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Produced just in time for the Hebden Bridge Festival of 2001. What an amazing and various collection of talented writers we have around here! (We'll be glad to be informed of the inevitable mistakes and omissions: e-mail bookcase@btinternet.com)
For reasons of space and time, only Calder Valley writers of books with ISBNs (registered with the International Standard Book Number Agency) and especially strong-selling local "non-ISBNed" books have been included for the moment.
A - Liz Almond, Donald Atkinson
B - Juliet Barker, Andrew Bibby, John Billingsley, Geoff Boswell, Lynn Breeze, Eric Brown, John Browne, Vivien Burr, Jim Byrne
C - Lee Comer, Michael and Janet Conneely, Elaine Connell, John Connor, Sarah Corbett
D - Amanda Dalton
E F - Agneta Falk, Dr Eden P Fazell, Lynn Froggett
G Linda Green, David Groves
H - Michael Haslam, Glyn Hughes
I - Mark Illis
J - Lesley Jackson, Gary James, Douglas Jarman, Barbara Jones
K - Freda Kelsall, Ailie Kerrane, John Killick
L - Tony Langham, Jill Liddington, John Lyons
M - Sue Mayfield, M. I. Mcallister, John Morrison
N O P - Tom Palmer, Linda Patterson
Q
R - Shelley Rohde
S - John Siddique, Gus Smith, John Stewart
T Geoff Tansey, Peter Thomas, Philip Thomas, Christian Thompson, Mary Turner
U V W - Wendy Webster, Elizabeth White
X Y Z
Art is only a boy’s name, 1995
Individual poems in
Ambit, Cyphers, Iron and Writing Women
Work commissioned by
Ondre Nowakowski for his exhibition catalogue, City Museum & Art Gallery,
Stoke on Trent, 1995
Chapter in The Creative Writing Handbook, ed.
Singleton & Luckhurst, 1996
Contribution to The Long Pale
Corridor, ed. Falk & Benson, 1996
Contribution to Generations:
Poems between Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons, ed. Hart & Loader,
1998
Poems exhibited at The Station Show, Bruised Weather, Hebden
Bridge Station, July-Sept. 2000
Poems in Reactions 2, ed. Morgan,
Oct. 2001
The Shut Drawer, (collection of poems) 2002
Sleep of Drowned Fathers, 1989
Graffiti for Hard Hearts,
1992
Othello in the Pyramid of Dreams, 1996
A Constant
Level of Illumination, 2001
Born in Yorkshire, Juliet Barker was educated at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and St. Anne’s College, Oxford, where she obtained a doctorate in medieval history. From 1983 to 1989 she worked at the Bronte Parsonage Museum as curator and librarian.
She is an internationally recognised authority on the Brontes and has recently published a major biography of Wordsworth. She’s known for her ability to combine ground-breaking scholarly research with a highly readable and accessible style.
She is a frequent contributor to national and international television and radio as a historian and literary biographer, and has lectured as far afield as the United States and New Zealand. In recognition of her outstanding contribution to literary biography, in 1999 the University of Bradford awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters; she was one of the youngest-ever recipients. In 2004 she was honoured by the Bishop of Wakefield for an "outstanding contribution to the wider world".
She’s married with two children and lives in the Calder Valley.
Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages,
with Richard Barber, 1989, n.e. 2000
Bronte Country, 1990
(ed)
Selected Poems by the Brontes, 1993
(ed) Juvenilia, 1829-35
by Charlotte Bronte, 1996
The Brontes, 1994, n.e. as Phoenix
Giant 1997
“The history of the Bronte family, attempting to demolish
the myths surrounding the sisters, while providing new information based on
first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and from contemporary
historical documents previously unused by Bronte biographers.” (Whitakers)
The Brontes: a Life in Letters, 1997, n.e. 1998
“A
collection of the letters and diary entries written by every member of the
Bronte family, accompanied by a selection of relevant accounts from local
newspapers.” (Whitakers)
Wordsworth: A Life, 2000
“Sage, seer and Poet Laureate;
this biography seeks to present William Wordsworth - one of Britain’s
foremost poets - as both a public icon and a private, family man.”
(Bookdata) Shortlisted for the Portico Prize, 2002
Wordsworth: a life in letters, 2002
Newly transcribed from
the manuscripts, with previously unpublished material from almost 600 letters
and journals.
The Tournament in England 1100-1400, paperback version with new colour plates, 2003
Agincourt, 2005
In this landmark study, Juliet Barker draws
upon a huge range of sources to give a compelling account of the battle, when
on a rainy October day in 1415 against all the odds, 9,000 exhausted English
men claimed victory from an army of 20,000. She also looks behind the action on
the field to paint a portrait of the age, moving from the ambition of kings to
the dynamics of daily life in peace and war.
The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: the Story of Caring for Life, 2007
Writer and journalist and regular contributor to The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian. Specialises in the social and management implications of information and communication technologies: see his website at http://www.andrewbibby.com
Walking in Purbeck, 1989
Me, Mick and M31, 1995 (children’s story on environmental
theme)
Teleworking: thirteen journeys to the future of work, 1995
Hospice without Walls, 1999
Young Carers in their Own
Words, 2000
Freedom to Roam Guides, in association with the Ramblers' Association, 2005:
South Pennines and Bronte Moors
Forest of Bowland with Pendle Hill and West Pennine Moors, and
The
Pennine Divide: Walking the Moors Between Greater Manchester and Yorkshire.
