Book Corner

One of the most asked for and eagerly anticipated book of this year is from the number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister. It’s the seventh instalment in the hugely popular family saga The Seven Sisters, published on the 27th May. Many of our readers who buy one are hooked and can’t wait to begin the next.

They’ll search the world to find her.

The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister?

They only have one clue – an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe – from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland – uniting them all in their mission to complete their family at last.

In doing so, they will slowly unearth a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost one hundred years ago, as other brave young women risk everything to change the world around them.

Praise for The Seven Sisters series:

‘The Seven Sisters series is heartwrenching, uplifting and utterly enthralling’ - Lucy Foley ‘Well researched and compelling … on an epic scale’ - Sunday Express ‘There’s something magical about these stories’ - Prima ‘Addictive storytelling’ - Woman & Home ‘A masterclass in beautiful writing’ - The Sun

The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley - out now, £20 hardback at Winstones.

Posted in the Past Second Delivery is the next in a series of books written by Dorset author Helen Baggott.

Beginning with postcards sent more than a hundred years ago, the book reveals the true stories the author found using genealogy. With just the name and address of the recipient, each card is researched – with surprising results. The family who brought home the Unknown Warrior, an actor who performed in the first televised play on the BBC, and families linked with the American War of Independence are just some of the stories. The book also explains how the research was completed and provides tips for the beginner genealogist. The methods will be familiar to viewers of Who Do You Think You Are? and A House Through Time – there’s even a family who lived in that show’s Guinea Street in Bristol. The book begins with an update on a postcard featured in the first Posted in the Past book – and its surprising link with Dorset. Posted in the Past Second Delivery is available from bookshops and online.

Lane on the Stour

It’s more than 50 years since Dorset landscape photographer Roger Lane first trained his lens on the county’s finest scenes, and times have changed.

‘When I first started photographing my home county, it was a very solitary occupation,’ he writes in the introduction to his latest books. ‘I might have come across the odd walker or even the occasional rambling group but hardly ever another photographer. ‘Today you can arrive to find several photographers almost fighting for the same tripod position, capturing the same scene in identical composition and light.’

For his latest books, Roger has divided inland Dorset into three areas and produced a book on each; ‘My Dorset Country: A Personal

View (books 1, 2 and 3).’

Each book offers a 50-page romp through his favourite landscapes and features, and includes not only his own words and pictures but some shots by his photographic chums Roger Holman and Tony Bates.

Special interest to local readers will be Book 2, which covers the River Stour and the Blackmore Vale.

Three further books on the Dorset coast are planned later this year with proceeds from all

six going to the Dorset Wildlife Trust.

But the books also come with a warning about the continuing erosion of Dorset’s famous landscapes by a relentless tide of development. their claims of working with bio-diversity in mind, the green pastures, woodlands, trees, wildflowers, wildlife habitats and historic footpaths are being lost.’

One of the organisations dedicated to preserving these habitats is the Dorset Wildlife Trust, hence Roger’s decision to support it through his books. He points out that the DWT currently has 42 nature reserves and 28,000 members, volunteers and supporters, ‘all championing our wildlife and natural places’.

• Making an excellent Father’s Day Gift, editions of Roger Lane’s books are available here.

‘Local planners may be conforming to national government ruling,’ says Lane. ‘However, with