December 2009
A Calder Valley Christmas - DVD by Nick Wilding* (£12.99) From well-known local film-maker Nick Wilding, a classic mixture of archive film (including the snow of 1947), reminiscences, hilarious anecdotes and old traditions, on DVD. Culminates in Colden School children singing "Christmas in Hebden Bridge". Launched at Hebden Bridge Picture House, on 3rd December.
Wasted - Alastair Sinclair,* (£8.99) First of a trilogy about a world where nightmares are real, where you don't wake up, but find yourself in another reality. The author and his partner live on a boat on Mayroyd Moorings
Never Had It So Good: Burnley's Incredible 1959/60 League Title Triumph - Tim Quelch (£12.99) 2009 sees the 50th anniversary of arguably the most remarkable League Title victory of all time, when Burnley became the smallest town club ever to lift the famous old trophy. Beating off competition from the likes of Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Wolves, Harry Potts's homegrown team won the championship playing exciting, fluid football, scoring goals and entertaining fans. It seemed all very much in a day's work for the team, but this book reveals the degree to which life as a footballer has changed in the intervening half century. Never Had It So Good looks back on a bygone era and applauds Burnley's amazing triumph.
What Brass Bands Did For Me - Chris Helm* (£12.99)Chris Helm is a retired police officer living in Brighouse and has been associated with brass bands for 50 years; he edits The Conductor magazine and also writes for The British Bandsman. This new book celebrates the world of brass bands and remembers the unforgettable characters - performers, composers and arrangers - that live on through their music. It's a record of life in the mill towns as it once was and a triumphant celebration of the brass band community of today, with over 100 previously unpublished archive photographs from private collections.
Building with Straw Bales: A Practical Guide for the UK and Ireland - Barbara Jones, 2 r.e., £14.95
From the Todmorden-based straw bale pioneer, a fully revised and updated edition of this practical book. Straw bale building is a radically different approach to the process of building. To be launched at Todmorden Information Centre on 20th December.
November 2009
Letters of Ted Hughes, ed. Christopher Reid (£14.99)
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including both adults and children): a life pared down to essentials and yet eventful, peripatetic, at times publicly controversial. Now in paperback at 784 pages.
Remains: The Elmet Suite by John Reeman & the Ted Hughes Suite by Lawrence Killian, performed by the Todmorden Orchestra (CD: £8.00).
The Elmet Suite is inspired by five Ted Hughes poems ("Remains of Elmet", "Football at Slack", "In April", "The Weasels We Smoked Out of the Bank" and "There Come Days to the Hills". The Ted Hughes Suite is a descriptive piece celebrating the poet’s life: "His Youth", "Affairs of the Heart", "The Poet Laureate". Attractively presented CD commissioned by the Elmet Trust, with explanatory notes.
Happy Christmas Hammy the Wonder Hamster - Poppy Harris,* £4.99 From a Mytholmroyd-based author, the second in a charming series from Puffin about an unusually brilliant hamster.
The Inshallah Paper - Andrew Trimbee,* £15.00
A Halifax-born author who has worked on the Halifax Courier, Northern Echo, Daily Mail, Times, Daily Telegraph and East African Standard tells how he set up the first English-language newspaper in Bahrain. The pages of this extraordinary odyssey are crowded with everything from sex-mad expatriates, a ghost and a mermaid to an encounter with the veteran foreign correspondent who felled Max Schmeling. The Bahrainis themselves, gentle and generous, provide the backdrop for this revealing insight into a way of life largely gone, from the coffee ritual at the palace to crafts of yesteryear. October 20
The Shepherd Lord - George Peter Algar, £9.99
Historical novel set in Yorkshire, about Henry Clifford, the young aristocrat brought up in Skipton Castle, who was raised as a simple shepherd during the Wars of the Roses. The same story is told in Phyllis Bentley’s "Sheep May Safely Graze" for children, currently out of print.
A Useful Spelling Handbook For Adults - Catherine Taylor,* £5.99
From the Norland-based Dyslexia Coordinator at Calderdale College, a useful little book aimed at adults who struggle with spelling. She's also the author of "A Useful Dyslexia Handbook for Adults".
Precious Moments by Susie Field,* £5.95
A third book of short stories from ex-Brighouse Girls'Grammar School pupil Susie Field, who's now the vice-president of Huddersfield Authors' Circle.
