 The Book Case cotton bags are on holiday all over the world: to see them - click here.
The bags are now back in stock and free to anyone who spends £10 or more - and we'd love to see your pictures of where it gets to!
Dear Book Case customer or friend,
Simon Armitage's stop-off at the Ted Hughes Theatre at Calder High on his trek southwards along the Pennine Way was a big success - well done to the organisers! The poet read mainly from his recent book "Seeing Stars" and his "Selected Poems", with a hilarious concluding riff on Luddenden Foot (from "Gig").The event was hosted by the Elmet Trust based in Mytholmroyd. Look out for the book he's going to write about his journey.
Another success is the Book Case Big Cotton Bag, being given away to anyone who spends £10 or more at The Book Case. Thanks to Claire, Meg, Kate and the Binns family for their nice photos of the bag on holiday with them! And we'd like even more photos of it in interesting and unusual places! There's a slideshow in the shop of it on locations from Mytholmroyd to Utah and another online via our webpage. We're still working out how to put captions on. The slideshows will be updated whenever we get new pictures.
This month we're on Bookhugger online literary mag as Independent Bookshop of the Month - and see their main page for lots of lively info on books, authors and events.
Throughout August we will continue to open Tuesday afternoons, 2.00-5.30pm, and Sunday afternoons: 2.00-4.30pm
We're now selling the new Student Book Token Card - which ensures that parents' money is ring-fenced for books. It comes as two connected gift cards: parents keep the Top Up Card and add value whenever required at their local bookshop; students use the Book Card to buy books at their campus bookstore. [Each half of the card can be topped up and/or redeemed as well.]
The new Permaculture magazine is in and comes with a copy of the "Book of Green - Eco Living Directory 2010/11".
Calendars and diaries are starting come in - we have a range of Yorkshire ones including the Hebden Bridge calendar, Wainwright, canals, We'moon, Redstone, Earth Pathways and we'll be having many more.
A reminder that you can find a mobile-friendly version of all the current news at The Book Case on our Words site.
Woven in the Fabric by Anna Carlisle, Sat 14 August - Halifax Festival & Square Peg Productions. An exciting new promenade play which examines the lives of Martha Crossley of Dean Clough, Halifax and Lavena Saltonstall of Hebden Bridge and Halifax Suffragette. During the performance the audience will be invited to assist in the making of a rag rug. The performance will start at Square Chapel and make its way to Halifax Minster, so please dress with the weather in mind!
 We have Jill Liddington's book Rebel Girls - which follows Lavena Saltonstall's career, amongst others - in stock at The Book Case.
Anna Chilvers - So you want to write a novel? Sun 15th August, 10.00am, Square Chapel Centre for the Arts. Many people dream of writing their own novel, maybe you have an idea of what it will be about, or maybe you don’t. How do you begin? Local author Anna Chilvers’ first novel Falling Through Clouds was published this year by Bluemoose Books. Come along for inspiration and encouragement as Anna shares the secrets of her success; don’t forget your pen! More info here.
Anna Chilvers - Falling through Clouds: Sun 15th August, 1.00pm, Square Chapel Centre for the Arts: A modern twist on a medieval classic, Falling Through Clouds is local author Anna Chilvers’ first novel, published this year.. Based on the story of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, the book follows Gavin, a journalist returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress syndrome. Join Anna to hear extracts from the book, learn what inspired her and where the ideas came from. More info here
Tickets for both from the Festival Box Office on 01422 349422
 19 August, 7-9pm: An Evening with Helena Whitbread at Halifax Town Hall. £7.50, including cheese, biscuits and wine. This is to raise funds for glaucoma laser, and neither Helena Whitbread (editor of Anne Lister's diaries) nor the Town Hall are taking a fee. Tickets are nearly sold out! More info from Vera at 01422 378071.
Just in, a new pocket-sized walking guide, Walks around Calderdale by Dorian Speakman (£2.99). From Dalesman, it gives details of ten local walks, ranging from Ogden Water and Mirfield to Walsden, and including Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Mytholmroyd, Cragg Vale and Todmorden areas.
Hebden Bridge 1510 - the 500-year-old bridge: a fold-out poster with a late-19th-century photo on one side and notes about the history of the bridge and of Old Gate on the other. £1.00.
Hebden Bridge Calendar, 2011 - Vanessa Kay (£4.99)
Local photographer Vanessa Kay has taken over the Hebden Bridge Calendar from Geoff Boswell - the same format with lots of nice colour pictures and room to write your appointments - but the pictures and some info are shown on the back cover. Comes with envelope.
