{"id":5459,"date":"2011-12-28T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T21:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2011-12-28T21:09:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T21:09:33","slug":"new-books-about-abingdon-published-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Five new books about Abingdon published in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very fortunate to have three book shops in Abingdon, and there were five, possibly\u00a0 more, books about Abingdon published in 2011 &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/20112801.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Books 2011\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Waterways Walk is a very recent booklet, describing an 8.5 mile circular walk, with text by Heather Brown, and pictures by Stuart Roper, produced by Choose Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/20112802.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Books 2011\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;A sweet and hopeful people &#8211; a story of Abingdon Baptist Church 1649 &#8211; 2011&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 is a book written and revised by Michael\u00a0 Hambleton.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/20112803.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Books 2011\" \/><br \/>\nCelebrating Abingdon&#8217;s History, is a book produced by Abingdon Area Archaelogical and Historical Society. The book comprises 9 papers first presented at St Helen&#8217;s Church in honour of local historian Mieneke Cox.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/20112804.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Books 2011\" \/><br \/>\n52 things to do far from the madding beaches is a book about the Vale of White Horse, which of course includes Abingdon. The book grew out of a competition asking people to submit poems and prose, photographs and paintings about where they live in the Vale. It is a book to dip into and also gives ideas of things to do locally.<\/p>\n<p>The final book called <strong>The Lost Abbey of Abingdon<\/strong> I have not even seen yet. I tried to get a copy today but both Mostly Books and The Bookstore sold out on Christmas Eve, and are currently ordering more. W H Smiths did not have the book on their system yet.\u00a0 I will add the picture when I find a copy.<\/p>\n<p>By the way&#8230; Have I missed any books you know about Abingdon from 2011?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very fortunate to have three book shops in Abingdon, and there were five, possibly\u00a0 more, books about Abingdon published in 2011 &#8230; The Abingdon Waterways Walk is a very recent booklet, describing an 8.5 mile circular walk, with text by Heather Brown, and pictures by Stuart Roper, produced by Choose Abingdon. &#8220;A sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}