The Northern Echo | Reviews

The Legacy Of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:09:42 +0000

RIDING high on the success of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, which has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor for release on March 9, Northumberland-based Paul Torday turns his acerbic style of storytelling on the last remnants of a land-owning family on the border of Yorkshire.

The Beauty And The Sorrow: An Intimate History Of The First World War by Peter Englund

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:10:49 +0000

TO find a book this well written and detailed about the First World War, written by a professor from a country that was not involved, is both rare and refreshing.

On Booze by F Scott Fitzgerald

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:14:49 +0000

THIS slim hardback gathers up sketches and fragments from letters and memoirs inspired by the American writer’s life-long affair with alcohol.

How To Watch The Olympics: Scores And Laws, Heroes And Zeros – An Instant Initiation To Every Sport by David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:15:25 +0000

ONE of the many joys of the Olympics is the chance to immerse oneself temporarily in a sport which is normally consigned to the outer reaches of the Eurosport 2 schedules.

Everywhere We Went: Top Tales From Cricket’s Barmy Army by Ben Dirs

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:16:25 +0000

SPORTS journalist Ben Dirs – who some of you may recognise from his live blogging of Test cricket on the BBC website – has compiled stories and interviews from cricket’s 12th team member, the Barmy Army.

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.

Unnatural Workings by David Smith (Quoin Publishing, 1£7.50)

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:40:17 +0000

MANY poets celebrate the countryside. Many might picture a barn – from the outside. But probably few would record its “corner gloom”, dimly revealing “a cobra of plough cord and/A set of harrows, crooked teeth grinning”.

From The Boundary’s Edge by Laurence Griffiths (Atlantic Publishing, £25)

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:28:31 +0000

THE cricket ground at Raby Castle has been awarded pride of place on the front cover of a book of spectacular photographs.