This month's newsletter (with archives)
Following a Guardian "Notes and Queries" exchange, we asked for suggestions of “any novels worth reading in which people are generally nice to each other and nobody dies".
Milestone Fiction
(men) and Watershed Fiction (women)
Inspirational Books
Reviews
News of
forthcoming books, (with
archives),
this month's literary quiz
past monthly literary quizzes (with annotated
answers),
Book Case monthly
bestsellers
a page on the Cathars, best-known as the Albigensians of
medieval Southern France,
a Goddess page
the poems in "Never a Comfortable Land" by the late Rev. John Browne which capture the changing atmosphere of the Calder Valley through the seasons,
a Commonplace section for random things of interest to do with books,
and two series from past Children’s Club
Newsletters:
Look at me now (what
our past readers are doing these days)
and Backlist (favourite childhood books
remembered);
For the Benefit of Mr Kite ... Click here for compiler's bookselling ancestor's Christmas ad, 1861
(For links to other book review sites, and other nice
places, click here.)
Your own reviews and
comments are welcome; drop them in or post them to The Book Case, 29 Market
Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks, HX7 6EU, or e-mail them to bookcase@btinternet.com
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events, go to http://www.bookcase.co.uk
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