DECEMBER 2004
Dear Book Case customer or
contact,
It's time to offer you early but hearty
Season's Greetings again. There is hot debate in the book trade about whether
this year will produce an equivalent of Schott's Miscellany or
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - possible candidates include Robin
Cooper's Timewaster Letters (for "a
generation of comedians too young to have heard of Henry Root", £9.99)
and George Courtauld's Pocket Book of
Patriotism, "the bare bones of our magnificent history brought to
life by soul stirring quotations that still echo down the ages" it says here,
£6.99, due out today. Or there's Red Herrings and White
Elephants by Albert Jack - the origins of common
English phrases (£9.99). We're stocking them all and watch with
interest.
The race for the calendar or
diary of your choice is beginning to hot up: we are still able to
reorder some favourites, but it's buy-it-now-or-miss-it time for many of them.
Be warned!
We've improved our in-store display:
the CDs are now on a spinner, as are most of the calendars and a selection of
sheet music, allowing more room for our Christmas books
display. A range of slightly oriental-looking delicate and thoughtful
cards from Amber Lotus and Brush Strokes is now in stock,
and a nice new selection from Pomegranate is due in soon.
MONTHLY PRIZE DRAW!
A lucky customer has
won last month's special prize of the huge Lonely Planet
Travel Book: a photographic "Journey through Every Country in the
World". We're giving you a chance to win the same book during December by
placing your customer orders with The Book Case. There's an alternative prize
of a £20 voucher, and five other prizes of £1 vouchers
for runners-up. The intention is to encourage you to use our customer
order service and support your local bookshop: anyone who orders a
book at the shop will have the opportunity of entering the draw.
Michael Frayn's "Spies", £6.99
(The Daily Mail Book Club)
December's choiced
is Michael Frayn's Spies: set in suburban England during the
Second World War, the book tells how two boys' desire for excitement
leads to more serious events than they had bargained for. The Book
Case accepts Daily Mail National Book Tokens against
one-half of the cost of this month's recommended title.
(If you do not wish to receive this
monthly mailing, please click on Reply and type CANCEL
in the Subject box.)
NEWS
Local
Interest
Milltown Memories 10: the Upper Calder Valley Captured on
Camera, £2.80
Winter issue with a 1960 photo of Midgley
schoolchildren enjoying the snow. Contents include 200 years of the Rochdale
Canal, an article from Donald Crossley on Ted Hughes, with photos, extracts
from a book of local historical snippets published in 1896, memories of the
Post Office, butchers and Japanese chicken-sexers, a 1946 plan to modernise
Todmorden, snow scenes, the Uttleys, a most unusual Royal Couple from 1925, and
more!
A Race through Time
(video/DVD) - Nick Wilding, DVD £12.99, video £9.99
From the "Tale of Two Towns" team, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd's first
road movie - a high-speed fast-film car journey from Cragg Vale to Heptonstall
Road shot in 1947 by Kenneth Crabtree with members of the Literary &
Scientific Society, placed alongside a modern version shot in autumn 2003. The
film also includes archive photographs and commentary and memories from Lloyd
Greenwood, Doris Hurst, Donald Crossley and Clara Manning who died last year at
the age of 103. Due 9th December.
Cornerstones of Calderdale -
Glyn Lee, £4.00
Potted histories of all the major settlements of
the Calder Valley, from Halifax to Walsden, with
photographs.
Out of the
Shadows in the Calder Valley - Bill Marsden & Peter Coles,
£5.00
Humorous
and thoughtful stories and poems from the well-established partnership, with
illustrations.
Discovering Calderdale, Part 1
- video/DVD - Glyn Lee & P J Thornton, £12.99 each
A journey through some of the most interesting
towns and villages of Calderdale, including Norland, Midgley, Luddenden, Cragg
Vale and Walsden
Thrumhall Greats - Robert
Gate (£12.99)
Halifax Heroes 1945-1998: Halifax have enjoyed and
suffered wider extremes of success and failure than most clubs. This book gives
at least a page plus b&w photo of 100 notable Thrum Hallers from the
post-WWII period. The author is a native of Halifax and a Thrum Hall faithful
for 42 years.
Weird Calderdale - Paul
Weatherhead (£7.99)
Strange and incredible events from the
Calderdale area, ranging from UFOs in Todmorden to a vampire infesting Robin
Hood's grave near Brighouse.
The South Pennine Ring
(video/DVD), DVD £19.99, video £12.99
The Ring, which
also includes The Ashton Canal, Sir John Ramsden's Canal and the Calder &
Hebble Navigation, takes us across the Pennines from Central Manchester to
Huddersfield, follows the Calder Valley to Sowerby Bridge, and brings us back
across the Pennines to Manchester. 57 minutes.
Local Events
Author Helen Cross
was at Hebden Bridge Picture House last night to introduce the
locally shot film of her book My Summer of Love, actually set
in less photogenic surroundings in East Yorkshire, and answered questions about
aspects of the book and the film and the relationship between them.
The Book Case sold lots of copies of My Summer of Love, and has a
limited number of signed copies in stock. Helen Cross's next book, due in March
2005, The Secrets She Keeps, is "a modern day Sunset Boulevard set in
desolate Yorkshire". That would be east Yorkshire
presumably.
National Book
Events
The Shortlists for the Whitbread Book Awards were announced on
Tuesday, 9th November and are as follows:
2004 Whitbread Novel
Award Shortlist
a. Case Histories by Kate
Atkinson
b. Birds Without Wings by Louis de
Bernieres
c. The Line of Beauty by Alan
Hollinghurst
d. Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Book Case has all of these in
stock
2004 Whitbread First Novel Award
Shortlist
a. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by
Susanna Clarke
b. The Land as Viewed from the Sea by Richard
Collins
c. Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
d. The Maze by
Panos Karnezis
2004
Whitbread Biography Award Shortlist
a. My Heart is My
Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy (in stock)
b. Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue by David McKie
c.
Stephen Spender by John Sutherland
d. V.S. Pritchett: A Life by
Jeremy Treglow
2004
Whitbread Poetry Award Shortlist
a. These Days by
Leontia Flynn
b. Ghosts by John
Fuller
c. Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
d. Corpus by
Michael Symmons Roberts
2004 Whitbread
Children's Book Award Shortlist
a. Looking for JJ by
Anne Cassidy
b. Not the End of the World by Geraldine
McCaughrean (in stock)
c. How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff (in stock)
d. No Shame, No Fear by Ann
Turnbull (in stock)
The overall
Whitbread Book of the Year is selected from the five category Award Winners
which are announced on the 6th January. The overall winner is announced on 25th
January 2005.
Woman's Hour Watershed Fiction
HIGHLIGHTED
Attractive stocking-fillers include
a wide range of Running Press's miniature books and kits, due
in soon, and a new educationally-praised word-game, Lecardo,
in which players compete to build compound words, £8.99. A range of
Pomegranate's lovely postcard books is expected in
shortly, still at £5.99. Our usual Christmas range of magnetic
fridge kits, with new ones, is on its way too.
We have greatly increased our range
of CDs from Naxos and Regis
- both labels have a wide selection of classics, jazz and nostalgia which offer
fantastic value for £4.99. New from Naxos in December on their musicals
label is Guys & Dolls with the original 1950 Broadway cast
and in their classics range Schoenberg’s Concerto
for String Quartet and Dvorak’s American
Suite.
We continue to stock a selection of
sheet music and have a range of simple carol
arrangements.
NEW
TITLES
The publishers had already got out
most of their new publications for the year: apart from reissues of
Virginia Woolf and Val McDermid, there is
really only a new John Grisham to mention in
fiction.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Mervyn Peake,
Dulac and Big Hair in Art & Fashion
-
Friends and an
educational psychologist in
Biography
-
Iraq in Current events
-
The
Paris Commune, revolution and Myths of World War
II in History
-
Baguettes in the Pyrenees in Travel
-
and yet
more Calendars &
Diaries!
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any
of these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
LITERARY QUIZ:
this month it's on
Graves in literature To find
it online, click here:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This Month's Quiz.
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.
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What you've been
buying: NOVEMBER BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Local interest books mix with
seasonal titles, Christmas gifts and a novel as popular buys at The Book Case,
and our socially-responsible customers again get an ethical book into the Top
10.
1. Alice’s Album: the
Story of a Hebden Bridge Photographer's Studio - Issy Shannon and Frank
Woolrych (£10.95) - The illustrated story of Alice Longstaff and
her studio, and of Crossley Westerman who founded the studio in the early
1890s.
2. Milltown Memories No. 10 (£2.80) -
Winter issue including 200 years of the Rochdale Canal, Ted Hughes, with
photos, extracts from a 1896 book of local historical snippets published in
1896, butchers and Japanese chicken-sexers, and more!
3.
We’Moon Diary 2005 (£14.99) - Buoyant as always, the Gaia
Rhythms for Womyn diary on the theme of Sacred Paths.
4. Good
Shopping Guide - ed. Charlotte Mulvey (£12.00) - Tells you the
ethical record of the companies behind the consumer brands, and ranks them
according to environmental, animal welfare and human rights records.
5. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan (£6.99) - Helped
by its selection for the Daily Mail Book Club, an engrossing psychological
thriller - now also a film.
6. Gone Walkabout: 24 Walks in the
Upper Calder Valley - Anna Carlisle (£6.00) - Still popular,
this locally-published collection of 24 walks around the area. The walks are
designed for the moderately and supremely fit, and are graded for distance and
difficulty.
7. Little Gems - Gervase Phinn
(£5.99) - A compilation of children’s wise words from the
entertaining former school inspector.
8. Heaven and Earth
(£9.95) - Awe-inspiring photographic voyage of discovery through
the infinite world of science, now in a chunky paperback.
9.
The Best Christmas Present in the World - Michael Morpurgo, ill. Michael
Foreman (£4.99) - A beautifully illustrated children’s book
in which the story of Christmas Day 1914 in the trenches in 1914 is brought
hauntingly to life.
10. Old Stones of Elmet - Paul
Bennett (£13.95) - Back to the bestsellers for this guide to the
old stone sites of Elmet, including Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Luddenden, Hebden
Bridge, Blackshawhead and Halifax area
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
The Book Case
29
Market Street, Hebden Bridge HX7 6EU
Telephone 01422-845353
Fax
01422-844295
email: bookcase@btinternet.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
"Given
that the average audiobook is about three hours long, you could have
approximately 111 audiobooks on your iPod - more than enough for most two-week
holidays. Indeed, probably enough for a world cruise." - Steve Levine, "Cause
for Alarm?", Publishing News, 8th October
2004
Newsflash: Author appearance at Hebden Bridge Picture House
Author Helen Cross will be at Hebden Bridge Picture House
on Thursday 2nd December to introduce the film of her book My Summer
of Love. The book tells the story of the encounter of two teenage girls in
1984 during one of the hottest summers that Yorkshire has seen and won the 2002
Betty Trask Award.
The film, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, was filmed locally and "creates
that idyllic summer setting, away from school and nothing to do but roam the
hills in bright sunshine."
Helen Cross will introduce the film at 8.15pm, and there will be a
question-and-answer session following the film. The Book Case will have copies
of the book (£6.99) available at the cinema for purchase and signing.
For more about the event, go to
http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/tourism/picturehouse/live.html#helen
STOP PRESS
Alice's Album
The Story of a Hebden Bridge
Photographer's Studio
Meet the authors and
celebrate the publication at
The Arts Festival
Shop
Albert Street,
Hebden Bridge
Friday 12th
November, from 7.00pm
plus
from Ray Riches and
Peter Thornton
Bronte Ways Part 1 - video & DVD
A walk on the Bronte Way from Oakwell Hall to
Haworth
New into stock, price
£12.99 each
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
The local book event of the month has to be
the publication of Alice's Album, with lots of historic photographs of
local people and places, anecdotes and information: see below. The bookseller's
seasonal event is the Books for Gifts illustrated booklet with
details of a wide range of books suitable for Christmas gifts: come and collect
your free copy and browse through our Christmas selection. (Let us draw a veil
over the world event of the month; it's too depressing to contemplate.)
We're delighted to have newly in stock
calendars and diaries from Amber Lotus and
Brush Strokes: the selection includes The Power of Now,
Thich Nhat Hanh, Rumi, Tao, Dancing Dharma ... Amber Lotus
is committed to environmental responsibility and donates a portion of
its proceeds to non-profit groups such as the Tibetan Lama Fund; Brush
Dance to "enhancing the quality of life by bridging the alternative
and the main stream, the sacred and the ordinary." And the calendars are pretty
good too - sumptuous pictures, inspirational words and generally feel-good.
Look out soon for a range of their cards and journals at The Book Case.
MONTHLY PRIZE DRAW!
Following October's offer of a
boxed set of ten modern novels, this month's special prize is
the Lonely Planet Travel Book, officially priced at £40!
It contains 1200 images of 230 countries and is BIG. There's an
alternative prize of a £20 voucher, and five other prizes of
£1 vouchers for runners-up. The intention is to encourage you to use our
customer order service and support your local bookshop: anyone
who orders a book at the shop will have the opportunity of entering the
draw.
Ian
McEwan's "Enduring Love"
(The Daily Mail Book Club)
November's choiced is Ian
McEwan's Enduring Love, an engrossing psychological thriller. The
Book Case accepts Daily Mail National Book Tokens
against one-half of the cost of this month's recommended
title.
(If you do not wish to receive this
monthly mailing, please click on Reply and type CANCEL
in the Subject box.)
Alice's Album: the story of a Hebden Bridge Photographer's
Studio, compiled by Issy Shannon and Frank Woolrych, with a fantastic
collection of old photographs, price £10.95.
Pennine Pioneer: The Story of the Rochdale Canal -
Keith Gibson, £16.95
Follows the life of the Rochdale Canal,
from its success to its abandonment, and tells of the more recent battle for
its preservation
Watch out for Nick Crossley's local 1940s road movie on video and
DVD next month!
Juliet Barker's
biography of Wordsworth is to be serialised in
sixteen episodes on Oneword Radio from 19th November. See below for more
details. We have her book Wordsworth: a life in letters
in stock, £25 hardback, £9.99 paperback, and
Wordsworth: a life in paperback at £12.99.
