Dear Book Case customer or contact,
Saying goodbye to November gloom, we'll wish you a rather early Happy Christmas, Samhain, winter solstice, or whichever midwinter festival you choose to celebrate. We're now busy getting into gear for the Christmas rush, with a higher-than-usual proportion of entertaining, humorous, visual or go-on-let's-splash-out-a-bit books, along with our usual wonderful selection of fiction and non-fiction, CDs and children's books. And of course the calendars, diaries, address books and journals.
If you would like our regular illustrated Adult Newsletter leaflet posted to you, please contact us with your name and address. This month we also have an open-out leaflet of Christmas suggestions, which is available at the shop and Information Centres. Let us know if you'd like us to post it to you!
NEWS
Local:
Hebden Bridge Woodcraft Folk have published Ten Years of Woodcraft Folk in Hebden Bridge with an assortment of reminiscences from members. It costs £1 and is on sale at The Book Case.
Put Your Hands Together: Daniel Bath of Todmorden has produced an attractive collection of progressive pieces and exercises for new pianists, with the above title. It costs £4.95 from The Book Case, and includes pieces such as "Slidin' Blooze" and "Hurdy-Gurdy Dance", as well as hints for practice.
Manchester & Leeds Railway - The Calder Valley Line by Martin Bairstow of Halifax has been reissued at £10.95. See below for details.
John and Jackie Eames of Midgehole have published a colourful book called Beastly Bites; it's a humorous alphabet about the eating habits of animals! £4.99 from The Book Case
Gus Smith's new novel Feather and Bone is now in stock at £8.99; it's a dark fantasy set on the Northumberland moors. Gus lives in Crimsworth Dene and will be known to many as a writer of SF, folk musician and Chairman of the Ecology Building Society.
There's a new book of stories and poems from Bill Marsden and Peter Coles, entitled Chasing More Shadows in the Calder Valley, on sale at £5.00 - a follow-up to their previous popular venture Chasing Shadows.
Graphic designer Mike Barrett has produced a spiral-bound mini-collection of pictures from his exhibition Life in Pictures on show at Studio Gallery, Hangingroyd Lane. The subtitle is "Extracts from a Visual Diary"; when Mike was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour five years ago he began producing daily drawings as a form of meditation and therapy. The book costs £5.00.
The Hepton Singers have produced a new CD, The Hepton Singers - Live at Square Chapel, price £5.00. It's selling briskly.
Shaun Best's Introduction to Politics and Society for students and lecturers has been published by Sage at £17.99.
For those of you who missed the extremely disgusting winner of our Most Revolting Recipe competition for Children's Book Week, it can be found in the Junior Club section of our webpage at www.bookcase.co.uk
Prizes
There was a strong shortlist for the Blue Peter Awards 2001. The winners, announced on 2nd December, were:
The Book I Couldn't Put Down - The Wind Singer by William Nicholson, £5.99: also Blue Peter Book of the Year
The Best Book to Read Aloud - The Bravest Ever Bear by Allan Ahlberg, £4.99
and The Best Book to Keep Forever - Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean, £6.99
For the complete shortlist, see our website - Junior Club page: www.bookcase.co.uk
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The Smarties Prizewinners 2001 are:
5 and Under Category: Chimp and Zee by Catherine and Laurence Anholt (£11.99)
6 to 8 Years Category: The Shrimp by Emily Smith (£3.99)
9 to 11 Years Category: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson (£9.99)
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The shortlist for the 2001 Whitbread Book Awards has been announced. It's actually rather long so you'll find it at the end of this newsletter.
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Oddest Title of the Year
"Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service" has won The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year. It received 35% of the votes recorded at theBookseller.com, and beat "Tea Bag Folding" (Search Press), "The Art and Craft of Pounding Flowers: No Paint, No Ink, Just a Hammer!" (QVC), "Fancy Coffins To Make Yourself" (Schiffer); "The Flat-Footed Flies of Europe" (Brill); and "Lightweight Sandwich Construction" (Blackwell Science).
NEW TITLES
Not so many new titles this month; we'll just mention the new Delia Smith (How to Cook 3), Still More Christmas Crackers, the Pantomime Book, Dr James Le Fanu on your mystery symptoms, Roadkill of Middle Earth and a first novel with the intriguing title In Cuba I was a German Shepherd. For a fuller listing, click here:
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any of these new titles.