The Law Family of Todmorden and the Upper Calder Valley, 16th-20th centuries by Frank T Haylett, £20
258-page A4 book tracing the Law family from the early 1500s on Langfield up to the present day, with the lives of about 2500 people associated with the Law family. There's an accompanying family tree in a separate A4 booklet (included in price).
OCTOBER 2009
The Celtic Revolution: in search of 2000 forgotten years that changed our World - Simon Young* (£14.99)
Shows how the Celtic Empire ruled the world from Spain to Egypt for two thousand years in a way that drew the blue print for today's Europe. The author grew up in Hebden Bridge so it gets a mention, as does Mankinholes.
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450 - Juliet Barker* (£20.00)
Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword. Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would put the crown of France on an English head. Only the miraculous appearance of a visionary peasant girl - Joan of Arc - would halt the English advance. Yet despite her victories, her influence was short-lived: Henry VI had his coronation in Paris six months after her death and his kingdom endured for another twenty years. When he came of age he was not the leader his father had been. It was the dauphin, whom Joan had crowned Charles VII, who would finally drive the English out of France.
Life Class - Glyn Hughes* (£12.50)
From the prize-winning local author, a 5,000 line autobiographical poem covering his beginnings as a worshipper of nature, later an organic gardener (before this was fashionable), living in cottages on the Pennines, and also some years in Greece. It covers his rural working-class roots and three marriages. The result is a magnificent poem by a major poet, one that is notable for its keen attention to the natural world and accounts and circumstances of a life lived to the full.
Shirley Craven and Hull Traders: Revolutionary Fabrics and Furniture 1957-1980 by Lesley Jackson* (£20 at The Book Case)
Shirley Craven was the most gifted textile designer of her generation, specialising in big bold abstracts, and this big colourful book celebrates her remarkable achievements at Hull Traders, the Trawden-based textile company. The accompanying exhibition will be touring the country until January 2010, and will be coming to the Bankfield Museum in Halifax. Lesley Jackson is a writer, curator and design historian based in Hebden Bridge.
Jimmy Mac, Prince of Inside Forwards - Dave Thomas (£17.95)
The story of Burnley and Northern Ireland icon Jimmy McIlroy. Profusely illustrated book telling th story of this "magic" footballer.
From Where I Was Standing : A Liverpool Supporter's View of the Heysel Stadium Tragedy - Chris Rowland (£9.99)
An eyewitness account and analysis of the Heysel Stadium disaster of May 1985 as the 25th anniversary year approaches. The author lives in Mytholmroyd/Hebden Bridge.
Deadly Focus - Bob and Carol Bridgestock* (£10.99)
From a retired Calderdale detective and his wife, an exciting first novel about the abduction of a young girl and the hunt for a serial killer, set in "Harrowfield" ("definitely Yorkshire but could be Halifax or Huddersfield") and investigating officer Jack Dylan.
A Dales High Way companion - Tony and Chris Grogan (£9.99)
A 90 mile walk across the glorious high country of the Yorkshire Dales, from Saltaire to Appleby - explore its rich history, geology, wildlife and culture, and return with a breathtaking train ride along England's most beautiful railway. Lots of colour photographs.
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.
Owt, Nowt & Summat: a toast to all Tykes – Len Markham (£6.99)
Following Ee Up Lad!, a further romp through the lush gardens of Yorkshire dialect and character.
Almost a Lifetime - Vikki Egerton* (£9.99)
Vikki Egerton is based in Luddenden, and this is her autobiography, covering her Royal Artillery service in the war, and her work as a librarian, teacher and author. She is now in her 90s.
Landscape Photographer of the Year, Collection 03 (£25.00)
A big beautiful book of colour photos, including Nigel Hillier's stunning view of Hebden Bridge in winter, which was one of the winners.
This new anthology explores all aspects of ageing, from losing parents to confronting the inevitability of our own deaths. Here are poets facing up to life, with a recognition of its transience, absurdities, triumphs and disasters, in the spirit of taking it on the chin. Keighley-based editor, whose previous work includes "A Twist of Malice" and "Exit Moonshine".
September 2009
Timmy the Tug - Ted Hughes* & Jim Downer (£12.95)
A children's poem lost for over fifty years. Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer's story about Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy's escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas.
Summat A'Nowt - Steve Murty * (£9.95)
In this fascinating and personal insight, Steve Murty looks at the history of the Calder Valley and the surrounding area over the centuries covering, amongst many other topics, hand-loom weaving, child labour and domestic fashions. Born and brought up in the Township of Stubb, Mytholmroyd, he focuses on the development of this ancient hamlet, its people and properties, within the context of the events that took place around the valleys.