Killer Catchers by
Halifax author Andy Owens and Chris Ellis
tells how some of Britain's wickedest murderers were finally tracked
down, using recent advances in forensic techniques, especially in the fields of
psychological, psychic and DNA profiling. (£7.99)
Portrait of Leeds - John Morrison
Affectionate
and revealing photographic survey of of the local author and
photographer's home city (£12.95)
Ariel (restored edition) -
Sylvia Plath
The draft of Ariel left
behind when Sylvia Plath is different from the volume of poetry eventually
published to worldwide acclaim. The restored facsimile edition shows the
selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at her death, and
also includes the complete working drafts of the title poem and notes the
author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems. Sylvia's daughter Frieda Hughes explains the difference between this
version and that edited by her father Ted Hughes in a Foreword.
(£14.99)
New Parish Poems - Geoffrey Whiteley
A
collection of poems from a local author (£3.95)
Local
Healer/Musician
There's a full-page article about Amanda Solk in
the current issue of Spirit and Destiny magazine. Amanda is a
body-tuning therapist and musician - find out more on her website at
http://homepages.3-c.coop/fullspectrumhealing/
Local Events
Poetry Weekend at Moyles (opposite the Marina),
13-14 November
Participants include Judi Benson,
Milner Place, Michael Haslam, Stephanie Bowgett, Simon Armitage, Peter Pegnall,
Amanda Dalton, Jeffrey Wainwright, John Hartley Williams, Matthew Welton
and Carola Luther. For further info, phone 01422
844169 or e-mail philipfoster@onetel.com; to book
tickets, phone Moyles on 01422 845272.
National Book
Events
Guardian Prize 2004
The winner was the engrossing
How I Live Now, by Meg
Rosoff (£11.99) Recommended reading age
is 14+
but every adult
reader of it I've spoken to of has been unable to put it down! The story is
persuasively told by a teenage girl from New York who visits her cousins in the
English countryside ...
ManBooker
Prize 2004
Line of Beauty by
Alan Hollinghurst
20-year-old Nick Guest moves
into an attic room in Notting Hill during the Thatcher boom years.
(£14.99, in stock)
Woman's Hour Watershed
Fiction
The Woman's Hour programme is trying to identify the top ten
novels that have changed the way women see themselves. Their long-list of
30 was opened on 1st November for voting and you can find it at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wwf/
They want a novel "which has spoken to you on a personal level. It
may have changed the way you look at yourself or simply made you happy to
be a woman. As a man, it may have affected your understanding of the women in
your life. Your selection can be written by a man or a woman, in this country
or abroad, as long as it touched your life in some way."
Oneword Radio
Anyone with digital radio or a digibox on their TV can listen to a
highly book-oriented channel,
Oneword, which you find out
about at
http://www.oneword.co.uk/ and
download their schedule in PDF or Excel. November's programmes include readings
of old favourites such as
Lark Rise to Candleford and
Lucky Jim,
a performed version of Juliet Barker's biography of Wordsworth, a number
of children's books and classics, and plenty more.
The website says Sky Digital 877\Freeview 87\NTL 893\DAB\www - for
those of you who understand this ...
Pete McCarthy
We were sorry to hear of the death from cancer at 51 of the
popular travel writer and broadcaster, who filled the Picture House in 2002
with his hilarious talk on his books McCarthy's Bar
and The Road to McCarthy. I'm repeating his quote
used at that time at the end of this newsletter.
Bernice Rubens
She appeared very entertainingly at a Halifax Library event in
2002.
HIGHLIGHTED
In mid-December we will double our selection of Naxos
CDs. "Kiss Me Kate" is being performed at the Picture House in
November so we have also selected some appropriate CDs from the Naxos
Nostalgia and Jazz Legend labels.
Newly into stock is a Moon Calendar from
local artist and poet Freda Davis (£7.50) in addition to
Catriona Stamp's Moonwise Calendar, and of
course we are also stocking our usual colourful range of calendars from
Pomegranate, Editions du Desastre, Hazan, Catch, New Internationalist,
local and Yorkshire calendars and many others.
NEW
TITLES
A calmer month, with new hardback Fiction from Ben
Elton, Alice Walker and Fanny Flagg,
amongst others and paperbacks from Alexander
McCall-Smith, Marge Piercy, Russell Hoban, William Woodruff, A S Byatt,
Tim Burton and Sarah Paretsky and an
anthology of stories from many authors to raise money for treating AIDS in
southern Africa.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Deserts, India and
Goya in Art
-
Joseph Roth and
101 alternative essential lives in
Biography
-
Schott's
cards, cryptic crosswords and opening sentences in
Gifts and
games
-
Britain, the Americas, Mexico, Tom Smith's Crackers, flora
& fornication, Younghusband, votes for Women and
oral accounts of the Third
Reich in History
-
School reports of the famous, gangstas, Purple Ronnie,
Gorey, Wrongboy, randomly kind people, football chants and
Austenesque sex scenes in Humour
-
Dylan, the Guardian and cover
versions in Media &
Music
-
Stars in Nature
-
war
poems, favourite poems and Roger McGough in
Poetry
-
cover-ups, emotion in history
and world-changing ideas
in Politics and
Society
-
Wainwright and new walking
guides in Travel
-
and yet
more Calendars &
Diaries!
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any
of these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
LITERARY QUIZ:
this month it's on
Buttons in literature To find
it online, click here:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This Month's Quiz.
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.
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What you've been
buying: OCTOBER BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Wider still and wider are Book Case
customers’ interests, ranging from three local interest books to the
Himalayas, via We’Moon, Bob Dylan, punctuation, changing the world, the
UNICEF Rights of the Child and the highly unfortunate Baudelaire
orphans.
1. Gone Walkabout: 24 Walks in
the Upper Calder Valley - Anna Carlisle (£6.00) Again at No. 1,
a locally-published collection of 24 walks around the area. The walks are
designed for the moderately and supremely fit, and are graded for distance and
difficulty.
2. We’Moon Diary
2005 (£14.99) The theme of this year’s colourful Gaia
Rhythms for Womyn diary is Sacred Paths. It’s selling in two editions,
spiral-bound and normal.
3. Chronicles vol. 1 - Bob
Dylan (£16.99) The singer’s story in his own words: in this
volume he arrives in New York in the 1960s to launch his career.
4. Milltown Memories No.
9 (£2.80) The current local history photographic journal,
including the two churches of Heptonstall, Thornber & Finney chicks and
eggs, the navvies' encampment Dawson City, Caldene Bridge, the 1954 Mytholmroyd
flood and a preview of "Alice's Album" (now out).
5. Himalaya - Michael
Palin (£20.00) Accompanying the BBC documentary series, this
book is compiled from Palin’s entertaining diaries and features wonderful
photographs by Basil Pao.
6. Milltown: an unreliable
history - John Morrison (£5.95) Back in the charts, the story of
a small characterful community in the South Pennines from the author of the
Milltown Trilogy and other infamous publications.
7. Eats, Shoots and Leaves -
Lynn Truss (£9.99) A resurgence in popularity for this witty
guide to punctuation and common errors.
8. Change the World for a
Fiver (£5.00) From an organisation called “We Are What We
Do”, this book shows people how to use everyday actions to change the
world.
9. For Every Child -
UNICEF (£6.99) Fourteen of the most pertinent principles from
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are interpreted here in simple
language for young children, each with an illustrated double page spread.
10. Grim Grotto - Lemony
Snicket (£6.99) No. 11 in the Series of Unfortunate Events to
overtake the Baudelaire orphans, with more than the usual dose of distressing
details.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
The Book Case
29
Market Street, Hebden Bridge HX7 6EU
Telephone 01422-845353
Fax
01422-844295
email: bookcase@btinternet.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
"I'm actually quite worried about those people you see on long
train journeys with nothing to read, just staring blankly into the middle
distance. What the hell is going on in their heads, then? Perhaps they've got
excellent memories, and they're just remembering a particularly good book they
once read, which saves them having to carry one round."
Pete McCarthy,
McCarthy's Bar, ch. 7, "The children of
Lir"
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
With the weather seriously autumnal, we're
scurrying to supply scholars of all ages with their new textbooks and
background reading, while planning our Christmas displays. In case you hadn't
noticed, our centre table is full of calendars and diaries -
We'moon and Moonwise have recently joined the
collection. We continue to sell Moleskine diaries and
notebooks briskly - and impressively large books suitable for special Christmas
presents are to be seen in our windows. Have a look too at our newly expanded
display of greetings cards - we've just started stocking Charlie
Waite's beautiful landscape cards.
We are experimentally merging all our older
children's and teenage fiction (7+) as it's quite hard to draw a dividing line
these days. Let us know your feelings! The likes of Melvyn Burgess would have a
place of their own ...
MONTHLY PRIZE DRAW!
The big new edition of
Philip’s Concise World Atlas has been allocated to a lucky customer,
with five £1 vouchers for the runners-up. To see the list of winners,
please call at the shop. This month's prize is a boxed set of ten
modern novels, value £25, with authors ranging from
Margaret Atwood to Alexander McCall Smith or an alternative of
a voucher worth £20.00. We hope to encourage you to use our
customer order service and support your local bookshop: anyone
who orders a book at the shop will have the opportunity of entering the draw.
There will be five other prizes of £1 vouchers.
Barbara Trapido's "Frankie and Stankie"
& The Daily Mail Book Club
In October we will continue
to accept Daily Mail National Book Tokens against
one-half of the cost of this month's recommended title. Support for
the books in the Book Club does not necessarily imply support of the sponsoring
paper's political objectives! The books themselves are OK. This month's
selection is the story of Dinah and Lisa growing up in 1950s South Africa.
Dinah first learns about racism at school.
(If you do not wish to receive this
monthly mailing, please click on Reply and type CANCEL
in the Subject box.)
South Pennines Explorer Map OL21,
£6.99
New edition including up-to-date information on Access
Land.
Brief Candle - Kate Pennington, £6.99
From
Ilkley author Jenny Oldfield, a novel for teenage readers about the Bronte
sisters as seen through the eyes of Tabitha Ackroyd; young Emily meets a
servant lad who becomes her inspiration for Heathcliff.
And look out for Alice's Album: the story of a Hebden Bridge
Photographer's Studio, compiled by Issy Shannon and Frank Woolrych,
due here in a month's time, with a fantastic collection of old
photographs, price £10.95.
Due on 22nd October, a new book
for 9-14-year-olds by local author Margaret McAllister.
Entitled Life Shop and costing
£4.99, it's about an enticing mail order catalogue which draws
in and destroys the personalities of the people who buy from
it.
Scary Shorts for Hallowe'en -
Kathryn Brennan, £6.99
From a Halifax author, a collection of
true contemporary ghost stories from across Britain in support of Breast Cancer
Campaign.
Local author John Siddique
will be making a couple of appearances at the Ilkley Literature
Festival, on 10th and 15th October. Call 01943 816714 for details.
National Book
Events
Guardian Prize
shortlist
The winner will be announced on
October 9.
Millions, by Frank
Cottrell Boyce (£9.99) Age: 9+
When a bag stuffed full of notes is flung from a
train, Damien and his older brother Anthony are rich - but it'll only be for a
few days, until the new currency comes in.
No Shame, No Fear, by
Anne Turnbull (£5.99) Age: 10+
Relates the struggle of the Quakers in the mid-17th
century. In stock.
Last Train from Kummersdorf, by Leslie
Wilson (£9.99) Age: 11+
It is Germany in 1945 and with their contrasting
backgrounds, Hanno and Effie are unlikely friends; but circumstances force them
together.
How I Live Now, by Meg
Rosoff (£11.99) Age: 14+
When Daisy arrives in England to stay with her
cousins, she finds a new way of life with a refreshing absence of rules and
expectations. Above all, she finds Edmund. But war breaks out. Also being
enjoyed by adults.
ManBooker
Prize Shortlist
Announced on 21st September, as
follows:
Bitter Fruit by Achmat
Dangor
Set in a changing South Africa at the
end of the nineties as the Truth Commission is finishing its
work. (£7.99, in stock)
Electric Michelangelo by Sarah
Hall
An apprentice tattooist from Morecambe sets up in business in
the USA. (£10.99)
Line of Beauty by
Alan Hollinghurst
20-year-old Nick Guest moves
into an attic room in Notting Hill during the Thatcher boom years.
(£14.99, in stock)
Cloud Atlas by David
Mitchell
A reluctant voyager crossing
the Pacific in 1850, and a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of
science and civilization (£14.99)
The Master by Com
Toibin
In 1895
Henry James's play "Guy Domville" failed on the London stage. The hapless James
had hoped to make a fortune but instead moved to Rye in Sussex (£13.99)
and
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by
Gerard Woodward
The disintegration of Colette Jones'
entire immediate family through alcohol abuse.
(£11.99)
Woman's Hour Watershed
Fiction
The Woman's Hour programme is trying to identify the top ten
novels that have changed the way women see themselves. Nominations began on
14th September and close on 22nd October. A long-list of 30 will be opened on
1st November for voting. You can nominate your own favourite at
They want a novel "which has spoken to you on a personal level. It
may have changed the way you look at yourself or simply made you happy to
be a woman. As a man, it may have affected your understanding of the women in
your life. Your selection can be written by a man or a woman, in this country
or abroad, as long as it touched your life in some way."
1. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
2. Emily
Bronte – Wuthering Heights
3. Margaret Atwood – The
Handmaid’s Tale
4. George Eliot – Middlemarch
5. Jane Austen
– Pride and Prejudice & Toni Morrison – Beloved
HIGHLIGHTED
Inspirational Journeys: Guided Meditation Series Vol. 1
- Music by Stephen Page, Meditations by John Bellamy
(£7.95)
New in, a double CD for meditation and relaxation, comprising
the Water Meditation and the Earth Meditation. CD 1 has a series of guided
meditations; CD 2 features just the relaxing music. Each CD runs for just over
an hour and can be heard at the shop on request.
NEW
TITLES
As
usual, our October intake is enormous. New hardback
Fiction includes works from Sue Townsend, John
Mortimer, Ruth Rendell and David Nobbs, amongst
others - and a special illustrated Da Vinci Code.