Every month we add to our website a new poem by John Browne about the local landscape. This month, we've added one of his Christmas poems as well. Find them here.
NEW ON OUR WEBPAGES
Local history:
Hebden Bridge Heritage Trail 0.99p: A walk around Hebden Bridge with information on aspects of its history. Colour photos.
Yorkshire Villages/Yorkshire Castles by Bernard Ingham, £11.99 ea or £20 for both: photographic histories by native son.
Manchester & Leeds Railway - The Calder Valley Line by Martin Bairstow, £10.95: Reissue of the popular book, first published in 1987, with 32 extra pages; tells the story of the local railway from first plans in the 1830s right up to today. Photographs, maps, diagrams and drawings.
Yesterday's Yorkshire: a Celebration of the Industrial West Riding - Terry Sutton, £17.99 An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated portrait of the West Riding at a time when it stood poised between its industrial heyday and a new less certain future.
Guidebooks
Calderdale Way (Walking Country) - Paul Hannon (£3.99) 48-page booklet with guide, outline maps, sketches, points of interest
Ted Hughes: the new biography by
Elaine Feinstein, of course, and Collected Plays for Children by Ted
Hughes, £6.99 Collects six plays suitable for performance by children,
including The Pig Organ, never before published. The others are The
Coming of the Kings, The Tiger's Bones, Beauty and the Beast, Sean, the Fool,
the Devil and the Cats, and Orpheus.
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LITERARY QUIZ: this month it's on
Draughts in fiction. To find it online, click
here:
and then
click on This Month's Quiz. Next month's theme is Angels. For the
full answers to last month's quiz, on Ghosts in fiction, click here: If you'd like the printed version of
the quiz (and short version of last month's answers) posted to you, please
e-mail or fax us your address.
What you've been buying: NOVEMBER'S BESTSELLERS at The Book Case
Newcomers to the Book Case’s bestsellers in November were a CD from the Hepton Singers which shot to No. 1 immediately and "The Little Book of Yorkshire", a good stocking-filler. Bernard Ingham and Ted Hughes continued to sell briskly, along with Harry Potter, the We’Moon Diary, Margaret Atwood and those vampires, plus a newcomer on how to survive babies!
1. The Hepton Singers - Live at Square Chapel (CD)
(£5.00)
The local singing group conducted by Roger Scaife with pieces
from the 16th century to the present day.
2. Bernard Ingham’s Yorkshire Villages (£11.99)
Colour photographs plus commentary with Heptonstall, Luddenden and Haworth
included.
3. We’Moon Diary 2002: Priestessing the Planet
(£14.99)
"An astrological moon calendar, datebook and daily guide to
natural rhythms for womyn."
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J K Rowling
(£5.99)
First in the series. The well-reviewed film must be bringing
in new readers!
5. Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (£7.99)
"Ten days
after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." 50 years later,
Iris Chase remembers her sister’s mysterious death. Booker Prize
Winner.
6. Little Book of Yorkshire (£1.99)
From Dalesman.
"How can anything about Yorkshire be described as little, you ask."
7. Bernard Ingham’s Yorkshire Castles (£11.99)
A
companion volume with colour photographs and commentary. A few signed versions
remain.
8. Ted Hughes: the life of a poet - Elaine Feinstein
(£20.00)
Previous accounts have concentrated on how other people saw
him. This biography presents Ted Hughes’s life as he experienced it.
9. Babyshock! Your Relationship Survival Guide - Elizabeth Martin
(£7.99)
Help for parents who've forgotten what it's like to be a
couple..
10. Trials of Death - Darren Shan (£3.99)
No. 5 in the
vampire saga for older children.
*Whitbread Shortlist (see above)
Whitbread Novel Award
The Siege by Helen Dunmore (£14.99) - Charts the struggles
of a family in war ravaged Leningrad.
Atonement by Ian McEwan
(£14.99) - Follows the profound changes that occur in the lives of three
young people since 1935. Against the backdrop of love, war and class, the
themes of shame and forgiveness and the search for redemption are revealed.
Oxygen by Andrew Miller (£12.99) - Alice knows she is dying of
cancer; she has one son, who is translating the works of a Hungarian playwright
and another who is a failed soap star living in California.Oxygen moves
between England, France, Hungary and America as it follows the different
characters desperate search for liberation.
Twelve Bar Blues by
Patrick Neate (£9.99)- An epic tale of love, friendship and the search
for identity, rooted in music and especially jazz.
