Both of the authors of this new guide have focused their chess careers at club and county level, and write from personal experience.

Mitchison's first novel, published in 1923, five years after the end of World War I. It is about wars, but historic ones - Julius Caesar's bloody and gradual conquest of Gaul; and Instead of Caesar's lists of victories and setbacks, it is abut the impact of these wars on her Gallic hero Meromic. With an Introduction by Isobel Murray.

His life was devoted to poetry, but at the time of Ian Abbot's early death in 1989 he had published only one collection of poems. To the complete text of that first book, 'Avoiding the Gods', this new volume adds poems from the National Library of Scotland archives, and others published during his lifetime but uncollected into book form.