Paperbacks include works from Robert Harris,
Doris Lessing, Thomas Keneally and Bernice
Rubens and plenty more.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Alphabets,
Goldsworthy and Collectables in
Art and
Antiques
-
Biographical
works from Eyre, Benn and
Mortimer
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dates, branch lines, Alexander, WWII,
Manchester and the
Telegraph in History
-
lots and
lots in Humour
including Private Eye,
Colemanballs, Bush, jobs and cars, Simpsons, Martin Parr,
otters and jelly-fish
-
Ethical shopping and personal
hygiene in Lifestyle
-
Perception, creation, fairies,
wizards and psychoboxes in
MBS
-
Halliwell and Radio Times film
guides, the Archers and Pop culture in
Media
-
a new
series in Myth &
Legend
-
Snow, the
Earth and the Trees amongst
others in Nature
-
poems for
occasions, a new hardback series of
selections, Emily Bronte, Edward Thomas and the
underground in Poetry
-
O'Rourke, O'Farrell, Tariq Ali,
Flynt, Furedi and Wheen amongst others in
Politics and
Society
-
lists and names in
Reference
-
British inventors, the Big Bang and the
Mind in Science
-
the
Tour de France in Sport
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Michael Palin, Ewan McGregor, Jan Morris, Eric Newby,
Adam Nicolson, Benedict Allen, Simon Winchester, Hedonists in Prague, Food,
Pets and Pubs in Travel
-
and yet
more Calendars &
Diaries!
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any
of these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
LITERARY QUIZ:
this month it's on
Walls in literature To
find it online, click here:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This Month's Quiz.
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.
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What you've been
buying: SEPTEMBER BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
A wide range of themes appear in The
Book Case’s bestsellers last month, including a highly popular
children’s book, three items of local interest, three novels, two books to
make you feel better and a book about a famous artist (who exhibited
locally).
1. Gone Walkabout: 24 Walks in
the Upper Calder Valley - Anna Carlisle (£6.00) - From local
publishers Pennine Pens, a collection of 24 walks which have appeared in the
Hebden Bridge Times and Todmorden News. The walks are
designed for the moderately and supremely fit, and are graded for distance and
difficulty.
2. Freeglader - Paul Stewart
& Chris Riddell (£10.99) - So keen are local young people to
read the latest Edge Chronicle book they’ve been buying it in hardback!
This one involves Rook Barkwater, librarian knights and some goblins and takes
the series to a triumphant conclusion.
3. Milltown Memories No.
9 (£2.80) - Selling briskly, the local history photographic
journal’s 2nd birthday issue which includes the two churches of
Heptonstall, Thornber & Finney chicks and eggs, the navvies' encampment
Dawson City, Caldene Bridge, the 1954 Mytholmroyd flood and a preview of
"Alice's Album".
4. Da Vinci Code - Dan
Brown (£6.99) - Bestselling mystery thriller involving esoteric
religions and a re-interpretation of European history which has overtaken its
companion volume Angels and Demons. Big new illustrated edition due in
this month!
5. You Are What You Eat -
Gillian McKeith (£12.99) - Popular TV tie-in turning around the
lives of unhealthy eaters.
6. Paula Rego - Fiona
Bradley (£12.99) - Colour-illustrated Tate Gallery publication
on the works of the leading artist who exhibited at Linden Mill this
summer.
7. Amateur Marriage - Anne
Tyler (£6.99) - No doubt helped by its choice as the Daily Mail
Book Club selection of the month, this is the story of a mismatched marriage
from World War II to the ‘60s.
8. Explorer Map 021: South
Pennines (£13.99) - This new edition includes up-to-date
information on Access Land.
9. The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (£6.99) - This unusual and
prize-winning novel has been in our Top 10 every month except one this year.
The detective, and narrator, is fifteen and has a form of autism. When he finds
a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a quest.
10. Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
(£7.99) - Never far from our bestsellers list, a guide to
spiritual enlightenment that shows you how to live in peace and happiness.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
The Book Case
29
Market Street, Hebden Bridge HX7 6EU
Telephone 01422-845353
Fax
01422-844295
email: bookcase@btinternet.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
"Books can provide a moral compass, a system of values, a way to
understand yourself. Usually you learn these things from your peers, or at
school, or with your family. But what happens when all those avenues tell you
that what you’re feeling is bad and wrong? Books often hold a special
place, providing hope for a world in which it’s okay to be who you
are." - Alex Sanchez in an interview with
Cynthia Leitich Smith quoted in The Bangkok
Post
SEPTEMBER 2004
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
Notwithstanding tail-ends of hurricanes, a
great deal of water and tumbling buses, normal service has been maintained at
the bookshop; special thanks to Steve and John for doing a great deal of extra
work!
From
Felicity:
"Many thanks to everyone for their messages
and cards and I’m happy to be (semi-) operational again. My neck and back
weren’t in fact damaged, just ribs, collar-bone and early on, lungs, so
repairs have been faster than might have been the case (though still
frustratingly slow, as left shoulder tries to remember its business.) I can
thoroughly recommend Bangkok Hospital international ward (as long as you have
insurance) - they even have a decent library! Isn't Elizabeth Bowen wonderful?
Apart from the friends who have been so incredibly helpful and supportive,
I’d like to say thanks to the young Danish passenger, Martin Pedersen, who
retrieved our things from the wreckage; without passports, credit cards, mobile
phone, spare glasses, etc. things would have been so much more
difficult."
MONTHLY PRIZE DRAW!
To encourage you to use our
customer order service and support your local bookshop (rather
than Amazon), we are introducing a monthly prize draw with a top prize of a
£25 book - the choice for September is the new
edition of Philip’s Concise World Atlas - or an alternative
of a voucher worth £20.00. Anyone who orders a book at the shop will have
the opportunity of entering the draw. There will be five other prizes of
£1 vouchers.
Anne Tyler's "Amateur Marriage"
& The Daily Mail Book Club
On 4th September The Daily
Mail plans to launch a massive book club, with one recommended title per
month, which bookshops will offer at half price against the
Daily Mail National Book Tokens. They are starting off with
The Amateur Marriage by the very readable Anne Tyler, and The Book
Case will be participating in this scheme and accepting the tokens. We've also
stocked up on Anne Tyler's other titles! (Accidental Tourist and
others.)
Member of staff Simon
Manfield has an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North
(Manchester) from 28 August to 12 December. Entitled "Reactions", it
features his depictions of relatives' and locals' reactions as a
republican war grave is exhumed in Asturias, Northern Spain.
(If you do not wish to receive this
monthly mailing, please click on Reply and type CANCEL
in the Subject box.)
Milltown Memories 9: the Upper Calder Valley Captured on
Camera, £2.80
2nd birthday issue includes the two churches of
Heptonstall, Thornber & Finney chicks and eggs, the navvies' encampment
Dawson City, Caldene Bridge, the 1954 Mytholmroyd flood and a preview of
"Alice's Album".
Gone Walkabout: 24 Walks
in the Upper Calder Valley - Anna Carlisle, £6.00
From local
publishers Pennine Pens, a collection of 24 walks which have appeared in the
Hebden Bridge Times and Todmorden News. The walks are designed
for the moderately and supremely fit, and are graded for distance and
difficulty.
Northern Earth No. 98,
£1.70
The current issue includes an article by Dave Shepherd
on new archaeological finds in Calderdale.
Baptisms at the Chapels of
Heptonstall and Cross Stone in the Parish of Halifax, £12.50 per
vol.
Heptonstall 1594-1812, Cross Stone 1678-1837. Four vols. A-F, G-J,
K-Stancliffe, Stand-Y (Marriages and Burials also available)
Blackpool Highflyer -
Andrew Martin, £10.99
Whodunnit set in Edwardian Halifax and
on the railways of the time. Mentions the Courier! From the author of
Necropolis Railway.
Bronte Country, Lives &
Landscapes - Peggy Hewitt, £12.99
Updated illustrated version of a book
first published in 1985, full of stories and reminiscences from people who have
lived and worked around Haworth. Introduction by local author and Bronte
authority Juliet Barker.
Local
Authors
Creepy Crawly Calypso -
Tony Langham, £9.99
Jump and jive with this band of insects
to the creepy crawly calypso beat! From spiders to fireflies, butterflies to
centipedes, the illustrations match the Caribbean spirit of the rhyming text,
which introduces children to ordinal numbers. A CD of calypso music is included
with the book.
National Book
Events
Richard and Judy Book Club Summer
Read
The winner
was Hunting Unicorns by Bella
Pollen (£7.99) - "Maggie is a hard-working and hard-hitting
American documentary maker who has just accepted a commission to make a film
about the decline of the British
aristocracy."
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Guardian
Prize
"A tradition of finding new voices in
children's fiction before the rest of the world is aware of them has
distinguished the prize since it was founded in 1967. Past winners include
Ted Hughes, Anne Fine, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson." This
year's judges are: Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time), Adèle Geras and Marcus Sedgwick. The panel is chaired
by Julia Eccleshare.
The shortlist for this year's prize
will be published in September and the winner will be announced on October
9.
The longlist is as
follows:
Millions, by Frank Cottrell Boyce
(£9.99) Age: 9+
When a bag stuffed full of notes is flung from a
train, Damien and his older brother Anthony are rich - but it'll only be for a
few days, until the new currency comes in.
Murkmere, by Patricia Elliott
(£5.99) Age: 10+
Summoned to Murkmere Hall to be the companion to
Leah, the Master's ward, Aggie finds herself caught up in a world of intrigue
and mystery.
Private Peaceful, by Michael
Morpurgo (£9.99) Age: 10+
Morpurgo pulls no punches when writing about the
folly and barbarity of war.
No Shame, No Fear, by Anne
Turnbull (£5.99) Age: 10+
Relates the struggle of the Quakers in the mid-17th
century
Last Train from Kummersdorf, by Leslie
Wilson (£9.99) Age: 11+
It is Germany in 1945 and with their contrasting
backgrounds, Hanno and Effie are unlikely friends; but circumstances force them
together.
Kissing the Rain, by Kevin Brooks
(£11.99) Age: 13+
Overweight, a pawn in his parents' dubious way of
life, 15-year-old Moo has always been an outsider: he has lived his life on the
margins. He witnesses an incident of savage road rage.
How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
(£11.99) Age: 14+
When Daisy arrives in England to stay with her
cousins, she finds a new way of life with a refreshing absence of rules and
expectations. Above all, she finds Edmund. But war breaks out. Book Case
Recommendation: you won't be able to put it down!
Useful Idiots, by Jan Mark (11.99)
Age: 13+
The UK is partly underwater as a result of climate
change. Raises questions about how we see history and the role that secrets
from the past have in the present.
ManBooker
Prize
Click here http://www.bookerprize.co.uk/intro/home.html for the longlist, which
includes Alan Hollinghurst's Line of Beauty, David Mitchell's
Cloud Atlas, Shirley Hazzard's Great Fire and James
Hamilton-Paterson's Cooking with Fernet Branca. The shortlist
will be announced on 21st September, and the winner on 19th
October.
HIGHLIGHTED
In September Naxos begin a new series NAXOS
MUSICALS. The first release is South Pacific
with highlights from the original production. Also from Naxos in
September, original recordings by Art Tatum and Louis Armstrong and
Naughty Lola by Marlene Dietrich and a fabulous new recording
of music by Arvo Part including the Berliner Messe - all still
only £4.99 each
NEW
TITLES
September sees the publishing industry gearing up for Christmas.
New hardback Fiction includes works from Naipaul,
Atkinson, Lodge, McCall-Smith, Rankin and Cornwell,
amongst others. Paperbacks include works from Barker,
Garner and Gordimer and lots of crime fiction
and thrillers, including books by le Carre, James, Forsyth and
Mankell.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Biographical
works from Doris Lessing and
Lorna Sage
-
Monty Don and Delia
Smith in Gardening
-
the
usefulness of the ancients, nasty jobs, the
Armada and family
history in History
-
Rogues, sheds,
roundabouts and the Darwin Awards in
Humour
-
Fitness and cleanliness in
Lifestyle
-
the
Guardian Directory, Time Out Film Guide and Handmade
Films in Media
-
Beatles, Stones, Dylan,
Ballet and Boal in Music, Dance and
Theatre
-
Hill
Shepherds and the Natural History of
Britain in Nature and
Farming
-
Selections
edited by Duffy and Shapcott in
Poetry
-
Lots in Politics
including Blair & the US, debt,
running a business in Baghdad, Grey and
Roy
-
a
new Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and
more in Reference
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Humanity's survival, evolutionary
biology and the Y chromosone in
Science
-
Sumptuous picture books, Margaret Mee, Lancashire women,
churches, canals, new Lonely Planet & Rough Guides
and guides to Beer, Hotels, Pubs and
Fairies in Travel
-
and MORE Calendars &
Diaries!
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any
of these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
LITERARY QUIZ:
this month it's on
Striking Clocks in
literature To find it online, click here:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This Month's Quiz.
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.
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What you've been
buying: AUGUST BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Book Case customers spent August
worrying about their diets - but also reading novels, enjoying the local
area
(between cloudbursts) and its history, appreciating art and planning to
publish.
1. You Are What You Eat -
Gillian McKeith (£12.99) - TV tie-in giving a diet makeover to
Britain’s Worst Eaters, with good advice leading to amazing results for
everyone else! (£6.99)
2. The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (£6.99) - This unusual and
prize-winning novel has been in our Top 10 every month except one this year!
The detective, and narrator, is fifteen and has a form of autism. When he finds
a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a quest.
3. Moods of the Bronte Moors:
Exploring the Moors and Mills of the South Pennines by John
Morrison
(£12.95) - Atmospheric and varied photographs of the
area by well-known local writer and photographer.
4. Gone Walkabout: 24 Walks in
the Upper Calder Valley - Anna Carlisle (£6.00) - From local
publishers Pennine Pens, a collection of 24 walks which have appeared in the
Hebden Bridge Times and Todmorden News. The walks are designed for the
moderately and supremely fit, and are graded for distance and
difficulty.
5. Lovely Bones - Alice
Sebold (£7.99) - "I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6,
1973. My murderer was a man from our neighbourhood. My mother liked his border
flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer."' A novel about
life, death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting.
(£6.99)
6. Jane Eyre - Paula
Rego (£15) - The paperback edition of a selection of the
artist’s lithographs based on Charlotte Bronte’s heroine. The
exhibition at Linden Mill featured in Hebden Bridge Festival before moving to
Haworth.
7. The Full Cupboard of Life by
Alexander McCall Smith (£6.99) - Mma Ramotswe’s wedding is
still postponed as Mr Matekoni has to cope with a request from the forceful
matron of the Orphan Farm, and she has to check out the motives of a
client’s suitors. The fifth in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
(£6.99)
8. Writer’s Handbook -
Barry Turner (£13.99) - Latest edition of one of the two annual
publications with all the practical information a writer might need.
9. Angels and Demons by Dan
Brown (£6.99) - From the author of The Da Vinci Code,
another murder mystery with spiritual connections - this one involving the
Vatican.
