The list includes titles by local authors Peter Thomas, Jill Liddington and Andrew Bibby.

1: Hebden Bridge: A short history of the area by Peter Thomas. This illustrated history of the town and area, showing how we have changed over the centuries.

2: Milltown Memories: the Upper Calder Valley captured on camera. Back issues are now being sold of the well-illustrated quarterly journal featuring aspects of local history and old photographs.

3: The Backbone of England: Landscape and Life on the Pennine Watershed by Andrew Bibby and John Morrison. Lovely illustrated hardback by local author and journalist Andrew Bibby who walks the route of the Pennine Watershed exploring its history, ecology, geography and culture, with photos from former Hebden Bridge photographer and author, John Morrison.

4: Power in the Landscape: water-powered mills in the Upper Calder Valley. Permanently on the bestseller list, this is a well researched and illustrated history of watermills in the area.

5: Engleby by Sebastian Faulks. Mike Engleby says what others dare not even think and is devoid of scruple or self pity. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. Daily Mail book of the month.

6: Know Your Sheep by Jack Byard. Colour photographs and notes on the 41 different breeds of sheep most likely to be found on British farms. There can’t be an unlogged sheep in the district by now. Tractors following soon.

7: Fabrics, Filth and Fairy Tents by Angus Bethune Reach, edited by Chris Aspin. A first publication looking at the textile workers of West Yorkshire in 1849 with lots of graphic details and interviews.

8: Gold Pieces by Phyllis Bentley. The exciting 1968 locally based children’s classic about the Cragg Vale Coiners.

9: Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie. Hebden Bridge gets a mention in this entertaining love letter to the North which finds out where the cliches end and the truth begins.

10: Narrow Dog to Indian River by Terry Darlington. The couple who took their whippet to Carcassonne by narrow boat are now in the south-east of the USA, navigating their English narrow boat from Carolina to Florida.