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WORLD BOOK NIGHT 23 April 2012

Pride and Prejudice and The Alchemist are among the 25 titles that will be given away on World Book Night in 2012. One million books will be distributed at many UK venues including The Forest Bookshop. Some 20,000 members of the public will be chosen to give away copies of their favourite title from the list.

The books chosen this year range from classics like Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities to Sophie Kinsella's chick-lit hit The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. Also included are Bill Bryson's dissection of British life, Notes From A Small Island, and fantasy fiction Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

F. W. Harvey: Selected Poems
Edited by Anthony Boden and R.K.R. Thornton. Hardback with CD

This new selection of the poems of F.W. Harvey (1888-1957) presents the poet’s work as a creative sequence exemplifying his life and ideals in both peace and war.
The included CD of all of the 64 poems in the book, is a delight. Recorded by professional actors Jan Carey and David Goodland, it also includes five rare BBC archive recordings, from 1938, of F.W. Harvey reading five of his own poems.
Harvey, a significant figure in the poetry of the first half of the twentieth century, discovered his talent amid the adventure and pain of the First World War. He enlisted, was decorated for outstanding bravery at the front and commissioned, but he was captured in August 1916, and spent the rest of the war in German prison camps, where he could ‘see beyond trouble, the trenches and the prison walls to his native Gloucestershire, of which he wrote with such beauty and delight’.CLICK THE COVER PICTURE ABOVE FOR MORE INFORMATION

TELL THEM OF US

This is the story of those of the Forest of Dean who served in Burma, some who came home and some who did not. There are memories and personal accounts of battles, jungle warfare, comradeship, humour and tragedy. There are stories too of lasting friendships that began in Burma where men from the Forest would find joy in greeting ‘ ’ow bist owd’ but’ when encountering a fellow Forester. And when they returned, they set up the Forest of Dean Burma Star Association. Sadly but inevitably, that Association was finally disbanded in 2005, sixty years after Victory over Japan (VJ) Day. This book will serve as a record and play a part in preserving their memories for today’s and future generations. They shall not be forgotten.

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Recent launch evenings at the Forest Bookshop

1. Chris Morris 2 Matthew Hall

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