10. Milltown Memories No.
9 (£2.80) - 2nd birthday issue includes the two churches of
Heptonstall, Thornber & Finney chicks and eggs, the navvies' encampment
Dawson City, Caldene Bridge, the 1954 Mytholmroyd flood and a preview of
"Alice's Album".
The
Book Case
29 Market Street, Hebden Bridge HX7 6EU
Telephone
01422-845353
Fax 01422-844295
email: bookcase@btinternet.com
url:
www.bookcase.co.uk
"Biographers tend to be less moody and difficult to live with than
novelists and playwrights, and more sympathetic to the moods of
others."
- Margaret
Drabble (married to Michael Holroyd) quoted in article by Amelia Hill,
Observer, 2.5.04
AUGUST 2004
Dear Book Case Friend
Felicity is unable to write her usual
monthly newsletter to you as she has been involved in a horrific bus accident
in Bangkok when she was visiting her daughter Amy earlier this month. She and
Amy both suffered serious injuries in the accident when the bus they were
travelling in careered off a road and rolled down an embankment. Amy suffered
two broken collar-bones but has now been able to return to work. Felicity
suffered more serious injuries to her ribs and a collar-bone plus lung problems
and underwent surgery in Bangkok. She writes that she is now able to take
tentative steps again but expects to be in hospital in Halifax for some time
after her return to UK this week. In the meantime we receive daily instructions
from her by text messaging!
Felicity, Hilary and Simon plough through
the lists of new books each month and make their selection for The Book Case.
So you can see what they have chosen for August, I have put their lists on our
website. - just click on
the following:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/forthcoming.htm
Most of these new books will be in the shop
before the end of the holidays but if you are looking for holiday reading you
will find a large selection on the central table in the shop and listed in a
free brochure BROWSE which you can take away. Our monthly newsletter for August
is now also available.
In addition to fiction, don't
forget we also have maps and guides for our area and travel guides for the rest
of the world. We also have activity books to keep the children occupied on long
journeys and audio books to play in the car.
For lots of other information
about our range of titles, order service and latest news, don't forget to visit
our website:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk
HAPPY HOLS!
Peter
The Book Case
29
Market Street
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire HX7 6EU (UK)
Telephone:
01422-845353
Fax: 01422-844295
Email: bookcase@btinternet.com
www.bookcase.co.uk
Dear Book Case Friend
Recent news about Felicity is that she is
now recovering at Pauline's home in Halifax (some of you may remember Pauline
as she has worked off and on at The Book Case over the past 20 years - most
recently when she stepped in after Valerie's terrible accident).
In a
recent email to the shop Felicity writes: "Can now walk downstairs as well as
up but use of left arm has to wait for collarbone to mend; also tire quite
fast. Still, making good progress!"
THE BOOK CASE BESTSELLERS JULY
2004
Recent paperback novels have sold well at The Book Case in
July as everyone stocks up with holiday reading! This is our current list of
bestsellers just in case you still want some ideas for summer
reading.
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by
Mark Haddon.
A murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and
narrator, is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very
great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists,
patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being
touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but
when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey
which will turn his whole world upside down. (£6.99)
2. A Short
History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Bill Bryson describes
himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own
study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This
book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang
to the rise of civilization. (£8.99)
3. The Taxi Driver's
Daughter by Julia Darling.
In 'The Taxi Driver's Daughter', Julia
Darling tells the story of a family from the North East on the verge of
collapse, caught between the escape they crave and the imperfect reality that
seems to be their lot. (£7.99)
4. Milltown Memories
8
The current edition of our local periodical featuring photographs from
the Longstaff Collection (£2.80)
5. The Full Cupboard of Life
by Alexander McCall Smith.
The fifth in the "No.1 Ladies' Detective
Agency" series. Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the
end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding
will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her
fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening
request made of him by Mma Potokwani, pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma
Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a
wealthy lady to check up on several suitors. Are these men just interested in
her money? This may be difficult to find out, but Mma Ramotswe is, of course, a
very intuitive lady . (£6.99)
6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan
Brown.
Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in
when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of
baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are
amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.
(£6.99)
7. Moods of the Bronte Moors: Exploring the Moors and
Mills of the South Pennines by John Morrison
Sumptuous photographs by
our own well-loved writer and photographer (£12.95)
8. Eats,
Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne
Truss.
The surprise bestseller at Christmas is still an outstanding
favourite
(£9.99)
9. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual
Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle.
Continues to top sales from our Mind
Body & Spirit section (£7.99)
10. Buddha Da by Anne
Donovan.
Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always
been game for a laugh, so when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist
Centre, no one takes him seriously, but as he becomes more involved in a search
for the spiritual, his beliefs start to conflict with the needs of his wife.
(£7.99)
Regards
Peter
The Book Case
29 Market
Street
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire HX7 6EU (UK)
Telephone:
01422-845353
Fax: 01422-844295
Email:
bookcase@btinternet.com
www.bookcase.co.uk
JULY 2004
Dear Book Case customer or
contact,
First of all,
congratulations to two local authors:
Amanda Dalton who appears
on the Next Generation Poets List of the decade: the list
highlights the 20 most exciting poets of their generation. The 1994 list
included Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage. Amanda Dalton's book of
poems How to Disappear is on sale at The Book Case,
£6.95
and to Juliet Barker, the
author of major works on the Brontes and Wordsworth, who has been
honoured, with five other people from West Yorkshire, by the Bishop of
Wakefield for an "outstanding contribution to the wider
world".
A number of rewarding, entertaining and
thought-provoking author events have happened under the auspices of
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival - with more literary
events in the near future - see below.
And we have lots of
"Browse" booklets featuring a happy man reading in a
wheelbarrow (in rather better weather than we've had recently) with a
good selection of summer fiction and non-fiction reads. See our
centre table for Ness's fine display of the books, with free book
tokens!
And for those of you who have been wanting
the magazine Festival Eye: it's now back in stock. The new one
runs into Summer 2005.
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Branwell Bronte's Barber's Tale - Chris Firth,
£6.99
Was Branwell Bronte really the author of
Wuthering Heights? Literary historical novel from Whitby
author.
South Pennine Walks - Jack Keighley,
£5.99
Spiral-bound handwritten and illustrated with hand-drawn maps,
30 circular walks, from 4 to 8.5 miles.
Marriner's Yarns - George Ingle
(£9.95)
The story of the Keighley Knitting Wool Spinners
Tackler's Tales: a humorous look at Lancashire - Geoffrey
Mather (£7.95)
We'll See the Cuckoo - Jean Brown (£17.00)
First
of a series of books about a Pennine hill farm, Currer Laithe.
Local
Authors
A new radio play by Glyn Hughes, When Twilight
Falls, goes out on BBC Radio 4 at 2.15 - 3.00
p.m. on Tuesday 6 July 2004. The title is from a
song by Josef Locke, a popular singer of the 1950s. A family of three goes to
Blackpool to hear him sing. The child, now an old man, looks back on this
trip and what it revealed. The play is written largely in verse.
HEBDEN BRIDGE
FESTIVAL 19th June - 4th July 2004
Still running:
Wed. 16 June to Sunday 25
July: Artsmill Gallery, Linden Mill, Linden Road,
11-4pm
Jane Eyre and Nursery Rhymes by
Paula Rego
Both books on sale at the
exhibition: Jane Eyre is £95! - but a cheaper edition is in the
pipeline at £15.00 and we are taking orders. Nursery Rhymes is
£12.95, and we are also selling other Paula Rego books.
Saturday 19 June to Sunday
4 July: The Festival Shop, New Oxford House, Albert Street, 10-5pm
daily, 12-5pm Sun.
The Poetry
Shop
Innovative poetry experience, including a special armchair,
opened by poet John Hegley. We have a selection of his books
in stock.
Saturday 3 July: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 4pm
Sara Maitland: Culture &
Madness: On Becoming a Fairy Godmother
Discussion and readings with Phil Thomas,
Clare Shaw and Rufus May. The Book Case will be running a bookstall and has a
selection of Sara Maitland's books in stock.
- Artsmill, Linden Mill,
6pm
Jo Shapcott and Jackie
Wills
A poetry reading presented by Arc
Publications. The Book Case has in stock works by both
poets.
- Picture House,
8pm
An Evening with Sean
Hughes
An evening with the novelist, comedian and raconteur. The
Book Case will be running a bookstall and has in stock It’s What He
Would Have Wanted, £6.99 and Detainees,
£6.99
Sunday 4 July: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 4pm
Mary Turner: The Women's
Century
From Second-Class Citizens to "Having It
All", 1900-2000. The Book Case will be running a bookstall and has The
Women's Century (£19.99) in stock.
Thursday 22 July: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 8pm
Marina Warner: "Happy at
least in my way: Paula Rego and Jane Eyre"
The prize-winning
feminist novelist and mythographer will discuss Paula Rego's work. See her site
at http://www.marinawarner.com/. The
Book Case will provide a bookstall at the event.
National Book
Events
Richard and Judy Book Club Summer
Read
Chosen to be perfect summer
reads, the selection is as follows:
June 9th - A
Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly (£6.99)
June 16th -
Want To Play? by P.J. Tracy (£6.99)
June 23rd -
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern (£10.99)
June 30th
- Liars & Saints by Maile Meloy (£7.99)
July 7th
- The Mermaid & The Drunks by Ben Richards
(£6.99)
July 14th - Hunting Unicorns by Bella
Pollen (£7.99)
All selling
well.
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Orange Prize
The winner,
announced on 8th June, was Small Island by Andrea Levy
(£12.99 at The Book Case),
a
tale about the experience of Jamaican migration to London after the Second
World War.
Sandi Toksvig
commented: "Small
Island
is an astonishing tour de force by Andrea Levy. Juggling four voices, she illuminates a
little known aspect of recent British history with wit and wisdom. A compassionate account of the problems
of post war immigration, it cannot fail to have a strong modern
resonance."
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Samuel
Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
The winner was
Anna Funder's Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall,
£7.99.
ManBooker
International Prize
On 2nd June, a
major new international literary prize was announced: £60,000 to
be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published
fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available
in translation in the English language. The criteria will be literary
excellence and the writer's continued creativity, development and overall
contribution to fiction on the world stage. A shortlist of 15 will be
announced early in 2005. See
http://www.bookerprize.co.uk/pressoffice/releases/02062004.html
NEW
TITLES
New
hardback Fiction in July includes works from
Louis de Bernieres and Carol Shields, plus a
thumping new edition of Brothers Grimm.
Paperbacks include works from Peter Carey, Anita
Brookner, Lynne Truss, Joseph Heller, Gil Courtemanche and a fine crop
of humorous and crime fiction for your summer reads.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Biographies of Nigel Slater,
Douglas Adams, Mad Madge, the round-heeled woman and
Monica Dickens
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the
peopling of the world, great ladies, cannabis, the industrial
revolution and warfare
in History
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Bagpuss & friends, Granta on Film and
Anthony Lane in Media
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Iceland, railways, Calcutta, new Lonely
Planet & Rough Guides and road atlases in
Travel
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and the beginnings
of our annual spate of Calendars
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any
of these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
Highlighted:
Chunky hardback of colour photographs by
Stephen Gill, A Book of Field Studies,
featuring such delights as the backs of advertising hoardings, people
listening to Walkmans (we're told the current track), a nice range of ladies
with shopping trolleys, road works, cashpoint machines, glum people looking out
of rainswept train windows and much more. A well-observed slice of life at
£24.95.
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MUSIC: ABRSM are
publishing new examination music in July. We shall be stocking the
Piano Examination Pieces 2005-2006 for Grades 1-5 and
Violin Examination Pieces 2005-2007 for Grades 1-3. We will
also be able to order examination for all grades and we also stock many of the
music books published by ABRSM. Please let your music teacher know about this
and say we are able to order music through our supplier in
Manchester.
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NEW MUSIC ON CD FROM
NAXOS: the most exciting new CD from Naxos in July is a recording
of English Choral Music by the Choir of St.John's College,
Cambridge directed by Christopher Robinson which includes music by Standford,
Elgar, Howells, Vuaghan Williams, Finzi, Walton, Britten, Lennox Berkeley and
Tavener. There is also an interesting collection of Ballads for
Saxophone and Orchestra which includes music by Tomasi and Piazzolla
and a recording of Piano Rags by Scott Joplin played by
Alexander Peskanov.
LITERARY QUIZ:
this month it's on
Snakes in literature To find
it online, click here:
http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - and then click on This Month's Quiz.
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.
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What you've been
buying: JUNE BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Local interest was joined this month
by books linked to Hebden Bridge Festival events; four novels were particularly
popular - for holiday reading? - and the rest of you wanted to find the answer
to nearly everything or alternatively to get into the Now where problems
don’t exist.
1. Moods of the Bronte Moors - John Morrison
(£12.95) Exploring the Moors and Mills of the South Pennines. Great new
photographic book showing different
aspects of the area.
2. Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (£6.99)
Bestselling mystery thriller involving esoteric religions and a
re-interpretation of European history.
3. Cragg Vale: A Pennine Valley - Stephen Welsh
(£4.95) A history of settlement and conquest from prehistoric times to
the 20th century.
4. My Dog is a Carrot - John Hegley (£5.99) And
there’s a photo on the back cover to prove it! The popular poet has been
working with children locally and can be seen opening the Poetry Chair in
Albert Street at
http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/festival/2004/news8.html
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark
Haddon (£9.99) Whitbread Book of the Year about a 15-year-old
autistic boy who sets out to find out who killed his neighbour’s dog.
6. Wisdom, Madness & Folly - R D Laing
(£5.99) The radical 1960s psychiatrist’s autobiography. We also have
a few of his hard-to-find theoretical books in
stock.
7. The Colour - Rose Tremain (£6.99)
Orange-Prize shortlisted novel about gold-seekers in 19th-century New
Zealand.
8. Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
(£8.99) Everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of
civilisation! Science for non-scientists.
9. Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle (£7.99) Back to
the bestsellers for this guide to spiritual enlightenment that shows you how to
live in peace and happiness.
10. Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
(£6.99) Precious Ramotswe, the Botswanaian private detective,
finds herself involved with car repairs and a beauty pageant, among other
things.
The Book Case
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Market Street, Hebden Bridge HX7 6EU
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discover things: to learn how to think and to know what I feel. I puzzle out
problems, some of them personal and some of larger scope but still personal."
