| OCTOBER 2006 BESTSELLERS |
Northern suffragettes were still flavour of the month at The Book Case in October; there were three high-selling novels, two children’s books and two diaries in the top ten, and the remaining two good sellers were Richard Dawkins’ denunciation of religion and Joan Didion’s account of one terrible year in her life. |
1. Rebel Girls - Jill Liddington (£14.99) Calder Valley customers can’t get enough of this story of the young campaigners who took their fight for the vote for women across the north of England - from local author and historian Jill Liddington.
2. Wrong Boy - Willy Russell (£7.99) A touching and hilarious novel the story of "the ‘strange’ kid at school, the one who wore white socks and a parka and smelled faintly of TCP", from the well-known playwright who did a benefit performance at Hebden Bridge Trades Club in early October. We have a few signed copies at The Book Case.
3. The End - Lemony Snicket (£6.99) The Series of Unfortunate Events reaches its conclusion with this, No. 13. We recommend you don’t read it!
4. We’Moon Diary 2007 (£15.99) This
year’s edition of the popular illustrated Gaia Rhythms for Women yearbook
is on the theme "On Purpose".
5. Wild Nature Yearbook 2007
(£12.95) From the John Muir Trust, a spiral-bound diary full of
wonderful nature photos from Scotland.
6. The Sea - John Banville (£18.99) When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. A local reading group choice and 2005 Booker Prize winner.
7. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins (£20.00) A fierce denunciation of religion, its faulty logic and the suffering it causes, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favoured by some Enlightenment thinkers.
8. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
(£7.99) Joan Didion's daughter was hospitalised with septic shock and put
into a medically-induced coma. Shortly afterward, her husband of forty years
died from a heart attack. Daily Mail October Book of the
Month.
9. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina
Lewycka (£7.99) Back again, an old favourite - an entertaining
novel about two Ukrainian sisters, their father and his new wife in
Peterborough.
10. Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean (£6.99) This is the official sequel to Peter Pan commissioned by Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. The boys are now old buffers, Neverland is leaking and Peter has been bored ...
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