Books - Books - Books!

First our local bookshops

Barnetts - Gordon House, High Street Wadhurst
Piccadilly Books - Church Street Ticehurst

Then our local history books

• The Day Wadhurst Changed: Michael Harte, Rachel RIng and Heather Woodward Pbk £9 - the full story of the RAF Meteor crash on our High Street
• Wadhurst - Then and Now: Stan Cosham & Michael Harte £12 - 317 illustrations of life in Wadhurst from the mid 19th century to 30 June 2003
• 'Victorian Wadhurst - Glimpses of our Past' from the Wadhurst History Society £9
• The Last Great Prize F ight: Michael Insley Pbk £4 - a new and completely revised edition with many more illustrations - Wadhurst' s claim to boxing fame
• Wadhurst - Town of the High Weald - Alan Savidge and Oliver Mason £5.95 - not many copies left
• The Education of Wadhurst - Kenneth F Ascott, Hardback reduced from £16.95 to £6.99
  (The late Kenneth Ascott was at one time organist and Choirmaster at the Parish Church and a master at the then secondary school at Sparrows Green. The book traces the history of education in Wadhurst in Victorian times.)

All available from Barnett's; the first four from the publisher Greenman Enterprise and the first three from Piccadilly Books

Then books by local authors

	Roger Bassett - Better Then than Now a History of Tunbridge Wells Rangers and Tunbridge Wells [Two Blues] This book, densely packed with facts and figures, covers these two local football clubs from their earliest days to the start of World War 2. Copiously illustrated with early press photos and pictures of many of the players, this is a book to entertain any football enthusiast!  Further details here - price £12.95
	Jane Spurr - 'A Song of Farewell: Charles Proctor 1906 - 1996' Charles Proctor’s musical life was long and varied, encompassing the beginnings of a career as a concert pianist, continuing as a conductor, organist, composer, teacher, lecturer, writer, examiner and adjudicator. He touched the lives of countless thousands of people over a period of some sixty years. At Trinity College of Music, generations of students benefitted not only from his training but, more importantly, from his inspiration, as, by his own example, he instilled in them a dedication to the Art of Music. This book is a small tribute to him from one of those students.  Pbk price £9.99 Contact
	Peter Ryan - 'The Green Fields of Africa' A historical love story set in the vast sweep of East African scenery, half a century ago. Copies available from the author price £9.99 post free