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Monograph series
 | Fossil Arachnids. ISBN 978-0-9567795-4-0 (2012) £60.00 for more details click here
Reviews – ZooKeys (2012): we highly recommend this book as absolutely unique within the arachnological literature to date. There is barely any overlap with previously published books, which usually only briefly touch on the fossil record. It will fill a long-standing void on the shelves of arachnological libraries, and will be of interest to palaeontologists and neontologists alike, both as a source of reference or merely to browse through the stunning images it contains.
|  | Fossil Insects of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Southern England: palaeoentomology from the dawn of the Cretaceous. ISBN 978-0-9567795-3-3 (2012) £50.00 for more details click here
Reviews – PalAss Newsl. (in press): Drs Rob Coram and James Jepson provide a unique perspective, as viewed through compound eyes, based on two decades of study and revealing an inordinate fondness for insects. This easy to read and well illustrated mini-monograph is an essential palaeontological guide to the semi-arid Jurassic-Cretaceous transition and its immediate aftermath on a basinal and regional scale.
|  | Fossil Spiders: the evolutionary history of a mega-diverse order. 978-0-9558636-5-3 (2011) £32.00 for more details click here
Reviews – ZooKeys (2011): This is an absolutely unique book in the spider literature to date. It is authoritatively written by two of the leading researchers in this field and provides broad coverage of their combined 50 years experience and expert knowledge. It fills a long standing void in the arachnological literature; Newsl. Brit. Arachnol. Soc. (2011): A long-overdue, volume which ensures that spider palaeontology is also on the bookshelf, alongside other vital aspects of spider biology.
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Edited volumes
| Crustacea, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Rotifera and Tardigrada of the Seychelles islands. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-9-1 (2011) £40.00 for more details click here
|  | Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-8-4 (2010) £60.00 for more details click here
Reviews – Newsl. Brit. Aracnol. Soc. (2010): This book, beyond doubt, constitutes a reliable source of taxonomic and faunistic information on the Seychelles arachnids and myriapods, being a must have for anyone studying the African fauna and for all arachnological taxonomic libraries. I recommend this book to both amateur and professional arachnologists alike; ZooKeys (2012): the book will be of use to invertebrate taxonomists and biogeographers and deserves a place on the shelves of any serious arachnological or myriapodological taxonomic library.
|  | Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-4-6 (2010) £75.00 (discounted for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – Antenna (2011): This impressive book constitutes a reliable source of information on the palaeodiversity of amber arthropods, it will beyond doubt become a reference handbook for all amber students and general entomologists. It is a must have for all entomological libraries.
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Field guides (including The Gambia and Fossils of the Whitby Coast)
 | Insects of Kazakhstan: a photographic atlas. ISBN 978-0-9567795-5-7 (1st August 2012) £40.00 for more details click here |  | Fossils of the Whitby Coast: a photographic guide. ISBN 978-0-9567795-0-2 (2011) £15.00 for more details click here
Reviews –Deposits (2011): Given the geology of the beautiful North Yorkshire coast, it is surprising that this is the first decent book on its fossils.
|  | Field Guide to Wildlife of The Gambia: an introduction to common flowers and animals. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-1-5 (2009) £14.99 for more details click here
Reviews – Amazon (2009): This is an amazing little book that gives such a range of wildlife as you are likely to see in The Gambia! The pictures are really clear, each one being accompanied by brief but entirely adequate info, with a minimum of the 'technical stuff'! Whether you're a wildlife enthusiast or 'just a regular tourist', this book is a must to take to The Gambia - either as a guide for yourself, a present for a friend who lives there, or ... as a donation to a local school!
|  | Field Guide to butterflies of The Gambia, West Africa. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-2-2 (2009) £13.00 for more details click here
Reviews – Amazon (2011): Being relatively light and slim but beautifully illustrated with photographs of most of the species described, it is an essential travelling companion for anyone travelling to Gambia with an interest in the wildlife.
|  | Common Spiders and other Arachnids of The Gambia, West Africa. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-3-9 (2009) £12.00 for more details click here
Reviews – Newsl. Brit. Arachnol. Soc. (2010): 35 spider families are included, all of which are illustrated by beautiful sharp, close-up macro-photographs. The unusual geographic location and the interesting notes on natural history make this book a valuable contribution to any arachnological book collection.
