Paul O'Grady

Well done to Paul O'Grady - for moaning about his kindle! He promoted the book over the kindle which he said on his show, (see his interview with Miss Celia Imrie) had problems with both dirty finger prints, and it bringing up the dictionary when he 'turned the pages'. Well done Paul - there is nothing like curling up with a good book - a 'real' one!

Viola Bayley

Currently working on putting an article on Viola Bayley, written by a friend/customer, on our website. Interesting - especially as she has both written about her life and collated all her works including all her short stories, but it takes me ages to transmit it onto our site. I wish I was more computer literate!!!!! When I have finished this one, I have one to do on Kathleen O'Farrell that her daughter kindly wrote with her mothers input.

More about the Seals of East Anglia

Having written before about the seals on the beach, at Wells, I was delighted to find a book in our stock - Summer of the Seals by Geoffrey Morgan - all about Seals in East Anglia. It concerns a girl whose dog finds a seal pup stranded on the sands of the East Anglian Estuary, but then her pleasure is spoilt when she discovers that seals are wanted for their pelts. A story follows of a girl's fight to save the life of a young seal, and then to meet the wider challenge of the tragedies that follow a season's culling.

Diana Wynne Jones

We were sad to hear of the death of this writer of popular children's fantasy book author on March 26th 2011, aged 76, after her battle with cancer. Diana was a British Born author (1934) who wrote unconventional fantasy stories with modern settings that featured witches and mythological figures. She began with 'Wilkin's Tooth' published in the UK in 1973, and in the US, under the title Witches Business in 1974. In this she pitted a group of contemporary schoolchildren against a witch. She then progressed to writed around 40 or so books, and won several awards. She will be sorely missed by her many fans as well as her friends & family.

Independent Book Sellers

Today I see that ABE have acquired ZVAB books (which of course are part of choose books).
Now a couple of years ago Amazon bought up ABE books. ABE also bought up the small firm , chrislands, that made & hosted small book sites, for little independant booksellers like ourselves - peakirk books. At this rate amazon will soon own all the internet sites on the globe. Fair & Competitve trading? I think not.