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PROMOTIONS AND EVENTS Exeter Book Fair The next Exeter Book Fair comes to Matthews Hall, Topsham, on Sunday 22nd June, 2008. Antiquarian and secondhand books, and often maps and prints, for sale.10:30am-4pm. Admission £1. Refreshments available. Enquiries to 01548 561798. Organised by PBFA. It will be opened by local author Michael Jecks. In the Mob We have a number of copies of this award-winning book: it was Brian Sewell's choice as the London Evening Standard's Book of the Year - which is a seriously strong plaudit for a self-published book. It's a very interesting memoir of the late Tony Pearson's experiences during National Service, the only period of UK conscription not immediately adjacent to a war. See the Express & Echo: Service memoirs win Book of the Year award and the Exmouth Journal's From jumble of notes to Book of the Year (Personal view by Ray, website maintainer: this is a very good book. It's not - as is often the case - an indictment or satire of National Service, but an intelligent and straightforward account). The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 11th, 39th and 54th of Foot 1958-2007 Major General Colin Shortis CB CBE has very kindly chosen us to be sole retail outlet for the first copies of this interesting history of the past 50 years of a prestigious regional regiment. Illustrated in full colour, this is an extremely well-produced 256-page 10"x7.5" hardback. On sale from Joel Segal Books for £25.00. The Lympstone Story Edited by Rosemary Smith This is a new edition, revised and updated with extra chapters and much new material, of the Lympstone Society's history of the village. With 52 pages, printed in full colour, and with evident high standards of research, this is an excellent little book. On sale from Joel Segal Books or Lympstone Post Office for £3.95. Talking about Topsham & Fairy tales of Topsham Now available: two books in one volume: a reprint of Sara Vernon's earlier book, and her new compilation of Topsham recollections from the early 1990s, as told by the Brothers Pym and Eric Voysey. It's on sale from Joel Segal Books or Topsham News, price £5.99. Dorothy Holman: A Life "A charming book taken from Dorothy Holman's diaries and with many recollections of Topsham". Written by Lily Neal and published by Topsham Museum Society, this is a short biography of one of the prominent members of the shipbuilding Holman family, whose bequest of her home initiated Topsham's museum. Aug 2006, 54pp, ISBN 09524591 3 2. Copies available from Joel Segal Books or Topsham Museum shop. £6.50. Veitch Exhibit 2006 To mark the reprinting of Hortus Veitchii, a centenary reprint of the classic history of the horticultural explorers of James Veitch & Sons, there will be a Veitch exhibit at Joel Segal Books, Mon 4th - Wed 6th September, 2 - 5 pm. An original copy of Hortus Veitchii and early Veitch catalogues will be on display. More details from Caradoc Doy. Joel Segal (left), Bill Pertwee and Lily Neal at Bill's signing session on 24th August 2006 for the promotion of his two latest books: his autobiography A Funny Way to Make a Living and Stars in Battledress, the story of service entertainers in WW2. On the Turn of the Tide "Diana Fynn’s autobiography is a moving account of her quest to make sense of life’s spiritual experiences, as she played her part in some of the most turbulent events of the 20th century. As secretary to Roger Hollis (later suspected of being the Fifth Man in the MI5 spy-ring) she lived through the London Blitz at the nerve centre of British Intelligence. Later in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) she set up a home for orphaned African children and, because of her reaction against white racism and political moves towards apartheid, she helped to form the multi-racial Centre Party and edited its anti-government newspaper. Through all this, often captured in her own vivid poetry, Diana’s sensitivity to spiritual and psychic experience enables her to take the reader on a rare exploration into what it means to be human". Available from us or direct from the publisher, Goldpanner Books. BACK TO TOP

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