Gone Walkabout- Anna Carlisle, new ed. (£6.95)
The bestselling book of local walks now out in a substantially rewritten and updated edition, with new maps!
Darwin in Ilkley - Mike Dixon; Gregory Radick (£12.99)
In 1859 Charles Darwin “took the water cure” in Ilkley and wrote to his friend T. H. Huxley 'I am here hydropathising and coming to life again after having finished my accursed book'. Over the next weeks, in between fresh-air walks, cold-water baths, andtime with his family, he began to prepare for the publication of "On the Origin of Species".
John Kettley's Extreme Weather (£17.00)
Todmorden-born weatherman John Kettley looks back on many varieties of extreme weather ranging from the atrocious winter of 1963 through to massive floods and scorching summers. His personal involvement with the 1987 hurricane fiasco featuresextensively.
Building with Straw Bales: A Practical Guide for the UK and Ireland - Barbara Jones, 2r.e. (£12.95)
From the Todmorden-based straw bale pioneer, a fully revised and updated edition of this practical book. Straw bale building is a radically different approach to the process of building.
Albert, the Lion and the Monkey by Chris Aspin (£4.99)
In Chris Aspin's latest book of quirky verse and prose, Albert finally gets the better of the lion, Simple Simon dispenses wisdom, and other strange happenings abound! Published by Royd Press at The Book Case.
Sing Shenandoah for Me - John Sugden (£9.95)
The author, a prize-winning poet, was originally from Huddersfield and this nicely produced novel is set in 1960s West Yorkshire. As long as his patients don't trouble him Jack has a secure future as a psychiatric nurse. When his reputation as a ladies' man brings him and Linda together, how much better could life get?
Angel Try - Alice Bell (£9.99)
From a Mytholmroyd author, a novel that's part family history saga, part ghost story, telling the tale of a West Yorkshire clan pulling itself up by its bootstraps. Set in the Calder and Aire Valleys and beginning before the Industrial Revolution, when it was a treat to afford treacle for your porridge!
August 2009
Albert's Ark - Frederick A Crampton,* £11.99
From a Holywell Green author, a first novel set in 2014 - a mercenary and his wife convert a redundant oil tanker into a small-holding and run it with a group of like-minded people to get away from the corruption of modern-day living.
A Place Like This - Jill Robinson,* £6.95
The long-awaited third book of the popular Berringden Brow series, set not too far from Hebden Bridge. 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. Friends also need her support - but who will help Jess? Meanwhile, why is widowed Norah living in a dog kennel, who has stolen the aspidistra, and will Jess's colleague Nick really be sent to prison for conspiring to make a false passport?
Books and CDs from Dr Eden P Fazel*
Dr Eden Fazel, who is based in Hebden Bridge, is the founder of Survive and Thrive and firmly believes in DIY coaching, psychology and therapy: these books are essential and exciting reading for anyone who wants to take their physical and emotional health into their own hands. See http://www.surviveandthrivecoach.org.uk/
Books
- Anger: A Very Healthy Emotion - £6.99
- Anxiety: A Very Vital Emotion - £5.99
- DIY Coaching: Drawing Your Life Plan - £6.99
- Emotional Wisdom: Understanding Natural Emotions - £8.99
- Free Emotional Expression: The Art of Openness - £3.99
- Growing From Weakness To Strength - £6.99
- Growing Out Of Guilt - £4.99
- Growing Out Of The Blues - £3.99
- Healing Emotional Injuries - £3.99
Audiobooks
- Anger: A Very Healthy Emotion - £14.99 (3 CDs)
- Anxiety: A Very Vital Emotion - £11.99 (2 CDs)
- DIY Coaching: Drawing Your Life Plan - £12.99 (2 CDs)
- DIY Psychology: Taking Charge Of Your Emotional Health - £14.99 (3 CDs)
- Emotional Wisdom: Understanding Natural Emotions - £8.99 (1 CD)
- Free Emotional Expression: The Art Of Openness - £8.99 (1 CD)
- Growing From Past Hurt Towards Future Harmony - £14.99 (3 CDs)
- Growing From Weakness To Strength - £9.99 (1 CD)
- Growing Out Of Guilt - £8.99 (1 CD)
- Growing Out Of The Blues - £8.99 (1 CD)
- Growing Out Of The System - £8.99 (1 CD)
- Making Love Bigger Than Fear: Growing Healthy Relationships - £11.99 (2 CDs)
- The Art Of Jumping The Leaps Right - £11.99 (2 CDs)
New in from Amberley Publishing (Alan Sutton reborn):
Haworth through Time - Steven Wood and Ian Palmer, £12.99
Nicely presented then-and-now photographs with brief information. It's hoped there'll be a Hebden Bridge equivalent.