First Novel Award
The Oversight by Will Eaves (£11.00) - A look at the
complex emotions of a teenager, who discovers he can see in the dark.
Something like a House by Sid Smith (£11.99) - A chilling
account of life in China immediately after the Cultural Revolution.
Burning Worm by Carl Tighe (£8.00) - Set in Poland during the
chaotic months as communism crumbled and a new order began.
August
by Gerard Woodward (£10.99)- Every August the Jones family goes on a
camping holiday, but as the years pass their rural idyll becomes a place of
confusion and uncertainty.
Poetry Award
The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle (£7.99) -
Poems in a variety of forms from intimate narratives to social commentary.
If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope (£8.99) - Inspirational poems
about the realisation of knowing you have something to lose.
Bunny
by Selima Hill (£7.95) - Writing from the point of view of an adolescence
girl, experiencing feelings of madness, shame and fear as she grows up in a
house she thinks is haunted.
Panoramic Lounge-Bar by John Stammers
(£6.99) - Decadent poems on pop icons, old masters and film noir to
mention but a few.
Biography Award
A View of Delft by Anthony Baily (£16.99) - A look at the
life and work of Vermeer, set in the context of the culture and history of
Delft.
Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman (£17.99) -
The story of how Boswell wrote the biography of Samuel Johnson, and the close
friendship they formed.
Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami
(£14.99) - Based on the real Robinson Crusoe and the man who inspired
Daniel Defoe's classic novel.
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall
(£25.00) - A new biography, focuses on the influence Flaubert has had on
modern literature.
Children's Book of the Year
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (£11.99) - A tale of the
12-year-old criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl, who tries to kidnap the captain
of the LEPrecon Unit. Described as 'Die Hard with Fairies'!
Journey to
the River Sea (£11.99) by Eva Ibbotson - A magical tale of a young
orphan's journey to a new life and a new world.
The Lady and the
Squire by Terry Jones (£6.99) - Sequel to The Knight and the
Squire, which continues to follow the lives and experiences of Tom and Ann.
A vivid story set in medieval France.
The Amber Spyglass by Philip
Pullman - Third volume in the "His Dark Materials trilogy", moves between the
universes explored in the first two novels and then on into new and
undiscovered worlds.
Best wishes from your local bookshop,
The Book Case
29 Market Street,
Hebden Bridge
HX7 6EU
Telephone
01422-845353
Fax 01422-844295
email:
bookcase@btconnect.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are fantastic pictures" - George W. Bush, quoted in The Ruling Asses - a Little Book of Political Stupidity
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
First of all we must apologise: a computer crash and failure of the back-up system has meant we have lost some of our records for this year, including those of people wanting to receive this newsletter. So we're sending this one to everyone. If you'd like to continue receiving it, we'd be delighted to hear from you. And sorry for re-bothering the 3 or 4 people who cancelled - remind us who you are and this time we'll make sure the information sticks!
. Technical mishaps apart, we've been very busy supplying academic books, 11+ tutorial books, and good solid reads, both fiction and non-fiction. The nights must be drawing in!
EVENTS
You'll probably be aware that the Booker Prize went to The True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (£14.99) but that the People's Booker (by popular vote) was won by Ian McEwan's novel An Atonement (£14.99).
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On 11 November it was announced that The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2001 was awarded to V.S. Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".
The press release reads in part: "V.S. Naipaul is a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice. Singularly unaffected by literary fashion and models he has wrought existing genres into a style of his own, in which the customary distinctions between fiction and non-fiction are of subordinate importance. ...
"In his masterpiece The Enigma of Arrival Naipaul visits the reality of England like an anthropologist studying some hitherto unexplored native tribe deep in the jungle. With apparently short-sighted and random observations he creates an unrelenting image of the placid collapse of the old colonial ruling culture and the demise of European neighbourhoods."
For the full article go to
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/2001/press.html
The Enigma of
Arrival (Penguin, £7.99) promptly went into reprint.
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The Smarties Shortlist has been announced as follows:
5 and Under Category: Sarah Dyer Five Little Fiends, Mick Inkpen Kipper's A to Z, Catherine and Laurence Anholt Chimp and Zee
6 to 8 Years Category: Raymond Briggs Ug , Lauren Child What Planet Are You From Clarice Bean? Emily Smith The Shrimp
9 to 11 Years Category: Eva Ibbotson Journey to the River Sea (also shortlisted for the Guardian Prize), Geraldine McCaughrean The Kite Rider, Chris Wooding The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
The Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, now in its 17th year, is run by Booktrust, the independent charity promoting books and reading. 200 school classes of children aged 11 and under from around the country will now be selected to be Young Judges and sent the shortlisted books. Winners to be announced 5 December 2001.
