September 2024 Newsletter
Welcome to the September 2024 newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed of new information, articles and books available on our website.
As always, we hope this newsletter finds you fit and well. The days are getting shorter - and colder - resulting in some beautiful misty mornings in the Wye Valley. Our photo this month give a flavour of this, capturing Tintern Abbey in the mist.
The Abbey is the venue for lots of interesting events. In October you can enjoy a 'magical night' at the Abbey for the Shadows of Tintern event. There is also the Wings of Wales birds of prey experience on the 21st - 22nd September: 'learn about the history of hawking, and enjoy the birds' majestic flight'.
Elsewhere in the village, there is a 'Meet the Writers' event at the Tintern Village Hall on Saturday 28th September where you can 'join four renowned local authors for readings and Q&A'.
We were pleasantly surprised to see a recent article on NPR extolling the virtues of a good old-fashioned book (over an e-reader) when it comes to bedtime reading. It summarises some interesting recent research that confirms what we've known for a long time: there's no beating a good (paper) book when it comes to bedtime reading!
And finally, don't forget our ongoing sale: we have a 25% sale on older stock items and a 30% sale on all special book room items! Hopefully you can find a gem to read as the evenings close in! Unfortunately, due to red-tape, we are still not shipping to Europe from our website - so European customers will be unable to take advantage of these offers - sorry!
Alfred Edmeades Bestall contributed by Sonia
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Born on 14th December 1892 in Burma to parents who were methodist missionaries, of the first four years of his life he has no recollection. Having been seriously injured in the upper spine, he and his sister were sent back to the UK in 1897. What had happened remains a mystery to this day. Did they fall from their pony? Fall down the stairs during a game of make-believe? Or was it a more serious event caused by their ‘ayah’ who was responsible for them at the time? Whatever the cause, his parents would not reveal it, and Bestall, although not crippled, was left with partial speech paralysis and a persistent stutter. Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| The Sword in the Stone written by White, T.H. | A House In Town: 22 Arlington Street, Its Owners and Builders written by Watkin, David & Ratcliff, Antony & Thompson, Nicholas & Mills, John | Vineyards & Vignerons written by Yapp, Robin & Yapp, Judith | Naval Weapons of World War Two written by Campbell, John |
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| Price: £12.00 | Price: £16.00 | Price: £30.00 | Price: £90.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS FANTASY | Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) LONDON ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGS | Categorised in EUROPE FRANCE WINE | Categorised in MILITARY NAVY MARITIME WORLD WAR II |
| Jen of The Abbey School written by Oxenham, Elsie J. | Rupert Annual 2013 No author listed. | The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision written by Kamen, Henry | British Birds of Prey (NN 60) written by Brown, Leslie H. |
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| Price: £16.00 | Price: £12.00 | Price: £12.00 | Price: £14.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS ABBEY SCHOOL SCHOOL STORIES (GIRLS) GIRLS | Categorised in CHILDRENS ANNUALS RUPERT RUPERT ANNUAL | Categorised in FOLIO SOCIETY HISTORY HISTORY (EUROPEAN) SPAIN | Categorised in NATURAL HISTORY NEW NATURALIST ORNITHOLOGY BIRDS OF PREY |
The Ocean on a Plank By Captain W. A. Doust CBE contributed by Bernice
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The title of this book intrigued me. What did it mean and what was the book about as the title does not make it clear? This is the autobiography of Captain Doust who spent most of his working life on the sea. His area of expertise was marine salvage where his engineering skill and his amazing ability to improvise, with whatever equipment was available, under the most difficult of circumstances made him a master of his profession. He was born in Portsmouth in April 1895 into a strong nautical family background. Both his grandfather and father were Royal Navy engineers, so whatever his career it would be to do with the sea. Read more... |
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A Selection from The Special Book Room
| Biggles Sorts It Out written by Johns, W.E. | An Historical Tour In Monmouthshire (2 Volumes) written by Coxe, William | The Magic-Beano Book 1949 No author listed. | Era The History of English Racing Automobiles Limited: and The Continuing Story of The Cars 1933-1980 written by Weguelin, David & et al, |
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| 1st 1967 Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 184 pages. Some and corners bumped, some wear to cover edges. Textblock is foxed. Front joint has started to crack. Some heavy pencil marks to front free-endpaper erased (old price). Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby with damp staining to spine and folds. Price: £133.00 | 1801 Two volumes. Full brown calf binding, red title labels to spine. Gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations and maps, some fold-out. Spines rebacked retaining original title-strips. Covers are very edge-worn and scuffed. New endpapers. Two names in ink to top margins of title-pages of both volumes (one name crossed out in each volume). Heavy foxing to contents and a musty (antiquarian) smell to contents. All plates are present. Fold-out map of Monmouthshire... Price: £182.00 | 1949 Pictorial boards, red spine with yellow title. Two-tone and b/w illustrations throughout. 127 pages. Covers are edge worn and grubby, crease to lower corner of rear board and possibly lower 3" of spine has been glued down(?). Belongs to box clean. Contents are browned, foxed and fingered. Margin tears (some repaired) and slight paper loss to margins throughout, top corner of page 95/6 has been torn off (no loss of text). A decent copy of a scarce Beano annual. Price: £245.00 | 1st 1980 Limited Edition of 100, numbered and signed by H.H. Prince Bira. Large oblong format. Blue leather binding, silver title to spine and logo to front. B/w & some colour photos. 288 pages including index. All edges blue. Scarce in the leather binding. This book is number 31 in a worldwide limited edition of 100. Some minor browning to spine else a lovely copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase with 'ERA' logo glued to front... Price: £700.00 |
This Month's Special Offer
Special Book Room 30% SaleWe are currently offering a 30% discount on ALL books in our Special Book Room. No need to use a voucher code - all items are already discounted. Browse current stock in this sale. |
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The Stella & Rose's Books Team
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