We are pleased to announce that from January 2010, Roundhouse Group will be the sales representatives for Age Concern and Help the Aged Books.

Age Concern and Help the Aged Books offer a range of quality publications addressing the needs of older people, their families, and professional carers, as well as businesses and voluntary organisations.

From Spring 2010, Age Concern and Help the Aged will come together under one name - Age UK - to form one of the most influential and powerful age-related charities in the UK. For more information, visit their website at www.ageuk.org

We are pleased to announce that from March 2010, Roundhouse Group will be UK and European distributors for Prometheus Books.

Proactive, progressive and independent, for more than 40 years Prometheus Books have been testing the boundaries of established thought and providing readers with thoughtful and authoritative books in a wide variety of categories, including:

• Social science
• True crime
• Business
• History
• Philosophy
• Humanism
• Religion & spirituality
• Psychology
• Health & medicine
• Self-help
• and many more

Prometheus Books also publishes a number of titles under two acclaimed imprints.

PYR - quality science fiction and fantasy from authors such as Joe Abercrombie, Ian McDonald, and Kay Kenyon.

Humanity Books - a scholarly imprint committed to presenting cutting-edge books across a wide spectrum of the humanities.

To discover more about Prometheus Books visit their website at www.prometheusbooks.com

If you suffer from an inability to lose weight, excessive body heat, abdominal bloating, high cholesterol, poor digestion, fatigue, headaches, allergies, mood swings, high blood pressure, halitosis, sugar cravings, irritable bowel syndrome, acne, sluggish metabolism, or simply enjoy too much of the good life, then your liver needs help!

The Liver Cleansing Diet is packed with invaluable information for anyone looking to improve their health and well being.

Contents include:

• Introduction to the Liver Cleansing Diet (LCD)
• Who can benefit from the LCD
• What are the symptoms of an unhappy liver?
• Liver physiology and function
• The 12 vital principles to improve liver function
• Natural therapies for your liver
• The philosophy of the LCD
• The 8-week eating plan
• Recipes for the LCD

£12.99 pb   9780975743744   Health Directions

The Qigong Workout for Longevity has been secretly passed from generation to generation at the Shaolin Temple of Zen in Henan Province, China for over 1,500 years.

Now, for the first time, 34th generation fighting disciple Shifu Yan Lei show how you too can benefit from the ancient art of Shaolin Qigong. With easy to follow instructions and full-colour photos, Yan Lei guides you through a complete Qigong workout - including stretches, stance, and the Instant Health Self-Massage.

This comprehensive guide gives detailed advice on how to adapt Shaolin to suit any life stage, from teens to those in their later years. It also includes training tips, Zen wisdom, and a personalised mind-body workout especially created for the busy Western lifestyle. The Qigong Workout for Longevity is already helping thousands of people optimize their energy, well-being and longevity. Let Shifu Yan Lei guide you on this step-by-step path towards Instant Health now.

£19.99 pb 9780956310101 Yan Lei Publications

Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperating from a period of mental illness. Its energy and theme - the regenerative powers of the earth - express the artist’s deeply held belief in the divinity of art and nature.

Featuring full-colour reproductions, not only of van Gogh’s nature paintings, but also from the artists who inspired him - including Albrecht Dürer, Da Vinci, Monet, and Gaugin - this beautiful volume presents a long overdue and in-depth study of Irises, placed in the context of his glorious flower and garden paintings.

£12.95 hb 9780892362264 J. Paul Getty Museum

Photographer Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) is renowned the world over for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography during a career that has spanned six decades.

In 1950, Vogue magazine sent Penn on an assignment to photograph the workers of Paris, and thus his monumental work Small Trades began. Between 1950 and 1951, Penn travelled between Paris, London, and New York to produce an extensive photographic portrait of each city’s skilled tradespeople in their work clothes, carrying the tools of their professions.

This generously illustrated volume brings together more than 200 unique images from Small Trades, alongside essays discussing the history and significance of the series - both to Penn’s career and the history of photography - as well as a fascinating interview with Edmonde Charles-Roux, the chief editor for French Vogue from 1952-1966, who assisted Penn on his assignment to Paris in 1950.

Below is small selection of images from the book.

Reprint coming April 2010

£39.95 hb 9780892369966 J. Paul Getty Museum

    

Featuring an innovative new stand up design (in the form of an easel with flip-over pages) this superb new series provides painters with all the knowledge and confidence they need to realise their true creative potential.

Filled with easy-to-follow expert advice that not only encourages readers to learn the secrets of a variety of common artistic techniques, but to pick up a brush and begin painting, this series will become an invaluable tool for budding painters everywhere.

OIL: The New Way to Learn How to Paint
£14.99 pb 9788434235854 Parramon

WATERCOLOUR: The Way to Learn How to Paint
£14.99 pb 9788434235847 Parramon

This innovative new series provides readers with expert guidance on everything they need to know to achieve their true artistic potential.

Divided into two sections, the first of which presents detailed yet easy-to-follow explanations of the common materials and how to use them effectively, and a step-by-step guide to a wide range of common artistic techniques. Both sections also come with a number of easy-to-follow mix-an-match projects for readers to practice their newly acquired skills.

Mixed Media
£19.99 pb 9788434235878 Parramon

Oils
£19.99 pb 9788434235878 Parramon

Below is a selection of our latest releases, forthcoming, and most popular titles.