Dear Book Case customer or contact,
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.
Cornerstones of Calderdale -
Glyn Lee, £4.00
Potted histories of all the major settlements of
the Calder Valley, from Halifax to Walsden, with
photographs.
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.
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.
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
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
Alice's Album
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
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.
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
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)
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
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,
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.
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.
Local Authors
National Book Events
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.
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.
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
Dear Book Case customer or contact,
"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.
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.
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.
National Book
Events
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.
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
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
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Street
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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.
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