Thanks to Achuka for the above; for more details go to www.achuka.co.uk/news.htm
NEW TITLES
More humorous books this month from, amongst others, John Mortimer, Ben Elton, Terry Pratchett, Peter Tinniswood and Stephen Fry. Sebastian Faulks, Ian Rankin and John Grisham have paperbacks out.
Non-fiction topics range from foot-and-mouth disease to the role of women under Islam and we'll also be offering the Guardian Year, a Radio Times guide to films, Real Ale Pubs and card games and tricks - and for hardy types, the Night Sky and a popular annual camping guide.
For a fuller listing, click here: http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/Forthcoming.htm#Forthcoming
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Our CALENDARS and DIARIES for 2002 are selling briskly - be warned!
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LITERARY QUIZ: this month it's on
Ghosts in fiction. To find it online, go to
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This
Month's Quiz. Next month's theme is Draughts (of the chilly
variety). For the full answers to last month's quiz, on Knights in
fiction, go to: http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/PastQuizzes.htm#Quizzes
If you'd like the printed version of the quiz (and short version of last month's answers) posted to you, please e-mail or fax us your address.
What you've been buying: OCTOBER'S BESTSELLERS at The Book Case
Three local authors contributed to this month’s bestsellers, if we include the landmark biography of Ted Hughes.Sir Bernard Ingham paid a flying visit to meet customers and sign a few copies.Children have either been boning up for their 11+ exams or scaring themselves with vampires. Two well-reviewed novels have been selling briskly, the We’Moon Diary continues popular and there is rumoured to be a local course on Gaudi.
1. Bernard Ingham’s Yorkshire Villages (£11.99) Colour photographs plus commentary with Heptonstall, Luddenden and Haworth included, from locally-born politician.
2. Secondary Selection Portfolio Test Papers (£4.99)/11+ Alpha Series Practice Papers (£3.99) We’ve sold so many from these two series, we’re lumping them all together! Entrance exams must be looming.
3. We’Moon Diary 2002: Priestessing the Planet (£14.99) This moon-calendar diary of Gaia Rhythms is occupying its usual high place at this time of year.
4. Bernard Ingham’s Yorkshire Castles (£11.99) A companion volume with colour photographs and commentary. We have a few signed versions of this one left.
5. Antoni Gaudi: Modernismo in Barcelona (£2.99) A book of 30 colour postcards, from the bargain art publishers Taschen.
6. Blue - Sue Mayfield (£4.99) Gripping book about teenage bullying from popular local author. Signed copies available.
7. Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (£7.99) Booker Prize Winner. Two sisters and their secrets against a panoramic backdrop of 20th-century history.
8. Trials of Death - Darren Shan (£3.99) Darren Shan must pass five fearsome trials to prove himself to the vampire clan.
9. Death in Holy Orders - P. D. James (£7.99) The body of a student is found on the East Anglian Coast. Dalgleish investigates. Highly praised.
10. Ted Hughes: the life of a poet - Elaine Feinstein (£20.00) New this month, a critically acclaimed biography of locally-born Poet Laureate.
Best wishes from your local bookshop,
The Book Case
29 Market
Street,
Hebden Bridge
HX7 6EU
Telephone 01422-845353
Fax
01422-844295
email: bookcase@btconnect.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
"And scholarly people, they tend to last as long as anyone.
They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they love
arguing about them. Some of those arguments ... go on for millennium after
millennium. It just seems to keep them young for some reason, arguing about
books."
History of the World in 10½
Chapters by Julian Barnes
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
Autumnal weather, return to school and university reading lists have been making themselves felt at the Book Case. Publishers have had Christmas in mind with many of this month's offerings.
Books with background information to the suicide attacks on the USA, and the Taliban, include:
Taliban: Islam, Oil & the New Great Game in
Central Asia - Ahmed Rashid, £12.95
Losing Control - Global
Security in the 21st Century - Paul Rogers, £12.99
Jihad: the
secret war in Afghanistan - Tom Carew, £7.99
The New Face of
Terrorism: threats from weapons of mass destruction - Nadine Gurr &
Benjamin Cole, £14.95
Islam Today: a short introduction to the
Muslim World, £12.95
Islam and the Myth of Confrontation:
religion and politics in the Middle East - Fred Halliday, £12.95
We have all these books either already in stock or on order.