By Hazel Wheeler, £12.99 eacht;br />The Milliner's Apprentice: Girlhood in Edwardian Yorkshire
Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfiield Corner Shop between the Wars
The Diary of a Young Wife, 1953
From the author of Half a Pound of Tuppeny Rice, three more illustrated books on life in Deighton and Huddersfield in times past.
Yorkshire Murders and Misdemeanours - Stephen Wade, £12.99
Major crimes in Yorkshire alphabetically presented, from the Middle Ages to 1961. Stephen Wade recently took part in a Hebden Bridge Library authors' event.
The Burnley FC Miscellany - David Wiseman , £12.99
Burnley Football Club come from the smallest town ever to win League Division One and the FA Cup. But this book is mainly about Burnley 'off the record'. Here you can read some of the odd, quaint and quirky things that have been part of the past 125 years of Clarets history.
July 2009
The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy - Fern Elsdon-Baker,* £8.99
Dawkins has used his position to publicly attack 'unreason', in the form of organised religion, pseudo-science, or new age folly. This polarised representation of science is potentially fuelling the feud between Darwinism and Creationism. Hebden Bridge-based author Fern Elsdon-Baker, a rational pro-science atheist and specialist in the history and communication of evolutionary theory,finds Dawkins' influence distinctly worrying. She argues that Dawkins is publicly misrepresenting science as a whole and asks - is Dawkins really acting to popularise science or to popularise Richard Dawkins?
Yelp! - Liz Almond,* £9.99
From the Hebden Bridge-based poet, a collection of poems about regeneration, recuperation, reclamation and retreat, in which the poet reflects on visits, both literal and virtual, to remote parts of Greece, Andalucia and Southern India. Rituals of travel are at the heart of Liz Almond's work; and travel, in her poems, can start anywhere: through a computer screen offering access to a satellite view of continents, to a pencil hovering like a bee at the start of a poem about a zoo for husbands. Departures and arrivals, free exchanges of words at the border controls of language - all these feed into poems that embody a rich and sensual sense of cultural difference, an understanding of the scale and fragility of our planet.
Yorkshire Dales Textile Mills - George Ingle, £9.99
It's mostly forgotten these days that there was a thriving textile industry in the Yorkshire Dales from the late 18th century onwards. George Ingle, the author of "Yorkshire Cotton", has located and describes over seventy textile mills in the Dales, with many illustrations. George gave a talk to Hebden Bridge Local History Society on the mills of the Dales earlier this year. Published by Royd Press at The Book Case. NOW IN STOCK.
June 2009
Hardcastle Crags, Past and Present - Ray Riches* and Peter Thornton*: DVD, £12.99
This welcome new DVD about the local beauty spot was launched at 2pm at the Little Theatre on 6th June. NOW IN STOCK AT THE BOOK CASE!
Last Mad Surge of Youth - Mark Hodkinson, £8.99
From the locally-based national sports writer, a novel about a washed-up alcoholic rock star who after a string of humiliating public incidents summons an old friend to ghost write his autobiography. Together they reflect on fame, addiction, girls and everything that ever went wrong. Published by Pomona of Hebden Bridge. Now in stock.
Mary Towneley Loop Guide, 2e
Full colour photos and relevant local information within this comprehensive pocket sized book of the Loop ensure it is an appropriate guide for horse riders, cyclists and walkers alike. Second edition has a couple of minor alterations.
They're All Foreigners Abroad! - Stuart Wright,* £7.99
From an ex-Halifax author, now resident in Spain, a light-hearted inventory of Brits on holiday abroad. Let9;s be honest, we Brits are not difficult to take the mickey out of whilst on our hard-earned holidays!
Landscapes in Watercolour - Paul Talbot-Greaves,* £7.99
From the well-known local painter and writer, the latest of his instruction books on watercolour painting. This practical and inspirational guide, in a handy sketchbook format, is aimed at the practised beginner. By working with just a few materials and focusing on the key techniques it is possible to achieve successful, realistic landscape paintings in no more than half an hour. And for those artists who already have a little painting experience, learning to work more quickly enables them to free up their style and paint more spontaneously.