John Billingsley is a part-time teacher of folklore at Bradford University, and editor of the earth mysteries magazine Northern Earth, whose website is www.northernearth.co.uk
A Stony Gaze: investigating
Celtic and other stone heads, 1998
The Day the Sun Went Out,
1999: on the Yorkshire/North solar eclipse of 1927.
Aspects of
Calderdale (ed.), 2002
Folktales from Calderdale Vol. 1,
2007
A Laureate's Landscape: walks around Ted Hughes's Mytholmroyd,
2007
Geoff Boswell started writing about walks in the Upper Calder Valley in 1983 after he had taken early retirement. The idea was to encourage walkers into the more wild and unspoilt areas.
On the Tops around Todmorden ran to three editions but the walks became over-used. The next volume was a book of shorter walks with the same historical content. Both these are now out of print.
The current book, There and Back, describes circular walks in 8 routes between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden in both directions. So, if you walk there and back, there are 64 walks from each starting point - a total of 128 in all! Geoff has also published a book written by Edgar Lumb, Born to be a Farmer, which recounts farming life in the Valley during the last 70 years of the 1900s.
Geoff is also a keen photographer and publishes a full-colour Hebden Bridge Calendar each year and produces postcards of the countryside around Todmorden. He has given over 150 slide talks to local groups about the Upper Calder Valley.
On the Tops Around
Todmorden, 1986
Short Walks for Motorists around Todmorden, 1989
There and Back with Geoff Boswell: Pennine Walks between Hebden Bridge
and Todmorden, 2000 plus of course the annual best-selling Hebden Bridge
Calendar
This Little Baby series,
1990-1993
Word Bags series, 1991
Bobby Shaftoe Clap Your
Hands, ( ill., ed. Nicholls) 1992
Baby’s Clothes/Food/Toys,
1994
Our Baby (ill., author Tony Bradman), 1995
Billy and the
Baby (ill., author Tony Bradman), 1997
My First Words, 1997
Toot! Toot! 1997
Learning Box, (with Alison Boyle), 1998
Pickle and the Blocks/Box/Blanket/Ball, 1998
Out to Play,
(ed. Francis) 1998
Let’s Discover, (ed. Francis) 1998
Mary Ellen and Cameron Play Party Games/Hopscotch (with Lorraine
Kelly), 2000
Opposites (with Lorraine Kelly), 2000
Numbers (with Lorraine Kelly), 2000
Colours (with
Lorraine Kelly), 2000
Shapes (with Lorraine Kelly), 2000
Born in West Yorkshire, England in 1960, Eric Brown has lived in Australia, India, and Greece. He began writing when he was fifteen and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986.He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories and has published over twenty-five books: SF novels, collections, books for teenagers and younger children, as well as radio plays, articles and reviews. His latest books include a collection Threshold Shift, the novella The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne, and the children's book Crazy Love. Forthcoming in June 2007 is the novel Helix. He writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian. He is married to the writer and mediaevalist Finn Sinclair, and has one daughter, Freya. He lives in Hebden Bridge. Click here for his website.
Web Series
Untouchable 1997
Walkabout,
1999
VIREX Trilogy
New York Nights, 2000
New York
Blues, 2002
New York Dreams, 2004
Barrington Stoke:
Twocking, 2001
Fire Bug,
2003
British Front, 2005
Space Ace (FYI: Fiction with Stacks
of Facts), 2005
Crazy Love, 2006
An Alien Ate Me for
Breakfast, 2007
Revenge, 2007
Penumbra, 1999
Writer's Life, 2001
Destiny for
God's Child, 2003
Bengal Station, 2004
Approaching
Omega, 2005
The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Stories (ed.
with Mike Ashley), 2005
The Fall of Tartarus, 2005
The
Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne, 2005
Threshold Shift, 2006
Helix, June 2007
With Keith Brooke
Deep Future, 2001
Head
Shots, 2001
Parallax View, 2007
The late Rev. John Browne moved to the area in 1980 on his retirement with his wife Adrienne. Although he was awarded the Military Cross for leading his platoon to recapture a ridge on the Greek island of Leros during the Second World War, he came to believe that war was a disaster, and later became heavily involved in the peace movement, working for CND, Victim Support, Amnesty International, Christian Aid and the Calderdale Volunteer Bureau. Some of his poems appear elsewhere on this site.
Never a Comfortable Land, 1991
Harden Not your
Hearts
Melanie and Other Poems
Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, with interests in social psychology and the psychology of gender. She is Pathway Leader of the M.Sc Applied Behavioural Sciences, a member of the Hepton Singers and of VATpack.
Invitation to Personal Construct
Psychology (with Trevor Butt), 1992:
accessible introduction to the
application of psychology to everyday life An Introduction to Social
Constructionism, 1995:
structured around the questions students
usually ask, and focussing especially on discourse analysis
Gender and
Social Psychology, 1998:
critically evaluates the the contribution
psychology has made to the study of gender.
The Person in Social
Psychology, 2002:
challenges traditional social psychology's assumption
that the person has an already existing nature that then becomes subject to the
influence of social environment. Draws on theories from micro-sociology and
contemporary European social psychology.
