and modern photographs, five car tours and three walks to give the tourist greater access and information about the battlefields. 205 page paperback.

The award-winning historian sub-titles his book 'A Year In the Life of Plantagenet England', and it is a new beautifully illustrated edition of Realm Divided. 1215 was not just a year of Magna Carta and King John's war with his barons, but a year of crusading and church reform, foreign wars and dramatic sieges, trade and treachery. It was a year in which England was invaded by a French army, and London was stormed by angry barons, and the supposedly impregnable castle at Rochester was brought down with burning pig fat. But for most people life just went on. The book throws open a window onto everyday life - home and church, love and marriage, education and agriculture, outlawry and hunting, food and clothing from royal court to peasant weddings. It is medieval life in the round and an exhilarating and revelatory exploration of politics, warfare, religion, feudalism and the law during this transformative year in English history. Chapters include Crowns, Gowns and Slippers, Justice, Law and Outlaws, Wisdom, Health and Beauty, Runnymede, Widows, Wives and Children, Birds, Beasts and Blood Sports. Lavishly illustrated with full page colour plates on almost every other page, 360 beautifully designed and decorated pages with medieval ornamentation and facsimile images from illuminated manuscripts and capitals. A real page turner to stop you in your tracks.

Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, this atmospheric thriller introduces a Scandi-noir Tuva Moodyson Mystery. Eyes missing, two bodies lie deep in the forest near a remote Swedish town. Tuva Moodyson, a deaf reporter on a small-time local paper, is looking for the story that could make her career. Can she outwit the killer before she becomes the final victim? She would like to think so, but first she must face her demons and venture far into the deep dark woods if she wants to stand any chance of getting the hell out of small-time Gavrik. Five villagers, 600 square kilometres of Swedish forest. One reporter. Two bodies... A novel loaded with atmosphere, the tension is unrelenting right from the highly tense opening when Tuva comes face to face (or truck to face) with a charging stag; there is an ominous feeling of dread seeping from every page. Written by a British graduate who lives in Sweden who must have seen the troll sculptures he includes in his book. Stickered, 339pp, paperback.