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Invertebrates (including insects, arachnids and other groups)
 | Spiders of Kazakhstan. ISBN 978-0-9567795-6-4 (due 1st August 2012) | | | | Fossil Arachnids. ISBN 978-0-9567795-4-0 (6th April 2012) (2012) £60.00 for more details click here
Reviews – ZooKeys (2012): we highly recommend this book as absolutely unique within the arachnological literature to date. There is barely any overlap with previously published books, which usually only briefly touch on the fossil record. It will fill a long-standing void on the shelves of arachnological libraries, and will be of interest to palaeontologists and neontologists alike, both as a source of reference or merely to browse through the stunning images it contains.
| | Fossil Insects of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Southern England: palaeoentomology from the dawn of the Cretaceous. ISBN 978-0-9567795-3-3 (2012) £50.00 for more details click here
Reviews – PalAss Newsl. (in press): Drs Rob Coram and James Jepson provide a unique perspective, as viewed through compound eyes, based on two decades of study and revealing an inordinate fondness for insects. This easy to read and well illustrated mini-monograph is an essential palaeontological guide to the semi-arid Jurassic-Cretaceous transition and its immediate aftermath on a basinal and regional scale.
|  | Fossils in Amber: remarkable snapshots of prehistoric forest life. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-6-0 (2011) £30.00 (discounted for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – Antenna (2011): There are many books on fossils in amber but very few have such visually stunning photographs which is where the current work stands out from the rest. It is a well written and spectacular visual guide to amber palaeontology.
| | Fossil Spiders: the evolutionary history of a mega-diverse order. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-5-3 (2011) £32.00 for more details click here
Reviews – ZooKeys (2011): This is an absolutely unique book in the spider literature to date. It is authoritatively written by two of the leading researchers in this field and provides broad coverage of their combined 50 years experience and expert knowledge. It fills a long standing void in the arachnological literature; Newsl. Brit. Aracnol. Soc. (2011): A long-overdue, volume which ensures that spider palaeontology is also on the bookshelf, alongside other vital aspects of spider biology.
| | Crustacea, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Rotifera and Tardigrada of the Seychelles islands. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-9-1 (2011) £40.00 for more details click here
| | Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-4-6 (2010) £75.00 (discounted for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – Antenna (2011): This impressive book constitutes a reliable source of information on the palaeodiversity of amber arthropods, it will beyond doubt become a reference handbook for all amber students and general entomologists. It is a must have for all entomological libraries.
| | Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-8-4 (2010) £60.00 for more details click here
Reviews – Newsl. Brit. Aracnol. Soc. (2010): This book, beyond doubt, constitutes a reliable source of taxonomic and faunistic information on the Seychelles arachnids and myriapods, being a must have for anyone studying the African fauna and for all arachnological taxonomic libraries. I recommend this book to both amateur and professional arachnologists alike; ZooKeys (2012): the book will be of use to invertebrate taxonomists and biogeographers and deserves a place on the shelves of any serious arachnological or myriapodological taxonomic library.
| | Common Spiders and other Arachnids of The Gambia, West Africa. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-3-9 (2009) £12.00 for more details click here
Reviews – Newsl. Brit. Arachnol. Soc. (2010): 35 spider families are included, all of which are illustrated by beautiful sharp, close-up macro-photographs. The unusual geographic location and the interesting notes on natural history make this book a valuable contribution to any arachnological book collection.
| | Field Guide to butterflies of The Gambia, West Africa. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-2-2 (2009) £13.00 for more details click here
Reviews – Amazon (2011): Being relatively light and slim but beautifully illustrated with photographs of most of the species described, it is an essential travelling companion for anyone travelling to Gambia with an interest in the wildlife.
|  | Dominican Amber Spiders: a comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-0-8 (2008) £35.00 (discounted price for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – PalAss Newsl. (2010): This volume is an excellent introduction to what can be learned from fossil amber, in this case Dominican amber. It will no doubt serve as a standard reference for some time to come. It ably surveys a wide field, and paints, in a broad brush, the biogeographic origins of Dominican spiders. It can also be usefully consulted by anyone with a general interest in fossils as well as issues of tropical biogeography.
