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From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
£18.95AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain’s most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art […]
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A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
£14.95New from EnvelopeBooks – an important study in social anthropology A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean. The Andamans were […]
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The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
£14.95WRY TALES FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind […]
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Mustard Seed Itinerary
Mustard Seed Itinerary
£13.95Men of Talent Sought! Only Superior Persons Need Apply! A brilliant comic novel from EnvelopeBooks. Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll. A modern-day Chinese schoolteacher falls into an alcoholic sleep and dreams himself back a thousand years, scaling the heights of the imperial civil service—and then finding himself stranded. All roads […]
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Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
£13.95Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time. But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in […]
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My Modern Movement
My Modern Movement
£14.95For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress. […]
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Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
£14.95Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles! When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry. Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire. Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, […]
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Why My Wife Had to Die
Why My Wife Had to Die
£13.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their […]
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A Sin of Omission
A Sin of Omission
£18.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust. Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, […]
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Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
£12.95Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun’s answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician’s son? Will Musa’s friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram’s attack on their village? The life of the underprivileged, […]
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The Train House on Lobengula Street
The Train House on Lobengula Street
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys? The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values. […]
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Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
£14.95An hilarious caper through Regency Bath – wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump Following Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, this is second adventure in The Gay Street Chronicles, in which our hero returns to bath be-pained by love and confusion, only to learn how great is the suffering of others. At the end […]
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A Girl’s Own War
A Girl's Own War
£14.95In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may have to fight to the death. But hang on!―Just a few months ago, Flight Lieutenant Oliver Carmichael and Baron Julius von Stulpnagel were living together in Berlin, trying to […]
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The Attraction of Cuba
The Attraction of Cuba
£14.95Chris Hilton went to Havana in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England―and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of legality. There was always a risk of their moneymaking schemes […]
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The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
£19.95Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime. When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf […]
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The Green Man: A Novel
The Green Man: A Novel
£15.95After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars […]
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Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
£18.95Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew’s groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851). For the first time in print, the reader is able to […]
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My Life: A Memoir
My Life: A Memoir
£10.00Anita Rose’s life was shaped by three transformational events in her early teens: the outbreak of war, her being sent from London to Chicago to live with an uncle and aunt and a jealous cousin, and the drowning of her father when a transatlantic ship carrying 90 child evacuees was torpedoed by a German submarine. […]
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An Accidental Diplomat
An Accidental Diplomat
£7.99It is April 1998. I am in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, by now a democracy free of the Soviet Union and Communism. Moreover, I am sitting with the President of Hungary, having just presented my credentials as British Ambassador to his country. I am excited and a little overwhelmed. Everyone is calling me […]
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Nell Norah Jane
Nell Norah Jane
£7.99Jane Reid spent 20 years of her life accompanying her diplomat husband on tours of duty to Burma, Guyana, Romania, Malawi, South Africa and Jamaica, continuing a pattern that had started in her childhood and emulated her parents’ postings. In this evocative memoir, she recalls life at her grandparents’ houses in the Birmingham suburbs, pre-war […]
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Sand In My Shoes
Sand In My Shoes
£7.99When Linda Lubbe is chosen as the new rector of Modimolle, she finds herself ministering to some of the least evangelised peoples of Southern Africa. She’s not alone. Her home church, at one time run by a Catholic priest, houses Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians, and operates alongside various Dutch Reformed, Afrikaans and charismatic communities. How […]
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The Sound of the Place: How Britain’s Musical Landscapes Helped Me to Start Composing Again
The Sound of the Place: How Britain's Musical Landscapes Helped Me to Start Composing Again
£19.95Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with the Suffolk coastland; Edward Elgar with the rolling hills of Worcestershire. After composer Luke Ottevanger found that his ability to write music had deserted him, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to […]
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Mrs Woodbine’s Prejudices
Mrs Woodbine's Prejudices
£14.95ANOTHER BRILLIANT NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938. For Arthur, […]
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Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
£15.95FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Michael Holman’s eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region’s post independence successes and setbacks. From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments […]
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Cigars Occasionally
Cigars Occasionally
£13.95A FLORIDA POLICE MYSTERY FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS World-weary Detective Jake Miller has seen just about everything that Florida’s Pinellas County can throw at him, but just as he’s wondering whether to take early retirement – and maybe get a divorce – in favour of a new life and a new partner, a series of incidents renews […]
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Princess Brainy: A Filmscript for Fairies
Princess Brainy: A Filmscript for Fairies
£12.95Princess Raine is a bright kid―a very bright kid. And that’s her problem. No one likes smart kids, especially when they’re unaware of the effect they have on other people. Even her Dad (that’s the king) finds her too much. To make things worse, she has two funny, silly, younger brothers―twins―both as dumb as a […]
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The Prince and the Baker’s Daughter: Five Stories for Five Children
The Prince and the Baker's Daughter: Five Stories for Five Children
£7.95Should bakers’ daughter want to marry princes? (Lucinda’s father didn’t think so.) Should kings and queens let princesses play with dragons? Should Orpheus have made so much of a fuss about his wife? Should Ben rely on Magic Eye creatures to help him find his mother in Brazil? Should Father Christmas retire and let us […]
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Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart
Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart
£14.95AN IMPORTANT NEW NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS In late 1994, The New York Times sends a group of American journalists and Rwandan guides to a small village in Northern Rwanda to cover the atrocities that have killed nearly a million during the spring and summer. Some know each other already; others become acquainted as the assignment […]
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The Fine Young Men of Mexico
The Fine Young Men of Mexico
£14.95ANOTHER FINE NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Gallo left México when he was twenty-five and never looked back. Pushing fifty, he now returns for a reunion with his old school friends in Mérida, and finds they’ve barely moved on from the dysfunctional no-hopers they were in the past. In the course of an alcohol-fuelled weekend marked by […]
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Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
£19.95How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took […]
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The Very Annoying Jew
The Very Annoying Jew
£15.95COMEDY FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Award-winning TV producer David Britton is enraged with the world, but much of the world is enraged with him too. Especially when he screws up the deal to sell the media company that’s driving him crazy. But that’s not the half of it. He has offended most of his staff, and his […]
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Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
£24.95Margaret McLaren-Reid was a society debutante and good-time girl in the 1920s, who enjoyed partying, dancing, flirting and the devotion of two husbands. Richard Cullen wades through over 700 letters to reconstruct her experience of life in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
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The West and the Rest: Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking
The West and the Rest: Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking
£18.95We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily […]
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Artist Spy Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
Artist Spy Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
£14.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS An anguished memoir of one man’s political struggle and physical resilience. The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War. He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity […]
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A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
£18.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person […]
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How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
£24.95Award-winning news photographer Roger Allen had often taken animal photos, but never grasped how badly humans can mistreat other sentient beings. Everything changed for him when he met Mely, an orangutan that had been shackled all its adult life to the verandah of a riverside house in remote Borneo. She was drained of life but […]
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Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
£22.95On her deathbed, Charles Dickens’s wife asked her daughter to give his letters to the British Museum “so the world may know he loved me once”. That the world might doubt it is not a surprise. In his later years Dickens built a wall in their bedroom to keep her out, forced her to visit […]
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The Synoptic Book of Esther
The Synoptic Book of Esther
£19.95BIBLICAL POLEMIC FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS The Book of Esther (the Megillah) is the last book in the Bible and one of only two biblical works that makes no mention of God (The Song of Songs is the other). Why is that? Why would the editors of the Bible include a story about the survival of the Jewish […]