JUNE 2004
Dear Book Case customer or
contact,
Lots to tell you this month, with the Arts
Festival imminent and a lot of new local publications. You'll be relieved to
know The Book Case has weathered yet another flood, this time in the upstairs
office. (Tenant forgot he'd left his bath running ... ). We lost some equipment
and the carpet but fortunately not many books.
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Moods of the Bronte Moors: exploring the Moors and Mills of
the South Pennines - John Morrison, £12.95
Another sumptuous
book of photographs from notorious local author and photographer, this time
closer to home, ranging from washing in Heptonstall via cloud-shadowed hilltops
to the slate roofs of Colne. There’ll be a book launch on June 20,
Machpelah Works, 8pm (free) with a prize for anyone pictured in the book
who turns up!
Milltown Memories 8: the
Upper Calder Valley Captured on Camera, £2.80
With some
authentic "railway children" posing on a Blake Dean railway engine, the summer
issue covers Dawson City and the building of the Walshaw Dean reservoirs - plus
the railways involved - Valley's agricultural societies and shows, the Lord
Brothers Mill explosion and Co-op fire in Todmorden, Geoffrey Coning, Lloyd
Greenwood, Mons Mill and lots more. We're also reminded of two important
anniversaries this year - the bi-centenary of the Rochdale Canal, to be covered
in a later issue, and the 150th anniversary of Heptonstall Parish
Church.
Hebble - D. Bentley, K.
Healey & N. Harris, £16.95
Illustrated guide to the
stormy history of "one of the best loved of all the many Yorkshire operators".
Services to Heptonstall & Blackshawhead began in the 1920s and by the 1950s
the company was running to Scarborough and even Blackpool.
Huddersfield: the
Corporation Motorbus Story - Peter Cardno and Stephen Harling,
£13.50
For the first time ever, the story of Huddersfield
buses, with numerous illustrations and pages of colour photos. Landscape
format.
The Day the
Sun Went Out - John Billingsley, £2
Accounts of the 1927 Eclipse as seen from Yorkshire and
the Pennines. Originally published as a background to the 1999 total solar
eclipse.
Local Authors
Walking the Animals - Carola
Luther, £6.95
From a Triangle author, born in South Africa.
This is her first published collection and "brings together inner and outer
landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and the drought of the South African
lowveld; landscapes of loss, landscapes of longing."
While stocks last, we have bargain copies of Ted
Hughes's Birthday Letters, New Selected Poems and
Tales from Ovid, £4.99 each.
Go to http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/ for a report on the meeting held on 22nd April in Mytholmroyd to
discuss the proposed development of the Ted Hughes Poetry
Centre.
Local
Events
HEBDEN BRIDGE
FESTIVAL 19th June - 4th July 2004
Wed. 16 June to Sunday 25
July: Artsmill Gallery, Linden Mill, Linden Road,
11-4pm
Jane Eyre and Nursery Rhymes by
Paula Rego
We will have both books on sale at
the exhibition: Jane Eyre is £95! - but a cheaper edition is in
the pipeline and we'll be taking orders. Nursery Rhymes is
£12.95, and we will also be selling other Paula Rego and Bronte
books.
Saturday 19 June to Sunday
4 July: The Festival Shop, New Oxford House, Albert Street, 10-5pm
daily, 12-5pm Sun.
The Poetry
Shop
Innovative poetry experience including a special armchair
(covered in the local Explorer map by the look of it). Poet John
Hegley will be cutting a Poetry Cake to open the
exhibition on Sun. 20 June at 11.15. We have a selection of
his books in stock.
We've been informed that the
opening by John Hegley on 20th June at The Festival Shop is by invitation only
and numbers are very restricted. .
Sunday 20 June, Machpelah
Works, 8pm
John Morrison will be launching his
new photographic book Moods of the Bronte Moors. Book on sale at The
Book Case, £12.99.
Monday 21st June:
Canalside Gallery, Machpelah Works, 7.30pm
Berringden
Brow and Beyond - Jill Robinson
Comic tales of everyday
crises from local author: we have Berringden
Brow and Sons & Lodgers in stock (£6.95
each)
Wed. 23 June: Little
Theatre, Holme Street, 8pm
William Blake: Man Without A
Mask by Ruth Rosen
The Book Case will be running a
bookstall and we have a selection of Blake's poetry in stock. A new
Penguin edition of the Complete Poems is published in late June.
Saturday 26 June:
Artsmill, Linden Mill, 4.30pm
William Pryor - Survival
of the Coolest
Darwin's great-grandson, Gwen
Raverat's grandson, '60s Dadaist, beat poet and heroin addict will read from
his book, Survival of the Coolest, Gwen Raverat's classic Period
Piece and his recently edited Virginia Woolf and the Averats. The
Book Case will be running a bookstall and has the books in
stock.
- St John's Centre, Churchbank
Lane, Cragg Vale, 5pm
Local author Tony Langham
presents stories and verse with Pete Keal. We have a selection of Tony
Langham's children's books in stock.
Sunday 27 June: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 5pm
Judith Jones & Bea Campbell - And
All the Children Cried
A discussion of the play about two women
in prison for killing children. The Book Case will be running a bookstall
and stocking the play. (£7.99).
Monday 28 June: Little
Theatre, 8pm
Did You Used to be R D Laing? told by
Mike Maran
The Book Case will be running a bookstall and we have a
selection of Laing's works in stock.
Tuesday 29 June: Mytholmroyd
Methodist Church, Scout Road, 7.30pm
An Appreciation of Ted
Hughes with Donald Crossley, Nick Wilding and Frank Woolrych. Lots of
Ted Hughes books at The Book Case and we will be running a bookstall at the
event.
Saturday 3 July: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 4pm
Sara Maitland: Culture &
Madness: On Becoming a Fairy Godmother
Discussion and readings with Phil Thomas,
Clare Shaw and Rufus May. The Book Case will be running a bookstall and has a
selection of Sara Maitland's books in stock.
- Artsmill, Linden Mill,
6pm
Jo Shapcott and Jackie
Wills
A poetry reading presented by Arc
Publications. The Book Case has in stock Jo Shapcott's Her Book,
£8.99, and Jackie Wills's Fever Tree.
- Picture House,
8pm
An Evening with Sean
Hughes
An evening with the novelist, comedian and raconteur. The
Book Case will be running a bookstall and has in stock It’s What He
Would Have Wanted, £6.99 and Detainees,
£6.99
Sunday 4 July: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 4pm
Mary Turner: The Women's
Century
From Second-Class Citizens to "Having It
All", 1900-2000. The Book Case will be running a bookstall and has The
Women's Century (£19.99) in stock.
Thursday 22 July: Artsmill,
Linden Mill, 8pm
Marina Warner: "Happy at
least in my way: Paula Rego and Jane Eyre"
Tickets selling briskly
- more info next month.
Words Aloud Events for June 2004
A Fine Line - Wednesday 2nd June, 8pm, The
White Lion, Hebden Bridge
British Launch of Arc’s Poetry
Anthology from the EU enlargement countries. The poets reading include Katerina
Rudecenkova, from The Czech Republic, Edward Pasewicz, from Poland, and Taja
Kramberger, from Slovenia.Admission free, donations welcome. The book,
A Fine Line, is a parallel-text edition, £11.95, and we'll be
stocking it at The Book Case. (Sorry, we couldn't get the newsletter out in
time to tell you about the above.)
Words and Wine - Friday 11th June, 6pm,
Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse
Indulge and listen to boozy stories and poems. Wine
tasting with M&S wine advisor, Karen Bryden. Hosted by Craig and Sarah.
Free glass with £3 admission.
Laugh Aloud - Saturday 12th June, 11.00 – 12
noon, Elland Library; 1.30 – 2.30pm, Beechwood Road
Library
Poetry reading from the libraries’ comic poetry stock. Discover
and laugh at an off-the-shelf selection, with Sarah.
Tickets available by ringing 01422 392629, and ask for the duty
manager
National Book
Events
Richard and Judy Book Club Summer
Read
Chosen to be perfect summer
reads, the selection is as follows:
June 9th - A Gathering
Light by Jennifer Donnelly (£6.99)
June 16th - Want
To Play? by P.J. Tracy (£6.99)
June 23rd - P.S. I
Love You by Cecelia Ahern (£10.99)
June 30th - Liars
& Saints by Maile Meloy (£7.99)
July 7th - The
Mermaid & The Drunks by Ben Richards (£6.99)
July 14th -
Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen
(£7.99)
In common with every other
bookseller in the country, we're trying to get the stock
in!
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Orange
Prize Shortlist
The winner will be
announced on 8th June. We have the starred ones in stock and can order the
others
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood (£7.99)* -
Devastating vision of the future
The
Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (£15.99) - Second
World War story set in Europe and Asia. Paperback due
July.
Small Island by Andrea
Levy (£14.99, £12.99 at The Book Case)* - In
war-bruised 1948 England, Queenie Bligh who takes in Jamaican lodgers and
ex-RAF Gilbert work out their differences.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(£12.99) - debut novel about a difficult adolescence in Nigeria
at a time of crisis. Paperback due early 2005
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
(£14.99/£10.99) - individual lives caught up in the siege of
Leningrad
The Colour by Rose
Tremain (£6.99)* - Drama of sacrifice and greed set during
the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New
Zealand.
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Booker
Prize
There is to be a
minisite, "Judge for Yourself", at www.bookerprize.co.uk where you can participate in choosing books from the (yet to be
announced) Longlist and join a debate about "new writing". It isn't there
yet as far as I can see.
Meanwhile the
Observer's Robert McCrum offers his All-Time Top Ten - "the volumes (in English)
with which any reasonably well-read inhabitant of these islands in the 21st
century should be familiar ... all 'old writing', in prose". We have them all
in stock except for Johnson's Dictionary, never a terrific
seller ...
1. The
King James Bible
2. The Works of Shakespeare
3. Ulysses
4. Pilgrim's
Progress
5. Johnson's Dictionary
6. A Room of One's Own
7. Emma
8.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. Middlemarch
10. Wuthering
Heights
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Auchlinleck MS
This collection
of secular texts from 1330, including a history, a crusader narrative,
romances about English heroes, moral instruction for children, a social satire
and a poem celebrating women, can now be viewed online at www.nls.uk/auchinleck It is said to be the sort of thing ordinary
(literate) 14th-century Londoners would have been reading.
NEW
TITLES
Little new hardback Fiction
in May but look out
for paperbacks from Melvyn Bragg, Tracy
Chevalier, Paulo Coelho, J G Ballard, Julia Darling, Martin Amis, Michelle
Roberts, Michel Houellbecq, Patricia Cornwall, Lindsey Davis and
James Herbert, amongst others.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Biographies by Joan Bakewell,
Woodie Guthrie, Pablo Neruda, Ziauddin Sardar, Hilary Mantel and that
lighthouse-keeper, amongst others
-
garden
revival, garden stone and allotmenteers in
Gardening
-
British heroes, pubs, Stalin, Krakatoa and more
in History
-
a
clueless cult leader and grumpy old men in
Humour
-
Babies
and the Buddha in MBS
-
mazes,
the Eden project and wildlife
guides in Outdoor
Activities
-
Stasi,
Tony Benn and Alexander Cockburn in
Politics
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and a
trawler, the shipping forecast, a French vineyard, an 8th-century monk
and new Rough Guides in Travel
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any of
these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
Highlighted:
We have now got stock of PUTUMAYO WORLD MUSIC CDs. Putumayo has become
known primarily for its upbeat and melodic compilations of great international
music that are "guaranteed to make you feel good!" Our price for these CDs is
£10.99. Putamayo is a member of Business For Social Responsibility,
Social Venture Network and Business Leaders For Sensible Priorities, and
contributes a portion of its proceeds from many CDs to support non-profit
organizations that do good work in the communities where the music originates.
New from Naxos at £4.99 this month are recordings
of Elgar’s sacred choral music, a selection of
Soprano Arias which includes Francesca’s Aria from
Francesca da Rimini sung by Marina Mescheriakova, a disc which
showcases the Douduk, an Armenian folk instrument and a
selection of original recordings from 1939-1947 by Richard
Tauber including "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’ "
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.
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What you've been
buying: MAY BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
The Book Case’s May top sellers
were once again a mixture of local interest books and novels, with one
lugubrious children’s book. John Morrison’s attractive new local
photographic book got in despite having only just arrived and Mytholmroyd
is no doubt full of people clutching Mike Darke’s new
guide!
1. Mytholmroyd Heritage Walk - Mike Darke
(£2.95) - Five walks with lots of history, photos and sketchmaps. Revised
version of booklet first published 1987.
(£2.95)
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark
Haddon (£9.99) - Whitbread Book of the Year. Unusual murder
mystery in which the murder of a neighbour's dog sets a 15-year-old autistic
boy onto a terrifying trail of discovery. Funny, moving and convincing.
3. Walking the Animals - Carola Luther (£6.95)
- First published collection of poems from local author born in South Africa:
"brings together inner and outer landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and
the drought of the South African lowveld."
4. Easter Parade - Richard Yates (£6.99) - A
local Readers’ Group choice, this novel is about two very different
sisters struggling to overcome their past.
5. Brick Lane - Monica Ali (£7.99) - Booker and
Guardian shortlisted novel set in the Asian community in London's East End,
telfling the story of Nazneen, a village girl from Bangladesh.
6. Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley - Eddie Cass
(£6.99) - History of the popular local versions of the Pace Egg Play,
paying tribute to the people who kept them going.
7. Milltown Memories 7 and 8 (£2.80 ea.) Both
Spring and new Summer edition selling well: latter has lots about Dawson City,
agricultural shows and disasters in Todmorden.
8. Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket (£6.99) -
10th in the very upsetting Series of Unfortunate Events which happen to the
unlucky Baudelaire orphans.
9. Moods of the Bronte Moors - John Morrison
(£12.95) - Sumptuous new book of photographs of our area, ranging from
washing in Heptonstall via cloud-shadowed
hilltops to the slate roofs of
Colne.
10. Old Stones of Elmet - Paul Bennett (£13.95)
- Guide to the ritual stone sites in an old Yorkshire kingdom - including those
around Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Luddenden, Hebden Bridge, Blackshawhead and the
Halifax area.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
"Books and
all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to
suppress the truth."
Wole Soyinka, The Man Died: the prison notes of
WS, quoted on Reith lecture webpage
Dear Book Case
customer or contact,
It looks as though you won't be spending
much time in the garden this Bank Holiday, so we'll hope to see you down here
restocking your book shelves. We've extended our SALE by
one week - come and have a browse on our centre table for final
reductions down to one-third of published price!
