OUR BOOK GROUPS
OUR BEST-SELLERS in 2017
Information for New Members
These are our best-selling titles in 2017 (up to end of April):
Book Review Club
We meet on the second Wednesday of most months,
2.30pm —4.00pm at Berry’s Coffee House. We will be
reviewing latest releases as well as classics. As space is limited
PLEASE BOOK with us if you would like to attend, and we
can tell you the theme for the next meeting. There is no
charge to join, and you will have a wonderful selection of
coffees, teas and cakes to choose from (for which you can pay
at the time).
Book Chat
Join us on the first Wednesday of most months, 2.30—
4.00pm at Burway Books for an informal chat about books.
We occasionally have a visiting author, details of which will
appear on our website and in the shop.
This event is FREE but please let us know if you would like
to come along as, again, space is limited.
Please check with us for BOTH Book Groups before
turning up to make sure we have not had to change dates
E-BOOKS and E-BOOK GIFT CARDS
1. Dethroning Mammon by Justin Welby
2. OS Explorer 217 Map: Long Mynd & Wenlock Edge
3. The Crystal Lake: Part Three of The Journey by Hilary Jane
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NETHERTON and Country Living
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Al-Khalili
The Horseman by Tim Pears
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain by
Julian Glover
Meadowland: the Private Life of an English Field by John
Lewis-Stempel
Carding Mill Valley & The Long Mynd (National Trust Guide
Book)
How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Dove Descending by Thomas Howard
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
We have several Netherton Foundry cookware items in stock
including the wonderful Slow Cooker.
2017
Client Earth: Author Event
Friday 2nd June 2017
See inside for details
Sherratt House
18 Beaumont Road
Church Stretton
Shrosphire SY6 6BN
Items not in stock we can get to order please ask Hilary,
Rosalind or Alun.
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8. Time Line Booklet—Church Stretton
9. All of a Winter's Night by Phil Rickman
10. Walking in Shropshire by John Gillham
11. Shropshire (AA Publishing)
12. Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim
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You can purchase thousands of e-book titles, CDs and DVDs
from us in-store or via the e-books page on our website.
Jones & Tracey Swain
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
The Doll Funeral by Kate Hamer
OS Landranger 137 Map: Ludlow, Church Stretton, Wenlock
Edge
The Long Mynd: Its History & Wildlife by Barrie Raynor
Books, Maps …. and so much more.
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AUTHOR EVENT: CLIENT EARTH
A talk by James Thornton and Martin Goodman.
(in conjunction with Stretton Climate Care)
Friday June 2nd, 7.30pm at Silvester Horne Institute
Tickets £6, from Burway Books (includes refreshments)
We are delighted to welcome environmental lawyer James
Thornton, and author Martin Goodman, to Church Stretton.
James Thornton is founder and CEO of ClientEarth, the only
pan-European group of environmental lawyers working in the
public interest, throughout the EU and in Africa, China and
the US. He is a solicitor of England and Wales, and a member
of the bar in New York, California, and the Supreme Court of
the Unites States. The New Statesman names him as one of the
ten people who could change the world. He is also a Zen
Buddhist priest, a naturalist, an author, a violinist and a
birdwatcher.
Martin Goodman is the author of nine books of fiction and
non-fiction. He holds the chair of Creative Writing at the
University of Hull, where he is the director of the Philip Larkin
Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing.
“The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing!...”
from ‘La belle dame sans Merci’by John Keats
….Client Earth: the book (continued)
Walking With Plato’
At the head of this new legal army stands James Thornton, who
takes governments to court, and wins. And his client is the Earth.
by Gary Hayden
With Client Earth, we travel from Poland to Ghana, from Alaska
to China, to see how citizens can use public interest law to
protect their planet. Foundations and philanthropists support
the law group ClientEarth because they see, plainly and brightly,
that the law is a force all parties recognize. Lawyers who take the
Earth as their client are exceptional and inspirational. They give
us back our hope.
Copies of 'Client Earth' are available from us at a special price
of £16 (RRP £20) when purchasing a ticket & on the night
IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD
In tune with the talk by Client Earth, here is our selection of
thoughtful writing about planet earth …
‘ The Fight for Beauty’
by Fiona Reynolds
Client Earth: the book
REDISCOVER A CLASSIC
‘Rural Rides’
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe
and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new
year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice,
tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose
all hope.
Who will stop the planet from committing ecological
suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations?
Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, environmental laws need to
be enforceable and enforced. Step forward a fresh breed of
passionately purposeful environmental lawyers. They provide new rules to legislatures, see that they are enforced, and
keep us informed. They tackle big business to ensure money
flows into cultural change, because money is the grammar of
business just as science is the grammar of nature.
“If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright.” So said
Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy
buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging
trek: to walk from John O'Groats to Land's End. But it wasn't
all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard villages and cosy
bed and breakfasts.
In this humorous, inspiring and delightfully British tale, Gary
finds solitude and weary limbs bring him closer to the
wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Recalling Rousseau's
reverie, Bertrand Russell's misery, Plato's love of beauty and
Epicurus' joy in simplicity, Walking with Plato offers a breath
of fresh, country air and clarity for anyone craving an escape
from the humdrum of everyday life.
by William Cobbett
In a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out
everything that can't be given a monetary value, Fiona Reynolds
proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple - to inspire
us through the beauty of the world around us. Delving into our
past, examining landscapes, nature, farming and urbanisation,
she shows how ideas about beauty have arisen and evolved. A
passionate, polemical call to arms, The Fight for Beauty presents an
alternative path forward: one that, if adopted, could take us all to a
better future.
Between 1821 and 1826 William Cobbett, a prolific writer and
journalist, toured the southern English countryside by foot and
on horseback. Rural Rides is his remarkable account of what he
saw.