CALDER VALLEY
John
Morrison’s Milltown Trilogy: View from the Bridge, Back to the Bridge
and A Bridge Too Far (£5.95 each): famous for being
blacklisted by the Hebden Bridge Times, this trilogy casts a cynical eye
over many Hebden Bridge institutions, characters and generic types of settler.
It promptly went to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there for ages.
Our neighbours eastwards along the
valley were next in line for the treatment with Women are from Venus ...
Men are from Mytholmroyd, and then it was the turn of the
semi-Lancastrian town 4 miles to the west with The Todmorden Book of the
Dead. Both £5.95
Milltown: an Unreliable History
(£5.95) - the story of a small characterful community in the South
Pennines. Can a small gritstone town have too many juice-bars?
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Berringden Brow: Memoirs of a Single Parent with a Crush by
Jill Robinson, £6.95
In Berringden Brow, in the chilly, hilly
South Pennines, the struggling but still optimistic middle-aged women (good
degrees, poor employment prospects) are coping with bizarre job interviews,
stroppy teenage kids, ageism, sexism, lookism, sizeism - and scanning the
personal columns!
Sons and Lodgers - Jill Robinson,
£6.95.
More comic relief from the author of Berringden Brow.
All Jess wants is a quiet life. All her friends want is somewhere to stay
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A Place Like This - Jill Robinson, £6.95
Heroine Jess is helping to run a neighbourhood advice centre, where the
clients include asylum-seekers, a trafficked young woman, a heart-broken
husband, and a man with evil spirits in his house. Jess tries valiantly to help
everyone, while contending with the erratic life-style of her son, who has
embraced freevarianism and plastered Hebden Bridge with graffiti.
YORKSHIRE HUMOUR
Start with a
dictionary: Yorkshire-English English-Yorkshire compiled by
Edward Johnson (1.99)
Ee Up Lad! A Salute to the Yorkshire Dialect -
Len Markham, ill. Richard Scollins (£5.95)
A feast of linguistic
fun including a Yorkshire view of nursery rhymes and well-known scenes from
English history, superbly illustrated by Richard Schollins, plus
dictionary.
Owt, Nowt & Summat: a toast to all
Tykes – Len Markham (£6.99)
A further romp
through the lush gardens of Yorkshire dialect and character.
Austin Mitchell’s Talkin’ Yorksher (£4.99) is a
tongue-in-cheek compendium on how to survive in God’s Own County, and
especially on mastering its language.
Austin Mitchell's Grand Book of Yorkshire Humour (£7.99)
Hundreds of "guaranteed fully organic" Yorkshire jokes and sayings from the
Sowerby-based popular politician.
The Book of Funny Signs - Eleanor
Morton
Collected by The Dalesman. A Christmas bestseller. (£4.99)
The Little Book of Yorkshire Proverbs - Peter Lindup
(£2.50)
The Dalesman’s popular little £4.95 books
include The Great Yorkshire Joke Book by W. R. Mitchell,
Favourite Yorkshire Humour, Yorkshire Wit and Wisdom from Old Amos,
Yorkshire’s Yammer and Tales from the Dalesman. (If
still available.)
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