Jim Byrne is a Member of the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapists, and trained with the REBT Institute in Bristol. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy is the original form of cognitive-behavioural therapy, and Jim Byrne has practised as a cognitive-behavioural coach/counsellor/therapist for the past three years. He lives in Hebden Bridge and works inboth Hebden Bridge and Halifax.
Supreme Self-Confidence in 150 Days (2002)
Michael and Janet Conneely worked on a five year social anthropological field study with interviews and participant observation in rituals and meditations, and focus on many communities and educational and spiritual centres. The focus of the study was to identify how individuals in the modern west are using new forms of spirituality to understand their personal identity.
The project especially focussed on ritual, visionary and tantric practices in Buddhism, Hinduism, Shamanism and Wicca, identifying the interweaving involved between their sense of physical space, such as ritual circle, sacred landscape or place of pilgrimage; and the vast new imaginal terrains now being explored via their range of consciousness-transformation techniques. A great new collective discipline or structure was found to be emerging amid this current reforging of ancient spiritual traditions, as individuals begin to chart this new visionary landscape.
Out of this study grew Michael’s present program of support and teaching in traditions of ritual, vision, body-energy work and meditation that connect us to the divine in its purest sense, and where the ancient tantric paths find their essence and unity.
Janet is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge, Bristol and Huddersfield and heads the Education Department at Dewsbury College. Michael is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford, Leicester and Leeds.
Janet Conneely:
New Landscapes of Self Creation - An
Ethnography of Spiritual Revolution in Glastonbury and Totnes. 2003
Michael Conneely:
The Tribe is the story of
Liam’s passage to his manhood, the development of his spiritual vision and
his people’s progress to meet their destiny. 2006.
The Magic Land - Martin leaves his loveless home, where his father only cares about exam results and career. He goes to live on a protest site which has formed to protect a Bronze Age stone circle – an ancient sacred site, threatened by the start of quarrying nearby. He finds happiness for the first time in his life and becomes involved in eco-protest, ritual and living close to the earth. 2006.
The Backpacker's Guide to the New Spirituality - A magical child has been conceived in the modern west. A new spiritual form has been born out of Hinduism, Buddhism, the Pagan religions of Northern Europe, Shamanism, utopian community and astrology. This reforging of ancient traditions gives us new spiritual tools: ritual, meditation, tantra, body-energy-work, trance and vision; we find new beauty and power in what it means to be a woman or a man. This book reports on this spiritual revolution, based on the findings of a five-year field study in Glastonbury, now a world-wide centre of pilgrimage. 2007.
Elaine Connell taught English for over 20 years and worked for the Open University, the Manchester Metropolitan University and in schools and colleges. She was a Senior Examiner in English Literature for a leading exam board and maintained the Sylvia Plath Forum at www.sylviaplathforum.com. She was also a partner in Pennine Pens: http://www.penpens.demon.co.uk
Eight to Late
Cycling in Search of the Cathars (with
Chris Ratcliffe)(1991)
Sylvia Plath: Killing the Angel in the House
(1993; 2e. 1998)
John Connor lives above Todmorden and is a senior criminal lawyer with the Crown Prosecution Service. He has been responsible for over 30 homicide prosecutions and has advised the police in numerous undercover drugs operations. He now leads a team responsible for the prosecution of organised and major crime in the Leeds area. (Info from Halifax Evening Courier, 30.1.2004)
Phoenix (crime fiction), 2004
Red Wardrobe (poetry), 1998
The Witchbag (poetry),
2002
Worked as a teacher for many years, organised writers’ courses at the Arvon Foundation, Lumb Bank, now Education Officer at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. A dramatisation of Room of Leaves was broadcast on Radio 4 in 1998. Named as one of the 20 most exciting poets of their generation - the Next Generation Poets - in 2004
The Dad Baby, 1994
Room of Leaves, 1996
How to
Disappear, 1999
Contribution to Comma: Anthology of Short
Stories, 2002
Seven radio plays. Theatre plays include Secret Heart,
Mapping the Edge and Dog boy
Agneta Falk was born in Stockholm in 1946 and has lived in England since 1969. She has been a teacher of drama, communication, literacy and creative writing, and is an editor, poet and visual artist. From 1992 to 1999 she co-edited "Word Hoard", promoting writing in the community and organising poetry events, and was commissioned in the 1990s to write about the Lincolnshire coastline (Looking In/Looking Out) and Yorkshire (Digging In). She is widely published and exhibits her visual art in Great Britain and the USA. When not in Hebden Bridge, she lives in San Francisco and Italy.
(Ed. with Judi Benson) The Long Pale Corridor - contemporary poems of
bereavement, 1996
It's Not Love, It's Love, 2000
Eden trained as a medical doctor, specialising in preventive medicine and population mental health and later qualified as an individual and organisational coach. He started "Survive and Thrive" and has developed www.surviveandthrivecoach.org.uk and worked across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East as a medical trainer and medical aid worker for a decade; he constantly remained curious to learn from every culture, lifestyle and tradition. He is based in Hebden Bridge and travels across the UK and Europe to deliver his workshops to groups and organisations. He coined the terms DIY coaching, DIY psychology, and DIY therapy, simply because he believes you should do it yourself! His books are essential and exciting reading for anyone who wants to take their physical and emotional health into their own hands, rather than leaving them exclusively in the hands of health professionals.