Mountain Bike Guide - South Pennines of West Yorkshire and Lancashire - Stephen Hall (£16.50)
Introduces you to the wilderness and urban trail networks of Kirklees & Calderdale, Airedale & Wharfedale and Lancashire. Contains 26 well-researched and legal routes, most with short, medium and long modular options. Colour photos, Ordnance Survey mapping, gradient profiles, clear route descriptions and informative text. The front cover shows a cyclist on an uphill track near Stoodley Pike and local routes include Crimsworth Dean, Widdop, and Luddenden, Oxenhope and Ogden.
Yorkshire in Watercolour - Les Packham, £14.99 paperback, £19.99 hardback
From the Pennines to the coast, over the North Yorkshire Moors and through the Wolds to the industrial south of the region, this book encompasses everything to please lovers of this remarkable county, portraying the Yorkshire landscape through the eyes of one of the county’s most versatile and best known watercolourists.
Halifax - John A Hargreaves
Dr Hargreaves' definitive hardback illustrated book on the town is now £10.00.
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Adult fiction: The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke (£7.99). Soon after moving to a secluded Norfolk village, Alex Darken has a disturbing encounter with an ageing poet and his young lover, who are obsessively searching for the lost secret of the hermetic mysteries, in the hope of finding an alternative to the destructive materialism of the post-industrial world. 1989 Whitbread winner.
Adult non-fiction: I Never Knew There Was a Word for it by Adam Jacot de Boinod (£12.99). The languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. Albanian has 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows and "tingo" from the Easter Islands of course means to borrow things from a neighbour’s house one by one until there are none left. Bind-up of "The Wonder of Whiffling", "The Meaning of Tingo" and "Toujours Tingo".
Children's book: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex - Eoin Colfer (£12.99). Artemis Fowl's criminal ways have finally got the better of him ...Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely - he seems different.Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesn't know what to do. Ages 8 -12+yrs
 Recent local literary events strongly flavour The Book Case’s July bestsellers, with Hebden Bridge Festival and Simon Armitage’s visit competing for the top places. Two local interest books get a look in, as does an exploration of the history of an acre of land in North Yorkshire. The Orange prizewinner made our top ten yet again.
1. Notwithstanding - Louis Bernieres (£7.99): "Stories from an English village" where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether and a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband. Louis de Bernieres appeared in Mytholmroyd during the Festival.
2. Selected Poems - Simon Armitage (£9.99) & 3. Seeing Stars - Simon Armitage (£12.99): Simon Armitage opened his reading at the Ted Hughes Theatre with the memorable "Sperm Whale" piece from this new collection described as "by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales." "Selected Poems" has a choice of poems from nine of his books up to 2001.
4. All Points North - Simon Armitage (£8.99): And this humorous prose collection is about growing up and being Northern in West Yorkshire.
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 Tyke on a Bike: Canals of Northern England and Scotland - John Priestley (£9.99) From Halifax-based author John Priestley, an account of how he abandoned his job to bike around the canals of Yorkshire, Lancashire and further afield - including our very own Rochdale Canal.
Upward Road: my early life - John Priestley (£9.99) This new book by the same author is about growing up in Halifax in the 1950s and '60s before he went on to Oxford University.
From Haworth-based author Edward Evans: II PY (£12.99) A thriller featuring a Rolls Royce - the IIPY of the title - crimes and chases from Haworth to France, with homage to one of automobile history's greatest cars. (The car is alive and well and available for hire.) The book, first published in 2008, raised £2,000 for the homeless.
Like a Fish Out of Water (£14.99) A chunky page-turning novel which ranges from a mid-20th century English public school to the violence of Nazi-occupied France - seen through the eyes of an 89-year-old widow who asks a Bradford Telegraph and Argus journalist to write her life-story. £1 from every copy sold goes to the RAF Benevolent Fund.
For the Right Reasons (£12.99) New out this year, and featuring the Conway family of Haworth first met in "IIPY". As the Berlin Wall falls, they become dragged into the murky world of espionage. £1 from every copy sold will go to the Help for Heroes charity.
Gabriel's Angel - Mark A. Radcliffe (£7.99)
From Hebden Bridge publishers Blue Moose, a novel about a grumpy web journalist who not only has sperm problems and a vanished job - he also gets run over and and wakes up to find himself in a therapy group run by Angels just beneath heaven - and that really annoys him! "The perfect antidote to the glib platitudes of emotional quick-fix culture: tender, astute and very funny" says Christopher Brookmyre
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