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By The Dart


see what’s new and what’s local. Anniversaries and Jubilees are everywhere and for book lovers the 25th anniversary of the Hay Festival near Brecon from 31 May – 10 June is a must for the diary. 2012 is also the year for all things British. Nostalgia, history, celebration and a dash of royalty – all that is apparent in Phil Scoble’s new book - The Chronicles of Dartmouth 1955 – 2010 (£25) – an essential buy for all who are local and for those who have an interest in the area. – see page 66. Dartmouth’s own Mitch


Tonks has also been busy with a new cookery book – Fish Easy (hardback @ £19.99).


Mitch’s new


and enticing book includes over 100 simple 30-minute recipes using accessible yet sustainable fish with plenty of tips and tricks to simplify


fish cookery and step-by-step instructions alongside some tantalising photography.


With the best fish on our doorstep,


preparing and cooking fish at home couldn’t be easier, tastier or healthier and there is something to suit everyone. My favourites include: Grilled mackerel with lemon, ginger and basil and monkfish with sage and roasted garlic and who can refuse Mitch’s Dartmouth salad. My other favourite food book


this month is The Little Paris Kitchen by Rachel Khoo (as seen on BBC2) – French food with a British twist – and I confess a touch of nostalgia for my student days in Paris – yes those kitchens really are that small! But madeleines stuffed with raspberries and lemon curd – how good can that be, though I’m sure Proust would be turning in his grave! I’m reliably informed by Andrea


in the Dartmouth Community Bookshop (and with 25 years in The Harbour Bookshop her finger is well on the pulse of all things bookey!) that the book to buy at the moment is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (hardback I know, but reasonable in price and size at £12.99). This is a tender, quietly comic and heart-stopping debut


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Book Review A


Best of British!


new column for a new season – Spring is here and new books and authors are cropping up all around! Time to


by Emma Jones


novel with a string of good reviews. “A magical, moving and uplifting tale about a man’s journey across Britain and into his own heart.” - Deborah Moggach (author of The Exotic Marigold Hotel).


so watch out book club! One to look out for - Bring up the Bodies by Hilary


Mantel (pub May 2012) – a welcome sequel to the popular 2009 Man Booker Prize Winner, Wolf Hall, which explores the demise of Anne Boleyn. And if you’re looking for something humorous – weird


things customers say in Bookshops (small hardback @ £7.99) based on the hugely popular blog by Jen Campbell - a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments. As a past bookseller at the Harbour Bookshop this rings a true note with me and no doubt Andrea could fill a library with her stories. “Do you have any books by Jane Eyre?” – being one of my favourites! All of the above are available in the Dartmouth Community Bookshop - do go and support them. And for all good books, new and old, don’t forget the Library at the Flavel and Compass Books in Lower Street. Happy reading and let me know what’s tickling your literary


tastebuds!


It’s firmly on the top of my next to read list


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