2009: Anger: a very healthy emotion
DIY Coaching: Drawing your
life plan
Growing out of the blues
Lynn Froggett lives in Hebden Bridge and is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Central Lancashire's Faculty of Health. She a qualified social worker with a practice and management background in children and families and mental health, and co-editor of the Journal of Social Work Practice.
Numerous papers and contributions (see http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/health/socialwork/staff/froggettl.htm)
Reclaiming Social Work: the Southport Papers, Vol 1, for the British Association of Social Workers.
(Ed.)Love, Hate and Welfare: psychosocial approaches to policy and practice, 2002
Born in North London in 1970 and brought up in Hertfordshire, Linda spent ten years in regional newspaper journalism in London and the Midlands before going freelance in 1998. She has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Times Educational Supplement, Wanderlust, The Big Issue and Community Care Magazine. She started writing fiction the same year and has had a short story published in Best magazine. She has also worked as co-ordinator of the Birmingham Bureau of Children's Express, a learning through journalism programme for young people, has taught journalism to schoolchildren for the National Writing Academy and taught creative writing classes to adults for the Workers Educational Association. Linda lives in Todmorden, West Yorkshire with her husband Ian and two-year-old son, Rohan.
Works
I Did A Bad Thing (2007) - fiction
Was Head of Social Sciences at John Cleveland College and is now Principal Examiner for MEG GCSE Psychology.
Psychology for You (with Tracy Cullis and Larry Dolan), 1999.
An accessible introduction to psychological theories and approaches for
GCSE, AS and new Psychology A-level students.
Continual Song, 1986
Whole Bauble, 1995
The
Music Laid her Songs in Language, 2001
Sinner Saved by Grave,
2005
Glyn Hughes was born in Cheshire but has lived in the Calder Valley since 1971, and many of his books are set, atmospherically, in the area. He’s won numerous literary prizes including the Guardian Fiction Prize and David Higham Prize and was short-listed for The Whitbread Novel of the Year. In a Guardian quest to promote a library of the classics of nature writing from Britain and Ireland, Glyn's works were cited in connection with Yorkshire.
He has been an Arts Council Fellow and Writer in Residence at Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln, in Farnborough, Hants., and for the D.H.Lawrence Centenary Festival, Nottingham, UK. He has broadcast on the Brontes and on other subjects, been the subject of a BBC2 profile, and is a popular performer on the reading circuits worldwide. See his website at http://www.glynhughes.co.uk/
Autobiography
Millstone Grit, 1975
Glyn Hughes’ Yorkshire, 1985
Millstone Grit: A Pennine Journey, 1987
Fair Prospects
Fiction
Where I Used To Play On The Green, 1982 (Guardian Fiction Prize
& David Higham Prize)
The Hawthorn Goddess, 1984 & 1992
The Rape Of The Rose, 1987 & 1992
The Antique
Collector 1990 (Short listed: Whitbread Fiction Prize & James Tait
Black Prize)
"Heartbreakingly good on Pennine England" - The
Observer. ‘Marvellously original — the work of a wise and
stimulating mind." Kirkus Review (U.S.A.)
Roth, 1992
"It confirms Hughes as one of this country’s
most vibrant and versatile writers." - The Observer. "In this haunting
account of womanly love he is quite possibly without peer." — Kathryn Mead
in The Sunday Telegraph.
Bronte, 1996
"No-one describes the Brontes’ world better
than he does." — Beryl Bainbridge. "By fictionalizing the Brontes, Glyn
Hughes has succeeded in bringing them out of the realms of fiction and back to
the true astonishment of their lives and achievement." — Washington
Post. "his sixth novel is probably the best likely to be written about the
sisters." — The Yorkshire Post.
The Summer the Dictators Fell, 2005 (short stories)
Verse (main collections)
Neighbours 1971 (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) & Welsh
Arts Council Poetry Prize)
Rest The Poor Struggler, 1972
Best
of Neighbours (Selected Poems) 1979
Dancing Out of the Dark Side,
2005
Two Marriages, 2007
Life Class, an autobiographical
poem, due October 2009
Ed: Samuel Laycock, Selected Poems, 1981
Plays
Mary Hepton’s Heaven, Coliseum Theatre, Oldham 1984
The Yorkshire Woman, Radio 4 1978.
Dreamers, Radio 4 1979
The Stranger, Radio 4 1979
Mr. Lowry’s Loves, Radio
4 play with Tom Courtenay, 2001
Glorious John, 2005
Dreams of a
Working Man, Radio 4 play, 2005
Other radio & TV:
Pursuit (on the artist Turner), Radio 4, 1999
Alone on the
Moors (BBC Schools), 1975
One Man Alone (BBC Schools), 1976
Millstone Grit Revisited, on Mill Bank and Hebden Bridge, Radio 4,
October 2001
Mark Illis is now concentrating on writing for TV and radio.
A Chinese Summer, 1988
The Alchemist, 1990
The
Feather Report, 1992
(ed. with Jane Rogers) Northern Stories,
1996
Lesley Jackson is a writer, curator and design historian based in Hebden Bridge. She moved to the town in 1987, having been smitten with the area whilst attending a poetry writing course at Lumb Bank, Heptonstall (Arvon Foundation) in 1978. She is well known both nationally and internationally for her books and exhibitions on 20th-century design, and is a leading authority on post-war design, particularly textiles.
