Abraham
A glance ahead
A Glance Ahead to 2011
Here at Shire towers we've just finished the catalogue for the second half of 2010, and very handsome it is too. It's just reminded me what great titles await in the Summer, Fall and Winter of this year.
There are, of course, a whole slew of new titles in the Shire Living Histories series, including a fantastic book on England during the Restoration (this one is particularly interesting for those of us interested in the poetry of the period ... but that's just me). There's a couple of great additions to our popular range of titles about the Victorians and Edwardians: Life in the Victorian Country House and The Edwardian Farm. There's even a REALLY interesting book - published in conjunction with the festival itself, I might add - about the Glyndebourne festival, for those who love both Shire and opera. I could go on - but won't. Suffice it to say it's going to be a good second half to 2010.
And not only that. I've just finished getting the list of titles together for the first half of next year, and if anything that looks even more exciting. There's a beautiful book about the London Olympics (all of them), even more entries in the Shire Living Histories, and one all about cider - to name but a few. I hope that's got Shire fans as excited about the coming twelve months as we are here at HQ ...
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Ooh, a book on the Restoration, great! But I notice that you now call our Autumn the Fall. I don't think you should change the English word even if you do sell books to America. The Americans surely know we refer to the Fall as Autumn? Naughty, naughty, keep Englishness alive! Fall is something you do when your legs go from under you!
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I agree with Margaret 'Fall is inappropriate. Otherwise you will have to start by explaining what 'Cider' is. We have here the last bastion of fundamentally English publishing and should revel in our difference and diversity, even if our eclectic culture is that which we celebrate here.
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Actually, as I understood it, 'Autumn' is Norman French, and 'Fall' is Saxon in origin, and the latter was used in Britain before it went to the American colonies.
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Fall does indeed come from Old English, but was not an Anglo-Saxon season - it is first documented in the sense of a season in the sixteenth century, specifically as 'fall of the leafe'. The Anglo-Saxons recognised only winter and summer, though the early church calendar proposed four seasons.
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