Then from 10th to 24th
May, we'll be having a bumper display of SHEET MUSIC to
launch a revamped music service. We have also restocked our CD
shelves with a selection of new classical CDs from Naxos at
£4.99 each and a big selection of original jazz and blues recordings at
£3.99 each.
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NEWS
Local
Interest
Cloth Caps and Cricket Crazy: Todmorden & Cricket 1835-96
by Freda, Malcolm & Brian Heywood, £16.00 pb, £20
hb
The fortunes of Todmorden Cricket Club from 1835, including financial
crises, riots, a players' strike, intense rivalries with Bacup, Burnley and
Rochdale, a visit by W G Grace and matches against the United England and All
England elevens. All thanks to John Fielden! With 130 photographs, maps and
reproductions of original documents.
Pennine Way,
£10.99
Britain's best-known National Trail winds for 256 miles over
wild moorland and through quiet dales following the backbone of Northern
England, and crossing three National Parks - the Peak District, the Yorkshire
Dales and Northumberland. Scale just under 1:20,000 (8cm or 3 1/8 inches to one
mile. With colour photos, maps and plans
Cougars Going Up! - ed. David
Kirkley, £7.99
Keighley Cougars Rugby League 2003
Yearbook
Local
Events
Words Aloud Events for May 2004
A Passion for Poetry - Thursday
6th May. 7.30pm, Central Library,
Halifax
An
informal group that has a laugh and a think over poems, for
people new to poetry and those
who’d like to be introduced to new poets and
poems
Football Night - Tuesday 18th
May 7.30pm, Central Library. Halifax
Come and celebrate Cup Final week with
David Blatt, author of Manchester United Ruined My Wife and
the Times Sports Journalist David McVay, author of the
football memoir Steak..Diana
Ross (£9.95, available at The Book
Case)
Reader in residence Craig Bradley is on the bench.
Tickets £3.
Poetry Carousel - Sunday 23rd May 7.30pm. The White
Lion, Hebden Bridge
Prize winning Scots poet Kathleen
Jamie headlines an evening of wordplay and song, with local support from Gaia
Holmes and Steve Pittman. Hosted by poet in residence,
Sarah Hymas. Admission £4.
Kathleen Jamie's book "Among Muslims - Meetings
at the Frontier of Pakistan" (£6.99) has been a steady seller at The Book
Case.
Tickets available from the duty
manager at 01422 392629
Local
Authors
Lumb Bank, the 18th-century building near
Heptonstall which opened as a writers' centre in 1975, has been renamed
The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre in a recent ceremony attended by
Ted Hughes's widow Carol Hughes, family, friends and peers. Ted Hughes was a
guest reader at the foundation's first course in Devon, and continued to play a
major role in the organisation for the rest of his life. Ted and Carol Hughes
lived at Lumb Bank in the early 1970s.
For the Courier's full report, see
http://www.halifaxtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=700&ArticleID=780429
National Book
Events
Richard and Judy Best Read of the
Year
The winner, as
voted by the viewers and announced at the British Book Awards, was
The
Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold (£7.99) - Susan Salmon,
murdered at 14, watches from heaven as her friends and siblings grow
up.
In second place was Star of
the Sea, by Joseph O'Connor, (£6.99), well-known to our bestseller
lists and
in third place was
Starter For Ten, by David Nicholls (£10.99) -
Brian's just started university, armed with CND membership and Kate Bush albums
but he also has a burning ambition to appear on University Challenge.
All in stock at The Book Case. More
info at:
Orange
Prize Shortlist
The winner will be
announced on 8th June. We have the starred ones in stock and can order the
others
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood (£7.99)* -
Devastating vision of the future
The
Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (£15.99) - Second
World War story set in Europe and Asia. Paperback due
July.
Small Island by Andrea
Levy (£14.99, £12.99 at The Book Case)* - In
war-bruised 1948 England, Queenie Bligh who takes in Jamaican lodgers and
ex-RAF Gilbert work out their differences.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(£12.99) - debut novel about a difficult adolescence in Nigeria
at a time of crisis. Paperback due early 2005
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
(£14.99/£10.99) - individual lives caught up in the siege of
Leningrad
The Colour by Rose
Tremain (£6.99)* - Drama of sacrifice and greed set during
the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New
Zealand.
End of the
Story
Well, we did have
the little books but ran out of stock on the first day and were
unable to get any more - the BBC underestimated the demand. Eight of Britain's
best-selling authors, including Ian Rankin, Sue Townsend and Marian Keyes, have
each written the beginning of a short story and it's your job to complete them.
People who managed to find a book have a headstart on the rest of you who can
download the chapters from www.bbc.co.uk/endofstory from
2nd May.
Mark Haddon
Interview
Sample quote at the end
of this newsletter. (His main model
was Pride and Prejudice, he says)
Literary
puzzle
We've received an e-mail from,
apparently, an old Polish man called Tadeusz Glowinski. He
says the books in his children's library in Olesnica have been confiscated and
is appealing for donations of books, including second-hand ones, to help the
city's youth learn foreign languages. Opinion on Google is divided as to
whether this is an upmarket version of the Nigerian money scam or a genuine
appeal. The websites given don't work, but apparently they used to. He was
interviewed, as a library employee, about the possibilities of the
internet, by a Polish electronic library forum, EBIB in
1999.
If anyone can confirm
that the appeal is genuine, we'll publish his address!
NEW
TITLES
Fiction in May
includes new hardbacks from Jeanette
Winterson and Amitav Ghosh, and there are lots
of high-profile paperbacks from the likes of
Robert Harris, Monica Ali, Rose Tremain, Jonathan
Raban, D B C Pierre, Graham Swift, Helen Dunmore, Jane
Smiley, Sally Vickers, Ian Rankin et
al.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Biographies by Isabelle
Allende and Sue Miller
-
allotments and British garden
history in Gardening
-
the Middle Ages, Magna Carta, British & French
empire-building and World Wars I &
II in History
-
Goddesses & Grails in
MBS
-
Mountains and Pigs in
Outdoor
Activities
-
Haiku
by Jack Kerouac in Poetry
-
Al-Qaeda, Palestinian women suicide bombers and
Michael Foot in Politics
-
and the
Pennine Way, days out and new Rough & Lonely
Planet Guides in Travel
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any of
these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
Highlighted:
Expected into stock soon, the bestselling
British Library birdsong recordings on CD: Dawn Chorus
(£9.95), Songs of Garden Birds (£9.95) and
British Bird Sound (£15.99).
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.
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What you've been
buying: APRIL BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Easter visitors wanted to read all
about the area, with the Pace Egg Play leading no fewer than six books of local
interest in our bestsellers this month. An unusual and award-winning
novel, THE punctuation book, a teenage thriller and that Botswanaian lady
detective made up the remainder.
1. Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder
Valley - Eddie Cass (£6.99) - At the top for a second month is
this history of the popular local versions of the Pace Egg Play, paying tribute
to the people who kept it going.
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night Time - Mark Haddon (£9.99) - Selling to both adults
and young people, an unusual murder mystery in which the murder of a
neighbour's dog sets a 15-year-old autistic boy onto a terrifying trail of
discovery.
3. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne
Truss (£9.99) - Now selling globally, with translated versions
adapted to the local language in the pipeline, an entertaining no-nonsense
guide to punctuation. Some ascribe its popularity to a dearth of grammar
teaching in schools.
4. Old Stones of Elmet - Paul
Bennett (£13.95) - Guide to the ritual stone sites in an old
Yorkshire kingdom - including those around Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Luddenden,
Hebden Bridge, Blackshawhead and the Halifax area.
5. A Century of Change: 100 Years
of Hebden Bridge and District - HB Local History Section
(£11.95) - An illustrated look back over the last century, with
photographs from the Alice Longstaff Collection and by Bill Marsden.
6. Explorer Map OL21: South
Pennines (£6.99) - Now orange and renamed, the old Outdoor
Leisure map of the local area at 2.5 inches to the mile.
Double-sided.
7. Scorpia - Anthony
Horowitz (£5.99) - The latest Alex Rider teenage thriller.
The reluctant young superspy travels to Italy to infiltrate the glamorous world
of beautiful Claudia Rothman.
8. Tears of the Giraffe -
Alexander McCall Smith (£6.99) - Latest about Precious Ramotswe,
Botswana’s finest female detective.
9. Cragg Vale: a Pennine Valley -
Stephen Welsh (£4.95) - A history of settlement and conquest
from prehistoric times to the 20th century.
10. Mill, Murder and Railway -
Peter Thomas (£3.00) - "The story of Gibson Mill; the Hawdon
Hole Murder; and the Hardcastle Crags Railway" with contemporary
photographs.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
"Jane
Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We
forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. All we can
think of is country houses, heritage frocks and Colin Firth's chest in a wet
shirt. But if Austen were alive today, she'd be writing about chartered
accountants in Welwyn Garden City."
- Mark Haddon, "B
is for Bestseller", Observer, 11th April
2004
APRIL 2004
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
What a good turn-out for Dr Eddie
Cass's talk on his new book, The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder
Valley, at the Methodist
Church! The talk was illustrated by Frank Woolrych who showed
photos of the play through the years. The book, which traces the play's history
from its origins through its post-WWI revival to the present day, sold briskly
at the event and since, and predictably is this month's bestseller. A nice
write-up appeared in the Hebden Bridge Times; the Courier's
rather sour article managed to miss the point of both the book
and the event. I expect they're just jealous.
Following Paul's unexpectedly early
departure for Japan, new staff member is his younger brother Stephen
Hill who works at the Trades Club, enjoys snooker and like Paul, is
interested in fantasy fiction.
Look out for our annual SALE this month: April 17th-May
1st.
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in the Subject box.)
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NEWS
Local
Interest
Pennine Bridleway: Derbyshire to the South Pennines,
£12.99
Britain’s first purpose-built long-distance
bridleway, from Buxton to the east of Hebden Bridge, where it splits to form
the Mary Towneley Loop.
Cragg Vale: a Pennine Valley - Stephen
Welsh, £4.95
Back in stock, this history of settlement and
conquest from prehistoric times to the 20th century.
Pennine Way Companion, £11.99
Reissue of
Wainwright’s classic pictorial guide.
Local
Authors
The Owl and the Crag Rat
This anthology of climbing poetry by local
resident, climber and sociology lecturer Marc Chrysanthou and
friends reworks well-known poems by Eng Lit greats in "acts of creative
plagiarism".
Sample:
"Once upon some gritstone dreary, I inched
my way up weak and weary,
Up a slab so steep and smeary, the famous
Tody's wall ..."
Local
Events
At Hebden Bridge Picture
House:
- An Evening with Gervase
Phinn on Saturday 3rd April, 8pm
- An Audience with Germaine
Greer on Saturday 17th April, 8pm.
Tickets for both from 01422 351158 and
books at The Book Case.
Simon Armitage read
extracts from his work and talked to Calderdale's new poet in residence, Sarah
Hymas, in front of a packed audience at Halifax Central Library on 4th March.
Amongst other things, he discussed the difference between writing poetry and
prose. The Book Case sold lots of books!
National Book
Events
Richard and Judy
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the
Year will be announced at the National Book Awards on
Channel 4 at 5pm on Good Friday 9th
April.
More info and the chance
to vote at:
Orange Prize
Longlist
The shortlist will be
announced 27th April and the winner on 8th June. The longlist, issued on 15th
March, is as follows:
Brick
Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret
Atwood
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
Kith &
Kin by Stevie Davies
State of Happiness by Stella
Duffy
The Flood by Maggie Gee
The Electric
Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Great Fire by
Shirley Hazzard
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Visit from
Voltaire by Dinah Lee Küng
Small Island by
Andrea Levy
Gilgamesh by Joan London
The
Internationals by Sarah May
Love by Toni Morrison
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
The Colour
by Rose Tremain
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
End of the
Story
The Book Case is hoping
to participate in a BBC short story writing competition to be launched on 18th
April. Eight famous authors will each write half a story - you supply the
endings. Watch our windows and website!
World Book Day
survey
Accountants
read more for pleasure than do other professions according to a World Book Day
survey - they especially like funny books. Secretaries come second, journalists
fourth, taxi drivers fifth, lawyers sixth, and teachers and chefs joint
seventh. Clergymen come last. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3531255.stm
NEW
TITLES
Once
again a busy month for fiction - new hardbacks
from Joanne Harris, Isabel Allende, Alan Hollinghurst, William
Nicholson and A N Wilson, and paperbacks
from Margaret Atwood, Peter Ackroyd, Barbara Trapido, Don de
Lillo, Annie Proulx and many more.
Non-fiction
includes
- Houses and
Celtic knotwork in Art &
Architecture
-
Biographies of
John Fowles, W F Deedes, Barbara Castle, Frances Hodgson Burnett
and J L Carr among others
-
plant and
garden finders in Gardening
-
the
King James Bible, Berlin and Soviet death camps
in History
-
property abroad and
boot sales in
Household
-
the
Lion and Albert and Frank the Tortoise
in Humour
-
Hit
Singles, Blues, Jazz, Dylan and alternative Music
-
Eliot
read by Schofield, Kipling, Weddings and
Funerals in Poetry
-
Mobiot, Israel and Islam in
Politics
-
and a
small boat, Andalus, living abroad and more in Travel
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any of
these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
Highlighted:
From mid-April we will be expanding the
range of sheet music and music books. We currently carry only a small selection
of music but we are able to order music which includes ABRSM and Trinity exam
pieces. We would be pleased to hear from you if you are a music teacher and you
can recommend music we might stock for your pupils.
Also from mid-April we will have a new
range of budget CDs from Regis which includes a wonderful
recording by the baritone Willard White of spirituals and
American songs .
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.
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What you've been buying:
MARCH BESTSELLERS at The Book Case
Lots of local interest this month,
headed by the first book to pay proper attention to the Calder Valley Pace Egg
play, with World Book Day Specials, a Richard and Judy favourite and books by
an eminent local author also jostling for position. The semi-colons are still
hanging on in there!
1. Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder
Valley - Eddie Cass (£6.99): Traces the origins and history of
our very own much-loved annual institution and pays tribute to the people who
kept it going.
2. World Book Day
Specials (£1 each): All went well, but Artemis Fowl: The
Seventh Dwarf (10 up) was the winner, If I Was Boss (2-4) came
second and Fairy Fluster (7-9) third.
3. Star of the Sea - Joseph
O'Connor (£6.99)
Will this story of refugees sailing from
Ireland to New York in 1947 be the Richard & Judy Best Read of the
Year?
