Traditional Song Forum members have been busy publishing new books, so here is a round-up.
Faber has published Steve Roud’s mammoth (764 page) Folk Song in England – go to the Faber website for details. Best deal is at the Book Depository (an Amazon subsidiary) where you can get free postage to anywhere in the World.
While the ink on that was still drying, Steve Roud, in partnership with David Atkinson, has also had another book published by Cambridge Scholars – Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. This is rather more expensive at £64.99 (and is the same on Amazon). However you can get a 20% discount on the publisher’s website if you use the code ‘street20’.
Steve Roud also provided a Foreword for my own book As I Walked Out, Sabine Baring-Gould and the search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall and Julia Bishop provided an authoritative appendix on the music of Baring-Gould’s collection. The book is published by Signal Books and you can get this from the Book Depository for £14.67 (including postage to anywhere in the world). I can’t compete with the postage elsewhere, but if you write to me [martin.graebe(at)btinternet.com] I can send you a copy for £14.60.
Finally, Peter Wood’s book Johnny Handle, Life and Soul is now available from him – go to his website where you can buy the book for £14.50 (including postage in the UK).