Her books include:
The New Look - Design in the Fifties, Thames & Hudson, 1991
'Contemporary' Architecture and Interiors of the 1950s, Phaidon,
1994
Whitefriars Glass - The Art of James Powell & Sons, Richard
Dennis, 1996 (editor and co-author)
The Sixties - Decade of Design
Revolution, Phaidon, 1998
20th Century Factory Glass, Mitchell
Beazley / Rizzoli, 2000
Robin and Lucienne Day - Pioneers of
Contemporary Design, Mitchell Beazley / Princeton Architectural Press, 2001
20th Century Pattern Design - Textile & Wallpaper Pioneers,
Mitchell Beazley / Princeton Architectural Press, 2002
Kate Malone - A
Book of Pots, A&C Black, 2003 (co-author)
From Atoms to Patterns
- Crystal Structure Designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain, Richard
Dennis, 2007
Her latest book, Shirley Craven and Hull Traders - Revolutionary Fabrics and Furniture 1957-1980, ACC, 2009, is now on sale at the Bookcase. Hull Traders was a radical textile firm based at Trawden, near Colne, in Lancashire, specialising in artist-designed hand screen-printed furnishing fabrics. Shirley Craven was their chief designer and art director. This fully illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition curated by Lesley Jackson:
Shirley Craven and Hull Traders
Revolutionary Post-War Fabrics
and Furniture
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 3 October 2009 - 3 January 2010
Also showing at: Bankfield Museum, Halifax, 13 March - 9 May 2010
King's Lynn Arts Centre, 18 September - 30 October 2010
Harris Museum
and Art Gallery, Preston, 15 January - 5 March 2011
For tour updates and
background info, see www.hulltraders.co.uk
Gary James is a sports historian - in particular football in Manchester - and has produced a number of books (listed below) and articles, as well as helping newspapers and TV companies with their research. He cares passionately about portraying the image of sport as it should be, and has rediscovered rare illustrations, photographs, stories and other material, and used them to preserve the past, while also increasing understanding of the present. He is from Manchester and has lived in the Calder Valley since 1992.
Works - Books (non-fiction)
From Maine Men to Banana Citizens, 1989 - pictorial history of
Manchester City FC
The Pride of Manchester, 1991 - every Manchester
derby match between City and United
Football with a Smile, 1993 -
biography of Joe Mercer
Manchester: The Greatest City, 1997 -
definitive football history
Farewell to Maine Road, 2003 - history of
Maine Road Stadium
Official Manchester City FC Hall of Fame,
2005
Manchester City: the Complete Record, 2006: narrative and
statistical history of Manchester City FC
Manchester City FC: 125 Years
of Football, 2006
In preparation:
Frank Swift biography
A History of Football in Manchester,
2007
- Books (fiction):
Atkinson for England: a tale of mistaken identity, the England National Team and Plumbing, 2002
- Articles
Have included articles for The Times, The Footballer, Manchester City Magazine, Manchester City Matchday Programmes, Association of Football Statisticians, Fanzines
Douglas Jarman is Principal Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and is on the Board of the International Alban Berg Society, and the Advisory Board of Music Analysis, is Chairman of the Board of the Psappha New Music Ensemble and Artistic Director of the Young Musicians Festival. He has held a Leverhulme Fellowship in Music at the University of Liverpool and a Radcliffe Trust Research Fellowship.
a) As author:
The Music of Alban Berg, 1979, 1983
(revised)
Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Biography, 1981
Alban
Berg: 'Wozzeck', Cambridge Opera Handbooks, 1989
Alban Berg 'Lulu',
Cambridge Opera Handbooks, 1991
b) As editor:
A Berg Companion, 1989
Expressionism Reassessed (joint editor), 1994
Alban Berg:
Gesamtausgabe Vol I/5, 2: Violin Concerto, 1996
Henze at the Royal
Northern College of Music (1998):
Vol. 1: A Symposium
Vol. 2: Programme
Vol. 3: Conversations
Alban Berg: Gesamtausgabe Vol I/5, 2: Chamber Concerto
(forthcoming)
The Twentieth-Century String Quartet, 2000
Barbara Jones, who lives in Todmorden, founded the women's roofing firm Amazon Nails, which has now become a specialist training, advice and consultancy for environmental building, especially using straw bales. She is a member of the Straw Bale Building Association for Wales Ireland Scotland and England, SBBA(WISE), the Association for Environment Conscious Building, AECB, and Women And Manual Trades, WAMT. She works as a trainer and consultant providing a variety of services, particularly supporting self-builders in doing things themselves, including workshops, construction, help and advice. See the Amazon Nails website, with pictures of straw bale houses, at http://www.strawbalefutures.org.uk
Building with Straw Bales: a Practical Guide for the UK and Ireland (2002)
Well-known television writer and director - her work includes the important schools history series How We Used to Live - and theatre director, including for Bridge Theatre which has often performed at the Hebden Bridge Little Theatre. Many will remember her successful pantomimes with Chris Irvin in the 1980s. Another claim to fame is having coached Colin Firth at Saturday morning acting classes for ten years and encouraged him to continue his career in drama!
