Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Macmillan, £16.99)

10:27am Tuesday 30th December 2008

AS a score line, Love All is a bit of a stalemate, a game with no winners. So it is with love and romance in this story of upper middle class lives.

The Art of Being Dead by Stephen Clayton (Bluemoose Books)

10:30am Tuesday 30th December 2008

LIFE in a northern town in the late 1960s is a bleak affair for Jonathan, 24, who attempts to keep reality at bay by denying any place to love, pain or commitment.

Death of a Dancer by Caro Peacock (HarperCollins, £7.99)

10:31am Tuesday 30th December 2008

A THEATRICAL murder/mystery featuring feisty heroine Liberty Lane in a race against time to save a dancer from the Augustus Theatre from the noose.

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.

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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.

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Wise Words And Country Ways For Cooks by Ruth Binney (David And Charles, £9.99)

5:08pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008

THIS book is very timely as everyone nowadays is keen on home cooking with fresh ingredients and is aware of avoiding waste. Old sayings, old ways and treasured tips are weighed in the balance by Binney, an acknowledged expert on cookery and country traditions, and her advice is both wise and workable. Nouvelle cuisine doesn’t get a look in here.

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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.

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Tommy's War by Thomas Livingstone (Harper Press, £20)

9:57am Tuesday 16th December 2008

NOT about war at all – at least not about fighting.

The Guardian Book Of The Countryside edited by Ruther Petrie and Martin Wainwright (Guardian Books, £14.99)

9:58am Tuesday 16th December 2008

THE opening item is a report from 1856 of a prosecution for polluting a stream with “night soil”.

The Eden Valley And The North Pennies by WR Mitchell (Phillimore, £15.99)

10:00am Tuesday 16th December 2008

AS you descend to Brough from Stainmore, a wonderful expanse of countryside opens up. Pastures, meadows, woods, the classic chequerwork of the English landscape.

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