The Northern Echo | Books

The Big Meeting: A History Of The Durham Miners’ Gala

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:10:44 +0000

THE title doesn’t do this book justice because, as well as being a history of the Durham Miners’ Gala, it is a history of coal-mining in the county and a social history of our towns and villages.

Whose City Was This? by Joy Crawshaw (£5.50, TSJ Publications, Tel: 01904-421403)

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:37:08 +0000

AS the thrice Lord Mayor of York, determined to make the city the railway hub of the North, Hudson inevitably turns up in this enterprising booklet on the city, designed to be read by, or to, children.

THE HORROR FILM QUIZ BOOK: 1,000 QUESTIONS ON SPINE CHILLING FILMS

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:57:13 +0000

THE HORROR FILM QUIZ BOOK: 1,000 QUESTIONS ON SPINE CHILLING FILMS. By Chris Cowlin and Mark Goddard.

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:58:19 +0000

Fancy a local book for Christmas? Chris Lloyd looks at a few of the new releases.

Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Exceptional Men and Women in World War Two, by Gordon Brown (Bloomsbury, £8.99)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:21:45 +0000

THIS book bears a weighty title, but then it does happen to be written by the Prime Minister himself.

Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 by James Holland (Harper Press, £9.99)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:24:04 +0000

THE Allied advance through Italy was one of the most destructive campaigns of the Second World War.

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Max Hastings (Harper Press, £25)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:26:40 +0000

WINSTON Churchill has had tomes written by him and about him, yet Hastings has managed to take a well-worn subject and injected it with new life.

Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar (Atlantic Books, £25)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:25:46 +0100

THANK the railways for – air hostesses. Their advent was an unintended by-product of the US’s celebrated Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Whitby – Photographic Memories compiled by Cordelia Stamp (Francis Frith, £12)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:41:32 +0100

THIS is a softback version of an excellent collection originally published four years ago.

Fountains Abbey: The Cistercians in Northern England by Glyn Coppack (Amberley, £17.99)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:43:58 +0100

ANOTHER softback reissue, with minor revisions to the original of 2003.