4. Old Stones of Elmet - Paul
Bennett (£13.95)
Guide to the ritual stone sites in an old
Yorkshire kingdom - including those around Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Luddenden,
Hebden Bridge, Blackshawhead and the Halifax area. Is there anyone who
doesn’t have this book by now?
5. Milltown Memories 7 - Spring
2004 (£2.80)
Featuring lots of local Co-ops but now nearly
sold out!
6. White Stuff - Simon
Armitage (£12.99)
From well-known Huddersfield author, the
story of a couple living in the Pennines grappling with their inability to have
children.
7. Foul Deeds and Suspicious
Deaths in and around Halifax - Stephen Wade (£9.99)
Tales
from of violence and death from the sixteenth century until recent
years.
8. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne
Truss (£9.99)
Still selling well, this entertaining guide to
punctuation.
9. It’s Water under the
Bridge - Mollie Sunderland (£4.00)
The story of flooding in
Mytholmroyd incorporating the history of Mytholmroyd Bridge; all proceeds to
Guide Dogs for the Blind. Many photographs.
10. All Points North - Simon
Armitage (£7.99)
Family, football, amateur dramatics, the
moors, and the pub in Marsden with the odd visit to Lancashire.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
"'And if I
might offer you a little advice, Fanny, it would be to read fewer books, dear,
and make your house slightly more comfortable. ...' She cast a meaning look at
the plateless digestives and went away without saying
goodbye."
Love in a Cold
Climate, Nancy Mitford, Part 2, ch. 2
MARCH NEWSLETTER
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
It was lovely to see so many people -
customers and ex-members of staff - at Valerie's party and
thank you all for coming. A nice photograph appeared in the
Courier.
Our annual SALE has now
been postponed until the last two weeks of April: April 17th-May
1st.
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NEWS
Local
Interest
The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley - Dr. Eddie
Cass, £6.99
This
book supplements Dr Cass's The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play and covers the
history and revival of the play in the Calder Valley, notably by Midgley School
in the 1930s and Calder High School in the 1950s. The Midgley pace-egg play has
traceable, personal links into the nineteenth century. The popular Good Friday
revival of the play at Heptonstall is also covered. Texts of both plays are
included.
There will be an illustrated talk by Dr Eddie Cass to launch
the book on
Wednesday, 17th March 2004 at 7.30pm
at
Hebden Bridge Methodist Church, Bridge Lanes
(next to Co-op on Market
Street).
The event
is supported by the Folklore Society, Frank Woolrych and Hebden Bridge Local
History Society and The Book Case. The book will be on sale at the event. No
entrance charge.
Milltown
Memories 7 - Spring 2004 (£2.80)
The Co-op's
beginnings in Todmorden and spread to Charlestown and Hebden Bridge; memories
of the Co-ops of Midgley, Mytholmroyd, Blackshawhead and Heptonstall; Digging
for Victory in Walsden; Rock 'n' Roll at Nickie's; and a wonderful picture of a
milk-donkey near Mytholmroyd. Look out for Book Case Children's Buyer Hilary
Shackleton's memories of the Midgley
Co-op!
Foul Deeds & Suspicious
Deaths In and Around Halifax - Stephen Wade (£9.99)
Tales
from of violence and death from the sixteenth century until recent
years.
It's Water Under the Bridge -
Mollie E. Sunderland (£4.00)
The story of flooding in
Mytholmroyd; all proceeds to Guide Dogs for the Blind. We hope to have stock
soon.
Local
Authors
Simon
Armitage - Thursday 4th March, 7.30pm - Halifax Central
library
Simon Armitage's first novel, Little
Green Man, proved that one of the country's finest poets is also one of
its most exciting fiction writers. Now, as Little Green Man comes to
the big screen as a major film, he has published his second novel, The
White Stuff, tackling adoption and assisted conception. He will be reading
from it and talking about it with Calderdale's new poet in residence,
Sarah Hymas.
For those of you who saw
Sylvia, a reminder that we have
Ariel and Birthday Letters in stock
- the latter with many moving, warm or funny portraits of the poets' life
together: and of course, the rest of the poets' works plus biography and lit
crit. Someone should have told Daniel Craig how to pronounce "Mytholmroyd".
Local
Events
Veteran politician Tony
Benn, always a good seller at The Book Case, is appearing at the
Trades Club on 26th March, with folk-singer Roy Bailey, in "The Writing on the
Wall: An Anthology of Dissent". Tickets from the Trades Club, 84 5265, and
books from us!
Early warning of April events at
Hebden Bridge Picture House:
- An Evening with Gervase
Phinn on Saturday 3rd April, 8pm
- An Audience with Germaine Greer
on Saturday 17th April, 8pm.
Tickets for both from
01422 351158
and books at The Book Case.
National Book
Events
World Book Day Thursday 4th
March 2004
To mark this annual event, designated by
UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, school children will
each receive a £1 voucher which can be exchanged for one of the six
World Book Day £1 Books listed below, or put towards one
of the Recommended Reads or a children's book or audiobook of
their choice. The vouchers will be valid from 6th-27th March.
The
£1 Specials are:
If I Was Boss by
Kes Gray & Nick Sharratt (2-4)
The Magnificent
Mummies by Tony Bradman, ill. Martin Chatterton (5
up)
Felicity Wishes: Fairy
fluster by Emma Thomson (7-9)
Molly Moon's Hypnotic
Holiday by Georgia Byng (8-12)
COOL! by Michael
Morpurgo (8-12) and
Artemis Fowl: The Seventh
Dwarf by Eion Colfer (10 up)
Recommended Reads
Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child by Bob
Graham (£5.99)
Centipede's 100 Shoes by Tony Ross
(£4.99)
That Pesky Rat by Lauren Child
(£4.99)
Chimp & Zee by Catherine Anholt
(£5.99)
Ghost Of Able Mabel by Penny Dolan
(£3.99)
Tudor Tales: Prince, Cook & Cunning King
by Terry Deary (£4.99)
Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field
Guide by Holly Black (£5.99)
After School Club:
Starring Sammie by Helena Pielichaty (£3.99)
Terrible
Times by Philip Ardagh (£4.99)
Roman Mystery 6:
Twelve Tasks Of Flavia by Caroline Lawrence
(£4.99)
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
(£5.99)
Mates, Dates & Pulling Power by Cathy
Hopkins (£5.99)
Richard and
Judy
Richard and Judy's Book Club (Channel 4, Thursday
teatime) is still in progress: a long-list of approximately 150 books has been
whittled down to a shortlist of 10 for the Best Read of the
Year prize at the forthcoming British Book Awards. Star of the Sea
is still selling briskly.
- March 3rd -
White Mughals by William Dalrymple - the white men who adopted local dress and
customs in India, £8.99
- March 10th - The Know
by Martina Cole - crime novel involving children. Only in hardback,
£12.99
- March 17th - Notes on a
Scandal by Zoe Heller - the new teacher is different. Booker shortlisted.
£6.99
- March 24th - Bookseller
of Kabul by Asne Seierstad - freedom fighter or oppressive patriarch?
£12.99
More info and the chance
to vote at:
NEW
TITLES
Another productive month in
fiction - new hardbacks from Julian
Barnes and Muriel Spark, and paperbacks
include Margaret Forster, Zoe Heller, Alexander McCall-Smith, Val McDermid,
Donna Leon, further adventures of the Russian penguin and lots more.
Non-fiction
includes
- the RIBA awards with
photos in Art &
Architecture
-
Biographies
from Gervase Phinn, David Nobbs, plus a foreign correspondent,
a shepherd, a book collector, a teacher and a crossword
freak among others
-
our usual wide
range in History including Britain, religious wars, profitable plants, a
shipwreck, Scouting and the bombing of Germany
-
property abroad and
boot sales in
Household
-
small
chickens and women with big feet in
Humour
-
babies, children, adolescents, self-healing, psychiatry
and goddesses among others in MBS
-
Simon
Armitage and Haiku in
Poetry
-
Rageh
Omaar, President Blair, Non-violence and US v Europe
in Politics
-
Coincidence and Richard Fortey in
Science
-
and
Paris, Languedoc, Tuscany, Victorian women and lots of new
Rough and Lonely Planet guides in
Travel
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any of
these new titles. A colour leaflet is available at the shop.
Highlighted:
There has been a lot of local interest in
Martin Sussman's Program for Better Vision book
(£15.99). We are expecting shortly his Read Without Glasses
Method video, price £19.99. Watch this space! We're also
stocking Martin Sussman's Total Health at the Computer: how to be
painfree and relieve the symptoms of computer stress syndrome.
(£11.99)
For those of you who keep an eye on our
Naxos CDs, there are recordings of Elgar’s The
Wand of Youth and Nursery Suite, a collection of
Romantic Flute Concertos and a recording by the Halle of
Elgar’s Cello Concerto due in during this
month.
We are also kept busy ordering music
examination pieces - we try to send a weekly order to our supplier for music so
most music orders are available within a week.
Now is the time also for GCSE and A-level
exam aids - most subjects are available and can often be supplied next
day.
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.
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What you've been buying:
FEBRUARY BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Six repeats from last month,
including two books of local interest. New to The Book Case’s bestsellers
are two children’s books, a mighty new version of the eccentric Spanish
knight’s adventures and advice on how to survive in the
wild.
. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
(£6.99) Bestselling novel set on a
ship full of refugees sailing from Ireland to New York in the bitter winter of
1947. A Richard & Judy choice.
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night Time - Mark Haddon (£9.99) Whitbread Book of the Year. Unusual murder mystery in which the murder
of a neighbour's dog sets a 15-year-old autistic boy onto a terrifying trail of
discovery. Funny, moving and convincing.
3. Old Stones of Elmet - Paul
Bennett (£13.95) Still selling
briskly, this guide to the ritual stone sites in an old Yorkshire kingdom -
including those around Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Luddenden, Hebden Bridge,
Blackshawhead and the Halifax area.
4. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne
Truss (£9.99) All you need to know
about apostrophes, commas, semi-colons and even ellipses.
5. Milltown: an Unreliable History -
John Morrison (£5.95) Are the
hippies who replaced the weavers now an endangered species
themselves?
6. Warlock of Firetop
Mountain - Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone (£4.99)
First in this Fighting
Fantasy series for young readers. Do you dare to seek the Warlock’s
treasure?
7. Outdoor Survival Handbook - Ray
Mears (£12.99) How to construct a
warm waterproof natural shelter, skin a small mammal, eat cat’s-tail ...
What, in the weather we’ve been having?
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
(£20.00) Edith Grossman’s
definitive English translation of the Spanish classic and first modern novel. A
whopper at 940 pages.
9. Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
(£6.99) When the author broke his leg
and was left dangling on a rope in the Peruvian Andes, the only option was for
his partner to cut the rope. The amazing story of how he survived. Film’s
due at HB Picture House.
10. Midnight - Jacqueline Wilson
(£9.99) Violet has always been
dominated by her elder brother, but when things go wrong she retreats into
fantasy - until she makes a new friend ...
Best wishes from your local bookshop,
“There are 2.5m pulped Mills and Boon
books in the new M6. The paper's absorbency helps keep tarmac in
place.”
- BBC, 18th November 2003, quoted
in Prospect, February 2004.
STOP PRESS 2 (FEBRUARY)
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
We are looking forward to our farewell party for Valerie on Sunday 29th
February - there will be drinks and refreshments at The Book Case, 12.30-2.30 -
if you would like to join us to say a big thank you to Valerie we would be very
pleased to see you.
And another Stop Press: we've just heard that Mary Turner, whose family
lives in Hebden Bridge, is talking about her book The Women's Century 1900-2000
on Radio Leeds on Monday 23rd February at 10.40am. Sorry to bombard you this
month - we'll try not make a habit of it.
Best wishes from your local bookshop
STOP PRESS 1 (FEBRUARY)
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
To celebrate its 21st birthday, Halifax
Central Library is hosting a series of author appearances. Next week, don't
miss:
Val McDermid - Wed. 25th February,
7.30pm, Halifax Central Library
Val McDermid's A Place of
Execution scooped awards and recognition across the world for its
impeccable plotting and palpable atmosphere. Her most recent publication
A Distant Echo has proved as gripping. Come along and hear how the
creator of popular investigator Kate Brannigan finds her inspiration. Val
will be reading from her work and talking with Calderdale's new
Reader-in-Residence, Craig Bradley
John Siddique, Juliet Barker and
Glyn Hughes - Thursday 26th Feb 7.30pm, Halifax Central
Library .
These three acclaimed local authors will
be talking about being writers based in Calderdale and how this feeds their
individual genres of poetry, biography and novels.
Simon Armitage - Thursday 4th
March, 7.30pm - Halifax Central library
Simon Armitage's first
novel, Little Green Man, proved that one of the country's finest
poets is also one of its most exciting fiction writers. Now, as
Little Green Man comes to the big screen as a major film, he has
published his second novel, The White Stuff, tackling adoption and
assisted conception. He will be reading from it and talking about it with
Calderdale's new poet in residence, Sarah Hymas.
Tickets for the events are all on sale
at Halifax Central Library or through the Duty Manager on 01422 392629 at
ridiculously low prices: £2.50 or £2 (concs also available). Books
on sale at the events and at The Book Case.
ALSO
Reduced Shakespeare Company - "All
the Great Books (abridged)"
Monday 23rd February, 7.30pm -
Victoria Theatre Halifax
The fast and clever comedy troupe
does its worst with a ninety-eight minute roller-coaster ride through its
compact compendium of the World's Great Books.
Phone 01422 351158 for tickets (£14,
£12, £9.50)
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FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
What with skiddy pavements and new computer system, we've had a rather
distracting month. However, we've welcomed onto the staff new recruit
Paul Hill. He graduated in Literature and Creative Writing at
Manchester University, and his particular interests are fantasy fiction and
American thrillers. He's working Thursdays, Saturdays and Mondays (and a lot of
other days while the new system beds in!).
The new computer system is up and functioning. Disregard any wailing
and gnashing of teeth you may overhear: it does work! (Though we aren't as
quick as we were on the old system yet ...)
COME TO
VALERIE’S PARTY!
SUNDAY 29TH
FEBRUARY 12.30-2.30
To say a big thank you to Valerie for all she has done
for The Book Case over 17 years (she started work at The Book Case in July
1986) we are throwing a leaving party in the shop on Sunday 29th February
12.30-2.30pm with drinks and refreshments. We hope many of you who remember her
devotion to The Book Case and the friendly and professional service she gave
our customers will join staff and friends for this very special occasion - all
are welcome.
