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OUR BEST-SELLERS in 2017 2017 in BEST-SELLERS OUR OUR BOOK GROUPS GROUPS BOOK OUR BOOKS Now Available in Paperback “The mountains of South-West Shropshire are less known to lovers of fine scenery than their Two of our bestselling hardback books of 2017 are now available in paperback. Treat yourself to some excellent reading beauty deserves….” by Rev E Donald Carr to kick off 2018: ‘The Doll Funeral’ by *Kate Hamer OUR PICK OF THE NEW TITLES ‘Three Things About Elsie’ ‘Yours Always: Letters of Longing’edited by Eleanor Bass by Joanna Cannon

A thoughtful anthology of ‘letters of longing’, offering an often- 13-year-old Ruby lives with Barbara and Mick. They’re not her real unseen insight into a host of famous lives: apt for St Valentine’s Day. parents, but they tell her what to do, and what to say. She’s supposed Iris Murdoch to David Hicks:- “My dear, your letter of 21st January has just Set in a home for the elderly, this is the new novel from the to say that the bruises on her arms and the black eye came from come. A shock, yes. It’s hard to know what to say. It’s frightening how people author of ‘ The Trouble With Goats and Sheep’ . 84-year-old Florence falling down the stairs. But there are things she won’t say. She won’t has fallen at her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she tell them she’s going to hunt for her real parents. She doesn’t say a can deceive themselves and how quickly their moods can change, from very waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her word about Shadow, who sits on the stairs, or the Wasp Lady she saw deep too….” NB David Hicks lived in Shropshire. on the way to bed. She did tell Mick that she saw the woman in the past is about to come to light; and if the charming new resident buttercup dress, hanging upside down from her seat belt deep in the ‘The Wanderers’ by Tim Pears is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who forest at the back of their house. She told him she saw death crawl out died sixty years ago? of her. He said he’d give Ruby a medal for lying. She wasn’t lying. “A warm, wise novel—brilliantly entertaining—that also manages to be a timely and profound take on ageing. I loved it”. Kate Hamer *Kate Hamer gave a lovely talk about 'The Doll Funeral' to our book groups in April 2017 at Berry's Coffee House, Church Stretton.

DAVE EDWARDS: ‘Living My Dream’

‘The January Man’ by Christopher Somerville Month by month, season by season and region by region, The second novel in Tim Pears' West Country trilogy (we also have Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following the first part, ‘ The Horseman’ in stock). His writing reveals the beauty routes that continually bring his father to mind. As he and brutality that coexist in nature. Timeless, searching, charged travels the country – from the winter floodlands of the River with raw energy and gentle humour, this is a delicately wrought tale Severn to the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, the towering of adolescence, survival, longing, loneliness, and love. seabird cliffs on the Shetland Isle of Foula in June and the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest in autumn – he describes 1912: Leo Sercombe is now thirteen and banished from the the history, wildlife, landscapes and people he encounters. secluded farm of his childhood. Behind him lies the past, and before The February chapter follows in the footsteps of the him the West Country, spread out like a tapestry. Leo is taken in by Very many thanks to professional footballer Dave Edwards who Reverend Donald Carr across the Long Mynd. This gypsies, with their wagons, horses, and vivid attire. Yet he knows he visited Burway Books on Thursday 21st December to sign exquisitely written account of the British countryside not cannot linger, and must forge on toward the western horizon. Leo's copies of his book, ' Living My Dream '. A delighted queue of fans only inspires us to don our boots and explore the 140,000 love, Lottie, is at home on her father’s Estate. She is increasingly chatted to Dave whilst he signed their books. We still have a few miles of footpaths across the British Isles, but also illustrates absorbed in the natural world: the profusion of wild flowers in the signed copies left if you are looking for a special gift for a football how we can come to an understanding of ourselves and our meadow, the habits of predators, and the mysteries of anatomy. How fan. fellow walkers. will the two young people ever find each other again?