Stone Tree - Gyrthir Eliasson, trans. Victoria Cribb, £7.95
Published by Mytholmroyd publishers Comma Press, and translated from the Icelandic, a collection of stories set on the shores or in the lava fields and mountains of Iceland, each one a study in self-exile.
The following books on ghostly Halifax are available direct from GM Productions in Halifax at http://www.gmproductions.tv/. Prices include postage. Most of the books are spiral-bound A4.
Union Cross: History & Times of the Inn (£6.00)
Dark secrets of the past at the Union Cross Inn, Halifax
Disturbing Halifax (£8.00)
There is so much history in Halifax that people do not know about.
A house with a past - Boothtown House (£6.00)
A 1600s house with a history, renovated from being derelict to present day modernisation.
Haunted & Alternative Halifax (£8.00)
Welcome to haunted Halifax in West Yorkshire, where so many buildings have come and gone over the years, many of them haunted.
Kershaw House (£7.00)
I have had the pleasure of filming here for many years, and finding out the history of this Elizabethan inn.
Haunted Halifax (£8.00)
This book specialises in the haunted side of Halifax.
Portman and Pickles, Halifax (£7.00)
The Old Silent Inn & its Infamous Past (£8.00)The story & history of the coaching inn where Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have stayed, with reports of ghost investigations.
May 2009
All Points North - Simon Armitage, £8.99
A welcome return (revised and expanded) for this account of growing up in the north of England.
Ted Hughes (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition) - poems selected by Simon Armitage , £8.00
Beautiful gift hardback edition with striking hawk print cover.
The Adventures of Molly - Mary Nevins*, £9.50
From a Halifax author, a children's book aimed at 4-7-year-olds, about a little girl who feeds a robin through the cold winter and learns the importance of nature.
Yorkshire Geology - Paul Ensom, £22.50
A big colour illustrated hardback account of the 540 million years of Yorkshire's geological past.
Footpaths for Fitness: West Yorkshire - Peter Young, £7.99
20 graded circular routes, ranging from just over a mile to 8 miles in length, and including the Hebden bridge area.
The Final Interview: Studs Terkel - Peter Devine*, £5.00
Hebden Bridge-based Peter Devine interviewed the legendary historian and broadcaster in 2005. Studs Terkel died last autumn at the age of 96.
Alice Longstaff historical postcards, 35p ea. We're now stocking postcards of some of Alice Longstaff's extraordinary collection of historical photographs of the area.
Not Ready Yet! written and illustrated by Tamsin Walker*, £5.99
Cheerful picture book with a rhyming story about a little boy who has an exciting time going camping with his mum and her partner Fran - but he's always too busy doing something to do the next thing! Hebden Bridge-based author and illustrator.
Cool Canals - Slow Getaways and Different Days, £14.99
Different, eco and budget-conscious things to do on the inland waterways, including a chapter on Hebden Bridge.
April 2009
Recital - An Almanac - John Siddique*, £12.99
"On love, loss and hope, these poems are imbued with a beautiful, tender melancholia." Forthcoming from SALT - click here for more details. John Siddique was Poet in Residence for Blackpool in 2008, and this year will be Los Angeles Writer in Residence.
Tender - Mark Illis *, £8.99
A new novel from Hebden Bridge author Mark Illis, telling the story of an ordinary family trying to cope with life, and each other, revisiting the family on key occasions over thirty years and seeing things from different points of view.
We're hoping to have a joint launch of "Recital" and "Tender". Details to follow.
The Richard Matthewman Stories - Ian McMillan and Martyn Wiley, £8.99
From Hebden Bridge publishers Pomona, the stories of a Yorkshire miner who has moved south. The stories were originally broadcast as a series on Radio 4 and a new instalment has been written specially for the book. Ian McMillan is well known as a broadcaster and performer.
We'll Trace the Rainbow - Jean Brown, £17.00
From the author of "We'll see the Cuckoo". Jean Brown likens her life to the Pennine hillside on which the Brown family has lived for forty years. Their sixteenth-century farmhouse was bought in 1929, rescued from ruin and finally covenanted to The NationalTrust in 1987. It tells the story of Jean Brown's experiences with children on holiday in the Hebrides.
We'll Blow with the Wind - Jean Brown, £17.00
More about the Pennine hill farm, Currer Laithe.
