Millrace News
June 2011
After all the interest in My Friends the Miss Boyds last summer, we are very pleased to be bringing out a new edition of another Jane Duncan favourite. My Friend Monica, available from 24th June 2011, has all the wit, shrewdness and sheer fun of its predecessor. Like the Miss Boyds, it has a striking new jacket illustration by Kate Baylay and we’re delighted with the subtle way Kate’s design hints at the preoccupations and undercurrents of the novel. Kate is studying illustration in Bristol, at the University of the West of England, and will be graduating this summer. She has her own website www.katebaylay.com which is well worth a visit.
Also out this year is Graham Wilson’s Over the Hill, a thoughtful and witty collection of essays on mountain matters, whether bothies or C F Holland, mapping or the mountaineer’s responsibility to the environment. Published this autumn, this will be Graham’s last title for Millrace and it contains all the qualities of originality, wisdom and irreverence which make his earlier books such a good read.
Still on mountains, we’d like to recommend Mountain Views by Rupert Hoare, published by Vertebrate this September. Magnificently illustrated with over 130 photographs by the author, this encapsulates one man’s experience of wild places, from ski-mountaineering in Greenland to a night out on the Matterhorn, from seismic exploration in the Libyan desert to an ascent of Tasmania’s Federation Peak.