How We Used to Live, 1987
Bethany: a play in two acts, 2002
Ailie Kerrane is a social work manager with Bradford Social Services; she has worked mainly in adoption and fostering, and has been developed fostering services for disabled children and their carers in Bradford. Now she is working in Calderdale managing Adoption, Fostering and Residential Care services.
Taking Extra Care: respite, shared and permanent care for children with disabilities (with Hedi Argent), 1997
John Killick was a teacher for thirty years before going it alone as a freelance writer in 1990. Since then he has worked as a writer-in-residence in various social settings, including a women’s prison and a hospice. He became writer-in-residence for Westminster Health Care in 1992, a position he still holds. He has worked exclusively with people with dementia for the past eight years. Since the beginning of 1999 he has also been Research Fellow in Communication Through the Arts for Dementia Services Development Centre in the University of Stirling. He has published many articles on dementia and the following books:
Northern Seasons (with Stanley Cook)(poems) 1988
Times of
Our Lives (ed.), 1994
(ed.) Between the Lines, Between the Bars:
National Anthology of Writings from Prisons and Special Hospitals, 1994
Windhorse (poems), 1996
You are Words - Dementia Poems
(1997)
Writing for Self-Discovery: Personal Approach to Creative Writing
(with Myra Schneider), 1998 Openings: Dementia Poems and Photographs
(with Carl Cordonnier), 2000
Communication in the Care of People with
Dementia (with Kate Allan), 2001
Over the Land, with
illustrations by Alison McGill, 2007
Dementia Diary (poems),
2008
Born: Manchester, 29th Jan. 1945. The poor sap is married to a Latino spitfire and has four breadsnappers to support. He has recently retired from teaching, having taken early retirement during a moment of sanity and now sells his poetry/performances to the highest bidders. Represented by Clare Pearson of Addison Pearson (see Writers and Artists Yearbook).
At present he has several children's titles in print:
King Arthur's Mouse, 1988
Captain Lola To The Rescue
(children's play), 1999
A Boy Like That, 1998 (teenage fiction)
The Cinderella Principle, 1999 (teenage fiction)
Creepy
Crawly Calypso, 2004
plus poems in anthologies for children (all Macmillan): Larks For Sharks, The Secret Lives of Teachers, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Unzip Your Lips as well as in publications from Oxford, Piper, Wayland, et al.
Adult Publications:
Apocalypse Soup (Poetry) 2000
Presently living in Mytholmroyd and writing for adults and children when not earning a crust making appearances. As a member of 'The Remarkable Blackcurrant Jelly Brothers' performance duo is due to make a small tour of New York State
Jill Liddington is a lecturer at the School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds. See her website at http://www.penpens.demon.co.uk/books/al.html
Works
One Hand Tied Behind Us: the rise of the Women’s Suffrage
Movement 1978; revised ed. 2000
Life and Times of a Respectable
Rebel: Selina Cooper, 1864-1946, 1984
Long Road to Greenham:
Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820, 1989 (winner of the
1990 Fawcett Book Prize)
Busy Tutor’s Pack: School Governor
Training - a Teaching Pack for Part-time Tutors, 1990 Presenting the
Past: Anne Lister of Halifax, 1791-1840, 1994
Female Fortune: Land,
Gender and Authority, 1997
Nature's Domain, 2003
Rebel
Girls: their fight for the vote, 2006
John Lyons is an award-winning poet and Director of Hourglass Studio Gallery, Hebden Bridge, as well as being a widely-exhibited visual artist.
As a poet, he has received the major Arts Council Literary Award for poetry, was commended in the Poetry Society National Competition, and has twice been awarded the Peterloo Asian and Afro-Caribbean Poetry Prize. He has read from his collections at major literary festivals and has performed poetry on national and regional radio and television. His publications are listed below.
As a visual artist, he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His touring shows include "Behind the Carnival" 1992-1994, and "Mythopoeia" 1997, and he has works in the Rochdale Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, the Arts Council National Collection at the South Bank Centre and the V&A Print Collection, as well as in private collections in the UK and overseas. He was a member of the Purchasing Panel for the Arts Council Collection.
Collections of Poetry:
Lure of the Cascadura,
1989
Behind the Carnival, 1995
Voices from a Silk-Cotton
Tree, 2002
Contributions to, amongst others:
The Sun Rises in the North,
1991
A Caribbean Dozen, 1994 (children's anthology)
Hello
New, 2000 (children's anthology)
IC3 Penguin Book of New Black
Writing in Britain, 2000
On a Camel to the Moon, 2001
Poems
Then and Now, 2001
Moving Voices A new collection of Black
Performance Poetry (book and CD), 2002
Sue Mayfield grew up in the North East of England and studied English at Oxford University. She has been writing for twelve years. She's also a co-writer and presenter of the Sticky Kids Audio Cassettes for under-fives, and director of Messy World Limited which produces resources for under-fives.
She trained as a teacher and does regular school events, including storytelling, workshops and performances. She has participated in performance-based museum work at Halifax Industrial Museum and York Castle Museum, and was writer-in-residence at Halifax Parish Church, where she worked with Northern Ballet and local schools on a performance-based history project called The Gargoyle's Tale. She's currently teaching Creative Writing to adults.
