Pioneers who shaped society

Roger Osborne

3:16pm Monday 17th June 2013

Iron, Steam & Money: The Making Of The Industrial Revolution, by Roger Osborne, Bodley Head, £25

Davie's dark past revealed

John Samson’s short novel is set on the titular island off the coast of North Ayrshire, where mystery and wrong-doing is rife

4:00pm Monday 10th June 2013

Horse Island by John Samson Book Guild Publishing, £15.99

Tale of young love is a real tear-jerker

8:50am Tuesday 28th May 2013

Rainbow Rowell – Eleanor And Park (Orion Books, £7.99) ****

Village heroes lifted the cup

Coal, Goals And Ashes by David P Waddington

8:49am Tuesday 28th May 2013

Coal, Goals And Ashes by David P Waddington Route, £12.99

Imagination will run wild

Award-winning Bradford writer, actress and TV Trish Cooke

11:20am Monday 20th May 2013

Look Back! by Trish Cooke Papilotte Press, £6.99

Factory lives are compared in children's book

One of the wonderful illustrations by Nick Tankard from Mystery At The Mill

9:12am Monday 13th May 2013

Those familiar with the black and white drawings of Nick Tankard at Salts Mill can see more of his work in a newly-published book, Mystery At The Mill, a story by Elspeth Rawstron, in which working conditions of children in Victorian mills are paralleled by sweatshop labour on the Indian Sub-Continent.

How The Beatles changed politics in the USSR

How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin: The Untold Story Of A Noisy Revolution by Leslie Woodhead

9:16am Monday 13th May 2013

How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin: The Untold Story Of A Noisy Revolution by Leslie Woodhead (Bloomsbury, priced £12.99)

Walks on Bradford's doorstep

Five Rise Locks, with the buildings of Bingley beyond

9:12am Monday 29th April 2013

Stepping Out From Leeds And Bradford, by Keith Wadd, Ramblers’ Association West Riding Area, £7.50

Tale of corruption is a unique read

9:13am Monday 22nd April 2013

George V Higgins – The Rat Of Fire, (Orion, £8.99) ***

Wartime tale is full of drama

Author Leah Fleming

9:09am Monday 22nd April 2013

The Girl Under The Olive Tree by Leah Fleming Simon & Schuster, £12.99

There's no romance in Bronte author Anne Dinsdale's Haworth

The Parsonage’s Ann Dinsdale with the photograph

10:35am Tuesday 16th April 2013

So much has been written about the Brontes, you might wonder what could be said about them that hasn’t been said before.

Lessons under the Iron Lady

Very Near The Line: An Autobiographical Sketch Of Education And Its Politics In The Thatcher Years by Donald Naismith

9:33am Monday 8th April 2013

Very Near The Line: An Autobiographical Sketch Of Education And Its Politics In The Thatcher Years by Donald Naismith AuthorHouse, £9.95

A tantalising tale as opposites attract during wartime

9:34am Monday 8th April 2013

T D Griggs – Distant Thunder (Orion, £7.99) ***

Crime writer John is building his online fanbase

John Waddington-Feather, whose Kindle books are growing in popularity

10:17am Monday 25th March 2013

We have a constant stream of books landing on the features desk each week, but increasing numbers of local authors are turning to the virtual world of self-publishing, getting their work out online.

Reel tales of a father and son

Aiden Goatley, author of 10 Films With My Dad

9:19am Monday 18th March 2013

10 Films With My Dad by Aidan Goatley Kimble Books, £5.99

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