Leading authors join drive to help flood-hit Yorkshire bookshop

Writers including Ian Rankin and Jon Ronson are among those helping fundraising efforts in wake of severe damage to Hebden Bridge shop

Authors including Jon Ronson and Ian Rankin have joined efforts to help a bookshop badly hit by the floods that have swept the north of England. The Book Case in the West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge was one of the businesses in the town wrecked when the town was hit by the severe rain battering the region.

Sam Missingham, head of events at publisher HarperCollins, and Yorkshire-based husband-and-wife author team Bob and Carol Bridgestock, who write crime fiction as RC Bridgestock, have been lobbying authors to provide signed copies of their books to sell in an auction to raise funds for the Book Case – and among those who responded to the call are romance author Marian Keyes, Rebus author Ian Rankin and journalist Jon Ronson.

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