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MARCH 2008 |
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Peter Thomas’s history of Hebden Bridge and area is back at number one at The Book Case, with three other
books of immediate local interest, and three more Yorkshire or Northern ones. A novel, a sheep identification book and a couple plus their whippet on a narrow boat in the south-eastern USA make up the diverse remainder.
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1. Hebden Bridge: a short history of the area - Peter Thomas, £5.99
Back at the top, this illustrated history of the town and area, showing how we have changed over the centuries. A Royd
Press publication by a well-known local author.
2. Milltown Memories: the Upper Calder Valley Captured on Camera, £2.50-£2.80
We’re now selling back issues of this well-illustrated quarterly journal featuring aspects of local history and old
photographs, and they’re going well!
3. The Backbone of England: Landscape and Life on the Pennine Watershed - Andrew Bibby and John Morrison, £12.00 at The Book Case
Lovely illustrated hardback by local author and journalist Andrew Bibby who walks the route of the Pennine Watershed
exploring its history, ecology, geography and culture, with photos by ex-HB photographer and author John Morrison.
4. Power in the Landscape: water-powered mills in the Upper Calder Valley, £5.00
Now permanently in our bestseller list, this well-researched and illustrated history of watermills in the area.
5. Engleby - Sebastian Faulks, £7.99
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think and is devoid of scruple or self-pity. Yet beneath the
disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. Daily Mail Book of the
Month.
6. Know Your Sheep - Jack Byard, £4.99
Colour photographs of and notes on the 41 breeds of sheep most likely to be found on British farms. There can’t
be an unlogged sheep in the district by now. Tractors following soon!
7. Fabrics, Filth and Fairy Tents - Angus Bethune Reach, ed. Chris Aspin, £6.95
Our first publication still selling well, reporting on the textile workers of West Yorkshire in 1849, with lots of graphic
detail and interviews. Royd Press.
8. Gold Pieces - Phyllis Bentley, £5.95
The exciting 1968 locally-based children’s classic about the Cragg Vale Coiners. The second in our Tales from the Tops
series, “Ned Carver in Danger”, about the a boy who joins the Halifax Luddites for the 1812 assault on a mill, is just out. Royd Press.
9. Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie, £6.99
Entertaining love letter to the North, finding out where the cliches end and the truth begins. Hebden Bridge gets a
mention!
10. Narrow Dog to Indian River - Terry Darlington (£12.99 at The Book Case)
The couple who took their whippet to Carcassonne by narrow boat are now in the south-east of the USA, navigating their
English narrowboat from Carolina to Florida.
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