April saw novels popular at The Book Case, making up half the total. Mark Thomas’s entertaining book of political ideas continued to sell briskly, a new book about working on a tall ship in the 1930s immediately shot into the charts, and the remaining books sold to people interested in the local area.
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1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson (£7.99). Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. Concludes the immensely successful trilogy. No. 2 was also in our Top Ten.
2. The People's Manifesto by Mark Thomas (£4.99). Mark Thomas toured the country getting audiences to come up with policies aimed at sorting out the country9;s political chaos and taking back the power for the people. From the inspiring to the downright hilarious, you'll wonder why these fantastic ideas aren't part of the constitution already.
3. Weird Calderdale - Paul Weatherhead (£8.50). Back in stock, this collection of strange local legends is always popular.
4. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman (£14.99) Part novel, part history, part fairytale, The Good Man Jesus offers a radical new take on the myths and the mysteries of the Gospels, and the genesis of church that has so shaped the course of the last two millennia.
5. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (£7.99). The second instalment in the popular Millennium Trilogy sees Lisbeth Salander wanted for murder while Blomkvist tries desperately to clear her name.
6. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (£8.99). The Booker-winning story of Thomas Cromwell - political genius, briber, charmer and bully - as Henry VIII’s pursuit of Anne Boleyn shakes the kingdom.
7. Last Voyage of the Olivebank - Len Townend, ed. Elvin Carter (£9.99). This true and poignant diary of one of the last Great Grain Races of the 1930s, by Len Townend, who at one point lived in Heptonstall and still has family in the area, has only been with us for two days and is already a bestseller!
8. Yorkshire Dales Textile Mills - George Ingle (£9.99). An illustrated account of all the mills that once stood in the Dales, with information about the firms, child labour, and hand-loom weavers' riots plus details of the buildings, the machinery in them and their power sources.
9. The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt (£7.99). A famous writer is interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends are already inscribed with mystery.
10. Millstone Grit: a Pennine Journey - Glyn Hughes (£3.95). The classic description of the area first published in the 1970s, written as an account of a journey on foot.