She lives with her husband Tim and their three sons in Halifax. Her interests include theatre, the countryside, Celtic spirituality, photography, Hebridean islands, walking the dog and food!
Time-Line: Women and Power, 1988
Four teenage novels:
I
Carried You on Eagles' Wings, n.e. 1995
(translated into four European
languages)
Hands in Contrary Motion, 1993
A Time to be Born,
1995
Blue, 2001
Shoot! (for 5-7 year olds),
2000
Contributions to Heinemann's Rhymeworld series
Reckless
(for teenage readers), 2002
The Four Franks (for 5-7-year-olds),
2003
Forthcoming:
Driftwood (adult novel)
Molly
Muddle's Cake, 2004
Poison, 2004
M. I. McAllister grew up on Tyneside and now lives in Yorkshire, England. She is married to a Methodist minister and has three nearly grown-up children.
Mistmantle Chronicles:
Bk. 1: Urchin of the Riding Stars, 2005
Bk 2: Urchin and the Heartstone, 2006
John Morrison is an award-winning* writer and landscape photographer, who has written or illustrated more than 35 books, including:
AA Leisure Guides to the Lake District, North York Moors
and Yorkshire Dales
Guide to Lancashire’s Hill Country
Numerous walking guides about the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, North
York Moors, South Pennines, the Lake District and, most recently, West
Yorkshire
Dennis Healey’s Yorkshire Dales: a Celebration,
1997
Lead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales, 1998
Treasure Houses of England, 1985
Pevensey Official Guide
to the Yorkshire Dales National Park, 2001
Two books about freelance
photography
Moods of the Yorkshire Dales, 2003
Moods of the
Bronte Moors, 2004
FORTHCOMING
Moods of Yorkshire, 2006
Comedy books:
View from the Bridge, Back to the Bridge and A Bridge Too
Far, plus Women are from Venus, Men are from Mytholmroyd... which
have become world famous around here. (1998-2000)
The Todmorden Book of
the Dead, 2002
Dawdling Through the Dales, 2003
Milltown:
an Unreliable History, 2003
Titles in preparation include (he says):
The
Anarchists’ Walking Book: written in collaboration with the
Independent Ramblers Association, featuring 25 routes that avoid rights of way.
Sleepless in Settle: a raunchy tale of sex, silage and set-aside,
against the background of the Yorkshire Dales.
Milltown Grit: from
open-toed sandals to open-toed sandals in three generations, a saga of changing
fortunes in a small South Pennine milltown.
(* Cycling proficiency award, 1962)
John’s website can be found at: http://www.eclipse.co.uk/pens/truenorth/jm.html
Tom Palmer lives in Todmorden. He is a freelance reading promoter and writer and is currently working on his second novel with the support of a Yorkshire Arts Writers Award.
The Bradford Wool Exchange – an oral history of the wool trade in Bradford, 1997
If You’re Proud to be a Leeds Fan, 2002
Shaking Hands with Michael Rooney, 2006
Contributions to & ed. Four Fathers (2006)
Dr Linda Patterson OBE MB FRCP is the Medical Director of the Commission for Health Improvement. She still works part time as a consultant physician in General and Geriatric Medicine at Burnley Health Care NHS Trust where she has been a consultant for 15 years and was previously the Medical Director.
She has lived in Charlestown with her partner since 1984.
Health Care for Older People (with Steve Iliffe and Mairi M. Gould)
Died 6th December 2007
Shelley Rohde was foreign correspondent on the Daily Express, feature writer on the Daily Mail and television producer. She lived in Cragg Vale and in 2002 won the Portico Library Prize for Literature (described by Martin Bell as the "Booker Prize of the North" with her Lowry Lexicon: An A-Z of L S Lowry. She first met the artist when she was working for the Daily Mail, and with Granada Television made the award-winning documentary L. S. Lowry: A Private View. She talked to Lowry several times before he died in 1976.
L S Lowry: a Biography (1979, n.e. 1999)
Lowry Lexicon: An
A-Z of L S Lowry (2000)
Rembrandt: An A-Z (2005)
Lowry: a
Private View of Public Places (2006)
Hebden Bridge based poet, currently the British Council's Los Angeles Writer in Residence 2009. His past residencies include Blackpool (2008), Commonword and BBC Manchester (2005) and Ilkley Literature Festival (2004). His subjects range widely and he has worked with young offenders and psychiatric patients. His webpage can be found at http://www.johnsiddique.co.uk/ and for an interview published in the Guardian, go to http://society.guardian.co.uk/publicinquiry/0,14099,1099079,00.html
The Prize (poetry) (2005)
Contributions to Four
Fathers (2006)
Don't Wear It On Your Head, Don't Stick It down Your
Pants (2006)
Poems from a Northern Soul (2007)
Contribution
to NW: British Council anthology of new writing (2007)
Several poems
in Pendulum, the Poetry of Dreams (2007)
Recital - An Almanac
(due April 2009)
Gus Smith lives in Crimsworth Dene near Hebden Bridge. He has been a teacher, smallholder, folk musician and father of six, but now regards himself as a writer. He is also Chairman of the Ecology Building Society.
His published works are mainly fantasy and science fiction, with the odd foray into football and children’s poems. He writes for children under the name Gus Grenfell.