EVENTS
National Children's Book Week runs from 1st to 7th October. The Book Case is marking the event by hosting popular Halifax children's author Sue Mayfield to present her new book Blue at Coffee Cali, Bridgegate, Hebden Bridge at 7.00pm tonight (space is limited). This week's slogan is "Tuck into a book", so we're also running a little children's competition on the theme of books and food; details have been e-mailed to Children's Club Members whose e-mail addresses we have, and forms are also available in the shop.
Meet Sir Bernard Ingham at The Book Case, Wednesday 10th October, 3.30-5.00pm. He'll be signing his new photographic books Yorkshire Castles and Yorkshire Villages.
Guardian Children's Book Prize: the winner from a shortlist of five, announced on 29th September, was Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland: it tells the story of Arthur, a boy waiting to grow up and become a knight. He watches his namesake's story unfold in a stone given to him by Merlin. This book also won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award 2000. £9.99 at the Book Case.
The other short-listed titles were: My Brother's Ghost by Allan Ahlberg, Journey To The River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, Witch Child by Celia Rees and Raspberries on the Yangtzee by Karen Wallace.
On the original longlist were also Troy by Adele Geras, Girl In Red by Gaye Hicyilmaz, 24 Hours by Margaret Mahy, Heathrow Nights by Jan Mark, and The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo.
The Booker Prize winner will be announced on 17th October. The shortlist has now been whittled down to:
An Atonement by Ian McEwan: a late addition
to the publishing schedules and therefore originally missed by us, this novel
starts as a leisurely portrait of a wealthy English family in 1935 - but cuts
forward to Dunkirk and "a classic McEwan performance". Critically praised and
selling well.
The True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey. An
imaginary confession by Ned Kelly, the Australian outlaw.
Oxygen by
Andrew Miller. Gentle novel about the parallel paths of two brothers who gather
at their dying mother's bedside.
number9dream by David Mitchell.
Perplexing but rewarding tour-de-force from the author of Ghostwritten,
which sold well here in paperback.
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert.
Nazism seen through the eyes of three ordinary Germans.
Hotel World
by Ali Smith. Narratives of peripheral people in a hotel centering on the
ghost of a teenage chambermaid.
Amongst the rejected novels from the longlist were those by Beryl Bainbridge, Melvyn Bragg, Stevie Davies, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, V S Naipaul and Philip Pullman: all of them nevertheless popular with the public!
NEW TITLES
October sees the first biography of Ted Hughes and the paperback edition of Juliet Barker's biography of Wordsworth, as well as two pictorial books on Yorkshire by Sir Bernard Ingham. In fiction there are new hardback novels by Isabel Allende and Terry Pratchett, and in paperback, P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders, John Le Carre's Constant Gardener, Amy Tan's Bonesetter's Daughter, Margaret Drabble's Peppered Moth, The Telling by Ursula Le Guin (the long-awaited new novel in the Hainish cycle) and Armistead Maupin's Night Listener, among others.
With Christmas in mind, humorous books include the usual Private Eye assortment, Steve Bell's If ..., a new Darwin Awards book, Ali G, Edward Gorey, Calvin & Hobbes, Ronald Searle, the Furry Freak Brothers, and Basil Brush! There are new books on classic cartoonists Bentley and Bateman, and what is said to be the last ever Gary Larson Far Side Calendar.
Non-fiction annuals include the Guardian Media
Guide, the Good Beer, Food and Pub Guides, Halliwell's
Film & Video Guide and Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide.
For a fuller listing, go to
http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/Forthcoming.htm#Forthcoming
E-mail,
phone or fax us to reserve any of these new titles.
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Most of our CALENDARS for 2002 are now in - in general we can't
reorder so buy early to avoid disappointment.
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LITERARY QUIZ: this month it's on Knights in fiction. To
find it online, go to: http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then
click on This Month's Quiz. Next month's theme is Letters. For the full
answers to last month's quiz, on Shops in fiction, go to:
http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/PastQuizzes.htm#Quizzes
If you'd like
the printed version of the quiz (and short version of last month's answers)
posted to you, please e-mail or fax us your address
What you've been buying: SEPTEMBER'S BESTSELLERS at The Book Case:
Children’s fantasy series were the strongest sellers at The Book Case in September. The We’Moon Diary is always popular, and two history books and a hard-hitting political critique made up the top 10.
1. Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman,
£6.99 Helped by angels, Will has to get the knife to Lord Asriel. Lyra is
held captive by her wicked, charming mother. Physicist Mary Malone meets the
extraordinary mulefa. Final volume in the exciting trilogy for older children.
2. Curse of the Gloamglazer - Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell,
£9.99 (cloth) Third in the popular Edge Chronicles for children.
Quint and Maris must journey deep within the rock below Sanctaphrax, but they
unleash an ancient curse.
3. We’Moon Diary 2002: Priestessing the
Planet, £14.99 Gaia Rhythms for Womyn. The ever-popular astronomical
moon calendar diary and daily guide to natural rhythms.
4. Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone - J. K. Rowling, £5.99 First in the
series; Harry discovers his magic powers and goes to Hogwarts School of
Wizardry and Witchcraft. Triple Smarties Gold Award Winner.
5. Beyond
the Deepwoods - Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell, £4.99. First of the
Edge Chronicles. Young Twig strays through a scary world of goblins, trogs and
carnivorous trees! The authors paid a successful visit to Central Street School
during the Festival.
6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K.
Rowling, £5.99 Exciting third book in the series. Harry has trouble
with the terrifying dementors and Professor Lupin is the new teacher of Defence
Against the Dark Arts.
7. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman,
£5.99 First in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Lyra, growing up wild at
an Oxford College, travels north amongst armoured bears and witch-clans to find
her young friend Roger.
8. London: the Biography - Peter Ackroyd,
£12.99 Now in paperback, this huge and playful tribute to our capital
city. 9. Mill, Murder and Railway - Peter Thomas, £3.00 The story
of Gibson Mill, the Hawdon Hole Murder and the Hardcastle Crags Railway.
10. Captive State - George Monbiot, £7.99 Subtitled "The
Corporate Takeover of Britain", and shows how the big corporations are
threatening the foundations of democratic government. One of the
Guardian’s bestsellers of 2000.
Best wishes from your local bookshop,
The Book
Case
29 Market Street,
Hebden Bridge
HX7 6EU
Telephone 01422-845353
Fax 01422-844295
email: bookcase@btconnect.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
Anne Fine, Children’s Laureate, says that children have short reading lives, from five years to fifteen. "If we don't reach them, they will be different people from what they could have been. They will be less rich in spirit, more impoverished in understanding. We only have one childhood. Books in childhood can transform the child inwardly." - Times, 2nd July 2001
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
Welcome to the first of our monthly news e-mails from The Book Case, Hebden Bridge. We hope you'll find them interesting and useful. They'll include information on forthcoming titles, what books have been selling in Hebden Bridge, stock highlights and local book news and events.
EVENTS
Halifax children's author Sue Mayfield will be introducing her new book Blue on teenage bullying at Coffee Cali, Bridgegate, Hebden Bridge at 7.00pm on Wednesday 3rd October. The new A5 colour version of our Children's Newsletter will be launched this month, to be posted to members of our Young Readers Club, or collected at the shop. In addition to this, we will be mailing out our regular Adult Newsletter leaflet for the first time. If you would like this posted to you, please contact us with your name and address.
Local graphic designer Mike Barrett (of Frogs) has published a little illustrated book for adults about Adam and Eve, to be launched at Java Lounge, price £5.
NEW TITLES
September is a bumper month for new fiction (Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Beryl Bainbridge, Nadine Gordimer, Paulo Coelho, Alan Bennett, Stephen King and James Herbert, among others), Margaret Atwood's Booker prizewinner Blind Assassin goes into paperback, as do the children's bestsellers Philip Pullman's Amber Spyglass and Midnight over Sanctaphrax by Stewart & Riddell.
Among the non-fiction books are a new biography of Alan Bennett, TV
tie-ins, the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, the new Time Out Film
Guide, and Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book. For a fuller listing, go
to: http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/Forthcoming.htm#Forthcoming
E-mail,
phone or fax us to reserve any of these new titles.
