The Waverley Gazette

A Happy New Year to all our readers!

2016 is a leap year not just in the Gregorian calendar but an important one for Waverley Books.

A new range of Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks gives breadth and colour to the new year – a year which sees new books across the Waverley range.. in February, “Scottish Trials – Noteworthy & Sensational” is published. In March, look out for “God Bless Mrs McGinty!”, the autobiography of Bill Anderson, The Editor of The Sunday Post when circulation was at its height. Sue Reid Sexton’s new book ‘Writing On The Road” will also be out in March. New fiction from Jan Ellis will be ready for summer reading, and “The Good Life France” by award-winning travel writer, founder and editor of one of the most popular websites about France, Francophile Janine Marsh, The Peter Mayle of Pas-de-Calais will be published in September 2016.

Other Notable Anniversaries and Special Celebrations:

2016: Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design in Scotland

950th Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings

400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death

350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of London

200th Anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth

150th Anniversary of the birth of author Beatrix Potter

100th Anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth

100th Anniversary of the first battle of the Somme

100th Anniversary of the publication of The Theory of Relativity by Einstein

80th Anniversary of the Talking Clock making its debut.. Altogether now, at the first stroke it will be...

80th Anniversary of the Hindenburg airship's first flight

80th Anniversary of the first flight of a Spitfire

75th Anniversary of Rudolf Hess' flight to Scotland (Hamilton)

70th Anniversary of the death of H G Wells

65th Anniversary of the Stone of Scone being found

50th Anniversary of England winning the World Cup

45th Anniversary of the death of Louis Armstrong

30th Anniversary of the death of Henry Moore

20th Anniversary of the Dolly the Sheep clone (Edinburgh)

3rd Anniversary of Waverley Books re-establishing as part of an Independent

Scottish company.

Come and see us at :

Scotland’s Trade Fair – Spring, SECC Glasgow

Waverley Books/Geddes and Grosset will be at stand number C14.

Dates are 24-26 January 2016

 

Spring Fair International. NEC, Birmingham

 

Waverley Books/Geddes and Grosset will be at stand number 3J44.

Dates are 7-11 February 2016

 

The London Book Fair

Waverley Books/Geddes and Grosset will be at stand number 2A 65 at London Book Fair, Olympia. Dates are 12-14 April 2016.