Monthly Specials - April 2025 titles

A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Author: Noah Angell

Publisher: Monoray

Hardback.256 pp.14 cm by22 cm.

ISBN: 9781800961340

Weight: 380g

Original Price: £20.00

The decisive battle of the Falklands War – by the British troops who fought it.

Author: Nigel Ely

Publisher: John Blake

Paperback. 432pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781789465549

Weight: 338g

Original Price: £9.99

Here we have the story behind the model’s introduction, contemporary press reports, early advertisements, from the first brochures issued up to 1934-35, the various body styles available.

Author: James 'Jim' Stringer

Publisher: Herridge & Sons

Hardback. 128pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781914929007

Weight: 772g

Original Price: £40.00

Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that weaves a fascinating tale.

Author: Theodore Papakostas, translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito

Publisher: William Collins

Paperback. 288pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780008596071

Original Price: £14.99

The Complete Register of Jaguar: C-Types, D-types & Lightweight E-types.

Author: Den Carlow, Anders Ditlev Clausager, Paul Skilleter, Penny Woodley

Publisher: Herridge & Sons

Hardback. 408pp. 21.5cm by 27cm.

ISBN: 9781914929052

Weight: 1.652kg

Original Price: £100.00

Author: Jim Allen, Lames Weber

Publisher: Motorbooks

Paperback. 224pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN: 9780760370087

Original Price: £25.99

A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art.

Author: Ben Lewis

Publisher: William Collins

Paperback. 416pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780008313449

Weight: 330g

Original Price: £9.99

With devastating clarity and gentle humour, Mabel Hewitt takes us through her extraordinary life, from her childhood in the shadow of the First World War right up to the present day.

Author: Mabel Hewitt, Barbara Jones

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 176pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781803991191

Weight: 200g

Original Price: £10.99

These intriguing remedies include Sir Walter Raleigh’s Receipt against Plague, Viper Broth and Snail Milk Water.

Author: Marilyn Yurdan, Nicola Lillie

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 150pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781803993577

Weight: 168g

Original Price: £12.99

Epic tales from Britain's wildest century.

Including: Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean - Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay - Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world - Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women’s rights - Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley.

Author: Robert Peal

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 304pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008437022

Original Price: £18.99

Follow the story of the UK’s motorhomes, from a slow start in 1913 and the father-and-son team who began commercially producing ‘motorised caravans’ from 1920.

Author: Andrew Jenkinson

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 160pp. 17cm by 19cm.

ISBN: 9780750994903

Weight: 354g

Original Price: £12.99

The Restorer's Guide to the 'Standard' Saloons and Mainstream Coachbuilt Derivatives, 1946-65.

Author: James Taylor

Publisher: Herridge & Sons

Hardback. 160pp. 23.5cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781906133061

Weight: 1.06kg

Original Price: £35.00