Birdwatching Walks in the Yorkshire Dales - Brendan Threlfall, £7.95
Well designed walks is set in gorgeous countryside where there is also every chance of seeing some of the birds which abound in the area. Both novice and experienced birders can enjoy the dippers at Aysgarth, or great spotted woodpeckers in Grass Woods, as well as the rarer black grouse, wood warbler, pied flycatcher and nightjar, to name but a few. With helpful guide maps, interesting bird and habitat information, travel hints and a bird reference section.
March 2009
10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love - Linda Green*, £6.99
A novel set in Hebden Bridge, from the Todmorden-based author of "I Did a Bad Thing". Jo, a local TV news reporter, returns to work after a lengthy maternity leave, only to find that her new boss is her ex. Then she meets Dan, an enigmatic man who lives on a canal boat ... Linda was at The Book Case on Saturday 7th March signing copies of her book..
City of Lists - Brigid Rose, £8.99
From a local author, a novel set in a dystopian future where contemplation is illegal. Big anxious Neeve and beautiful withdrawn Valentine struggle to shake off their state-imposed psychological fetters with the help of unrepentant law-breaker Lol. One of the novel's themes is the threat posed to shallow capitalist society by Eckhart Tolle's ideas.
The Mixenden Treasure - John Billingsley*, £6.00
A true tale of magic in 16th-century Yorkshire from the well-known local historian and folklorist. Stand by for an exciting tale of treasure, demons, Oberon and a motley crew of priests, commoners, a "cunning-man" and gentlemen who set out on a nasty February night to claim the Mixenden Treasure from the demon that was sitting on it!
Exit Moonshine - Coming Out and Carrying on - Joy Howard, £6.50
From the Keighley-based editor of "Twist of Malice", ten years in the life of a lesbian-come-lately. Joy will be presenting three contributing poets from the popular "Twist of Malice" anthology at Hebden Bridge Library on 28th March, 1.45-2.30pm.
Second Bite - Joy Howard, Hilary J Murray and Gina Shaw, £3.00
Poems by Older Women - these are from the West Yorkshire group of Second Light, a national network of older women poets.
Pearls of Light - Julie Rose Clark*, £5.95
Words and pictures to enlighten us and guide us toward the new consciousness of love and light.
Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath - ed. Granville Williams, £9.99
From the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, a look back at the miners' strike and in particular at the media and the miners. Authors include locally-based Peter Lazenby, President of the Trades Club and Industrial Correspondent of the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Reichian Growth Work: melting the blocks to life and love - Nick Totton* & Em Edmondson, £12.99
Revised and updated edition of this body psychotherapy classic. Nick Totton has written a number of books on psychotherapy and lives in Mytholmroyd.
February 2009
An Artist in the Dales - Keith Melling, £19.50
From landscape painter Keith Melling, a hardback book of glorious paintings, drawings and wood engravings of scenes of the Yorkshire Dales and further afield, including the well-known painting of Heptonstall and Stoodley Pike.
January 2009
Halifax Pubs - Stephen Gee, £12.99
An illustrated tour of the most interesting pubs, inns and taverns of Halifax with lots of old photos.
In the Image of Love - Peter Coles* (£8.00)
To celebrate Peter and Enid Coles' Golden Wedding in 2008, a collection of poems on wide-ranging subjects including local people and scenes, illustrated with colour photographs.
Hope Street - Hebden Bridge WEA members* (£4.75)
First collection of poems from Hebden Bridge WEA poetry class, meeting at Hope Baptist Church.
Ted Hughes - Terry Gifford (£14.99)
Clear and detailed discussions of Hughes' poetry, stories, plays, translations, essays and letters; includes new biographicalinformation, and previously unpublished archive material, especially on Hughes' environmentalism; provides a comprehensive account of Hughes' critical reception, separated into the major themes that have interested readers and critics; offers useful suggestions for further reading, and incorporates helpful cross-references between sections of the guide. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series.
Shepherdess - Brian Crowther * (£9.99)
A well-researched tale of life and love set in the Lakes and the Dales of the 1850s. The author lives in Greetland and is a retired lecturer with many years of involvement with the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards and the Scouts; he has owned border collies for forty years. Lots of info on shepherding!
Ray of Hope (CD) - Tony Pye* (£10.00)
Guitarist Tony Pye from Northowram recorded this CD to raise money for the liver research charity Rays of Hope to thank the Leeds teaching hospitals for his two transplants. Tunes include Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bond themes.
