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We need as many people as possible to turn up on the Prom in Cromford to help launch our St. George’s Day celebrations. We’ll be doing some jousting and singing (and laughing). If you can make it, be up and here by 6am prompt (yes, 6AM!).
PLEASE LET US KNOW ASAP if you can attend by calling 01629 823272
Chapeltown Academy student, Kosana Pilling, has won a £25 Scarthin Books Voucher in a book review competition run by her school.
Many congratulations, Kosana, from all at Scarthin Books!
Her brilliant review of Ransom Riggs’ ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ can be found here ->Book Review by Kosana Pilling (and the book is available to buy from the bookshop, as is his newly released sequel, ‘Hollow City’).
Well, the results are in for our top 25 best-selling books of 2013, so start humming the chart run-down music (you know the one, from Radio One back in the day) and see how many of these you’ve read (or may want to come and buy)…
We’ve just taken in over THREE HUNDRED cookery books (with about four hundred still to come!) – a few being the usual modern ‘classics’ (Jamie Oliver, River Cottage, etc) but the majority are more unusual and desirable…from French country cuisine to Jewish recipes to signed Elizabeth David books.
Plenty to choose from and many would make great Christmas gifts.
You’ll find them in the Cafe conservatory.
Robert Colls will be at Scarthin Books on Saturday 7th December from 8pm to talk about and sign copies of his new book, ‘George Orwell – English Rebel’.
Professor Robert Colls will be at Scarthin Books, Cromford, Derbyshire, on December 7th, 8 to 10pm, to talk about his new book George Orwell – English Rebel (Oxford University Press). All are welcome.
Copies of George Orwell – English Rebel will be on sale on the night at the discounted price of £20.00 (list price £25.00), which Professor Colls will be happy to sign.
– See more at: http://www.scarthinbooks.com/event/robert-colls-talk-book-signing-george-orwell-english-rebel/#sthash.hDRNM4iH.dpuf
Professor Robert Colls will be at Scarthin Books, Cromford, Derbyshire, on December 7th, 8 to 10pm, to talk about his new book George Orwell – English Rebel (Oxford University Press). All are welcome.
Copies of George Orwell – English Rebel will be on sale on the night at the discounted price of £20.00 (list price £25.00), which Professor Colls will be happy to sign.
– See more at: http://www.scarthinbooks.com/event/robert-colls-talk-book-signing-george-orwell-english-rebel/#sthash.txHLIhBI.dpuf
Professor Robert Colls will be at Scarthin Books, Cromford, Derbyshire, on December 7th, 8 to 10pm, to talk about his new book George Orwell – English Rebel (Oxford University Press). All are welcome.
Copies of George Orwell – English Rebel will be on sale on the night at the discounted price of £20.00 (list price £25.00), which Professor Colls will be happy to sign.
– See more at: http://www.scarthinbooks.com/event/robert-colls-talk-book-signing-george-orwell-english-rebel/#sthash.txHLIhBI.dpuf
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Scarthin Books teamed up with Lancaster & Thorpe Optician in Matlock during the October half-term holidays, when they held a ‘Book Day’ – a full day of children’s appointments which gave them the opportunity to help promote reading (and the physical book!) to local youngsters. A huge thanks to Sue Black and the team for what proved to be a very successful day, as these photos show…
Images (c) Sue Black 2013
Cromford Revisited – a stunning new book by Doreen Buxton and Christopher Charlton – has just been published and is available later this week from Scarthin Books, priced £18 (post free if ordered online).
This richly illustrated book examines some aspects of the development of Cromford and Scarthin from the mid eighteenth century. It recognises, as it must, a village largely shaped by several generations of the Arkwright family but introduces a wider cast of local characters; the mill-building George Evans of Bonsall and Cromford; the neighbouring gentry, the Gels of Hopton; the financier Peter Nightingale of Lea and several generations of the Wheatcroft family who spread the name of Cromford nationwide along the country’s network of canals. Also featured is a later resident, Charles White, the concealed hand behind the Lea Mills strike of 1911-12 and a colourful local politician who was to become West Derbyshire’s Member of Parliament.
In the austere conditions of the 1920s and 30s, with the Arkwright family gone and a squire’s paternalistic hand no longer directing affairs, the village learned to manage for itself. Then in 1971 when the Arkwright Festival was held to celebrate the bicentenary of Richard Arkwright’s arrival in Cromford, it found itself in the spotlight of heritage celebrity, recognition which in 2001 led to its achieving a central position in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
Our second hand intakes continue relentlessly – there’s no shortage of quality stock coming our way, and recent large purchases include the following:
– 300+ fishing books
– several hundred quality art books
– large collection of climbing and mountaineering books
– 200+ modern fiction (which even includes several Murakami novels, no doubt sold by the time you read this!)
plus several books on astronomyand books on the history of the far east (Singapore & Japan in WW2).
We have moved several sections around recently, so if you come in looking for architecture on the top floor, you’ll instead find topography – try looking in the Art Room, where collecting books have been removed and put where the topography used to be (near the cafe). Books on interior design and also building/DIY have now migrated to the Art Room too.
Berlie Doherty
Double Carnegie Medal winning local children’s author, Berlie Doherty, will sign copies of her latest book for young adults, ‘The Company of Ghosts’, here at Scarthin Books on Saturday 30th November at 2pm.
More information HERE