All you need to know about books at www.booksmonthly.co.uk Issue 4 July 2008
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The menu is self-explanatory - try it and see for yourselves. The magazine is arranged into three main sections, REVIEWS, FEATURE ARTICLES and STORIES, and NEW & COMING SOON TITLES. The latter section is a little like a bookshop where you can browse what's new for this month, but it is arranged by Publisher, as this is the easiest way for me to do it. Let me knowwhat you think...
Last weekend the fourth INDIANA JONES movie smashed box office records with takings estimated to be in excess of £148m - there are lots more great new Indy books reviewed in this issue, see the Feature Articles and Stories menu above All of the titles listed or reviewed in Books Monthly are available from the store. Click on the Amazon logo to check availability as many are not yet published.
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If you were lucky, and you're a dad, you might have received a copy of this fantastic book on Father's Day! Neil Oliver, the historian from the smash BBC series COAST, retells the stories that inspired us to be better men during the last century. He laments... 
2008 is set to be an exciting year for Fidra Books with a new list of titles with wider appeal appearing alongside our main list of collectors’ editions.
The latter list will see the publication of books such as Bunkle Scents a Clue by M Pardoe, last but one in the series and one of the rarest; Dragon Castle by Elinor Lyon, an almost impossible to find title set in Wales near the author’s home; Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon by Anne Digby; Far Distant Oxus by Pamela Whitlock and Katharine Hull, first in the Oxus trilogy written by two schoolgirls and with a foreword by Arthur Ransome; two of the popular Alison books by Sheila Stuart, and Pony Club Team by Josephine Pullein Thompson.
Concurrent with this will be our mass market list beginning with The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker – this has been one of our most successful books and deserves a bigger audience and so we have a lovely new cover for it and later this year, it can be found, as they say, in all good bookshops. We also have the rights to Ruby Ferguson’s marvellous Jill series and will be starting to reissue those with the original text and new covers beginning with Jill’s Gymkhana. Our list of pony books continues with Eventer’s Dream; the first books in Caroline Akrill’s Eventing trilogy.
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ANNE DIGBY: FIFTH YEAR FRIENDSHIPS AT TREBIZON ~ 12th book in the fab' series about Rebecca and Friends. Rebecca Mason has descisions to make should she go for a career in Tennis or stay on at Trebizon school and move into the sixth form with her friends? An agent has seen her play tennis on TV
in the documentary that was made about Trebizon school and thinks she is the perfect person to go far in tennis. Rebbecca isn't sure. And what about her boyfriend Robbie? Things aren't going so well there. Rebecca has met up with an old friend Cliff who is loads of fun. Does Robbie only like Rebecca because of her tennis? And will he go off her if she decides to stay at school and not pursue her career? If you want to know the answers to all these questions then buy this book, it is the 12th book in the absolutely
brilliant series of books about Rebecca Mason and her friends at Trebizon boarding school. It's more suited to ages 10-14 who may really be able to relate to Rebecca. If you think boarding school stories are boring then think again because this isn't.
SHEILA STUART: ALISON AND THE WITCHES CAVE ~ 'Up on the hills above Clarig in north-west Scotland where Alison Campbell and her family live, lies a loch with an ancient legend about a witch. One day Alison and her friends go to the loch for a picnic and to explore the witch’s cave but while there they see a man acting in a very suspicious manner.
There have been other mysterious events and Alison and her brother Niall decide to find out what is going on, especially as their uncle is also behaving rather oddly. As they uncover the truth, they discover that there is an unexpected connection between the mystery and the witch’s cave.
Books Monthly (formerly Gateway Monthly) is published by Paul Edmund Norman on the first day of each month. You can contact me via e-mail at: editor@booksmonthly.co.uk. If you'd like to get a story published in Books Monthly just e-mail it to me and I'll consider it - no payment though, I'm afraid!