Books About Love

The Hebden Bridge Times is running a summer campaign promoting the  Hebden Bridge Summer of Love. As part of this we thought we'd ask for people's best book(s) about love - of any kind, it doesn't have to be romantic -and the reason for choosing them. This has sparked some debate in the shop.

Obvious choices have been Jane Austen's Persuasion, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and our younger customers have put in a strong vote for the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer (interestingly, as Twilight fans will know, Wuthering Heights is Bella's favourite book). Other choices are Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love (politics and love), Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray (love with a great sound-track) and Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula le Guin (the difficulty of love between different species).


Please feel free to post your suggestions here, or come and visit the shop, and add your choice to our reader's list.