October New Books

In a week when close to 2000 new books were published, I’m a little hesitant about adding to your pile, but we’ve had a few

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The Red Barn

Much has been written about the Red Barn murder at Polstead in Suffolk – just look it up on Wikipedia to get a sense of what a

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News From Nogdam End

News From Nogdam End

Now you may never have heard of Nogdam End, and may even doubt if it really exists, but Google maps demonstrates that it really does – and it records the stories of people who lived and worked in this area of marshlands and meadows south of the River Yare and north of Beccles, between Loddon and St Olaves.

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Silver Darlings

Silver Darlings is set in the early 1900s in Northumberland and Suffolk, locations linked by the North Sea and herring fishing, written by LK Wilde,

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Susan, Thomas and David Yaxley

Larks Press

The Larks Press was founded by Susan Yaxley in 1985, in part to provide work for her disabled son Thomas.  In the early days many

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Action Stations Revisited: Eastern England

Action Stations!

The recent Apple TV mini-series Masters of the Air, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, has rekindled interest in East Anglia’s numerous WW2 airfields. 

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From Norfolk to Normandy

From Norfolk to Normandy

https://bitternbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20240408_175541.mp4 As the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings approaches, thoughts turn to those who lost their lives fighting to liberate the people of occupied

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Inspired by Nature

The lockdown years of 2020 and 2021 gave many aspiring writers the time to hit the keyboards and write the book they had always wanted

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Bloomsbury Nature Guides

For sometime I have been looking for a series of pocket sized nature guides at a reasonable price, and finally found the Bloomsbury series.   These

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Einstein with Locker-Lampson

Einstein and the Bomb

The bizarre story of how Professor Albert Einstein came to live in a field in Norfolk for several weeks in 1933 is part of the

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