SIGNED COPIES currently in stock (in very limited numbers!) include Cat Mummy, Suitcase Kid and Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson, Stormchaser and Midnight Over Sanctaphrax by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, World’s Wife, Selected Poems and Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy (who called in and said nice things about The Book Case), Blazing Fruit by Roger McGough, Summertime (a witty novel about family life in the Norfolk countryside) by Raffaella Barker, and Big Chief Elizabeth: how England’s adventurers gambled and won the New World by Giles Milton. Phone (01422 845353) or e-mail us to reserve your copy!
The first wave of our high-quality pictorial CALENDARS for 2002 has arrived, with subjects ranging from Winnie the Pooh to Tarot, with all our usual splendid landscapes, artists, wild animals, ethnic craft patterns, etc.
Mikron Theatre Company: new into stock is Mike Lucas’s book I’d Go Back Tomorrow: 30 years of the Mikron Theatre Company, £15, col. & b&w photos. Many customers will have enjoyed the performances of this canal-boat-based theatre company.
Blast from the Past: for those of you who remember the school stories of Jennings and Darbyshire by Anthony Buckeridge, we're told they're about to reappear!
NEW ON OUR WEBPAGES:
Local history From Rationing to Rock 'n' Roll - a 1950s view of
Hebden Bridge by Peter Thomas, £4.00
25 Years of Sowerby
Bridge Rushbearing Festival by Peter Thomas, ed. Peter Ludlam, £1.00
The Tramways of West Yorkshire by J. C. Gillham & R. J. S.
Wiseman, £8.00
Back into stock: Pennine Valley: a History of Upper
Calderdale - £10.95
There’s talk of a new edition of Glyn
Hughes’s classic Millstone Grit: we’ll keep you informed.
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Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study by Tim
Kendall, £9.99
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath by
Paul Alexander, £11.40
York Notes on "Selected Works" of Sylvia
Plath by Rebecca Warren, for A-level and undergraduate students,
£4.50
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The Bronte Story by Margaret
Lane, £4.95
Ted Hughes: Major new biography by Elaine
Feinstein due in October - watch this space!
LITERARY QUIZ: this month it's on Shops in fiction. To find it online, go to http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This Month's Quiz. For the full answers to last month's quiz, on Parrots in fiction, go to: http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/PastQuizzes.htm#Quizzes If you'd like the printed version of the quiz (and short version of last month's answers) postd to you, please e-mail or fax us your address.
What you've been buying: AUGUST'S BESTSELLERS at The Book Case
Local history books took the first three places in our sales this month. Two popular novels, three children's books and two non-fiction titles, one scientific, one political, made up the balance.
1. From Rationing to Rock 'n' Roll - Peter Thomas, £4.00
Memories of 1950s Hebden Bridge retired Hebden Bridge teacher and historian.
2. Tramways of West Yorkshire - J. C. Gillham & R. J. S. Wiseman,
£8.00 From the Light Rail Transit Association, the history of trams
in the area, with photographs.
3. Mill, Murder and Railway - Peter
Thomas, £3.00 The story of Gibson Mill, the Hawdon Hole Murder and
the Hardcastle Crags Railway.
4. Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris,
£6.99 From the author of Chocolat. Strange bottles of wine from a
Leeds allotment help Jay move to a more creative life in a quiet French
village.
5. The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch - Jacqueline Wilson,
£3.50. Dinah's having a bad day until a motherly iguanodon at the museum
helps out. For new readers.
6. It's OK, I'm wearing REALLY BIG knickers!
- Louise Rennison, £4.99 For older children, the Further
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson.
7. Life at the Extremes: the
science of survival - Frances Ashcroft, £8.99 How do people survive
extreme height, depth, heat, cold, physical stress, and space? Science mixed
with entertaining anecdotes.
8. Servants of the People: the inside story
of New Labour - Andrew Rawnsley, £7.99 Chronicles the story so far.
Winner of Channel 4/Politico's Book of 2000 Award.
9. Northern Lights -
Philip Pullman, £5.99 First in the daring trilogy for older children
retelling the story of Paradise Lost.
10. Captain Corelli's Mandolin -
Louis de Bernieres, £7.99 Funny, sad, romantic story set during the
Italian occupation of Cephallonia. Now a film
Never a Comfortable Land - Rev. John Browne
Every month a
new locally-based poem from the above book is added to our website. John and
Adrienne Browne of Slack Top will be known to many of our customers. For the
webpage with all the poems so far, go to:
http://www.btinternet.com/~bookcase/JBrowne.htm#Comfortable%20land
Responses and ideas for newsletter welcome!
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