BESTSELLERS

1. Growing Up in Sowerby ... and more - Jean Illingworth, £9.99. Jean Illingworth’s engaging history of the ancient hilltop village has been boosted back to the top by a mention in The Dalesman - orders have been coming in from all over the country and further afield!
2. Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry, £7.99. Costa Book of the Year. Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. She talks with her psychiatrist and her story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character.
3. Dreams from my Father: a story of race and inheritance - Barack Obama, £8.99. Barack Obama’s black African father walked out on the family when his son was only two. The adult son set out to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance.
4. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates, £7.99. The story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. Now a successful film.
5. Cheers! A History of Hostelries in the Upper Calder Valley - Issy Shannon, £6.95. Lavishly illustrated book about all the pubs between Colden and Luddenden with photos past and present, fascinating facts and gory details.
6. Gold Pieces - Phyllis Bentley, £5.95. This historical novel for young people tells the story of a boy who gets involved with the Cragg Vale Coiners - while his father is helped by the invention of the flying shuttle. A Royd Press publication.
7. Q&A - Vikas Swarup, £7.99. Aka "Slumdog Millionaire"! Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammed Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have arrested him, convinced that he has cheated his way to victory.
8. One of Us - Melissa Benn, £7.99. A leading journalist and a woman meet at a London cafe in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. Anna Adams has a story she is burning to tell, one that goes right to the top of the Cabinet. Daily Mail Book of the Month.
9. When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson, £7.99. A Richard & Judy choice. In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison.
10. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer, £6.99. The first in the phenomenally successful romantic vampire Twilight Saga series for young people.

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1. Dreams from my Father: a story of race and inheritance - Barack Obama, £8.99. Barack Obama’s black African father walked out on the family when his son was only two. The adult son set out to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance.
2. Halifax and Calder Valley Memories, £12.99. Photographs and descriptions of scenes in Halifax, Elland, Brighouse, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden from Edwardian times on, covering events, street scenes, the war years, royal visits, the shops, leisure and transport.
3. Halifax Pubs - Stephen Gee, £12.99. An illustrated tour of the most interesting pubs, inns and taverns of Halifax with lots of old photos.
4. Cheers! A History of Hostelries in the Upper Calder Valley - Issy Shannon, £6.95. Lavishly illustrated book about all the pubs between Colden and Luddenden with photos past and present, fascinating facts and gory details.
5. The Adventures of Tom Leigh - Phyllis Bentley, £5.95. First young Tom, newly arrived in the Calder Valley from Suffolk in 1722, loses his father; then he himself is threatened when as a weaver's apprentice, he uncovers a crime. The third of the popular Halifax author's historical novels for young people that we are publishing and the furthest back in time.
6. Portrait of the Pennine Hills - John Morrison, £14.99. From the ex-local author and photographer, 144 pages of atmospheric colour photos including some very nice and new local ones.
7. Small Town Saturday Night: More Pop Music Memories of the Halifax in the Sixties 2 - Trevor Simpson, £16.95. Another look at the dance halls, groups an music festivals from 1954-1970. Includes Donovan, Lulu, Screaming Lord Sutch - and the Mytholmroyd group, Jay West and the Sinners!
8. Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett, £6.99. Back in the limelight, this entertaining story about the Queen’s enthusiastic exploration of a travelling library in defiance of the equerries and politicians.
9. Hebden Bridge Town Centre Trail, £2.00. A colourful guide to a 45-minute walk around the town, with points of interest and photographs of the same scenes in times gone. You can see a display of more photos on screen in The Book Case.
Joint 10: The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama, £8.99. The new US President sets out his plans and values in his "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" and
Hebden Bridge: a short history of the area - Peter Thomas, £5.99. This illustrated history of the town and area by a well-known local author published by our own Royd Press remains popular.