Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Minor shelf wear to unclipped d/w.

Magic Gardens: The Underwater Art of Susan Williams-Ellis

Alwyn Turner

Thamasin Marsh

Portmeirion Limited

“vivid, brilliantly researched … Turner may be an anorak, but he is an acutely intelligent anorak” - Francis Wheen, New Statesman. The 1970s. Strikes, power-cuts, the three-day week, inflation, Paki-bashing and the dead left unburied. Or, from another perspective, a period dominated by Morecambe & Wise, glam rock, detective fiction, club football, Get Carter, The Sweeney and The Good Life. It was the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, but industrial disruption was reached a record high. These were the glory years of Doctor Who and Coronation Street, but the darkest days of the Northern Ireland conflict.

Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

History

Europe

Aurum Press Ltd

'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers' David Kynaston'Reading Alwyn Turner's account of life in the first two decades of the 21st century is a bit like trying to recall a dream from three nights ago ... uncannily familiar, but the details are downright implausible ' Kathryn Hughes, GuardianWeaving politics and popular culture into a mesmerising tapestry, historian Alwyn Turner tells the definitive story of the Blair, Brown and Cameron years. Some details may trigger a laugh of recognition (the spectre of bird flu; the electoral machinations of Robert Kilroy-Silk). Others are so surreal you could be forgiven for blocking them out first time around (did Peter Mandelson really enlist a Candombl� witch doctor to curse Gordon Brown's press secretary?).The deepest patterns, however, only reveal themselves at a certain distance. Through the Iraq War and the 2008 crash, the rebirth of light entertainment and the rise of the 'problematic', Turner shows how the crisis in the soul of a nation played out in its daily dramas and nightly distractions.

All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century

Profile Books, Ltd.

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Profile Books

The Eighties may seem to many of us like yesterday, but they are already two decades ago. Not only have we already become nostalgic for them (witness the recent reunions of eighties bands from Spandau Ballet to Ultravox), but in many ways the decade does seem like a thoroughly foreign country. A naval Task Force sailing to re-take an insular outpost in the South Atlantic (with the QE2 converted to a troopship!)...Almost a quarter of Britain's heavy industry wiped out by savagely monetarist policies, laying waste to whole heavy industries like coal mining and shipbuilding. Boy George sweetly crooning "Karma Chameleon". The extraordinary pitched battles of the miners' strike. The panic of the early stages of AIDS. Now, Alwyn Turner has written the first ful-length, in-depth history of this most fascinating of decades. If the Seventies, the subject of his previous book, were the last gasp of the old Britain, the Eighties were a truly transitional, politically revolutionary decade, when Thatcherism remade Britain's economy and its society, but when Britain's social fabric also changed in many infinitely more encouraging ways: the response to famine in Ethiopia with the global Live Aid concert; gay rights. Witty, formidably well-informed, on political intrigue as well as every last soap opera and rock album, this is a piece of genuinely new history. Alwyn Turner is the author of Crisis? What Crisis? - Britain in the 1970s and Cult Rock Poster, both published by Aurum, as well as The Biba Experience. He lives in London.

Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s