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 new ones from self-published authors as well as from mainstream publishers, so here goes. Oh, and our 2025 Tide Times booklets are now available.
Jessica Perry
Jessica Perry is a local artist from Aylsham in North Norfolk who has produced two delightful books of her drawings with brief humourous writings. It’s a Thing… sees the world through the eyes of a rather self-absorbed and sarcastic cat (aren’t they all?) while Gone to Ground looks into the world of a mole that seems to listen to BBC Radio 4 and has a particular fascination with the shipping forecast. These make great Christmas gifts.
A collection of humourous cat drawings
| Author | Jessica Perry |
| Format: | Softback |
| Dimensions: | 15cm x 14cm |
| Pages: | 48 |
| Publisher: | |
| ISBN: | 9781399911948 |
| Year: | 2021 |
| RRP: | £12.95 |
| Author | Jessica Perry |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 20cm x 14.8cm |
| Pages: | 88 |
| Publisher: | |
| ISBN: | 9781399958493 |
| Year: | 2023 |
| RRP: | £14.95 |
Monster alert!
This children’s book by Suffolk author Clement C. Roar (aka primary school teacher Lloyd James), is a take on the famous Night Before Christmas poem, involving a celebration of mechanical monsters with super colourful illustrations by Natasha Pollack. Ideal for 4-7 year olds.
| Author | Clement C. Roar |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 29.6cm x 21cm |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Publisher: | Wonderful-Ness |
| ISBN: | 9781738559206 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £7.99 |
Friendly rivalry?
Rivalry between nearby communities is not unknown, but it can get out of hand. In this humourous tale, two fictional North Norfolk villages compete in the Best Kept Village competition. I’m sure many readers will recognise some of these character traits in people from their own local communities! Another good stocking filler.
Some villages will do anything to win ...
| Author | Mart Capsticks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 19.8cm x 12.7cm |
| Pages: | 204 |
| Publisher: | Troubador |
| ISBN: | 9781805144205 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £9.99 |
A stately home rises again
Norwich bookshop owner, David Clarke, has written previous books on about Norfolk’s stately homes, now mostly out of print, and this one started, like many other books, during the Covid lockdown. Copious research using books in his own collection, Norfolk Records Office and other sources has resulted in this fascinating history of the little known Bylaugh Hall near Dereham, how it fell into ruin and then was rebuilt and refurbished into its current condition.
The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of the Stately Home Nobody Wanted
| Author | David Clarke |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 23cm x 17cm |
| Pages: | 164 |
| Publisher: | |
| ISBN: | 9781399974363 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £14.95 |
Elly Griffiths
This popular author of crime fiction has said that she is stopping or at least pausing the Ruth Galloway series, which has run to some 15 books, but in her new collection of short stories, Ruth and Nelson feature in at least one. Catch up with them and some of Elly’s favourite characters from her other detective series in The Man in Black and Other Stories. And if you haven’t already seen it, Elly Griffith’s Norfolk is a lovely hardback book of North Norfolk images showing locations from many of the Galloway series, with commentary by the author.
And Other Stories
| Author | Elly Griffiths |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 19.6cm x 12.8cm |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Publisher: | Quercus |
| ISBN: | 9781529420531 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £9.99 |
A Photographic Journey Through the Land of Ruth Galloway
| Author | Elly Griffiths |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Dimensions: | 25.4cm x 19.9cm |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Publisher: | Quercus |
| ISBN: | 9781529427523 |
| Year: | 2023 |
| RRP: | £30.00 |
New from Poppyland Publishing
Local publisher Poppyland have two new books out. Fishermen, Bathers and Beachfolk reproduces Juliet Seebohm’s enchanting sketches of 1880s Cromer, along with text from Helen Murray who sets them in a historical context. Ashill, Norfolk: A Rural Community Through Time is a chronicle of the village near Swaffham.
Ashill, Norfolk
| Author | Andy Reid |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 23.4cm x 15.6cm |
| Pages: | 161 |
| Publisher: | Poppyland |
| ISBN: | 9781869831431 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £12.95 |
The lives of those captured in Juliet Seebohm's Cromer sketches 1883-1884
| Author | Helen Murray |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 15.6cm x 26.1cm |
| Pages: | 140 |
| Publisher: | Poppyland |
| ISBN: | 9781869831417 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £11.95 |
And finally our Tide Times booklets:
| Author | |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 17.2cm x 10.5cm |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Publisher: | Bittern Books |
| ISBN: | 9781913415136 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £3.50 |
| Author | |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 17.2cm x 10.5cm |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Publisher: | Bittern Books |
| ISBN: | 9781913415129 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £3.50 |
