Last Chorus by Humphrey Lyttelton (JR Books, £18.99)
5:11pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008
ON July 17, 1975 Humphrey Lyttelton confided in his diary: “Final session of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
Comments (0)The Oxford Companion To Family And Local History, edited by David Hey (Oxford University Press, £25)
5:10pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008
THE great questions “Who Do You Think You Are?” and “Where Do I Come From?” can be easily answered with the aid of this guide, which is both comprehensive and consistently helpful.
The Infinite Reaches, Contact Patrol, Sold A Pup And The Great Disservice by by Pat Cunningham (Pecsaeton Publishing, £8.99)
5:07pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008
THE complete saga of First World War ace Paul Cowley, who flies just as high and dangerously when he is away form the Front as he does when he is in action.
607 Squadron: A Shade of Blue by Robert Dixon (The History Press, £14.99)
11:04am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
THE grandly named 607 (Count of Durham) (Bomber) Squadron was part of the Auxiliary Air Force and was formed in 1930 at North Hylton near Sunderland.
Hidden Chains: The Slavery Business and North-East England 1600-1865 by John Charlton (Tyne Bridge Publishing, £10)
11:00am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
THIS is very much a study in progress. Until very recently, it was believed that the slave trade was focused on ports like Liverpool and Bristol which faced the Americas and Africa.
Durham Mining Disasters c1700-1950s by Maureen Anderson. Foreword by Kevin Keegan (Pen and Sword Books, £12.99)
11:02am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
KEVIN Keegan’s grandfather was a hero in the West Stanley disaster of 1909 – 100 years ago in February – which devastated a community.
Pit Poinies by Mike Kirkup (Summerhill Books, 4.99)
11:02am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
PONIES are the forgotten miners, yet in 1913 there were 70,000 horses working underground in the UK.
Down the Batts Bank: Memories of a Bishop Auckland Community (Summerhill Books, £5)
11:06am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
TOM Hutchinson has published several books on the Wear Valley and this one rights a wrong. Batts Bank – his birthplace – is often overlooked because it was such a humble community of miners and labourers, particularly in comparison to the wealth of the Bishops of Durham who lorded it over them in Auckland Castle.
The legends of the Ebor Street gang by John Rothwell (Roger the Rattlesnake Publications, £7.99)
11:08am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
A 656-page novel by a Darlington author which so neatly captures the feel and spirit of life and schooldays 50 years ago that it becomes social history.
Captain Lindley MC. A Hero of the Great War by John Lindley (Lindley Books, £10.95)
11:09am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
THE letters that Captain John Lindley wrote home from the trenches of Gallipoli and hospital in Mesopotamia were discovered in a drawer a few years ago and have been compiled into book form by his son, who lives in Guisborough. They are remarkably chit-chatty considering a war is raging around him – even when he’s in hospital with a heel wound, he’s writing almost casually about the songs of the birds.
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