We traditionally hold a clearance sale during February
but because of the distractions we have with introducing a new stock control
and order system, this year the sale will take place during March (probably
March 8th- 27th).
And while I am on the subject of the new order system -
we are now much more tuned into using the internet for locating special titles
and we can now generally advise you of the availability of a title and give you
much clearer information about delivery, price etc... We do have the advantage
over larger bookshops and internet shops who use warehousing when it comes to
obtaining unusual titles quickly because we can deal directly with publishers -
I am not entirely sure I can give you a guarantee about our efficiency during
the coming few weeks while we learn the new system, but I hope you will bear
with us as I feel in the long run it will enable us to give you a much better
service. - Peter
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NEWS
Local
Interest
Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society 2004
(£12.00)
Including the opening of Halifax Town Hall by the
Prince of Wales in 1863, the Patchetts of Midgley, the diary of Halifax
piano-maker Henry William Pohlmann, and Mons Mill, Todmorden.
Local
Authors
Todmorden author John Connor's first novel,
Phoenix (Orion, £9.99) tells the story of West
Yorkshire Detective Constable Karen Sharpe's investigation into the killing of
a policeman and police informer on moorland above Halifax. John Connor is a
Crown Prosecution barrister who has worked in Halifax, Bradford, Leeds and
London.
Professor Michael Smith has published a book on "the
Enigma of the Public House" entitled Sex, Gender and Power
(£7.95). The book examines the place of the pub in society and the
different meaning it has for men and women.
Hebden Bridge poet John Siddique was one of the
people invited to Downing Street to celebrate five years of the reformed Youth
Justice System on 28th January.
Her Husband: Hughes & Plath - a Marriage - Diane Wood
Middlebrook (£20.75)
"A new approach,looking at Hughes's poetic
capabilities, ambitious literary career and its inflection by the reputation of
his dead wife, drawing on interviews and his unpublished letters and
papers."
And the new film Sylvia starring Gwyneth
Paltrow with Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes has just been released. Early reviews
are positive - "respectful and modest" says Channel 4; "a gripping, emotionally
draining, terribly moving portrait of a husband and wife tearing each other to
pieces" says Tony Earnshaw in the Yorkshire Post. He has high praise
for the two leading actors. The main drawback is that copyright problems meant
that the most important aspect of the two poets, their work, did not feature.
No problem, just pop along to The Book Case beforehand!
Whitbread Book
of the Year
was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon -a quirky piece of fiction, appealing to both
children and adults, narrated by an autistic boy. Christopher offers an insight
into his world in which he can be shocked into violence by certain colours and
noises, where people's faces and reactions make no sense to him and where every
day he must try to unravel and understand the confusing messages his brain is
giving him. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
Richard and
Judy
Richard and Judy's Book Club (Channel 4, Thursday
teatime) is having a phenomenal effect on book sales: a long-list of
approximately 150 books has been whittled down to a shortlist of 10 for the
Best Read of the Year prize at the forthcoming British Book
Awards. One book is being highlighted each week as follows, and sales of the
first two, Toast and Star of the Sea, have rocketed!
- January 14th - Toast by
Nigel Slater
- January 21st - Star of
the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
- January 28th - Lucia,
Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
- February 4th - Brick
Lane by Monica Ali
- February 11th - Starter
For Ten by David Nicholls
- February 25th - The
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- March 3rd - White
Mughals by William Dalrymple
- March 10th - The Know
by Martina Cole
- March 17th - Notes on a
Scandal by Zoe Heller
- March 24th - Bookseller
of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
More info and the chance
to vote at:
NEW
TITLES
February's a busy month in fiction with new
hardbacks from Simon Armitage, Thomas Keneally
and Joanna Trollope amongst others, plus in
paperback, DBC Pierre, Sarah Dunant, P D James, lots of
foreign novels, and reissues of Dorothy Sayers'
detective novels.
Non-fiction
includes
-
Biographies
of Richard Eyre and Douglas Adams among
others
-
English (Bryson), Montsegur and
NativeAmericans in History
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Saleable junk, knots,
plumbing and wiring in
Household
-
Ladies
of Letters and demented middle-aged women in
Humour
-
Home
health reference, Raphael's Ephemeris, Barefoot Doctor and
Zukav among others in MBS
-
the London Symphony
Orchestra in
Music
-
Weather forecasting and native
treesin Outdoor
Activities
-
Dylan
Thomas and 52 ways of looking at apoem in
Poetry
-
Hugo
Young in Politics
-
Fundamentalism, goodness and
culture in Society
-
and
Jenny Diski plus Amsterdam and Baltic States
guides in Travel
E-mail, phone or fax us to reserve any of
these new titles.
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.
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What you've been buying: JANUARY BESTSELLERS at The Book
Case
Punctuation, Philip Pullman and two local books continue popular
at The Book Case; two excellent novels have been boosted by literary acclaim;
and the history of English, a cliff-hanger (literally) and the works of a
visionary poet make up the remainder.
1. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
(£9.99)
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.
2. Old Stones of Elmet
- Paul Bennett (£13.95)
Guide to the ritual stone sites in
an old Yorkshire kingdom - including those around Todmorden, Mytholmroyd,
Luddenden, Hebden Bridge, Blackshawhead and the Halifax area.
3. The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon (£9.99)
Autistic
Christopher can understand science but has major problems with emotions. He's a
Sherlock Holmes fan and when he finds his neighbour's dog dead with a fork
sticking out of its side he decides to investigate
4. Milltown: an Unreliable History - John Morrison
(£5.95)
Latest in the Milltown series, chronicling the strange
progress of a small gritstone town in the South Pennines.
5. Songs of Innocence & Experience - William Blake
(£8.99)
This Oxford edition with its colour reproductions of
Blake's original illustrations has been selling well.
6. Adventure of English
500 AD-2000 - Melvyn Bragg (£20)
From its beginnings as a
guttural German dialect to its position today as a global language.
7. Touching the Void -
Joe Simpson (£6.99)
Extraordinary story of survival
against the odds, now a film.
8. Amber Spyglass -
Philip Pullman (£7.99)
Third in the award-winning "His
Dark Materials" trilogy which is selling to all ages - this is the adult
edition.
9. Star of the Sea -
Joseph O'Connor
Boosted by Richard and Judy,
this novel is set on a ship full of refugees sailing from Ireland to New York
in the bitter winter of 1947.
10. Tears of the Giraffe -
Alexander McCall Smith (£6.99)
More about Precious Ramotswe,
Botswana’s finest female detective. The first book in the series is to be
televised, it says here.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
“Maybe what we’re going to have is
an elite who do read. That’s better than nothing. But then it’s
evident that those who don’t read are handicapped, they’re going to
notice that themselves.”
- Doris Lessing in interview with
Amanda Craig, Times, 23 November 2003
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
Belated good wishes for a Happy New Year
and we hope you enjoyed your festive break. The Book Case had a humdinger of a
Christmas as you may have gathered from the queues at the counter and delay in
answering the phone! Despite occasional computer problems and rather frequent
credit-card-machine freezes, lots of hard work by the staff and most of the
Tillotson family kept us all afloat. Many thanks to you all for being such
literary people and for making such good use of us.
We sadly say goodbye this week to
Pauline Stephenson whose psychotherapy/reflexology practice in
Halifax has now taken off (phone no. [01422] 365995). We hope she will continue
to work for the shop on an occasional basis. Thanks for all your help and hard
work, Pauline!
The Book Case is expecting to install a
more efficient computer system in January, and we'll be closed
Wednesday 21st January while we all learn how to use it. Apologies for
the inconvenience, and let's hope it improves things all round!
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NEWS
Local
Interest (and cause of some excitement)
Supplementing his The Lancashire
Pace-Egg Play, it covers the history of the play in the Calder Valley and
its revival, notably by the Midgley School in the 1930s and in the 1950s,
Calder High School. The Midgley pace-egg play, which has traceable, personal
links into the nineteenth century, is discussed at length. The book also
considers the revival of the play at Heptonstall. Texts of both plays are
included.
There will be an
illustrated talk by Dr Eddie Cass to launch the book on
Wednesday, 17th March
2004 at 7.30pm
at Hebden Bridge Methodist Church, Bridge Lanes
(next to Co-op on Market Street).
The event is supported by the Folklore
Society, Frank Woolrych and Hebden Bridge Local History Society and The Book
Case. The book will be on sale at the event. No entrance charge.
Go to http://www.bookcase.co.uk/thebookcase.htm - Local titles or http://www.yorkshire-folk-arts.com/info/archive/pace-egg.html for more information.
Video: A Walk on T'Long Cut : a journey on the
Leeds-Liverpool Canal from Leeds to West Marton - Ray Riches and P J Thornton;
VHS, £12.99
Focuses on the
Aire Valley section of the longet man-made waterway in Britain. Includes the
Bingley Five Rise Locks, Skipton, East Riddleston Hall, Kirkstall Abbey and
Salts Mill, plus interviews.
National Book
Events
Big Read
You may well have noticed that as
predicted back in May, Lord of the Rings was voted the nation's
favourite fictional book. Or possibly film.
Whitbread Category Winners - announced on 7th
January as follows:
NOVEL - The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-time by Mark Haddon (£9.99) : autistic Christopher
can understand science but has major problems with emotions. He's a
Sherlock Holmes fan and when he finds his neighbour's dog dead with a fork
sticking out of its side he decides to investigate. Also Guardian
shortlisted.
FIRST NOVEL - Vernon God Little by DBC
Pierre (£11.99) - quirky and satirical novel about an American teenager
whose life is changed when the town comes under media siege following a
high-school massacre. Booker winner. (" ... not just bad; it is so awful that
its victory suggests there is something deeply wrong with British literary
culture" says Michael Lind reviewing it in November's
Prospect.)
BIOGRAPHY - Orwell: The Life by D J Taylor
(£20) - critically acclaimed biography of this complex author to mark the
centenary of his birth.
POETRY - Landing Light by Don Paterson
(£12.99): "explores the swings of light and dark that mark our most
troubling feelings"
CHILDREN'S - The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
(£9.99): the story of 11-year-old Bobby Burns who has just started
grammar school at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Also Guardian
shortlisted.
Whitbread Book of theYear to be announced Tuesday 27 January
2004
Blue Peter Award Winners
2003
"The Book I couldn't Put
Down" & Overall
Winner
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (£5.99) - highly praised
debut novel about a world where entire cities are on the move, consuming and
attacking each other.
"Best Illustrated Book To Read
Aloud"
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson (£5.99) -
well-known to Book Case customers and featured in World Book Day.
"The Best Book With Facts In It"
Pirate Diary by Richard Platt, illustrated by
Chris Riddell (£3.99). What they really got up
to!
NEW
TITLES
The new year sees new fictional hardbacks
from Rob Grant and Ursula Le Guin, and
paperbacks from Anita Shreve, Joanne Harris, Penelope Lively
and Shena Mackay amongst others.
Amongst non-fiction,
January will see:
- George Harrison, Italo Calvino,
Hannah Cullwick and an Orange survivor in
Biography
- Jamie Oliver in
Cookery
- 1603 in Britain, the Jews in
Germany and Ireland in History
- Astrology, hymns, fortune-telling
cards, the Barefoot Doctor and St
Francis in MBS
- Mike Rosen and R S Thomas
in Poetry
- Bush and how the
US sees the rest of the world in Politics
- Deep Simplicity in
Science
- and Duende, Peru, a remote French
hilltop village, Reindeer and more in
Travel
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.
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What
you've been buying: DECEMBER BESTSELLERS at
The Book Case
Two seasonal
titles, four local interest, a ground-breaking Big Read, a Botswanaian lady
detective and a political tour de force were all popular with Book Case
customers – who very properly kept the top place for correct punctuation.
And congratulations to John Morrison for getting into the year’s Top 10
with a book that only appeared in December!
1.
Eats Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
(£9.99)
The Zero Tolerance
Approach to Punctuation.
2. Milltown: an
Unreliable History - John Morrison
(£5.95)
Latest in the Milltown series, chronicling the strange
progress of a small gritstone town in the South
Pennines.
3. We’Moon Diary
2004 (£14.99)
Gaia Rhythms for Womyn
(Power).
4. Northern Lights -
Philip Pullman (£6.99)
Powerful fantasy retelling Paradise
Lost for the 21st century – the only book in the Big Read’s Top 5
to have got there without a film or TV version to help
it.
5. Milltown Memories 6
(£2.80)
Articles on
Cragg Vale, Market Street and Old Gate in Hebden Bridge, and Wilson’s
Bobbin Mill in Cornholme.
6. Children’s
Christmas Songbook
(£5.95)
Colourful
book with all the favourites.
7. Old
Stones of Elmet - Paul Bennett (£13.95)
Guide to the ritual stone
sites in an old Yorkshire kingdom - including those around Todmorden,
Mytholmroyd, Luddenden, Hebden Bridge, Blackshawhead and the Halifax
area.
8. No 1 Ladies’
Detective agency - Alexander
McCall Smith (£6.99):
Ebullient Precious Ramotswe
owns Botswana’s only detective agency. And if that’s not enough for
you, “The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and
precision.”
9.
Dude, Where’s My Country - Michael Moore (£17.99)
Still only in hardback, but that didn’t put you off wanting more
Stupid White Men. How Americans can fight back against their unprincipled
rulers.
10. Weather or Not!
- Paul Hudson & Bob Rust (£9.99)
Highs
& lows of Yorkshire weather with dramatic pictures of storm, flood, drought
and snow.
BESTSELLERS OF 2003:
1. Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J K Rowling; 2. Duck’s
Day Out – Jez Alborough; 3. We’moon Diary 4. Summer Book – Tove
Jansson; 5. Northern Lights – Philip Pullman; 6. Eats Shoots
and Leaves – Lynn Truss; 7. Stupid White Men – Michael
Moore; 8. Seen on the Packhorse Tracks – Titus Thornber; 9.
South Pennines Explorer Map; 10. Milltown, an unreliable
history.
Best wishes from your local
bookshop,
The Book Case
29 Market Street, Hebden Bridge HX7
6EU
Telephone 01422-845353
Fax 01422-844295
email:
bookcase@btinternet.com
url: www.bookcase.co.uk
"... the Booker jury (have) democratised
literature by proving that a book doesn't have to be any good to win a prize,
so long as it exploits socially acceptable national and ethnic
stereotypes."
- Michael Lind, "Texas for cretins",
Prospect, Dec. 2003