The unforgotten war

10:22am Saturday 8th November 2008

To mark Remembrance Sunday tomorrow, we round up books about the First World War, which continues to fascinate and horrify us.

A Food Lover’s Treasury by Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy (Frances Lincoln, £9.99)

12:43am Saturday 1st November 2008

ALAN Ayckbourn has clearly got something against healthy eating. “I can’t bear salad,” he wrote in Living Together in 1975. “It grows while you’re eating it... Have you noticed? You start one side of your plate and by the time you’ve got to the other, there’s a fresh crop of lettuce taken root and sprouted up.”

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The Lost Army by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Macmillan hardback, £10)

12:42am Saturday 1st November 2008

IN 401 BC, an army of 10,000 Greek mercenaries set off to march into the heart of the Persian empire. They were part of a much larger army assembled by the Persian prince Cyrus, who planned to overthrow his brother, the Great King Artaxerxes, and become king in his place.

Modern Football Is Rubbish, Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt (Sportsbooks, £7.99)

12:41am Saturday 1st November 2008

DAVIDSON and Hunt have taken refuge in the past to produce a book that looks at pre-Premier League football through rose-tinted specs.

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Walks Around Wensleydale by Sheila Bowker and Walks Around The Yorkshire Coast by Malcolm Boyes (both Dalesman, £2.99)

6:46am Saturday 11th October 2008

AUGUST may have been a washout but for those longing to get out and stretch their legs a bit, these new walking guides from Dalesman may be just the thing.

Prince Rupert, the Last Cavalier by Charles Spencer (Phoenix paperback, £10.99)

6:45am Saturday 11th October 2008

Charles Spencer, Earl of Spencer, is an apt author for a biography of Rupert of the Rhine, for he knows something about the trials and tribulations of celebrity royals.

All Our Yesterdays by Gervase Phinn (Dalesman hardback, £9.99)

6:46am Saturday 11th October 2008

NOT another volume of gently humorous tall tales from Phinn’s life as a schools inspector, this, but a compendium of nostalgic memories of childhood.

Mister Teacher by Jack Sheffield (Corgi, £6.99)

6:47am Saturday 11th October 2008

THE year is 1978, the time 9.30 in the morning on the first day of term at Ragley-on-the-Forest C of E Primary School in North Yorkshire.

Taking sides with Boycott

9:37am Saturday 4th October 2008

Always outspoken, ever blunt – Geoff Boycott is now stirring up trouble with his book about his best sides, reports Charles Hutchinson.

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It’s A Kind Of Magic, by Carole Matthews (Headline Review, £6.99)

9:30am Saturday 20th September 2008

WHEN Emma’s boyfriend, Leo, turns up at her 30th birthday dinner late and horribly drunk, embarrassing her in front of her family, she decides enough is enough.

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Blasphemy by Douglas Preston (Macmillan hardback, £16.99)

9:30am Saturday 20th September 2008

DEEP beneath the Arizona desert, a group of scientists carry out final checks in readiness for the world’s biggest experiment.

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The Love Of Her Life by Harriet Evans (Harper Collins, £6.99)

9:30am Saturday 20th September 2008

HAVING read Harriet Evans before, I had high hopes and wasn’t disappointed.

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The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris (Black Swan paperback, £6.99)

11:00am Saturday 13th September 2008

JOANNE Harris wrote The Evil Seed when she was 25 years old, fresh out of Cambridge and training to be a teacher.

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William Etty: The Life And Art by Leonard Robinson, with a foreword by Tom Etty (McFarland & Co, £80)

10:58am Saturday 13th September 2008

Victorian artist William Etty is best known in York today for his voluptuous nudes (some of them on display in the city art gallery) and for his campaign to save York’s historic walls.

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Rare opportunities arise on Knavesmire

11:09am Saturday 6th September 2008

FORGET racegoers. York racecourse will be taken over by an entirely different group next weekend: lovers of rare and second hand books.

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Dial M for a book signing with Stephen

11:09am Saturday 6th September 2008

Bestselling author Stephen Clarke will be giving a reading from his new novel Dial M For Merde, at Borders in York on Tuesday at 6.30pm.

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The Two Mrs Robinsons by Donna Hay (Orion paperback, £6.99)

12:31pm Saturday 23rd August 2008

YORK novelist Donna Hay has made a name for herself in the past few years with a series of warm and witty modern romances.

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