Feather and Bone: adult novel, 2001
Stories published in the
fantasy-SF anthologies Horns of Elfland and Decalog 4: Regenerations
For young people:
Stories in Gary Lineker’s Favourite
Football Stories and More of Gary Lineker’s Favourite Football
Stories
A number of poems in Macmillan children’s poetry
anthologies
He is a regular contributor to the the US young adult
bi-monthly magazine Cicada
John is a senior lecturer in Social Policy at Lancaster University.
The Work Connection: The role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation , 2002 (with Chris Grover)
Geoff Tansey is a full-time writer and consultant in food and farming issues, currently working on the role of intellectual property rights and the WTO. He helped to establish the journal Food Policy in the mid-1970s and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and a member of the Food Ethics Council. In June 2005 he was selected from over 1,600 applicants by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust as one of seven "Visionaries for a Just and Peaceful World" on a five-year mission to "change the world" by enabling everyone to feed themselves sustainably. Winner of 2008 Derek Cooper Award.
(ed. with Kath Tansey & Paul Rogers) A World Divided: Militarism
and Development after the Cold War, 1994
The Food System: A
Guide (with Tony Worsley), 1995
“If you want to understand why the
world feeds itself in the way it does, you must read this book” - Derek
Cooper, The Food Programme
(ed. with Joyce d’Silva) The Meat
Business: devouring a hungry planet, 1999
Trade, Intellectual
Property, Food and Biodiversity: Key issues and options for the 1999 review of
Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS Agreement, Quaker Peace and Service, London
1999; also published on the web at
http://www.quaker.org/quno or www.tansey.org.uk
Born and bred in Hebden Bridge, Peter Thomas was head of history at Hipperholme Grammar School and head of the sixth Form at Brighouse high School until his retirement and is the author of a number of articles on aspects of local history. His two booklets below have been bestsellers at The Book Case. He also co-wrote a guide book to the area in 1970.
Mill, Murder and Railway: "The story of Gibson Mill; the Hawdon Hole
Murder; and the Hardcastle Crags Railway", 1999 (1973 edition revised)
From Rationing to Rock and Roll, 2001
Seeing It Through
(Halifax and Calderdale during World War II), 2005
Hebden Bridge: a
short history, 2008
Phil Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow in the University of Bradford, and consultant psychiatrist with Bradford's Assertive Outreach Team. His main area of clinical interest and experience is in the field of social and cultural psychiatry. He has developed alliances with survivors of psychiatry and service users, locally, nationally and internationally. He is well known for the regular column he wrote with his colleague Pat Bracken in Open Mind magazine, called Postpsychiatry, and he is a founder member and co-chair of the Critical Psychiatry Network in the UK. He is a member of the editorial collective of Asylum, the radical mental health magazine which is usually available at The Book Case.
His first book, Dialectics of Schizophrenia, was published by Free Association Books in 1997.
His internationally acclaimed second book Voices of Reason: Voices of Madness written with Ivan Leudar and published by Brunner-Routledge in April 2000, examines the different meanings attached to the experience of hearing voices over 2,500 years of Western culture.
His third book Postpsychiatry, written with his colleague Dr. Pat Bracken, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2003.
PI Chris O'Brien Mysteries:-
That Which Doesn't Kill You, 2002
Sing No Sad Songs, 2003
Mary Turner taught history for many years, and was an A-level examiner. Since going freelance she has written widely on women's history, nostalgia and family history. Her articles have been published in The Lady, Yours, Bella, Practical Family History and Ancestors. She also runs the website http://www.her-stories.co.uk/author.htm , the women's history site celebrating the struggles and achievements of some of the women whose efforts have made our lives so much richer.
The Women's Century: A Celebration of Changing Roles 1900-2000, 2003
Wendy Webster is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Central Lancashire, and writes on contemporary British history, particularly on issues of gender, ethnicity, imperialism and national identity.
Not a Man to Match Her: The Marketing of a Prime Minister (1990)
Imagining Home: Gender, 'Race' and National Identity (1998)
“A riveting study of gender, race and national identity” (The
Guardian).
“Imagining Home tells a fascinating story… It is
highly readable and authoritative, introducing readers to potentially difficult
ideas in a thoroughly accessible way” (Ethnic and Racial Studies)
“This is an interesting and important book and should stand as a
landmark study for this formative period of contemporary British history.”
(Women's History Review).
“This is an important book that makes
a major contribution to bringing consideration of issues of 'race' and empire
to the forefront in histories of post-war British society and culture.”
(Social History Bulletin).
“ ... breaks new ground by
identifying many sites of conflict and providing an intimation of the immense
complexity of relations between and among white and black women at this
time.” (Contemporary British History).
“Wendy Webster's
interesting and powerful book ... tells an original story in its juxtaposition
of multiple narratives about home and nation.” (Gender Place and
Culture).
“Webster's methodology allows us to bear witness to the
history of people previously silenced. The research presented and conclusions
drawn must serve as a starting point for future discussions of the family and
race in post-war Britain.” (Albion).
Elizabeth White owns Past and Present gift shop in Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, and is a consultant for Manchester Business Forum, business editor for The Craftsman magazine, and judge with the British Craft Trade Fair.
Craft and Art - the Business (2002)
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