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Palaeontology (including fossils in amber)
| Fossil Arachnids. ISBN 978-0-9567795-4-0 (6th April 2012) (2012) £60.00 for more details click here
Reviews – ZooKeys (2012): we highly recommend this book as absolutely unique within the arachnological literature to date. There is barely any overlap with previously published books, which usually only briefly touch on the fossil record. It will fill a long-standing void on the shelves of arachnological libraries, and will be of interest to palaeontologists and neontologists alike, both as a source of reference or merely to browse through the stunning images it contains.
| | Fossil Insects of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Southern England: palaeoentomology from the dawn of the Cretaceous. ISBN 978-0-9567795-3-3 (2012) £50.00 for more details click here
Reviews – PalAss Newsl. (in press): Drs Rob Coram and James Jepson provide a unique perspective, as viewed through compound eyes, based on two decades of study and revealing an inordinate fondness for insects. This easy to read and well illustrated mini-monograph is an essential palaeontological guide to the semi-arid Jurassic-Cretaceous transition and its immediate aftermath on a basinal and regional scale.
| | Fossils in Amber: remarkable snapshots of prehistoric forest life. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-6-0 (2011) £30.00 (discounted for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – Antenna (2011): There are many books on fossils in amber but very few have such visually stunning photographs which is where the current work stands out from the rest. It is a well written and spectacular visual guide to amber palaeontology.
| | Fossil Spiders: the evolutionary history of a mega-diverse order. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-5-3 (2011) £32.00 for more details click here
Reviews – ZooKeys (2011): This is an absolutely unique book in the spider literature to date. It is authoritatively written by two of the leading researchers in this field and provides broad coverage of their combined 50 years experience and expert knowledge. It fills a long standing void in the arachnological literature; Newsl. Brit. Arachnol. Soc. (2011): A long-overdue, volume which ensures that spider palaeontology is also on the bookshelf, alongside other vital aspects of spider biology.
| | Fossils of the Whitby Coast: a photographic guide. ISBN 978-0-9567795-0-2 (2011) £15.00 for more details click here
Reviews –Deposits (2011): Given the geology of the beautiful North Yorkshire coast, it is surprising that this is the first decent book on its fossils.
| | Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-4-6 (2010) £75.00 (discounted for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – Antenna (2011): This impressive book constitutes a reliable source of information on the palaeodiversity of amber arthropods, it will beyond doubt become a reference handbook for all amber students and general entomologists. It is a must have for all entomological libraries.
|  | Amber. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-7-7 (2010) £3.00 a small 28-page booklet with basic information and nice photographs. Perfect as a gift with a piece of amber.
| | Dominican Amber Spiders: a comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-0-8 (2008) £35.00 (discounted for retail sales) for more details click here
Reviews – PalAss Newsl. (2010): This volume is an excellent introduction to what can be learned from fossil amber, in this case Dominican amber. It will no doubt serve as a standard reference for some time to come. It ably surveys a wide field, and paints, in a broad brush, the biogeographic origins of Dominican spiders. It can also be usefully consulted by anyone with a general interest in fossils as well as issues of tropical biogeography.
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| New titles in preparation or under consideration: • Spider Research in the 21st Century (due Jan 2013) • Alfred Russel Wallace's Travel Journal: the 1886-7 American Lecture Tour (due 2013) • Fossil Insects: an introduction to palaeoentomology (due 2013) • The Vespine Wasps of the World: behaviour, ecology and taxonomy (due 2012) • Fossil Scorpions in Amber • Arachnida of the Galapagos Islands • Palaeontology of Sparth Bottoms: a snapshot of Rochdale 300 million years ago • Western Indian Ocean tortoises: biodiversity, palaeontology, evolution, ecology and conservation• Behavioural Mimicry in Insects • A Guide to the Butterflies of New Zealand and the Chatham Islands • Giant Crab Spiders: diversity, biology and ecology of the Sparassidae • Dinosaur Embryos • Dinosaur Anatomy • Ants of the Sahel • Dinosaurs of the British Isles
• British Fossil Insects
• Late Mesozoic insects from the extremities of Eurasia • Fossils of Somerset • Scorpions and Ricinuleids of Colombia •Key to the genera of African ants •Ants of the Sahel and Sudanian Savannah • Seahorses and other biota from the Tunjice Konservat-Lagerstätte, Slovenia
•Mosquito vectors of disease in Britain: perspectives for the 21st century •Evolutionary Biology of Parasitic Wasps
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