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02/10/2025

Black History Month: 'Standing Firm in Power and Pride'; a tribute to resilience, strength, and unwavering commitment to progress.

‘Proud to Serve’ chronicles the journey of one police officer between 1999 and 2004 as he worked with key community influencers and colleagues to tackle the challenges of policing diverse communities. Whether working to recruit more black and minority ethnic staff into the West Midlands Police, engaging with counterparts in India and the UK to tackle ‘Forced Marriages’ or simply making communities safer in Cyprus, this illustrated book straddles continents as that journey unfolds.

‘Proud to Serve’ contains various recollections, including from Paul Lewin, founding chair of the West Midlands Black Police Association, who said of his work, ‘Our legacy has been about learning from the past, living in the present in order to build and improve for the future. I am proud that we did our best. Ultimately, this will be for others to judge’.

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26/09/2025

**Out Today!**

Stories Behind The Headlines: From roving reporter to Land Rover PR chief by Colin Walkey
Price: £9.95
Publisher: Brewin Books
ISBN: 9781858587875

The first reporter to race to Britain’s worst hotel fire. The dramatic trial of a priest-turned-IRA commander. Two murders in one day. These were just some of the stories Colin Walkey covered as an evening newspaper reporter in Cambridge and Coventry.

In Stories Behind the Headlines Colin Walkey tells how reporters discovered stories, and some that never got published. Later, working in PR at Austin Rover, he reveals what really happened behind front page headlines about strikes at Longbridge, and the failed takeover of Austin Rover by Ford.

As PR chief at Land Rover for a decade, he tells untold stories behind the takeovers of Land Rover by British Aerospace and BMW; and the international Press launches of the Land Rover Discovery, and new Range Rover in 1994.

Walkey discloses how he created a Land Rover adventure for journalists to follow the trail of Hannibal and his elephants over the Alps more than 2,000 years ago. And an arduous expedition to part of the world that no living person had ever explored…

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Life at JLR Solihull Updates

24/09/2025

‘Alright Bab!’

In 2024 award-winning comedian Joe Lycett, with the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, officially designated September 24th as the International Day of Birmingham!

Visit www.brewinbooks.com for books specialising in the history of Birmingham & West Mids!

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19/09/2025

**Out Today!**

Teme Over Time: A History of Worcestershire’s Teme Valley by Stephanie Mocroft

Price: £15.95
Publisher: Brewin Books
ISBN: 9781858587868

How the county of Worcestershire came to acquire a slice of the Welsh Marches has never been explained, but Worcestershire’s Teme Valley is certainly a place where England meets Wales. This tranquil backwater once rang to the boisterous humour of the Black Country when September drew thousands of fresh-air-seeking factory workers to “holiday” in its hopyards. As those memories fade, it is time to commend the peace and beauty of the region to a new generation of admirers.

Teme Over Time is a generously illustrated celebration of the landscape and history of Worcestershire’s unique valley, an area which keeps, to this day, an impression of being a little lost in time.

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15/08/2025

Proofreading and copyediting are particularly difficult skills to master. The brain often sees what it wants to see, rather than what is actually there. Here’s a simple test to see how observant you are. Just tell us how many times the letter F appears in the text below. Easy, right?!

09/08/2025

Book Lovers Day 2025 📚

We promise we haven't made this wonderful day up!

Today is a celebration of reading and literature 🎉

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The most beautiful library in the World? This is Admont Abbey Library in Austria 😍

06/08/2025

Author, Donald McDonald, supping a pint at his local - the .arms - with framed posters of two of his books... 'Dead Submariner', and his latest novel, 'Someone'.

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27/07/2025

Huge congratulations to our Lionesses 🥳

23/07/2025

A true Brummie legend.

17/07/2025

Today is World Emoji Day 💖 - the modern-day hieroglyphics? 🤔

Check out the calendar emoji and see what the date is!

What emojis sum you up?
Ours are: 📚🫖🍫🐶😴
(and maybe sometimes🍹)

11/07/2025

**New – Out Now!**

‘The Evolutionists: Aristotle to Zoroaster via Darwin
By Peter Sheldon
Price: £24.95
Publisher: Brewin Books
ISBN: 9781858587721

Were we all created? Or did we evolve? If so, from what and how? The author does not pretend to know the answers, but instead has trawled over several centuries and some very prominent names. Amongst these of course is Charles Darwin, always associated with his book On the Origin of Species. His grandfather, Erasmus, was of the opinion that we all originated from snails!

Lamarck has been ridiculed for his belief that an example of a different pathway to evolution was by lifetime experience, which would be transmitted to future generations. This was evidenced by the long neck of the giraffe assumedly having arisen as a consequence of reaching up high for the choicest tree leaves.

But the nuts and bolts of the question came under closer scrutiny with the discovery by an Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, of genes and their role in the inheritance of characteristics in peas.

Subsequently the discovery of DNA illuminated the fascinating path whereby species might evolve as a consequence of trackable changes in DNA.

Much of the foregoing is straightforward for the lay reader, but it is admitted that some parts delve deeper, and assume more knowledge of biology. However, at the end, the author comes clean and admits that there is much that we don’t know, but slowly the curtain of knowledge is being opened and some startling facts have and will continue to emerge.

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Brewin Books have been publishing fine books in the heart of the Midlands since 1976. During over forty years of operations, over 600 titles have been published, many running into reprints and new editions, with a large proportion still in print. Today the company, still independent and family owned, continues to concentrate on all aspects of Midland life.